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Maybe you should upgrade your PC? I understand that 38.5MB is a lot of ram and resource hogging when you've only got 128MB in total, but that's your own problem.

On top of that I've yet to actually see any kind of serious conflict with steam. The biggest problem usually comes from older games and the overlay which may or may not work properly due to how graphics drivers have changed, which in turn causes conflicts of various kinds, usually crashing. But that's not any different from alt-tabbing, which many older games don't really support well either.

Yes, I agree that we should recognize the history of people being dicks. However, all that some groups want to remember today is white people being dicks, and black people solely being the victims.

the quickest way i can explain what you're missing is in a comic: http://i.imgur.com/1S139Cq.jpg

the longer explanation? the U.S. owes a lot of its current position as the leading economy on the backs of black slaves. yes, there were white indentured servants, too. the vast majority of enslaved people were black folks. and we're talking about generations of black people made to work under a white majority.

explain to me what happens when you continually subjugate one people over centuries and many generations? to the point where that people have lost almost all of their economic, social, and political power? just "freeing" that people does not even begin to repair the damage. just saying "hey, you're free and equal now!" doesn't magically wave away centuries of destruction.

and in fact we know that the whole equality bit has not even come true. from Jim Crow to the striking down of significant bits of the Voting Rights Act, to the almost daily extrajudicial police executions of unarmed people of color, racism hasn't actually gone away. and white persons still benefit from it

here's the part where you protest that "hey but I'M not racist!" on a conscious level, sure. great. but you still benefit from that racism. i'm making the assumption that you're white simply because if you were black, you would know. your perception would be different. you would not be inherently afraid of police. you would not mistrust schools or "traditional" forms of career advancement. you would not have to exclude certain neighborhoods when considering a home for fear of being unwelcome. there's an entire world of which you're unaware.

so instead of complaining that you're not part of the problem, listen instead and come to realize it's not about you. it's about a society that has an addiction of breeding success by treading on an underclass.

"For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible."

Could yo explain.why the new 'i' is horrible but not the original 'l' (ell)? And I don't quite see any difference in 'a' in these two comparisons.

http://gfycat.com/SomberUnited...
http://i.imgur.com/8SqL6mT.gif

Some of the changes seem nice to me, some of them bad, and some neutral. However I use DejaVu regularly and some of these might be just a matter of getting used to. The biggest changes are to i and 0 (zero).

Here's an animated gif from Reddit: http://i.imgur.com/8SqL6mT.gif

The changes I like are to comma, underscore and minus.

I don't quite understand their changes to i and 0 (zero); do they solve some problem or do they supposedly just look better? I like DejaVu's zero more. It seems to me the new i is closer to l (lowercase L) than in DejaVu, and I cannot imagine DejaVu's i being confused with anything; however I think I could live with the new i. DejaVu's original parentheses are better too; the new ones almost look like if there's a space in ().

There seems to be a tiny kerning change to r. It makes some words look better, but others look worse. For example, I think "import" looks better in Hack, but "Keyboard" and "Interrupt" in DejaVu.

This animation shows DejaVu Sans mono vs Hack.

http://i.imgur.com/8SqL6mT.gif

Hack is the image with the red square

#awkward #ripoff

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

It's Deja Vu Sans Mono with some questionable changes to glyph shapes, sizes, and spacing.

This is exactly what it is. Hack is nothing more than Deja Vu Sans Mono with some crappy amateur edits. For example, the line in the zero, the changes to the i and a -- all are horrible. I also don't like the increased vertical height, since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium. I can only assume Hack came from someone grabbing the source for Deja Vu and messing around with it.

Here are some examples of commonly recommended programming fonts, if you want to compare (open in new tabs for easy comparison):

Hack
Deja Vu Sans Mono
Consolas
Lucida Console
Anonymous Pro

I primarily use Deja Vu and Consolas, depending on what I'm doing. There's no way I'd switch either of them to Hack.

Windows is up to like 9.x

Well, Microsoft is not counting like you.

Now, I'm no computer scientist, but I can tell if one number is bigger than another.

Can you tell if 7 is bigger than 95 ?

Don't forget your duck.

This graph explains very clearly how far away we are, and why it is taking so long. The reality is, with all the cheap coal (and natural gas), it's just not a priority. Besides, environmentalists hate nuclear so it's not a political winner to fund it. This story is good, too.

That looks like a graph that says 'fusion researchers want more money.' I want more money, too.
If I go to the source report, will it tell me:
1) the technical challenges they face?
2) if they're engineering problems requiring great expenditures?
3) If they're scientific research problems with uncertain outcomes?
4) If the research for a #3 problem involves a massive #2 effort?

