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Just out of curiosity, why Sony? Only negative thing I can recall hearing about them is blocking cross play to protect their console lead, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.…

DF is mostly single core CPU bound. I've heard it also doesn't play well at higher resolutions. Try turning the game resolution down to 1080p.

Haven't tried it yet, but I expect that you can use the scheduling menu to set up what you describe once, and switch them onto that schedule as needed. You'd want to set up a sched…

Haven't seen that bug happen so far. Wonder if it's just a case where someone had already mined out one of the tiles that should have been an up/down, so all the game could do is p…

I did something similar. Ikea tabletops for the desk surface and back, two legs I found on Amazon to support the very ends, and a bunch of brackets from the local hardware store. B…

I worked on FAA systems for a while, mostly FDIO (Fight Data Input Output, aggravatingly pronounced Fido by controllers), where we couldn't even just refer to a monitor and keyboar…

Wonder if maybe you could take the offenders to small claims court, if you have that much info. Might be enough to get them to choose an easier target.

If there's significant overlap with ICBMs I could see it being reasonable from the perspective of maintaining military production readiness. Imagine you need a bunch of people trai…

Man, I had a similar experience working with code from a French manufacturer. The comments were mostly translatable, but the variable names were hell. It's bad enough trying to fig…

To be fair, state and local governments would have to increase the total tax burden on their populace to increase education funding, or makes cuts to other things in their domain. …

Wouldn't efficiency affect the cost of cooling, given that the excess energy becomes heat?

Is there a max angle at which two lasers could pass through the pupil and strike the retina? That's assuming that strikes elsewhere don't pose a blinding risk for the energy level …

Don't most investment homes rely on tenants to offset the maintenance and tax costs of owning the home? Construct enough to meet demand for places to live and the rental market sho…

Makes sense that a cockpit wouldn't need a clear distinction between brackets and parenthesis, or |. But I am surprised about the similarity of 0 and O. I recall when I went to the…

You could make the same argument for software. Where do you draw the line "starting from scratch" in software? Does incorporating third party libraries make it not from scratch? Wh…

In 2011, so the value of BTC at the time was between $1 and $32.

I see short-circuit for correct behavior all the time, most frequently in the format: if (pointer && pointer->member == value) Where you want to make sure a pointer you've been giv…

I wonder if you could get some positive results by using students as tutors. Imagine if a certain number of hours per week, you paired up students in grade X with students in grade…

Interesting concept, but seems like it only works for fairly small arrays, right? You could fit 40 base-3 values into a 64 bit integer, but in order to read/write index 39, you hav…

Applying for a job isn't claiming that you meet the requirements, it's testing whether you meet the requirements. So the closer analogy would be installing an app that claims to re…

These studies almost always point to a very limited set of the "wealthiest" for their study. And if you think about it, it's obvious that the very top of the pyramid will mostly ha…

That article seems to be an anecdotal story from a single person. Sad, but hard to point at it as support for or against legalization without being able to show that similar cases …

The first result of searching for the word `wife` in the linked page: See, e.g., Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.1990) (defining rape as the ‘act of sexual intercourse committed by …

Don't those stats only prove that criminalized prostitution is a negative? I expect you'd have a huge differential if you took similar stats from people selling weed in a place tha…

It could be a factor, but probably not a main one. I know first hand that there are organizations that will help people in poor countries get a tourist visa to a wealthier country,…