mstromb

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by mstromb 6y ago
Wow, I am now extremely curious about what the inside of that cave looked like! But I suppose taking pictures of it wouldn't have really served enough practical purpose to deal with hauling something back out of the hole, not the menti
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by mstromb 7y ago
Would being angry about it make anything better? Could it restore the missing parts, or go back in time and un-stunt a person? Being at peace with something is not the same thing as being happy about it.
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by mstromb 10y ago
Our bodies already make little robots to fight bacteria
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by mstromb 10y ago
From what I'm reading it's the entirety of Ubuntu, including apt. Use bash once to apt-get install zsh and you're done.
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by mstromb 11y ago
It's not completely free, and not completely open source, but we've been very happy with Octopus Deploy https://octopus.com/ That and Topshelf https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf have made d
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by mstromb 11y ago
After Disney bought LucasFilm they laid off everyone at LucasArts except those responsible for handling licensing [1]. ILM's work here seems focused on more cinematic stuff - the word "game" doesn't appear once in the ar
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by mstromb 11y ago
It seems that recycling is a flat rate even if you get two cans. Jumping from the smallest to largest compost can is ~$5. Trash is the really expensive one: http://www.seattle.gov/util/MyServices/Garbage/House
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by mstromb 11y ago
Oddly, the LG-made Nexus 4 from 2012 does have Qi support (though it's very finicky)
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by mstromb 11y ago
I liked their example of a restaurant putting them in the bar top. Right now people who want to charge their phones have to decide if you want to plug in a data cable with something unknown on the other end. With wireless charging the attac
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by mstromb 11y ago
Well, it was weak on purpose. But for the US government's purpose, not the engineer's.
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by mstromb 11y ago
> there are far better ways of avoiding it than these anti-patterns. Could you describe or at least point to some of them?
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by mstromb 11y ago
As someone familiar (and generally quite happy with) reactive programming, what does Erlang/Elixir do that makes it a more general, better solution? And to what types of problems, specifically? I think the reason that I picked up Rx is
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by mstromb 12y ago
Why would linking order affect runtime performance? Something to do with the interaction between offsets and cache, maybe? Would it be possible to determine ahead of time what order would maximize performance, or would that require profilin
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by mstromb 12y ago
No, it doesn't seem so. I have Silverlight installed but set to click-to-run, and the site will provide suggestions for the sample without running the Silverlight control.
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by mstromb 12y ago
You could try loading the assemblies up in dotPeek and poking around. You miss out on the XAML (though you'll see the code the XAML was transformed into), the compiler generated stuff for await is a little ugly, and obviously you would
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by mstromb 12y ago
If you prefer Ruby that's cool, but I feel like I should mention that Xamarin is also statically compiled on Apple platforms: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/limi... In fact, ever
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by mstromb 12y ago
I prefer ReactiveUI: https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI (though you can use it together with MvvmCross) It might be an unfair comparison as MvX is a much older project but it felt more like something cobbled toge
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by mstromb 13y ago
Replacing "dog" with "cat" does not work... though the resulting interpretation ("photo of Robert S. McNamara") is oddly yellowed.
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by mstromb 13y ago
So that customers who don't want to have to mess with emulators can just buy a game and play it? That's one of the primary reasons to use GOG - even the ancient games they sell (in my experience) Just Work. They would be far, far
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by mstromb 13y ago
You seem to have confused non-ionizing radiation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation#Health_r... ) (the type mentioned in the article) with ionizing radiation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mstromb 13y ago
It's now even included in PlayStation Plus subscriptions ($50/year) on the PS3: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/01/13/playstation-plus-b...
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by mstromb 13y ago
Git was released in 2005, so while it's probably not a coincidence it most likely has nothing to do with a keyboard from the 70s.
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by mstromb 13y ago
... 8 years ago.
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by mstromb 13y ago
Affiliate links are explicitly how the site makes money: http://thesweethome.com/how-to-support-the-sweethome/ So I guess I'm not too harsh on them.
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by mstromb 13y ago
I'd also add changes (improvements, in my opinion) in labor and safety laws. I suppose that falls under "[changes in] the relationship between government and business" but I think it's worth calling out specifically.
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by mstromb 14y ago
"Rapid7 strongly recommends disabling UPnP on all external-facing systems," reads a little differently than "disable UPnP now" Don't expose services to the internet that you're not willing to make public. Duh? What I got from this article i
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by mstromb 14y ago
It's under "Adjust ClearType text" on the control panel in Windows 7. It's also known as "ClearType Text Tuner." It doesn't specifically ask you to pick your subpixel layout, but rather shows you a bunch of different renderings and asks you
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by mstromb 14y ago
Ikea sells surprisingly good butcher blocks for $25: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40082918/ I assume they use odds and ends from their furniture manufacturing.
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by mstromb 14y ago
This is a bad time of the year to have 4-5 week lead times before shipping. I can't be the only one hesitating to place an order for an expensive piece of electronics that might sit on my doorstep for a week while I'm elsewhere visiting fam
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by mstromb 14y ago
Sure, but I don't think anyone is worried about maintaining a perfect 9:16 ratio for reading text or what have you. Generally when a device like that starts playing 16:9 content it forces a switch to landscape mode with the content centered

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