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Re:What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:51PM (#19505232)
Dear god... that means that the government will win more from your poker playing than you _ever_ will!
Re:What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:41PM (#19505109)
In the article, she is quoted as saying that winnings from poker can be taxed at 60%. But I Googled it and the first few sites that I clicked on say more like 25%. What am I missing?
Re:Living Alone Can Be Deadly on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:50PM (#19107921)
Having someone else around to call an ambulance for you when you're having a heart attack can have a large effect on the outcome.

Having someone else around to nag you into going to the doctor when you otherwise might not go, etc.

You're skating on legal thin ice by setting booby traps.

If the idea of someone stealing packages off of your porch pisses you off, just wait until they do that and then also sue you.

Re:Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows on Sunday August 05, 2018 @03:55PM (#17693167)
If you're a professional or part of a professional organization, this is a small hurdle to clear and most would agree that the increased security posture for the end user is worth the inconvenience/price for developers.

If you're an amateur/hobbyist/tinkerer and just want to play with kernel driver development, then you can disable the signing enforcement.

Anyway I'm sorry for derailing from the actual point of this post - it's a very cool project!

Re:Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows on Sunday August 05, 2018 @03:42PM (#17693083)
You can disable driver signing enforcement if you want to install drivers without having them signed.

Driver signing enforcement enhances the security of the OS by preventing malware from installing kernel mode drivers that would hypothetically have unlimited access to the device without the consent or knowledge of the user.

There really is no downside to this.

Re:The Oregon Trail on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:22PM (#17384446)
Was fun. Made it with only one party member dead (by cannibals) and plenty of food and money.
People who are admitted to mental hospitals don't spend much time out in the sun or eat healthy diets? Fascinating.
Re:Three kinds of memory leaks on Monday April 30, 2018 @10:14PM (#16964140)
Does anyone else see any irony in that you still spend so much energy debugging memory leaks in garbage-collected environments?
How did they get red pigment on the kid's skull?
Re:Urban Dictionary: Hacker News on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:21PM (#16927722)
If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you.
Re:Game Off 2017 winners on Saturday December 23, 2017 @03:57PM (#15996216)
I'm guessing that the time-crunch of being a "game jam" drove most of the participant's decisions to use Unity and C#.
Re:Desktop compositing latency is real on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:55AM (#15747830)
The DWM compositor is bad for games too. The only way to take it out of the equation is to use your GPU in exclusive mode.
Re:Time Travel Debugging on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:29PM (#15424696)
Here is a recent CppCon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3389&v=l1YJTg_A9...

I'm an escalation engineer at Microsoft, and we have been using this for many, many years to solve complex customer cases. Having it go public is a pretty big deal for us.

Re:Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:55PM (#15108389)
You do have the strongest experiences and form the strongest memories (both good and bad) when you are at your most unbalanced.

But it's also unsustainable to stay unbalanced for too long.

Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:59PM (#14844489)
Deprecation is not the same thing as removal. They're not removing Paint. They are just not developing it any more. They may still leave it in the OS for years to come; maybe even indefinitely. There are a lot of deprecated programs that still ship with Windows.
Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:58PM (#14153573)
It's beautiful.
Re:AI Beats Four Top Poker Players on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:16PM (#13535315)
Yeah... I guess I was just expecting the AI to be more self-learning and self-tuning...
Re:AI Beats Four Top Poker Players on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:13PM (#13535285)
Did I read the article incorrectly, or did it say that the bots creators were feeding it additional data each night before the next day's tournament? If so that defeats the entire purpose, doesn't it?
Re:How I built a keyboard by hand on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:00PM (#12679747)
Great job!
Re:The war Microsoft should have won on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:36PM (#12299056)
Way to have a typo before the article even begins.
Plot twist: The iron ball had just been submerged in liquid nitrogen and it was actually the thing that shattered.
Thank you for the clarification - makes sense.
Sorry I haven't gotten an opportunity to watch the video yet, so maybe the video addresses this, but if I may please ask... why would you want to render a webpage at several hundred FPS? Unless FPS is a multiple of your monitor's refresh rate, (i.e. vsync) it won't look good. You could use the extra time to do other background tasks instead of burning more CPU than you need to just to say you can do 1500 fps...
How do we know which one is the cause and which one is the effect? Or that it's not just yet another case of correlation mistaken for causation? Do more intense levels of gender inequality lead to polygamous marriage, or does polygamous marriage lead to more intense levels of gender inequality?
Re:Interview Humiliation on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:30AM (#10471235)
Even if the author was just paraphrasing/dramatizing the interviewer's comments... I could not imagine being treated like that in a job interview.

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