bryondowd

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by bryondowd 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, why Sony? Only negative thing I can recall hearing about them is blocking cross play to protect their console lead, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.
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by bryondowd 4y ago
DF is mostly single core CPU bound. I've heard it also doesn't play well at higher resolutions. Try turning the game resolution down to 1080p.
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by bryondowd 4y ago
Haven't tried it yet, but I expect that you can use the scheduling menu to set up what you describe once, and switch them onto that schedule as needed. You'd want to set up a schedule with multiple station commands, each with a dw
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by bryondowd 4y ago
Haven't seen that bug happen so far. Wonder if it's just a case where someone had already mined out one of the tiles that should have been an up/down, so all the game could do is put a down stair. That said, I only really use
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by bryondowd 4y ago
I did something similar. Ikea tabletops for the desk surface and back, two legs I found on Amazon to support the very ends, and a bunch of brackets from the local hardware store. Biggest bonus was being able to set the height of the desktop
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by bryondowd 4y ago
I worked on FAA systems for a while, mostly FDIO (Fight Data Input Output, aggravatingly pronounced Fido by controllers), where we couldn't even just refer to a monitor and keyboard as such, had to go and call them a RANK (Replaceable
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by bryondowd 4y ago
Wonder if maybe you could take the offenders to small claims court, if you have that much info. Might be enough to get them to choose an easier target.
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by bryondowd 4y ago
If there's significant overlap with ICBMs I could see it being reasonable from the perspective of maintaining military production readiness. Imagine you need a bunch of people trained to do X, and machines capable of Y, in order to bui
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by bryondowd 4y ago
Man, I had a similar experience working with code from a French manufacturer. The comments were mostly translatable, but the variable names were hell. It's bad enough trying to figure out in English whether acc is an abbreviation of ac
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by bryondowd 4y ago
To be fair, state and local governments would have to increase the total tax burden on their populace to increase education funding, or makes cuts to other things in their domain. The federal government could certainly cut the military budg
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by bryondowd 4y ago
Wouldn't efficiency affect the cost of cooling, given that the excess energy becomes heat?
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Is there a max angle at which two lasers could pass through the pupil and strike the retina? That's assuming that strikes elsewhere don't pose a blinding risk for the energy level required to kill a mosquito, which I have absolute
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Don't most investment homes rely on tenants to offset the maintenance and tax costs of owning the home? Construct enough to meet demand for places to live and the rental market should drop, which would hurt the home-as-investment model
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Makes sense that a cockpit wouldn't need a clear distinction between brackets and parenthesis, or |. But I am surprised about the similarity of 0 and O. I recall when I went to the ATC academy they really drilled in using a horizontal
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by bryondowd 5y ago
You could make the same argument for software. Where do you draw the line "starting from scratch" in software? Does incorporating third party libraries make it not from scratch? What about the standard library of your language of
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by bryondowd 5y ago
In 2011, so the value of BTC at the time was between $1 and $32.
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by bryondowd 5y ago
I see short-circuit for correct behavior all the time, most frequently in the format: if (pointer && pointer->member == value) Where you want to make sure a pointer you've been given isn't null before you try to derefer
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by bryondowd 5y ago
I wonder if you could get some positive results by using students as tutors. Imagine if a certain number of hours per week, you paired up students in grade X with students in grade X-1, to have the older students help the younger ones to le
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Interesting concept, but seems like it only works for fairly small arrays, right? You could fit 40 base-3 values into a 64 bit integer, but in order to read/write index 39, you have to perform 39 multiplications/divisions. So no e
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Applying for a job isn't claiming that you meet the requirements, it's testing whether you meet the requirements. So the closer analogy would be installing an app that claims to require 8 GB RAM, just to see if it'll run anyw
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by bryondowd 5y ago
These studies almost always point to a very limited set of the "wealthiest" for their study. And if you think about it, it's obvious that the very top of the pyramid will mostly have people who were able to concentrate wealth
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by bryondowd 5y ago
That article seems to be an anecdotal story from a single person. Sad, but hard to point at it as support for or against legalization without being able to show that similar cases are more common under one system than the other. Sadly, peop
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by bryondowd 5y ago
The first result of searching for the word `wife` in the linked page: See, e.g., Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.1990) (defining rape as the ‘act of sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman not his wife and without her consent, com
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Don't those stats only prove that criminalized prostitution is a negative? I expect you'd have a huge differential if you took similar stats from people selling weed in a place that strictly enforces a ban vs a place where it is l
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by bryondowd 5y ago
It could be a factor, but probably not a main one. I know first hand that there are organizations that will help people in poor countries get a tourist visa to a wealthier country, and set them up with under the table jobs for a few months
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by bryondowd 5y ago
If you create a bloc of people providing a service that is illegal, now you've formed a criminal organization, at least in the eyes of law enforcement, and you've painted a target on your back. Can't really unionize effective
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Just couldn't resist nerding out about probabilities. Summing failure rates would potentially get you above 100% chance of failure. What you'd really want is the product of success rates. So, if you have a 1% failure rate on a mod
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Yeah, I've never encountered the social behavior the author describes. In my experience, people walk when the escalator happens to be clear ahead of them, and stop behind the next cluster of standers. I've never seen standers make
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Since a few people are just throwing out roguelikes they like, I figure I'd like to mention a couple that had an impact on me: Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King The mechanics, skills, classes, etc are basically ripped from DnD, which
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by bryondowd 5y ago
Perhaps doing nothing was the best move. Perhaps making a move would have resulted in Germany focusing more on the Western front and maintaining good relations with Russia. Very different conflict at that point. Without the losses on the E

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