You have no idea what X is. You think 4 looks nice, but it could be anything.

The panel doesn't know what the right answer is. The display controller might see it in the signal, but it can't send that information to the panel if it's processing 6 bpp.

For 6-bit panels, you simply can't do anything to recover the signal in any correct way. Interpolation doesn't do anything but make everything look worse. Temporal interpolation is fucking terrible, and no, it's not "way faster than the human eye can tell". Most panels have a hard enough time with ghosting and motion blur already, even when adding timed strobing to the mix.

I don't think gamers are the ones who are concerned with color accuracy - gamers tend to buy the TN or other trash panels that absolutely fuck color in favor of speed. As for sub millisecond color changes? Please show me an LCD panel with a true response time under 1 ms. As for 1.5% color changes, that's a huge difference for anyone with normal color vision. A good panel will show this difference quite readily. http://i.imgur.com/w8qQ7Kg.gif for an example. If you can't see it flashing, get a better monitor or get your eyes checked.

This graph explains very clearly how far away we are, and why it is taking so long. The reality is, with all the cheap coal (and natural gas), it's just not a priority. Besides, environmentalists hate nuclear so it's not a political winner to fund it. This story is good, too.

Look, it is real easy to prove whether a monitor is 24-bit or 18-bit:

* https://imgur.com/XF3LBOz

Do you see Mach banding in the rows? (Easiest to tell in the greens and grays)

Yes - your monitor is 24-bit
No - your monitor is 18-bit

Show me proof of _any_ LCD monitors that are 18-bit.

http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg...

The Drone Wars Have [] Begun

It's Bode's Ramdove.

Yes, literally. You're literally stooping to the level of attempting to make an ad hominem out of straw manning my emotional state. That's exactly the same thing as the age old "hysterical emotionally distraught wimminz" argument, just retooled to be used against men according to modern day stereotypes and prejudices. It's so old and overused it's been color coded and filed with the others.

... a button I could use.

"Okay, Mr. Scientific Paper, I say... prepare to be written!"

> The only GIF you need to see from this game.
> http://i.imgur.com/8FMfJLb.gif

I chuckled.

There's nothing new about these bridge building simulators, but it's cool that another generation is having fun with them again. (The guy who made the above gif not so much.)

The only GIF you need to see from this game.

Hi, hello. I'm not sure what the difference between the links are, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

And/or monster truck.

An extra colon is present in the slashdot article link that shouldn't be there.

Hi, hello. I'm not sure what the difference between the links are, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

And/or monster truck.

Congratulations, your logical fallacy is...

Tauriq Moosa in his screed on polygon did for one. There were quite a few of the "witcher 3 is racist because no PoC" bullshit.

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Have you seen some of the more recent awards?

Check out this 2013 award: "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" by John Chu.

"Some weeks prior to the beginning of the story, an unexplained phenomenon begins worldwide: whenever a person lies, water falls on that person from nowhere. Consequently, Matt decides that the time is right to not only come out to his traditional Chinese family, but to introduce them to his partner."

There was a rather uncouth observation I caught while reading about this: https://i.imgur.com/faHz3H1.pn...

Another 2013 award: "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

"A narrator explains to their love how things would be different if that person were a Tyrannosaurus rex."

How many of the Hugo awards have gone to authors writing stories that, to most people, would never be considered science fiction? These two stories in particular don't stand out as science fiction to me, but rather as social justice pandering - which happens to be exactly the complaint sad puppies have leveled against the awards. There are also accusations that the awards have become nothing more than marketing for Tor Books, and that authors are being selected, not for the content of their works, but the color of their skin.

Frankly, the fact that the community surrounding the Hugo awards voted No Awards as opposed to allowing some of the few sad puppy nominations to potentially win, pretty much stated their case: The awards are being used to push political agendas; only progressive, left-wing stories can be nominated and if you don't match that ideology, then fuck off.

A properly designed space elevator (see my class notes for details: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/... and slides: http://imgur.com/a/cCTY5 ) carries on-board propulsion for orbit makeup. It doesn't look anything like the pictures you usually see in the media, though. The continuous ground-to-GEO concept can't be built, even with carbon nanotube cables. It would be inefficient even if you could build it. More modern designs based on much shorter *rotating* cable systems are more efficient. Even an efficient modern design needs more traffic than we have today to justify the large construction cost.

Byte-level access, easier application portability and a few commands like open, close, read, write and lseek could make object storage a force to be reckoned with.

