I think it's a nice-to-have and not a need-to-have.
This is a super basic example, but I had a phone-screen question that was "reverse the order of the words in this C array in-place without allocating more memory." I found out with clarifying questions that I could use a temporary variable, but midway through I remembered how the XOR swap worked, and I think that scored me some points with the interviewer.
Putting aside the fact that you want us to sign up for your spam list, the text on your signup form is barely legible over the eye-searing confetti background.
"But how much do they really help? We found that the latency of a system with one of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards is halved compared to a GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and nearly 6x less than a system without one."
In other words, systems with graphics cards from the newest generation perform much better than those with graphics cards from three generations ago, and better still than systems without graphics cards.
And this is surprising... to whom, exactly? This is just a marketing article that tries, poorly, to connect the product it's hawking with a currently-popular trend in gaming.
My machine was $1500 in 2014, I'm fortunate enough to pay $60 for gigabit, and I tend to stick to one or two games, maybe spend $100 a year on new titles. Only a money pit if you want it to be.
Main difference I see is that Popcorn Time tries to replicate the complete Netflix experience, i.e. displays a catalog of movies and shows you can watch. This thing is just a web torrent client that knows how to download videos in order and start playing them as soon as possible.
Cute; I remember writing something like this in school that would display semester progress as a percentage out to a few decimal places so you could watch it tick up during a particularly boring class.
Bug: you're not displaying the minutes value of the starting time with leading zeros.
At my workplace we use Skype for Business. I often get "IM?" or "OK to IM?"
Starting the conversation that way requires me to greet them and request that they continue.
Why ask if it's OK to IM, if you're using an IM to do it? Ostensibly it's to prevent, like, notification sounds going off from my laptop if I'm in a meeting, or to avoid disrupting me while I work... but sending the "Permission to communicate?" message is already a disruption.
Also, S4B has available/away/busy/meeting/call status indicators. Why not use those if you can't decide if it's OK to IM?
I thought I was getting stuck in insert mode, and I got fairly frustrated before realizing my Vim keybindings browser extension was grabbing ESC and keeping it from this weird browser-Vim.
The big red "LIVE HELP" button on the left flashes before disappearing then animating back in from the left of the screen. Likewise, the counting-up animation of the number of vehicles available lags halfway through, maybe because other elements are loading in.
If you're going to do animation stuff like this, it had better be perfect. That said, I think it's tacky in the same way that the marquee tag was tacky, i.e. just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Oh, also, "LIVE HELP" buttons invariably connect me to some idiot chatbot. Being spamfucked by a chatbot is unpleasant in the same way that being startled by a retail employee asking if I need help is unpleasant. Generally, if I need to contact your business, I'll do so of my own volition. Might want to consider that there are other people who have similarly negative reactions.
Right? It's blowing my mind that it's possible to pre-approve PayPal payments without knowing how much you're going to be billed. The system should not allow users to hand a blank check to a retailer.
Same premise as the scooter, i.e. a company litters the sidewalks with dangerous toys and says "make sure you wear a helmet, have fun!", except pogo sticks are perhaps even more injury-prone.
I'd definitely heard of Coolmath. It was really popular when I was in elementary school, and I imagine a huge proportion of their hits come from kids during school hours. The reason it does so well is that it's a bunch of arcade-style Flash games, but since some of them are tenuously educational in nature, the site doesn't get blocked by web filters.
"The complaint further alleges that Kik marketed the Kin tokens as an investment opportunity. Kik allegedly told investors that rising demand would drive up the value of Kin, and that Kik would undertake crucial work to spur that demand, including by incorporating the tokens into its messaging app, creating a new Kin transaction service, and building a system to reward other companies that adopt Kin. At the time Kik offered and sold the tokens, the SEC alleges these services and systems did not exist and there was nothing to purchase using Kin."
Who even bought this stuff? Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam ICO?
There's a couple of sites out there that do a similar "fill out our template and get a .ttf of your handwriting" thing, like Calligraphr[0] and Fontifier[1].
The concept of using a typeface for Parkinson's awareness and fundraising isn't too bad, though. It'll be interesting to see the next version of the font.
I totally understand why one might want to buy "genuine Arduino" parts to support the company doing the work to shape that hardware/software ecosystem, but is there a point at which it's reasonable to acknowledge that the price increase over compatible Chinese knockoffs isn't worth paying? I mean, that Nano is $22 from them, which is like a 600% markup over the identically functional cheapo ones you can get on Chinese eBay.
You can get surprisingly good results with throwaway hardware. A few years ago I did an all-night time lapse of a night-blooming cereus opening up its once-yearly flower. $10 throwaway 480p webcam on a cheap tripod, old laptop running a script to capture every few minutes, old incandescent lamp to keep the thing lit through the night. Fed all the images into ffmpeg (with some noise reduction, I think?) and found the output looked almost professional, apart from the low resolution.
As far as dockless last-mile transport goes, I'm actually a big fan of those electric kick scooters... but I acknowledge I'm an imbecile and they're really dangerous.
One issue I have with that model in general is that for many of the distances I'd like to use a share bike or scooter, it would take longer and cost money to walk to the vehicle and unlock it. It's frequently faster and free just to walk to my final destination.
On today's edition of "Things You Shouldn't Be Able To Do From a Browser"...
