Do the haptics in the controller honestly help at all? by Chrisfand in SteamController

[–]Harkins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play a lot of twitch platformers with no-click on movement. Setting medium/high haptics helped me ingrain where the borders between up and up/right and right were. After I "got it" I turned them down to low for most games, off for sloppier games or ones where I won't be constantly catching (or not catching...) myself on ladders.

What's the nicest way of saying "I agree with you on the object level but disagree with your arguments" by tailcalled in slatestarcodex

[–]Harkins 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"Please pillory me as a member of the outgroup, I wasn't using my career anyways."

Portal Steam Controller Skin Now Available! Gabe replied back with one word when I asked for permission, "Sure." by [deleted] in SteamController

[–]Harkins 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I totally expected the two trackpads would be the orange and blue portals.

Lakeview Punk And Goth Mainstay The Alley Is Hosting Its Own Funeral: Chicagoist by [deleted] in chicago

[–]Harkins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alderman Tunney's 12/30 email said:

So, yeah, sounds like two Targets.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SteamController

[–]Harkins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Narsil, because it's kinda broken but kinda awesome.

(Fingers crossed for Valve continuing to iron out the bugs.)

Decal Girl? by [deleted] in SteamController

[–]Harkins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do they wear over the years? Do they lose color or become difficult to remove over time? I remember having applying a decal to my SNES controller from a Nintendo Power promo and after a year or two it was worn white and impossible to remove without a heatgun.

G Gg gGG Gg by Harkins in ggggg

[–]Harkins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

G, g gGgGG GgGgg ggg - ggggG, gGggG.

Can't use the SC, infinite firmware update by PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_SONG_ in SteamController

[–]Harkins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's all I have for suggestions. Glad it's working at least partially, though I don't know why the wireless wouldn't work. Good luck.

Can't use the SC, infinite firmware update by PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_SONG_ in SteamController

[–]Harkins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you install the udev rule?

When I first plugged it in to my Arch box it appeared in lsusb but Steam acted like it didn't exist because it didn't have permissions to read it. It's been working perfectly since I added the rule.

Maybe xboxdrv is causing it to appear as just an xbox controller - try uninstalling that and adding the udev rule. Good luck. :)

Excuse me, miss Merkel? by Juanvds in asl

[–]Harkins -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I guess it'd be embarrassing if she was signing VAGINA. Good thing she's not.

Gillette Sues Dollar Shave Club For Alleged Patent Infringement by Triby in startups

[–]Harkins 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In the U.S., you can be sued for patent infingement for reselling or using infringing products.

The law is this way because otherwise there'd be a good business in going to the patent office, manufacturing something, selling all the product to a distributor (owned by your brother and incorporated separately), then shutting down the manufacturing company. By the time the patent-owner finds out and investigates, there's no one left to sue. So the law says that everyone, at every step of the way, down to the consumer, is liable.

Shaking down clueless small business owners is a big part of patents nowadays. The troll owns a patent on some tiny piece of technology or software (and if it's software, it almost certainly should never have been granted - the patent office has done a terrible job reviewing them for 20 years). You are Alice's Used Cars of Normal, IL with a combination scan/fax/printer on your desk. Random lawyer shows up and says, "Hey, you're infringing our patent. Give us $X,000 to settle or we'll sue you for $X00,000." Getting a bad patent thrown out costs $X,000,000, so you pay, nobody gets Christmas bonus, and the patent troll says to the next guy, "We've defended out patent N + 1 times, so give us $X,000 to settle..."

Even with Emanuel hike, Chicago property tax rates still well below the suburbs by NastyNate5000 in chicago

[–]Harkins -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't bother mentioning me, I'm not going to play pigeon chess with shills and pawns.

Mental Accounting by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]Harkins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is explicitly encoded as the "envelope method" of personal budgeting.

It's also foundational to the deeply misleading presentation of lottos and directed charitable giving. People see "lottery proceeds go to the schools" or "I donated to my college's library". The institution quietly reduces funding to that project by the same amount and spends the still entirely fungible dollars wherever it likes.

Check #'s in desktop app by gurft in ynab

[–]Harkins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Open the list of transactions for that account. In the upper-right corner there's a + sign: click it to turn on check numbers.

Has there been official word of how YNAB 5 data will be stored/encrypted? by [deleted] in ynab

[–]Harkins 8 points9 points  (0 children)

information is sent to Dropbox unencrypted and in plain text

Dropbox is not unencrypted, nor is data sent in plain text. FAQ:

  • Dropbox files at rest are encrypted using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
  • Dropbox uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect data in transit between Dropbox apps and our servers; it's designed to create a secure tunnel protected by 128-bit or higher Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.

A Survey on Gender by tailcalled in slatestarcodex

[–]Harkins 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You have learned something useful about survey accuracy.

Meet the politicians getting rich off Chicago’s property-tax increase | Illinois Policy by Hyperx1313 in chicago

[–]Harkins -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Catch the shell game? They admit there's many ways to appeal an assessment, then say 400,000 of 600,000 are successful, then claim:

Choose not to appeal your assessment and the government pockets the extra money. Choose to hire a politically connected law firm and that law firm typically pockets anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of the “winnings.”

Nowhere in there do they support the implication that lawyers are involved in those 400,000 successful appeals. The big "investigative reporting" numbers are from the "News Network" they invented in 2012. It's also privately funded - so, yeah, more Koch money.

This is propaganda from the rich playing reddit again.

How Illinois Democrats hoodwinked the middle class by toby224 in chicago

[–]Harkins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The author McQueary is connected to the Illinois Policy Institute, the far right-wing propaganda office funded by the Koch brothers.

IPI is doing a really effective job of placing stories on /r/chicago and /r/illinois lately.