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> We still don't really "know" what's good for us, and that makes me want to return to what kept us going during the 99% of the time-span of our evolution.

I believe we (the general first world population) eat much better than a few hundred years ago.

During our evolution we would starve or get scurvy and if lucky would get a meal a day. We adapted. We can eat pretty much any junk and we will survive. The drawback is if we constantly eat exactly the same thing for months, we die.

Compare with today, we can buy almost any vegetable imaginable, meat, fat, protein, exotic fruit, minerals any time of the year. This is unprecedented in human history.

The problem is the food industry trying to make us crave for the next shit so that we buy more and more of it. Who can blame them?

I guess for now the solution is to use common sense, eat a little bit of everything, "good" or "bad", and exercise. As a friend of mine says: "Try to make your body die equally everywhere."

Also, companies will try to differentiate their brand using this fake sound. So we will go from a mostly-bassy-white-but-still-annoying ICE noise to very specific and recognizable frequencies and tones that will make a misophonia sufferer want to kill themself.

From their marketing material, they pretend they figured a way to fake depth. If true, that would be a huge step compared to classic stereoscopic technologies or other cumbersome devices.

However, I doubt this is the case, else they wouldn't just slap this announcement at the end of a boring Windows 10 presentation. I mean, all I could remember about this presentation was: "Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10 with HOLOGRAMS using Windows 10! Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10."

Kinect was pretty surprising too, especially at that price point. EDIT: Granted they didn't develop 100% of the tech themselves, but still: depth perception, human skeleton recognition, in real time, on a crappy 360, for 150$? That was impressive.

This reminds me of Fermont[1], a remote Canadian city in northern Quebec that I visited when I was young. There is this 1.3 km long building shaped like a wall with all services, shops, restaurants and apartments in it. The wall protects the rest of the city from northern winds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont

Agreed. It's a common error to think that the smallest fraction of something is 1%.

Maybe they already did and are using it as a honey pot. Maybe that's part of their secret evidence.

I had a small bedbug problem once. I created a perimeter around my room and bed with diatomaceous earth for a few weeks. Since my bed had legs, it was easy, I could just put the legs in bowls with the stuff. I never saw them again.

When we come back from a high risk country/hotel, we use the same treatment around the bed legs as a preventive measure. We also put the stuff in the luggage for a few days before opening them.

The good thing about this stuff is, it's inert, also it's super cheap. It kills them mechanically and it's safe for us humans, unless you snort the whole bottle. That means you can use the powder directly on your mattress if they infested the bed directly.

However, this also mean they won't die immediately, so they can bite you once before dying. Also, you don't find the corpses easily.

At the very beginning of my career, I once made a very stupid and very costly mistake because of tight schedules and lack of proper QA process.

The first thing my boss said the next morning before even explaining what happened was that he was the one responsible and I was not to blame. Oh and he gave me a raise.

Sorry, there are no kangaroos in Austria.

> Lol, what the heck? Troll or astro-turfed? Where can you get a CS Master's Degree and on only four years of programming?

... and still don't totally grasp pointers apparently.

But seriously, what's so confusing about pointers?

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

That's why here we have tickets on our cards, not money. The drawback being that a ticket for one city or zone can't be used in another one. And of course, every city's ticket bundles have different sizes, just like hot dogs and buns packages.

I think he was referring to the legal clusterfuck that happens when someone who is legally dead isn't actually dead.

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/10/no-youre-still-decease...

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/08/feds-say-legally-dead-...

Don't worry we had the whole package. They just simply didn't care.

For a big team, either use Unreal or the in house engine.

I heard good things about Havok's game engine too, and their support is the best I've ever seen.

As someone who tried to develop a Unity game on a big team, it was hell. The collaboration is horrible, there are conflicts all the time for no reason. Simply getting the source, running the game and updating would produce conflicts. We also had to buy the cache licenses to make it somewhat workable.

But the worst was the support. It was worthless. Anytime we would open a ticket, they would simply google and return us links to forum threads that didn't address our issue. When we asked about missing important features or bug fixes, they told us to buy something on the asset store.

Oh, I made it return the whole thing since the timing attack would have leaked it anyway.

Yeah, changing date when everyone is sleeping is a horrible backward idea, I want my days to change randomly in the middle of daylight.

We could then invent a new word to differentiate between the "day" as the date and "day" as this daylight cycle. Then we would need seven new week day names to differentiate between the official date and light cycle. Lot of fun in perspective.

But then it would make visiting other countries easier, no need to set my watch... oh... wait I have to change my whole brain to adapt to the new schedule instead.

Yesterday in Toronto, a plane made an emergency landing. The news ignored it as just an usual everyday thing, because you know, it happens everyday... Just kidding, they actually called it a "multiplication" of aviation incidents.

We could also use tritium for dating the water.

I believe there is a technical reason for that 2 pixel move. If I remember correctly, old 16 bits applications can receive mouse messages from minimized windows. They didn't want to break compatibility by posting out of bounds messages.

It's called a Hilbert Curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

Since when is randomly mashing on a keyboard considered hacking? What's next? Cat discovered denial of service attack by setting browser to full screen mode?

I remember playing Jedi Outcast where you start as a regular guy with guns and then you slowly get new force powers. At the beginning I never used the light saber. However, the more skills and power the character got the more I was using the saber until at one point it was the only weapon I would ever use. The blasters just felt clumsy and limited.

Don't worry, he probably wrote in the report that it was for "security" purposes.

Some do, that's how I learned them.

edit: I still think the most confusing thing about radians when learning them is the 2 pi. This seems so arbitrary.

We now use Tau at work and it makes everything easier to understand.

That's the point. He knows very well the answer is "Yes".

Go watch one of those helicopter/drone/warthog strike video and listen to the guys talk. There is no compassion, no remorse, nothing. They are kids playing a video game, chuckles and trash talk included. If they could teabag them, they would.

"I put my camera about 5 feet high, not 3" is something that will need to be argued in court, which means you already lost.