i_are_smart

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by i_are_smart 6y ago
Modern versions of excel (after office 2007), using .xlsx files, have a 1,048,576 row limit. But older versions of excel (before office 2007) used .xls files and had a limit of 65,536 rows. I could easily see them exceeding this limit, if
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by i_are_smart 7y ago
Unfortunately many managers are not adults, emotionally.
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by i_are_smart 7y ago
I used to write my resume with LaTeX, but the last time I was job hunting I decided to take a different approach - now I keep my resume as a single semantic HTML document, and I apply useful categories and tags (as classes) to each bit of j
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by i_are_smart 8y ago
One of the original starcraft games accepts 11111-...-11113 (I don't remember how many places, but all 1's and then a 3 or 4). Guess how I figured that one out.
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by i_are_smart 8y ago
Sorry, but no. Most lithium chemistries have a nominal voltage near 3.3 - 3.7V per cell. When you stack lithium cells in series for any sort of high-performance application, you need additional balancing circuitry to bleed off energy from t
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by i_are_smart 9y ago
They are (1), and although that did hurt Ubiquiti's stock price nothing else ever came of it. I have no idea why anyone listens to these guys. [1] http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networ...
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by i_are_smart 9y ago
> Birth defects aren't contagious and are not often fatal. Well, not immediately fatal, anyway. What if a gene modification is developed that halves the rate of aging? Is it a birth defect to have a maximum life expectancy of only 1
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I had to deal with CORBA 6 months ago in the large scale architectures class at my university. I'm _very_ glad that class is over.
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How the Prison Architect Developers Broke the Geneva Conventions(pcgamer.com)
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
My main display is the same resolution. I absolutely love it, and rarely feel like I'm wanting for space.
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
If you're only interested in blocking the trackers, you might appreciate ghostery ( https://www.ghostery.com/ ) - it does exactly that.
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I disagree with this, in my opinion slack has a lot of features on top of IRC (offline messages, webhooks, etc) that make it much more usable for its target audience.
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I hope they present and push a focus on security with whatever they do. I use android because I don't like apple, but it seems like there's a new critical android vulnerability every 2 weeks, and they all take 4 - 6 months to actu
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
You are correct. I know there are sites out there that even aggregate camera feeds, although the more ethical ones remove any feeds where there may be privacy concerns. Frankly, I would NEVER install such a device in my house. The engineeri
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
These attacks are showing that's it's trivial to achieve remote-code-execution on many of these devices. So in a way, yes, they do have self-destruct built in. Simple connect to one, and then overwrite the boot partition. Or rm -r
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
This is something that has occurred to me too. It would also -hopefully- result in large, class action lawsuits against the manufacturers for producing products so insecure that they got mass bricked. I would be all for such... preventative
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of just on the curb, so the fact that I got, say, a large tv i
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
Here's the thing though - you have to have a DAC in the phone anyway because the phone needs to have a speaker built in. Now, it might be nice for some people to be able to get an external DAC in addition, but that should already be po
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
> It's not about rich, it's about having coding after-school classes as available as soccer (or whatever) practice. Ok... so what about the kids who want to play soccer instead of being cooped up inside? The idea that you might
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
@it33, apologies for the slow reply here, I basically never check my messages. I'd be happy to do that once I get some time at work, or afterwards. For the sake of replication, my keyboard is "Hackers Keyboard", running on An
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
On my android phone, the mattermost app does something weird to my keyboard - it replaces the right-most 1/3 of the spacebar with a key with a '->|' symbol on it that closes the keyboard when pressed. I've never seen
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
Just one result? I wonder if it was one of their plant results. I've heard rumors of Google seeding some (just a few) obscured google searches with totally irrelevant results, so they can catch competitors scraping results from their
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
Cool Retro Term is my guilty pleasure. I spend an awful lot of processing power just to make my terminal look older and less reliable. But somehow, to me, it doesn't feel right to use IRC from anything other than a fuzzy and flickery o
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
This is true, but Apple has the same model - you need an OS/X machine (note: much more expensive than a basic windows machine) to develop for iOS, and I believe the app store fee is also $100. It doesn't seem to have hampered iOS
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
Because one of the characteristics of McMansions is that they (poorly) copy the style elements of classic designs while ignoring the rules that governed those designs. Modernist and postmodernist architecture isn't trying to imitate cl
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
Wow, I had never heard about that. It will be interesting to see how long it takes FossHub to make some sort of statement addressing this incident.
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I find it interesting that the FossHub homepage still says No adware, No spyware, No bundles, No malware, Fast downloads, Free services and a single ad.
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I just got to try this out yesterday. Like many others, I wasn't convinced going in but now I'm a "true believer". I don't think VR will directly compete with the traditional video game interface, much like handheld
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
This example doesn't very well, it's rather awkwardly contrived. In the US you would just buy 1/2 or 3/4 of a pound, not 1/3. Similarly, I wouldn't expect you to buy 0.67 kg of food priced by weight outside of
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by i_are_smart 10y ago
I generally find this to be true for myself, too. Although I would add the qualifier that I find Java to be an exceptionally wordy language, for lack of a better term. It seems to take a lot of talk to do a little in Java even compared to

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