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Dear god... that means that the government will win more from your poker playing than you _ever_ will!

In the article, she is quoted as saying that winnings from poker can be taxed at 60%. But I Googled it and the first few sites that I clicked on say more like 25%. What am I missin…

Having someone else around to call an ambulance for you when you're having a heart attack can have a large effect on the outcome. Having someone else around to nag you into going t…

You're skating on legal thin ice by setting booby traps. If the idea of someone stealing packages off of your porch pisses you off, just wait until they do that and then also sue y…

If you're a professional or part of a professional organization, this is a small hurdle to clear and most would agree that the increased security posture for the end user is worth …

You can disable driver signing enforcement if you want to install drivers without having them signed. Driver signing enforcement enhances the security of the OS by preventing malwa…

Was fun. Made it with only one party member dead (by cannibals) and plenty of food and money.

People who are admitted to mental hospitals don't spend much time out in the sun or eat healthy diets? Fascinating.

Does anyone else see any irony in that you still spend so much energy debugging memory leaks in garbage-collected environments?

How did they get red pigment on the kid's skull?

If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will do it for you.

I'm guessing that the time-crunch of being a "game jam" drove most of the participant's decisions to use Unity and C#.

The DWM compositor is bad for games too. The only way to take it out of the equation is to use your GPU in exclusive mode.

Here is a recent CppCon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3389&v=l1YJTg_A9... I'm an escalation engineer at Microsoft, and we have been using this for many, many y…

You do have the strongest experiences and form the strongest memories (both good and bad) when you are at your most unbalanced. But it's also unsustainable to stay unbalanced for t…

Deprecation is not the same thing as removal. They're not removing Paint. They are just not developing it any more. They may still leave it in the OS for years to come; maybe even …

It's beautiful.

Yeah... I guess I was just expecting the AI to be more self-learning and self-tuning...

Did I read the article incorrectly, or did it say that the bots creators were feeding it additional data each night before the next day's tournament? If so that defeats the entire …

Great job!

Way to have a typo before the article even begins.