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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:07AM (#13530606)
I’ve had the opposite experience on my Surface Pro 4 and desktop. Everything is much more stable than on Windows 7, where I would often find myself needing to do manual maintenance after something like a power outage. On Windows 10, I haven’t had any huge problems. My Surface Pro 4 (and many others) were disasters on the first versions of Windows 10, but now it is stable.
I’ve heard a bit about the last point but I’d like to know more. Can you elaborate?
> Next, they hired Carmack, who is accused of copying thousands of documents from his computer at ZeniMax.

This claim sounds pretty dubious. Has John Carmack said anything about it?

Helicopter parenting can even hurt you when it’s second hand.

My mom did the same with my brother but but not with me. I was much younger than my brother and still in elementary school but by fifth grade I began to feel afraid of my mom doing the same thing to me. I almost got straight As in Chinese, but a B on the final quiz could’ve ruined that. I ended up having an anxiety attack within the last 5-10 minutes of class, right before I would have to walk home. I had two attacks back to back after that and I was taken out of the class, but after a few years I had another attack in a similar situation and I recently had another, albeit at home because I didn’t that I could get a project done on time. I think something about my mother yelling at my brother and my brother yelling at her had traumatised me, because I know that when I was in fifth trade, my brother was really struggling in school. When my mom found out I was having attacks age got really scared and calmed down with my brother and things definitely got better for all of us. But for a while, even though I wasn’t a direct victim, it really, really hurt me. I understand that she was trying to look out for my brother who had lied to her on multiple occasions. I understand that she tried to do the right thing, and that it’s harder than it sounds. I have no idea what I would’ve done in her place either. I am not mad at her for what she did at all, don’t get me wrong, but the irony of the situation has always frustrated me.

In an attempt to make my brother more responsible while allowing me to still feel comfortable learning, helicopter parenting just made my brother want to spite my mom more and led to me having to be taken out of a class because of anxiety.

There’s something to learn from these experiences, but I’ve struggled to figure it out. Because in spite of how it has affected me, I have never been able to think of something that my mom should’ve done instead.

Re:DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:07PM (#13314126)
What makes Ms. Pac Man so hard for AI?
Yep they use TSVs.
Re:Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:45PM (#13294632)
If string is unescaped user input, then yes, you are.
Re:In Canada 50Mbps internet now considered a basic service on Saturday December 24, 2016 @08:58PM (#13252479)
$90 for 28 Mbps. However, I only get 10 Mb/s, the speed we had paid for previously. Every time I try to get back to 10 Mb/s prices AT&T attempts to repair it, sends a person for diagnostics, acknowledges there is a problem, sends someone who replaces the modem, and then claims the problem is fixed. This has happened three times.
What do those terms mean?
Re:Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:15PM (#13187878)
If you’re concerned about memory usage, VS Code should not be your first choice...
Re:Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:13PM (#13187862)
For what it’s worth, I’m using IDEAVim and it’s amazing. It supports custom editor actions too, like refactorings, in your .ideavimrc
Re:GodBolt: Enter C, get Assembly on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:05PM (#13187791)
Have you tried CLion?
Re:GodBolt: Enter C, get Assembly on Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:50PM (#13187633)
Well if A=1 (I know it’s not), D is 5-1. I’ve noticed that whatever you change five to fits this pattern. Ex: +=3 in the code gives you AAAAAAAB, and B would be (3-1) if A=1. I
Re:Can jet engines clean up Delhi's air? on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:34PM (#13179861)
That seems kind of absurd. Where does all of that cost come from?
Why that over KeePass?
Re:An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads on Friday December 09, 2016 @11:13AM (#13139554)
I’ve used Windows with the name “currentuser” to appear to be Norman Sandbox for a few years now.
Re:Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:27AM (#13114068)
So if I want to make an AI for a game, I should use OpenAI?
Re:DynASM on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:24AM (#13095982)
None of Cawley’s work is to be missed. Anyone interested in JITs ought to look into his work.
How does it handle polymorphic code?
Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:41AM (#13095819)
Cryptographers were not fond of DUAL_EC. They also recommended against DES and MD5 long before attacks really appeared.
Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:02AM (#13095674)
Those articles (and their sources) sound interesting. Think you can share any of them?
Do you mind explaining those architectures?
Can you explain the difference?
Re:The Lua VM, on the Web on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:10PM (#13033084)
Yes please! Any ETAs on webassembly landing?
Re:The Lua VM, on the Web on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:08PM (#13033072)
Lua is perfectly multiparadigm. Anyone who hasn’t tried it should.
That makes a lot more sense, thanks.
See: precomp, lrzip, srep
Re:Lua: A Guide for Redis Users on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:57AM (#13006323)
Honestly, it’s a great article. That said, there’s nothing wrong with nils in tables in Lua if you know what you’re doing. Yes, they can introduce weird behaviors, (particularly with the # operator) but if you understand how next, pairs, ipairs, and # work, which are required if you want predictable table iteration behavior in Lua, then this shouldn’t be an issue.

I think it’s dangerous to say that nils terminate tables if you’re not going to explain table iteration in Lua.

Edit: Here's a picture example showing how easily nils can cause confusion if you're using a #table based loop. https://i.imgur.com/qW0XoSs.png

for i,v in pairs(table) will go through an entire table.

for i,v in ipairs(table) will stop at a nil. It's meant for consistent behavior in tables with numerical indices.

Re:Lua: A Guide for Redis Users on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:09AM (#13005908)
Yeah that’s generally how Lua should be used.
Re:Two Syntax Styles of xmake.lua on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:09AM (#12976702)
Why not follow the more official conventions? Underscores are rarely used in Lua.

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