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As someone on reddit mentioned yesterday "Jia Cheong Tan" is an anagram of "CIA Agent John". Which may be accidental or a funny pun by the backdoor coder.

You can disable that the dialog shows up, then it's just a subtle icon. That it often doesn't show up at all is indeed a bit confusing. I can translate german to english or french …

Not just with his family. He actually wrote himself an AI with some 60 page Excel monster which could play the game quite well. I worked with him for a short time around end of the…

70% of the people in current Bundestag have finished University and another 15% some other colleges. 5% studied without finishing. With a clear upward trend in those numbers each l…

Jim Butcher, the author of Dresden Files, mentioned recently on reddit how he starts to get around mental blocks by concentrating on just getting the body moving: https://old.reddi…

Just got the new Firefox on my tablet earlier and ublock origin did unfortunately not work well after the update. Ads are no longer removed, but replaced by whitespace with a loadi…

I'm not allowed to have liked it? Damn. edit: Jokes aside. The hardware did what I expected from it - and for a rather nice price.

Registered developers can do sideloading, no info yet if that will continue to work. Or if it will be possible for users to register as Oculus developers in the future or if that i…

I haven't seen that tool yet (been a few months since I developed for Oculus), so I can't tell yet anything about that (and looks like a Mac app from screenshot, so not sure if it'…

I don't know about Palm as I never had one. But I can still code for my first Android phone. And I do not ask for support, but for opening up sideloading so users can install apps …

You do like hardware getting locked down for development less than 2 years after it's release? (edit: OK, a bit over 2 years - 31. May 2018, still not that old) I don't care about …

Unfortunately just the kind of experience you can expect when buying non-open systems. Company loses interest in hardware - it can stop everyone developing for it. If they would at…

Yes, while maintaining code which other people wrote who are no longer around I often have to figure out what they might have tried to do. Being able to see how code looked before …

Not sure about boot speed. At least on my system booting Debian became noticably slower in Debian 8,9 and again in 10. Maybe simply because software got larger or because I didn't …

Ogre is a free open source library with a liberal MIT license unlike Unity or Unreal which are both proprietary tools. And in many projects you'll write your own editor so the lack…

I got (mostly) rid of the brain fog when I bought a better mattress. Which was rather a surprise as I thought feeling like that was simply one of the things you have to get used to…

It's the biggest blow the EU has given me so far. And yes, my support for the EU got weakened a lot by this. Just... the guys voting for this law had generally been the converative…

Irrlicht still has 2 software renderers. A simpler one without clipping and a more complex one called burnings renderer.

You can parse expressions inside the "QuickWatch" dialog in VS.

Chromium pops up some yellow bar with a warning when you use those flags. Isn't Chrome doing the same?

First one works - the second one is blocked.

The Oculus Go lasts around 2 hours. Then you have to load batteries for 4 hours. Although they don't recommend it - you can buy a long usb-cable and plug it into your PC to get aro…

4. Weight. It's still very noticable with Oculus GO.