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Yesterday's affected me, I couldn't pull or push and when I tried to look at the repo to do PRs I got 500 errors. That only lasted maybe 30 minutes though.

Those cutscenes weren't rendered in real-time, instead taking longer than one second to render one second of video. This one is rendered in real-time. It's impressive for sure to render lifelike humans, but to do so in real-time is even more impressive.

You do realize that the top 1% is more than just the wealthiest 100 Americans, right? And you do realize that nobody's saying "reduce everybody else's taxes to zero", right?

Turns out you don't need to enter a legit email address. Just use joe@example.com and you're through.

If you haven't read it already, you may be interested in Eating Dirt, a book about planting trees in BC: http://charlottegill.com/?page_id=10

Does this cause my computer to use way too much CPU and RAM too?

This is a bit false. It assumes that the cost of living is driven solely by housing. There have been numerous studies done that show that the total cost of living doesn't change much between city and suburbs. Housing costs are higher in the city, but they're largely balanced out by lower transportation costs and house upkeep costs (apartments are cheaper to heat/cool than houses, for example).

It's a sea spider.

O() doesn't say anything about how long it'll take. O(n) may never return in your lifetime too.

A couple of Canadian friends of mine living in England were able to vote. No, not only British citizens were asked.

I made something like that for Angular email textboxes: https://github.com/bradcavanagh/angular-pwned

American case law doesn't really hold for Canada.

I think Richard Feynman is a good counter-example to the "single function machines" hypothesis.

The biggest takeaway from this story is "The absence of a specific QA function may be hampering the company as well." QA is vital. A proper QA department sees the forest and the trees. Developers see the trees (or, in some cases, just the branches). Having proper QA means that John doesn't accidentally break something that Julie was working on, because they run regression tests. It's quite astonishing that QA isn't a separate team at Facebook for their iOS apps.

I found a "how do I report a campaign I feel is fraudulent" FAQ within about 30 seconds. You can also contact their support team, and they say they'll get back to you within five minutes.

It sounds like you might have tried this in the early days, it set an impression, and haven't checked since.

The rebuttal seems pretty convincing if you only look at the graph between 2002 and 2008. You could lop everything off after 1985 and have the same rebuttal.

The rebuttal would be convincing if he went into detail as to why the government forecasts are wrong, but he doesn't. He just says "hey they're wrong" without delving into any of the history of the forecasts, how the forecasts are made (which would be interesting, because then he could really say why he thinks they're wrong), what his forecasts might be... But instead, he just says "hey they're wrong" without anything else.

If anything he's guilty of cherry-picking, which is something we rage against when climate change denialists do it. Why is this guy convincing while they're not?

He could have written the same article between 1980 and 1985 though, when Japan's fertility rate was increasing.

The full article (http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...) has this to say about the weather:

The first thing we noticed when we arrived in Whittier was the wind—we were barely out of the car when a powerful gust pushed us down the hill. People in Whittier get out of their cars carefully; the wind has been known to shatter windshields and bend car doors backwards. Because the weather can be so extreme, kids often walk to school via an underground tunnel. The town averages around 250 inches of snow annually, but some recent years have seen closer to 400 inches. Two winters ago the snowdrifts near Whittier School were piled so high that the principal let students go outside to take pictures of one another hanging from a street lamp.

Sure, it does. But what happens when it goes wrong and the anti-missile missiles are launched against a sub-orbital passenger jet whose transponder has gone wonky?

Next up: E. E. Cummings books removed for lack of readability.

I'm not sure how you would go about getting pregnant just to "abuse the system". "I know, I'll get pregnant, go through nine months of hormonal and physical changes that'll mess with my body in crazy ways I didn't know existed, go through a major medical procedure, and then keep another living being alive while going through even more hormonal and physical changes just so I can get some paid time off work."

Your boss is crazy.

How do you use "proven NFC payment card systems" without electricity? This isn't a sarcastic question, I'm genuinely curious.

Downvote it and move on.

Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be the problem with my file. I tried to extract the files, and then Windows tells me that the archive is invalid.

I saw this and thought "eh, that doesn't bother me, I already used the 'export your photos' thing." So I went to my TwitPic settings page, clicked the link, and downloaded a 14MB zip file.

The only thing is, it's empty. I don't know how you get a 14MB zip file that's empty, but Windows is telling me it's empty. That's not cool.

Yeah, I was surprised to see Something Awful listed as an example of a place that does well. Back in the day (early 2000s) it was, like you said, really really terrible. When I think of "for the lulz" I think of SA. Reddit seems to be at the same stage now that SA was back then. There's a lot of good, but there's also a lot of bad and the admins don't seem to care to get rid of the bad.

Of course, that was a decade ago. Maybe I should revisit it and see if my account's still there...

According to Wikipedia, Harris's slot machine hack wasn't discovered. He turned to Keno, finding a flaw in the pseudorandom number generator, and when his accomplice went to cash in a high-value winning ticket in New Jersey, the casino got suspicious, alerted investigators, and everything came out after that.

Not many people are going to fly into a country that has an outbreak knowing they can't get out.

The company I work for (IoT Design Shop - http://iotdesignshop.com/) is actually releasing beacons and software that does exactly this. We have a BLE beacon called Signul that couples with an app that allows you to do all kinds of hyper-local interactions.

Right now you can support our Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/signul-the-world-s-first-...) and get a Signul beacon. I have a prototype version and it's really quite good.

If the Indiegogo campaign hits $50k (it's currently sitting at $31k) we're going to release an SDK for Signul allowing anybody to write an app that interacts with the Signul beacon for either iOS or Android devices.

So my mom clicks this button on a website. I'm supposed to block all of her emails because she did so and I don't want to get your emails again?

I think you really need to think this through again, because there are fundamental problems that you're not getting. Emails sent this way will be considered as spam, and you'll piss off people receiving the emails, and they'll be pissed off at the person who clicked the button, and then that person will get pissed off at you, which I don't think you want.