NotANaN

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by NotANaN 7y ago
Engine released under GPL, but the media required to play the game is commercially licensed. It's what John Carmack did with id games. You pay the game creators for their art, or you can find free art and play the game with that.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
There is an important difference between Google and Microsoft. Google is using their market dominance to push their opinions on the open standards bodies; Microsoft used their market dominance to ignore standards bodies completely.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Is it USB 2 or USB 3? Is it 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2? Gen 1, Gen 2, or Gen 2x2? Do I need USB-A or Micro USB or USB-C? Do I need USB-A on one end of this cable and USB-C on the other, or some other combination? Does it support Quick Charge or Powe
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Bingo
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by NotANaN 8y ago
The fact that C++ versioning uses two digits for the year is the most 1980s thing about it.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
> We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out. This is NYC we're talking about. Stop-and-Frisk was a fun game the cops played for years.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
The law makes a clear distinction between entrapment and opportunity. Setting up a "honeypot" is not entrapment. That's not to say that this was anything other than a waste of time and resources, and a textbook example of wha
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Since the government insists that it has the authority to violate the 4th Amendment whenever it feels like if I'm in a 100-mile vicinity of a border, I really want devices to have "reset switches" which reset the device to, i
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by NotANaN 8y ago
You can't prepare for the complete collapse of civilization. Even the Survivalists who go out with "nothing" and build their shelters, start their own fires, hunt their food, they still need backpacks to carry their gear. The
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Thankee-sai
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by NotANaN 8y ago
"Do Emacs and Vim users have some other characteristic that makes them more likely to succeed during interviews?" I think the Interview Pass Rates chart makes it clear that the answer is a statistical "Yes", at least for
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by NotANaN 8y ago
I should start a bootcamp to help prospective students prepare to attend a bootcamp.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Shelby Stanger had a great interview with her on the most recent episode of the "Wild Ideas Worth Living" REI podcast. https://wildideasworthliving.com/samin-nosrat-the-adventure-...
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by NotANaN 8y ago
I wonder how much of the increasing success of Azure is creditable to its deep integration with Visual Studio Code.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
"Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" was indispensable when hacking on the kernel in my Operating Systems class back when I was in college. It's really a shame it hasn't been updated since 2006.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
I am referring to the "Chinese vendors and mfgs" in the parent comment, not the entire Chinese "race." I called them conscience-less. In support of my view, I quoted the World Health Organization stating that these peopl
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Dev.to has been gaining popularity.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
> Who is "they"? From the parent comment: "Chinese vendors and mfgs"
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by NotANaN 8y ago
They proved they have no conscience with the Chinese baby formula scandal[1]: putting melamine in baby formula to save a little money, knowing that doing so would be poisoning infant children. "A spokesman said the scale of the probl
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by NotANaN 8y ago
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Why can't all cities have waterways clean enough for swimming like Copenhagen's Harbor Baths?
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Guessing that Israel feels (or was explicitly told to be) unleashed to act against Iran by the Trump administration after Bolton entered.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
I'm curious if Amazon will find motivation to rebuild Amazon Linux, it being based on RHEL at the moment.
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by NotANaN 8y ago
"Generating the certs is a complicated hassle." Not really... I will grant that the openssl commands are a bit non-obvious. Step 1: Generate private key openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp384r1 -out key.pem Step 2: Create and sig
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by NotANaN 8y ago
Not just years; decades. About a quarter of a century.