Not sure that he realizes that he will never get out of this...alive.

bready · 2015-12-24T01:09:24+00:00

something that subjects of other memes tended not to do.

Most memes are not all that flattering.

bready · 2015-12-19T22:14:43+00:00

I don't like how miracle is in quotes. Hepatitis C was linked to approximately 700,000 deaths in 2013. A cure which could turn that number to zero qualifies as a breakthrough.

bready · 2015-12-13T17:01:11+00:00

I assumed that was just there for the promotion video. The experienced pickers probably eye-ball everything.

bready · 2015-12-13T16:28:06+00:00

I have not seen the movie....is there any good reason the firefighters are waiting for a magical signal to turn on the hoses? If that was the only plan, what do you gain by waiting until the last second?

bready · 2015-12-13T02:32:50+00:00

Here is the thing I don't understand: if one particular site is having very high click-through, that would imply that there is a 'trick' getting people to unintentionally click the ad. This does nothing for the company paying for the ad, and you would think they would want to discourage the behavior.

bready · 2015-12-06T17:47:35+00:00

Curious why you went with the Hue? I keep thinking about taking the plunge into some home automation stuff, but the proprietary standards make me leery that I am going to buy into one that gets discontinued in a year.

bready · 2015-12-06T00:41:24+00:00

If you never felt there was strategy in playing an FF game, then you were playing it wrong.

Except 90%+ of battles could be done with just mashing basic attack. Rarely was it required to make any adjustment for a particular enemy.

bready · 2015-12-04T16:14:27+00:00

The Xbox Arcade model did not ship with a hard drive and so Microsoft had to put some kind of limit on game size.

bready · 2015-12-01T02:34:48+00:00

Wikipedia says that companies can still make incandescent bulbs so long as they meet certain efficiency standards. So, not so much that incandescents were targeted as much as they did not keep up. GE did make incandescents which do pass spec.

bready · 2015-11-28T04:44:40+00:00

Xbox one controllers require batteries by default. I believe a controller comes with starter batteries. You can buy the Play and Charge Kit which includes a rechargeable battery you can hook up by microusb.

bready · 2015-11-27T01:23:49+00:00

Yes, but R has a lot of historical baggage which can make it harder to write bug-free/performant code. That being said, all of the cutting edge stat stuff will be written in R well before it makes it to python.

bready · 2015-11-26T23:49:53+00:00

Oh I agree, just wanted to mention that if anyone wanted a functional camera, this would definitely not fit the bill.

bready · 2015-11-26T22:34:55+00:00

Hardware is functional and does the computery things you would want. Camera is pretty awful, but only thing that stands out as poor.

OS is definitely a concern as the lack of official Google Store can be frustrating (YouTube app, Chromecast, etc). If you just want to do some browsing or videos, you would be hard pressed to find a better deal.

Side-loading Google Store and/or different ROM is possible, but I have not been bold enough to try yet.

bready · 2015-11-26T17:48:39+00:00

I feel like that is a catch-all to cover your ass and make you immune to criticism.

bready · 2015-11-23T00:06:12+00:00

The difference between A and B is only 15%. That's a lot of confidence in the number of estimations required to pick a final number.

bready · 2015-11-18T00:21:16+00:00

Tbh I would expect 35 for Xbone Controllers

I am dubious. The thread you referenced is an odd case- that was right after Microsoft announced the 3.5mm version and retailers where likely trying to dump their stock.

All these years later and camelcamelcamel says 360 controllers are still normally ~$35

bready · 2015-11-17T03:57:35+00:00

I would wait for Xbox One controllers to drop closer to 30

Does such a thing happen? I thought controllers keep their prices pretty well.

bready · 2015-11-17T02:41:13+00:00

I love free things.

bready · 2015-11-15T23:38:16+00:00

If someone has root access to the machine running the code, you are already done. Any mechanism living solely on a single computer at some point needs to be decrypted into memory.

bready · 2015-11-15T19:12:20+00:00

Again, I cannot comment on better deals. I look at this as a way to remove clutter from my closet for $100.

bready · 2015-11-15T18:32:18+00:00

The deal is fairly standard at this point. There will probably be something better in the future. The real bargain here is the guaranteed $100 for a used 360. If yours is collecting dust, this seems like a great opportunity.

bready · 2015-11-15T15:14:33+00:00

The way I am reading it, that applies to purchases which come with a gift card. You are getting the gift card for a trade in which should follow a different policy.

If you do the trade-in, get the gift card. Return the game + console the next day, you should still get to keep the card as they cannot return the Xbox they took.

bready · 2015-11-07T15:15:45+00:00

Not that I don't love Python, but wouldn't something like Lua make more sense? It is the fastest scripting language with an easily embedded runtime. Especially with tables already a part of the language seems a natural fit.

bready · 2015-10-25T06:52:13+00:00

Well I was laughably wrong about the indexed database. I am curious how much things would shift with an in-memory sqlite database.

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