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Re:The Peking Duck Exception on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:00PM (#33871857)
Had this once in Osaka, definitely had food poisoning the next few days.

I mostly blame myself for thinking it would be a good idea. It did taste pretty good though.

Re:Avoiding homework with code and getting caught on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:21AM (#32948668)
JobMine Plus?
Watched this YouTube video on them a year back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFmJAwc4s5I

Re:Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:17AM (#31406649)
Searching on Google Maps, it looks like the "HQ" is located inside Toronto-Dominion Centre, which is an office complex downtown, nothing too exciting to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

I'm sure if they had their own facade to show off they'd have a photo in the article.

Re:Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:14AM (#31406625)
That p90 number (equivalent to 204k USD) looks like some typical SDE2 TCs in Redmond:

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Microsoft/salaries/Software-E...

Re:Preview, the Mac app people forget about on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:44PM (#31318812)
Speaking as an iOS developer, we use PDF files to represent our vector icon assets in the app.

I thought it was a bit odd of a choice on the platform vs SVG which seems more popular (and which the Android devs on our team use), but CoreGraphics using it internally ties the whole picture together.

The better analogy on the YouTube side is the chronological subscribed channels feed: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:29PM (#31128414)
Coincidentally, AWS has a video streaming service already: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/

Disclaimer: I work at Twitch, an Amazon subsidiary whose tech it's based off of.

Re:Elo scoring two years of Magic: The Gathering games on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:35PM (#31079260)
There's already an Elo project for sanctioned events at the Grand Prix level and above: http://www.mtgeloproject.net/

It uses the public pairings and results that were published each round for events all the way back to the 90s. Unfortunately, there are less competitive MTG events these days, so most peoples' ratings stop in early 2020, but that's another topic altogether.

Re:User reports indicate problems at Discord on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:54PM (#30604308)
Discord's own status page: https://discordstatus.com/
There’s one of these at 10th Street turning left onto Folsom.
In Canada, ninth grade was around 14-15 years old, depending on the month you were born. I think the US has a similar timescale for primary/secondary schooling.
This feels like something that should always be enabled when you're plugged into AC power (maybe only automatic when you're at 100% battery).
Re:OBS Studio 27.1.1 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:02PM (#28688472)
Re:OBS Studio 27.1.1 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:56PM (#28686776)
Yep, not surprised to see this added when Twitch account integration already existed. Much less typo-prone than copying your stream key in, along with all the convenience features you get.
Re:Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:58AM (#27663545)
I think there might be a misunderstanding here.

Author isn’t saying “password = hunter2, guess = hunter3, hint = you got the number wrong”

It’s more like “guess = hunter3, hint = passwords must be at least 10 characters”

You’re not revealing anything about the actual password that you wouldn’t know by reading the password rules on the registration page.

Sounds like the University of Minnesota already has a team ready.
Re:Which Macs will be officially supported by macOS 12? on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:47AM (#27351682)
This article refers to the "T2 chip" a lot, which I had to google for: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862

"The Apple T2 Security Chip is Apple's second-generation, custom silicon for Mac. The T2 chip delivers capabilities to your Mac, such as encrypted storage and secure boot capabilities, enhanced image signal processing, and security for Touch ID data. (...)"

Re:Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019) on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:19PM (#27293337)
Somewhat related; I feel like C reserves a lot of names that though different standards, is there a good list of all of those so I know to avoid them? (e.g. underscore prefixes)
Re:Sublime Text 4 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:35PM (#27230191)
A lot of subscription models would lock you out after expiry, plus obviously the terms are usually much shorter.

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