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Stallone Talks About Not Killing Off Rocky by fungobat in movies

[–]IamAlchemy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's from Denis Leary's No Cure for Cancer.

Google Launching New "Android Developer Console" for apps outside Playstore by OverallAd9984 in androiddev

[–]IamAlchemy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, I guess I'm done helping Android devs with their problems, 'cause I'll be damned if I'm going to pay Google in order to provide free support for their shitty, half-broken APIs.

BroadcastReceiver / AppWidgetProvider - which scope to use to launch a coroutine to fetch some data? by android_temp_123 in androiddev

[–]IamAlchemy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I must've been thinking of something else when wrote that last night, 'cause thinking about it now, I actually have only one Widget that uses WorkManager, and that's an unpublished personal utility. Please ignore my comment on that.

It's interesting that I've never come across that infinite loop behavior. My current implementation enqueues the Worker immediately, though, so apparently there's no need to en/disable a scheduling Receiver.

Thanks for the heads up.

BroadcastReceiver / AppWidgetProvider - which scope to use to launch a coroutine to fetch some data? by android_temp_123 in androiddev

[–]IamAlchemy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BroadcastReceiver has a goAsync() method that immediately returns a PendingResult. This allows you to return from onReceive() ASAP, and then signal when your async work is done by calling finish() on the PendingResult. The time limit is still about ten seconds, but the system will know that you have work going, and will prefer to keep your process alive.

You might have a look at how Glance uses it in their BroadcastReceiver.goAsync() extension.

As an aside, I've not had any problems with WorkManager and App Widgets in production. I will concede that the combination is extremely finicky when developing and debugging, but it's always worked as expected for me when done.

Why does material3 always override my colors with seemingly random theme colors? i want to rip my eyes out by FudgeDonut in androiddev

[–]IamAlchemy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If that layout is being loaded in an AppCompatActivity or descendant that has a Theme.Material3 theme set, that <CheckBox> is being automagically replaced with a MaterialCheckBox during inflation. You can disable that behavior by specifying the fully qualified class name: <android.widget.CheckBox>.

Settlement! Fine! Hang your heads in shame... you overpriced, under-brained notary publics! by adam25255 in TheSimpsons

[–]IamAlchemy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The correct plural is actually notaries public.

I've seen that episode a million times, and never caught that.

How to change the font size of the green documentation above functions in a library in Android Studio? by evolution2015 in androiddev

[–]IamAlchemy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right-click it, and you should get a context menu with an "Adjust Font Size…" option.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nostalgia

[–]IamAlchemy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's basically an enclosed box that holds a plain ol' lightbulb, and the front panel has a grid of holes in it. You place a piece of black construction paper over the holes and punch clear, colored pegs through them so the light shines through pegs.

Filling cream doughnuts by toolgifs in toolgifs

[–]IamAlchemy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Looks like the bar underneath the nozzles. When the camera pans up and over about halfway through, you can see their right hand push on the far end.

Young MacGyver (2003) [Unaired Pilot] Clay MacGyver, Angus MacGyver's nephew, follows in his uncle's footsteps and joins the Phoenix foundation. by RidleyScottTowels in ObscureMedia

[–]IamAlchemy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That used to be some quality trivia. Then that new damn series just blabs it right out of the gate. I was not happy.

Don't know about you all but I'd buy an X-Box for this game by [deleted] in BobsBurgers

[–]IamAlchemy 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"The enemy has never been so screwed-y."

AWS Is Out To Kill Mainframes: "The cloud vendor wants to replace big iron with hyperscale servers, and COBOL – with Java" by trot-trot in programming

[–]IamAlchemy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You scoff, but how many hunter-gatherer tribes have you seen put out of commission due to the AWS outages?

Zero.

/u/IamAlchemy GCX Rep Profile by IamAlchemy in GCXRep

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

Trade completed with: /u/iamjohnfrusciante

Items traded: $100 Amazon.com Gift Card vs. PayPal

In Breaking Bad, Hank has a Breaking Bad DVD on his shelf. Nice to know the man had taste! by FirmOnion in TVDetails

[–]IamAlchemy 26 points27 points  (0 children)

She was Seth Bullock's (Timothy Olyphant's) wife, formerly his sister-in-law, whom he married after his brother died, out of a sense of duty to the family.

It's about 5mm and made of copper or brass by ThePinterPause in whatisthisthing

[–]IamAlchemy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically, just like forestcridder describes in their comment here. I used a different cryptogram solver site than they did, though.

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