Got all of that already. Perhaps not well defined by the POSIX standard. But only because certain implimentors whined and cried that they would be cut out of the party if they had to support real O/S standards.

But this isn't 'object storage' (unless all your objects are bytes). Object storage is an extension of higher level record access that VMS and other (mainframe) systems have had for years (decades). But now combined with object method storage. Starting to sound like RPC (server run) or write once, run anywhere. So Java vs ActiveX and maybe Javascript all over again. Just nope.

You wouldn't happen to have lived in or around Dallas during those years, would you? I strongly suspect this to have been the case.

Another WTF, but of another sort: Disqus allows moderators to edit users' posts, without any indication of such. For example, when a mod changed a user's comment to declare himself a homophobe, despite the user's avatar being a picture of him and his boyfriend. Source, because inline links aren't working: http://i.imgur.com/d5IMkzQ.png

Nothing stopping your writing "you're all scum" on the ballot paper. It is just you have to turn up and get your name marked off.

Australia actually makes a bit of a day of it. The polling stations are usually in the local schools, people put on BBQs and you grab your free sausage on the way out.

This got posted to reddit last Australian Federal Election - https://i.imgur.com/qrdcfgYl.j...

I recently did a class on space elevator design:

- Class notes: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/...

- Slides: http://imgur.com/a/cCTY5

The "classical" space elevator (ground to GEO) can't be built, even with carbon nanotube cable. There are more modern versions that can be built. Realistic engineering designs have to consider a lot of factors that artist's illustrations you most likely have seen don't.

LOL kinda ignoring there are these things called counter measures that make your million and a half plus a pop missiles go poopy, what happens when they are deployed? You dogfight or you die, no different now than in Vietnam.

And allow me to LOL again as that number you cited also counts the boneyard, now you wanna maybe tell us how many are actually flightworthy this minute?

There is no left wing party in america.

Yes, there are no socialist or communist parties. There are also no fascist or Christian parties. Great, isn't it? I hope we can keep it that way, rather than turning into Europe.

Look at these numbers and tell us again how left america is? https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

And if you look at these numbers, you can see how good that is: http://www.heritage.org/index/...

Windows Ten Wallpaper

Windows Ten Wallpaper

Windows Ten Wallpaper ..

The design that moves the titlebar and menubar into the toolbar, which you referred to as "this disaster", gains two lines of vertical space in the document compared to the old UI. With 16:10 and portrait displays hard to find especially in laptops, how else is the user supposed to make the best use of vertical space?

And when did it change? You give a screenshot of 3.11.92, while a Gedit 3.10.4 user on another forum offers this screenshot that has the old UI. Did it change between 3.10 and 3.11? The user also says the screenshot is from "Gnome in Classic mode."

...the display of all religious artifacts on public land...

Wow - maybe we should remove all those Christian artifacts (specifically, crosses) from Arlington National Cemetery to satisfy your lust for de-Christianizing all government property, eh? ;)

Have you been there? The monuments aren't crosses. They're just tombstones. The individual buried can have different logos be they crosses, stars of david, or symbols denoting atheism.

I suppose I might understand what is the point of this code of conduct, maybe if I was American?

To tell people how they should act/be/do/etc. And when they step out of line, to impose various punishments on them. Instead of treating people like adults and letting the community police itself.

Github is also the same site that blocked a repository for the word 'retard' including all forks. So the creator changed it to 'git' instead.

Probably less than Win 8.1.
Just a wild guess, I haven't checked.

https://i.imgur.com/94GFNGX.jp...

I installed Windows 10 in a VM, turned all the privacy settings on during the install process, and then checked that Cortana was disabled. It was, and as proof, here is a list of running tasks:

http://imgur.com/Tzy6e6Z
http://imgur.com/Tfr8pRx

Search via the start menu works fine. Wireshark shows that data is not being leaked when I search (web search was turned off) and I don't see anything else flowing back to Microsoft, except for periodic Windows Update checks.

Try searching for "cortana" via the start menu, and then flip the first option in the list. That disables the Cortana process for me.

I installed Windows 10 in a VM, turned all the privacy settings on during the install process, and then checked that Cortana was disabled. It was, and as proof, here is a list of running tasks:

http://imgur.com/Tzy6e6Z
http://imgur.com/Tfr8pRx

Search via the start menu works fine. Wireshark shows that data is not being leaked when I search (web search was turned off) and I don't see anything else flowing back to Microsoft, except for periodic Windows Update checks.

Try searching for "cortana" via the start menu, and then flip the first option in the list. That disables the Cortana process for me.

pff... i'll stick with my amphibious bike!