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by avens19 2mo ago
How do they handle rough seas?
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by avens19 4mo ago
English is vague, even when accounting for that fact. It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text. My biggest issue with this concept is time. You write your wall of text, I see that you've failed to
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by avens19 4mo ago
I don't agree with the overall conclusion of avoiding AI tooling but this was really wonderfully written
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by avens19 2y ago
Here in Calgary we use cloud seeding to reduce the impact of hail storms. If meteorologists predict a hail storm, they will seed the clouds outside of urban territory to reduce the property damage caused by the hail
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by avens19 4y ago
I recently moved jobs so I could be in-person again after 2+ years remote. Whiteboarding and micro-interactions (bouncing ideas, quick clarifications, brainstorming) are very difficult to duplicate remotely and I felt the lack of these were
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by avens19 4y ago
Was going to reply with WPF. The best I've used for UX dev
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by avens19 5y ago
This is my guess. They're worried about precedent. If this is allowed to stand it gives other jurisdictions a roadmap for how to shut this down
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by avens19 6y ago
I've always thought that Excel is the greatest piece of software ever written. The ease of entry, the extensibility, the impressive collection of built-in tools/formulas/charts. It gave regular people the ability to do data a
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by avens19 6y ago
They said parse which is true regardless of caching
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by avens19 7y ago
Our high school's local admin password on every machine was the name of the school district. Used it to install P2P software and emulators on lots of the machines throughout my time there. On grad day I was setting up a slideshow with
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by avens19 8y ago
I assume the registrar was also the nameserver in this case
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by avens19 9y ago
I think one of the main issues with 3D is that you are forced to focus on what the director intended you to focus on. This is not true in 2D, you can focus your eyes on a blurry area over the characters shoulder without a problem. It will b
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by avens19 10y ago
Use Authy instead of Google Authenticator. It allows multiple devices and backups
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by avens19 11y ago
This exactly is why I use LastPass
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by avens19 11y ago
This article was trash. If the author thinks that Twitter's main function is finding out what your friends ate for dinner then he's an idiot and doesn't use Twitter. Twitter's problem is exactly this. The general Interne
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by avens19 11y ago
I've used Twitter to meet like minded people, however, I think the main distinction is that I don't use Twitter (in general) for interactions with people I met outside of the Twitterverse
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by avens19 11y ago
Planes run on similar tech, why haven't they been hacked? The odds on this seem long indeed, especially considering how dangerous driving is already
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by avens19 11y ago
This is great, nice work guys
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by avens19 11y ago
"Software is hard, people are hard" ^ this. Agile is only a set of principles set out to help write flexible software. It in no way made the actual writing of software, the gathering of requirements, the effort of design, easier;
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by avens19 12y ago
This. The amount of new Thread(new Runnable(){...}).start() I have in my Android code is awful. And then inside the Thread you have to use runOnUiThread() to change UI stuff. Given how common it is for an app to hit the network, this should
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by avens19 12y ago
That is insane bandwidth
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by avens19 12y ago
This is awesome, I love it. I want to try it but don't know what to ask
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by avens19 12y ago
The mouse redirection doesn't work very well (I'm on FF). But other than that it's a cool idea. I'm curious how it works. A different Win95 VM for each visitor? I realize it doesn't take much resources to run but th
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by avens19 12y ago
This is my favorite part of software engineering. The fact that there are so few instructions you can actually give the machine and that you have to map your abstract ideas onto those instructions
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by avens19 12y ago
The new .NET web stack is pretty amazing
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by avens19 12y ago
I've made something to track spending on a weekly basis. I've found that most budget apps are too heavy, and most run on a monthly cycle. I can easily calculate rough figures for fixed income and expenses, I just need something to
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by avens19 13y ago
So you require a cert for personal projects. That doesn't mean a cert that chains to a public trust. You could easily cut your own cert and trust it on whatever device you wish to access the site on
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by avens19 13y ago
I'm assuming the CD cover has the URL printed on it
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by avens19 13y ago
You're absolutely right that it's totally up to him and he can act the way he likes, but I think the point of the article is that if you're claiming that open-source is a "community" endeavour, then perhaps being a
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by avens19 13y ago
In win98 kernel32 blue screens were pretty common. But I agree that Windows is usually a pretty stable OS with things like 3rd party drivers and software causing most of the issues

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