what is this? assembly for ants?
It's assembly for people who can code good.. and can do other things good too.
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I hoped they would have gone with HMD or BlackBerry.
Why? Multiple times in the last 8 or so years I've considered both Nokia (HMD) and Motorola. Looking at reviews and specs I decided every time in favor of Motorola, despite liking the design of Nokia's more, and didn't regret it.
forkerenok commented on Pebble Production: February Update repebble.com/blog/februar... · Posted by u/smig0
You can't get a hackable watch for a fraction of the price, though.
I'd pay more for being able to fumble about in the codebase and add exactly what I want.
I wouldn't put in the same league as pebble, but it definitely ticks the boxes:
Battery life is real.
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OK I've got to know...which of these does OF fall under
>extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athletics
I can easily see how 3 of the 4 categories mentioned here could fit.
forkerenok commented on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras evanstonroundtable.com/20... · Posted by u/ptk
> This decision came after Illinois Secretary of State [...] discovered that Flock had allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to access Illinois cameras in a “pilot program” against state law, and after the RoundTable reported in June that out-of-state law enforcement agencies were able to search Flock’s data for assistance in immigration cases.
This illustrates the textbook argument for why mass surveillance is bad: these tools can quickly end up in the wrong hands.
Play silly games, win silly prizes.
> There was a reliance on visual cues for too long and ironically the accident would probably have never happened if the visibility had been poor.
Ironic indeed.
The incident reconstruction video a bit further down the article is well done:
forkerenok commented on LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine github.com/lunarengine/lu... · Posted by u/njredar676
It's not the end of the world, it's a minor convenience and better than busy waiting.
There are plenty of cases where you want to manipulate an object but it's not guaranteed that it exists before your code is run. You get similar functionality with:
while not parentObj:FindFirstChild("childObj name") do wait() end
AFAIK, wait() is >= 1/30 of a second, if you wanted to be extra timely you'd instead run every heartbeat.
"Popular kids game Roblox faces pressure over allegations of child predators on its platform":
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/t...
I read your comment carefully to see whether you've taken the GP's joke further, but alas :)
forkerenok commented on Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq lists.thekelleys.org.uk/p... · Posted by u/westurner
I thought they have accidentally "responsibly disclosed" the vulnerability directly into a public mailing list, but the attached pdf is dated >3 months ago.
So assume it's a bit of an inaccurate phrasing.
EDIT: nope, the email itself seeks disclosure coordination etc. So yeah, oops.
forkerenok commented on Sign in with Google in Chrome underpassapp.com/news/202... · Posted by u/frizlab
There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy.
I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.
> the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight.
What's the number if you adjust for quality of signups? E.g. how many people convert and how many people stay on and convert later.