Anyone miss the days when the spinner animation advanced every X bytes (or, for CPU-bound stuff, every outer-loop iteration) instead of every X milliseconds?
Seahen
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RE: YouTube for Android never gives up
Latest posts made by Seahen
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[completely NSFH] Remy Porter and his sexy inflatable dragon?
Noticed that in Remy Porter's portrait on his articles, he looks a lot like the dragon's mate in this pic from the Encyclopedia Dramatica. Remy, is this you?
https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/4/47/Inflatable_dragon_sex.jpg
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RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
It's almost as if you live in Western Europe's most corrupt country.
Which suggests a solution: go to the bookstores in Palermo and see what totally-legit DRM-free PDF editions they have on offer. It's not like working within a system like that will ever sound like a job for Captain America.
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RE: Codethulu's evil spawn, in fewer lines than you can imagine
2. That it is
new
ing fixed sized arrays that could simply have been allocated statically,Sometimes I've had to do that just because the array would sometimes be larger than the 12MB that Linux would allocate for the stack. TRWTF is that Linux still doesn't transfer memory from heap to stack when needed.
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RE: Making the best of MS Office files
"I kind of want to insult Microsoft, but I also don't want to make fun of the day-to-day guys who just work there and do their job and draw a paycheck..." "Easy! Just lie and say the company execs are the ones documenting and implementing file formats! Greasy open source hippies will never be able to call that out as being obvious bullshit, it's not like any of them will admit they have ever had jobs at Microsoft!"
FTFY
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RE: YouTube for Android never gives up
Anyone miss the days when the spinner animation advanced every X bytes (or, for CPU-bound stuff, every outer-loop iteration) instead of every X milliseconds?
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RE: Why is there a TV icon in Microsoft Word?
@robbak said:
Interestingly, OpenOffice, and many Open Source packages, use the 'arrow-into-folder' icon instead.
Any bets on how long it'll take before desktop apps start switching to an "arrow-into-cloud" like Android uses?
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RE: Why is there a TV icon in Microsoft Word?
@robbak said:
Interestingly, OpenOffice, and many Open Source packages, use the 'arrow-into-folder' icon instead.
Any bets on how long it'll take before desktop apps start switching to an "arrow-into-cloud" like Android uses?
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RE: Screwed-up installation
@Quango said:
Wait until you drop a screw into the power supply through the grille, and it doesn't come out by inverting the whole case. You'll have to disconnect every power cable to the motherboard and peripherals, remove the PSU and shake it around until the little blighter drops out. I always put a post-it note over the PSU grille after it happened to me.
Isn't that what fridge magnets are for?
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Screwed-up installation
Today I was screwing a new motherboard onto the tower case, and my cheap Walmart screwdriver dropped its bit.
Which wouldn't be a big deal, if said bit hadn't landed on the CPU heatsink.
Which also wouldn't be a big deal, if it had been short enough to just shake out between the fan blades from a flat position, or too wide to have fallen flat between the heatsink and the fan.
From now on, I'm using a one-piece screwdriver for all my hardware installs.
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RE: Goggle Translate
@morbiuswilters said:
3) Why do you think Google would bother creating an account for their translation service? Then they'd have to add in all sorts of security measures so people can't hijack the Google Translator account. That's such a PITA suggestion I can only imagine you didn't think it through before stating it.
That's easy enough -- ask the Wikipedia admins to permanently block the account from editing, since it doesn't need to be able to edit. Wikipedia already maintains lots of accounts for various bots, some of which do edit articles.