mantis369

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by mantis369 3y ago
There should be a warning before a Web page captures keyboard input and prevents browser hot keys from working.
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Ask HN: What's with TPM 2.0 and Apple T2?
2 points by mantis369 4y ago|2 comments
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by mantis369 9y ago
I work in managed content. I develop AMS and CMS and intranet portals for companies that do web publishing. My specialties are workflows and middleware connectors (for fulfillment, payment processing, LDAP, etc.). I used to be a bare metal
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by mantis369 9y ago
The arrow key cluster, it burns us!
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by mantis369 9y ago
Beware the throttling. You get that i7 or Xeon performance for the first 45 seconds of the compile, and then that and the testing (or encoding, or whatever) go down to i5 performance or worse.
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by mantis369 9y ago
I'm impressed that you got past that no-rings end boss gauntlet on the first try.
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by mantis369 10y ago
But they didn't upgrade the Mini, iMac, or Mac Pro. The Mac Pro has been the current model for at least two years. The iMac is a hack that uses two logical display panels to produce the 5K resolution, because there isn't enough ba
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by mantis369 10y ago
I don't understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life. I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I'm going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something bett
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by mantis369 10y ago
I doubt it. I walked past a whole shelf of Sega Genesis emulation boxes at Target. That and the Atari Flashback 7 seem to be heavily stocked.
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by mantis369 12y ago
What would that feel like in a DAW? You open the plugin, change its default configuration, get rid of it, and then add it back independently and let it tell the DAW how many outputs it has, so you can connect them to tracks (or whatever the
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by mantis369 12y ago
Any chance that you could make the output channels arbitrary? Just yesterday I built a sampler array with Kontakt, in REAPER, that used 28 outputs from a single plugin instance.
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by mantis369 12y ago
That's one thing I can say for Robotix: the pieces that move are virtually indestructible.
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by mantis369 12y ago
I have an old, four-motor Robotix system from my childhood. It's part of the reason I became a programmer beyond QuickBASIC for DOS. Having played with the Robotix kit, I encountered an articulated robot arm in tech ed, in 7th grade, a
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by mantis369 12y ago
I've found the French I studied to have more consistent grammar and spelling, and less variation in idioms. Its achilles heel for technical stuff seems to be vocabulary, in that new nouns and verbs don't get created, and the Canad
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by mantis369 12y ago
Despite English being my native language, I am sorry that it won. There is a lot of ambiguity in it, whether you are writing on technical matters or not. And what is with this scourge of position:fixed headers lately? I like to scroll with
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by mantis369 12y ago
In my case, delusions, paranoia, and the occasional inappropriate remark that could be construed as homicidal or suicidal ideation. Depression genuinely caused the latter ideation. Lithium is a very harsh mistress, but if you have type 1, w
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by mantis369 12y ago
Silly Selective Service. You need the stone of Erech, and to be the heir of Isildur, to summon the army of the dead.
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by mantis369 12y ago
CSV is really slow to work with, because you have to check for well-formedness, like you do with XML. And in the end, I always end up making specific concessions for the files that my customers use (which must be patched again and again) or
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by mantis369 12y ago
I grasp the concept perfectly well. But this is theater. Look at the title ("When Will Patent Trolls Learn Not to Mess with Newegg?") and the ridiculous picture of the lawyer!
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by mantis369 12y ago
I have plenty of principles. However I am not a for-profit corporation. It is not cynicism on my part to assume that Newegg is motivated by economics. That is the very definition of a corporation. Maximizing return to shareholders.
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by mantis369 12y ago
Newegg are cheapskates. The publicity from doing this pays far more than the money they'd save by settling with patent trolls.
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by mantis369 12y ago
I don't think VCs are interested in anyone who wants to work at a sustainable pace. Also, the piece we're discussing doesn't make it sound like the author works at a sustainable pace.
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by mantis369 12y ago
I think you have to pick one. Startup or kids. You can work at a burnout pace for 5 years in the hope of getting rich, or you can be there for your young children. In my opinion, if you're going to try the startup thing, there's n