Seriously though, sending PJL commands directly to printers on port 9100 is such a neat hack. Back when I was working help desk in college, much fun was had the day I discovered you could change the "READY" string on HP printer displays to anything you wanted. "INSERT COIN", "CHECK ENGINE", etc.
Also has DJ Qualls as Rat, one of the dumbest computer hacker stereotypes to ever be committed to film. After the FBI knocks to raid his apartment, he rushes into his computer room and starts microwaving CDs and shoving floppies down the garbage disposal... then once they have him, they tell him they need him to control the information on the entire Internet. He says yes, but only on the condition that he's given "an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hot Pockets." Quality stuff.
Of course not. If you don't like paying the monopoly prices, you can just, uh... you can just start your own backyard wireless telecommunications service provider.
A little over a decade ago now, back when the Sony PSP was current, there was a neat little homebrew IM client called AFKIM. It used bitlbee to connect to various IM services (AIM, GTalk, MSN, etc.) and worked pretty well for something running on a PSP.
It's a 3x3 matrix. You use the analog stick to pick a square, then hit one of the face buttons to enter a character. Left and right shoulder buttons shifted the keyboard to uppercase, numbers, specials, etc.
IIRC it was a Lua module that any PSP homebrewer could drop into their application for a pretty decent OSK.
I like to run fail2ban in conjunction with a non-standard SSH port on which only public key auth is available.
This way, most of the junkware that does rude things to port 22 is banging on a closed door; the slightly more effective junkware that actually finds the SSH port gets banned immediately, because I know anyone trying to log in with a password is full of it.
These aren't new arguments, really... but when I steal a cookie from the cookie jar, there's one less cookie in the cookie jar. When I steal a movie on a torrent site, the copyright owner didn't lose a copy of the movie.
One can argue that it represents an economic loss insofar as the person who stole it isn't going to buy a copy now, but a response you often hear to that is relatively few who pirate content would have paid for the content if piracy were unavailable.
You called it "taking something you know you're not supposed to take", and the thread has been responding to the "taking something" part alone.
Whether or not I believe it's the right thing to do seems like it'd depend on how much respect I have for copyright law, and whether any harm it causes is sufficiently abhorrent to me according to my personal ethics.
The economic argument is part of assessing the harm it causes.
Agree. Getting good at vim isn't something I do for my boss or my company, it's something I do for me.
Using something like "ci(" to blank the parentheses under my cursor and immediately start typing a replacement saves me, like... a couple of seconds. But it gives me a little dopamine hit that I think helps with job satisfaction.
"Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away", it's some of the most egregious poverty porn out there. These High Court bailiffs (who are employees of a private company, because of course) show up at people's doorsteps; if it's because of a debt, they demand payment or start taking inventory of items to seize.
So my only knowledge of this part of UK law comes from watching this garbage TV, but what amazes me is how much freedom the officers seem to have with respect to how strict their enforcement actions are. In some cases they only ask for a small amount of the debt and a payment plan to make up the rest, but if the debtor's uncooperative or a bit of a dick, the officers are going to start towing cars and carrying out TVs.
I looked at the cited paper[0], and I'm not sure the article author has correctly summarized its findings. As I understand it, the paper says "cyclical climate change probably caused this pattern of extinction->re-evolution (van der Hammen cycles)" and it points to overlapping changes in the geologic record (including canids and their teeth) as evidence of that claim.
I can't see anywhere where the article says "changes in canine dental morphology caused the cat gap."
Edited to say: oh derp, I only looked at the first line of the article - there's a discussion of that connection further down in the article, although it says in the summary that the connection is disputed.
You know the toys you're shopping for are the coolest when the webpage says their sale is restricted to US citizens and residents only. Is that an ITAR thing?
Like the original post says, they are in fact a useful tool to promote wakefulness, and if you have a problem with wakefulness or attentiveness, you can go to a doctor, get diagnosed, and be prescribed with amphetamines perfectly legally if you so wish.
Next earnings call: "Alright guys, I know it doesn't look good, what with our process technology still stuck in 2015, but picture this: TSMC's fab gets annihilated by a giant meteor."
I use a couple of Aqara sensors to report temperature back to my Home Assistant instance via a HUSBZB-1 USB Zigbee dongle[0]. They work pretty well, although they report data pretty infrequently absent any large temperature swings, so not great for data-viz purposes.
I'm not at all surprised the hub thing constantly chats with its family back in China, but a properly security-paranoid home automation aficionado wouldn't be caught dead giving some proprietary black box power and network inside their own home.
Don't even get me started. :( It gives me pangs of cognitive dissonance every time I use my Android phone to type up a rant about how creepy Google is. I'd love to walk the talk, but my impression is that FOSS Linux phones aren't really viable yet if you're interested in things like, you know, functional power management or a Bluetooth stack that actually works.
You statists are so silly. Obviously, we simply need to wait until the vehicles have killed several thousand people. Demand will decrease until it's no longer profitable for the manufacturer to operate. Another public health crisis solved by the invisible hand.
I'm inclined to think that someone who needs hours of time just to write an email in which they don't sound like a big jerk is likely to be a fountain of workplace interpersonal problems. If spending a few seconds to be a little more tactful is difficult for someone, the problem is with them, not the "millennials" that need to be "coddled".
This is a super basic example, but I had a phone-screen question that was "reverse the order of the words in this C array in-place without allocating more memory." I found out with clarifying questions that I could use a temporary variable, but midway through I remembered how the XOR swap worked, and I think that scored me some points with the interviewer.