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by xxr 9y ago
NAL either, but is it truly transactional if the apparent sender is a donotreply?
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by xxr 10y ago
Interestingly, SimTower was published by Maxis but developed by OpenBook (later Vivarium), the Japanese developer that would later make Seaman for the Dreamcast.
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by xxr 10y ago
Could you please elaborate a little on the difference here between lexical and non-lexical scope, Steve?
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by xxr 10y ago
What really gets me is how modern and futuristic the gear in the two photos of Cernan looks--although unfortunately we haven't had any contemporary lunar history to make anything from Apollo look old-fashioned (except for maybe the com
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by xxr 10y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if they did--they already use Unity as the default SDK for WiiU and the 3DS, so they're pretty keyed into that indie dev world now it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engi
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by xxr 10y ago
I was surprised by this part, too, and I figured the same thing. I've been playing guitar for most of my life, and the lower tension on electric strings is why I recommend to pretty much anyone to start with an electric, even though th
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by xxr 10y ago
But why should they even need to make the mistakes to learn from themselves? The lessons are already there from decades of other countries' disasters and solutions.
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by xxr 10y ago
Haven't read the article yet, but the coauthor Philipp Oppermann has a really enjoyable guide I've been following on building an OS in Rust: http://os.phil-opp.com/
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by xxr 10y ago
They don't do "murder," "genocide," or "rape," but they will do "death," "kill," "assassination," and "assault," it seems. Peculiar.
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by xxr 10y ago
Your account of the state of JavaScript in this decade reminds me of this post from a few days ago: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
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by xxr 10y ago
Not the commenter you're replying to, but at least at my organization we borrow the term from Spotify.
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by xxr 10y ago
>Uber has adopted a tactic with its drivers that parents use on misbehaving children Compare with this article from earlier: http://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/ >Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on
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by xxr 10y ago
>In her essay “The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde,” Sianne Ngai, a professor at Stanford, theorizes cuteness as an “aesthetic of powerlessness.” In the face of the overwhelming question — “What’s it for?” — a strain of avant-garde art respo
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by xxr 10y ago
>A 2007 study by University of Michigan researchers seemed to back Gesell up, showing those living within 2 miles of the Field Laboratory were 60 percent more likely to be stricken with cancers of the thyroid, upper digestive tract, blad
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by xxr 10y ago
Please do. My grandmother (my last living grandparent for over 20 years) passed away in January, and I am indeed happy that I took the opportunity to learn things from her about her life over the years.
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by xxr 10y ago
>it can do, in some benchmarks, 2 million requests per second. Is there a standard specification for machines that benchmark network software? Or, when someone quotes a number like this, do they mean "in our environment"?
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by xxr 10y ago
As someone who used to be a younger person that played loud music in bands, thanks for being the civil-conversation-first type. Participating in music can be a powerfully positive force in a kid's life, and often kids don't have a
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by xxr 10y ago
Does this mean that all the NSWhatever symbols are visible to anyone with a debugger or readelf or whatnot?
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by xxr 10y ago
One of my favorite tips from the book that's stuck with me in the 10+ years since I've read it is the immediate breakthrough you'll have with someone if you pronounce their name correctly when you meet them for the first time
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by xxr 10y ago
Will they likely be moving to major version increments for each named release? Since it's no longer "OS 10," will Sierra be macOS 11, and the named release after it macOS12, and so on?
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by xxr 10y ago
Not that I know of, but how often does it occur where it does occur? That is, how long would you have to leave a recording device there to invalidate the infrasound hypothesis?
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by xxr 10y ago
Donnie Eichar's book Dead Mountain is a good, fun read on it.