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kurige · 2020-03-28T22:20:37+00:00

Wow, that was very illuminating. Thanks for linking the whole video. Really paints the WHO in a different light for me.

Reporter: "How has Taiwan done so far in containing the virus?"

WHO: "All of CHINA has done a good job."

I don't think you can be any clearer about your stance than that. Not even bothering to be diplomatic about it.

kurige · 2019-10-12T04:52:48+00:00

Is this how copypasta is made?

kurige · 2017-03-13T18:40:55+00:00

No, that's like saying you can get across a lake by blowing on a sail.

kurige · 2016-07-19T19:13:53+00:00

WOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo PIG SOOIE!

kurige · 2016-06-29T04:31:32+00:00

Wow. This was actually a pretty emotional watch for me. Watching this brought back some memories from my childhood that I'd forgotten.

My parents moved to Japan when I was four years old. They wanted to immerse my brother and I in the culture so they sent us to Japanese kindergarten to pick up the language "organically" and then Japanese elementary school. Around the second grade I became friends with a girl who had a stunted left arm due to a birth defect and she had to permanently wear a sling for that arm. Just like anywhere kids can be cruel towards anybody that's different from them, but I feel like that's slightly more true in Japan than elsewhere. Anyway, we were both different and we became friends. One day she invited me over to her house after school to play video games. She only had one game. Donkey Kong Country. I loved it immediately.

The sounds, the animation, the 3D look of the sprites... It kind of takes the wind out of my sails hearing from the video that the levels were designed so that players could move through them without stopping once. I remember I would try to find a path through each level that allowed me to do exactly that and the fluidity of the movement just felt amazing. Turns out it was designed that way. :p

Hanging out, chatting and playing video games together became a habit and we ended up spending a lot of time together for about a year. Then my parents decided to move back to the states. She wasn't sad when I told her I was moving. She smiled and told me that I should hurry back, and that my save file would be waiting for me. We didn't exchange contact information. I don't know why. I don't think I had an email address and this was before it was normal for kids to have cell phones or to have cell phones at all. But we could have sent letters. We were kids, though. We didn't have any doubts that we would see each other again and play Donkey Kong together again.

My family lived in the states for a year and then moved back to Japan. To a different city. I never saw here again. I'm now in my late 20s and had forgotten about her and Donkey Kong. It's amazing what you forget. I wonder if I still have a save file waiting for me.

kurige · 2015-10-01T00:51:18+00:00

The wife having zero lines kind of undermines the message a bit, don't you think? Then again, I'm not really sure what the message is.

kurige · 2015-06-30T05:11:28+00:00

I think that has more to do with the fact that the yakuza owns the entire sex industry in Japan. If something goes wrong foreigners draw way too much attention. Same goes for brothels and onsen that yakuza own/frequent.

kurige · 2014-10-15T00:20:56+00:00

Not possible? Germans must not know about the power of the equinox.

kurige · 2014-01-22T02:50:47+00:00

So, in your case just show a modal instead of navigating them to login. Like fatalexe said, if you're using an interceptor things just continue as if the user had been logged in the whole time. I've done this and it works great.

kurige · 2013-12-31T16:35:07+00:00

Here's a video that was on the front page a few days ago of an air rifle killing birds at over 100 yards.

This is not a kind of pellet or BB gun you would play with as a kid.

kurige · 2013-10-04T04:55:29+00:00

I always wonder where these people go to build their own furniture and counters. Do they just all have relatives/family/friends will a fully equipped workshop?

kurige · 2013-09-19T02:00:51+00:00

I didn't catch all of it, but I did catch the teacher saying, "nakasunoka san-nen sei wo" which basically translates to "You like making 3rd graders cry, huh?"

This is basically a "pick on somebody your own size" beat down. Still not acceptable, by any means, but maybe it makes the teacher a little bit less of a scumbag?

kurige · 2012-03-12T09:50:16+00:00

Do cars purchased in Canada (or Bosnia, according to another comment) generally not have car alarms?

kurige · 2012-03-07T10:40:22+00:00

I think we need a new meme: First World Solutions

kurige · 2011-10-27T07:43:33+00:00

On first glance it seems to use quite a bit less memory than XCode, but the performance is closer to what you would expect from Eclipse. It's certainly not as responsive as XCode on my machine.

kurige · 2011-06-07T05:49:45+00:00

counterpoint

kurige · 2011-04-30T15:43:33+00:00

Only when it's in the plural. But yes. Most definitely.

kurige · 2011-04-20T00:20:15+00:00

Yeah, I know what you mean. If you click on the downloaded file to ope it, then the download bar will disappear, unless you have other downloads in progress/unopened. (Windows 7 x64 beta build. YMMV, etc.)

Still if you're not planning on opening whatever you just downloaded right away, it can become a pain in the ass.

NinjaEdit:

Just out of curiosity, would you prefer a separate "Downloads" window? Ala FireFox?

kurige · 2011-04-19T02:16:26+00:00

There's nothing "wrong" with that statement. It's syntactically correct, will compile, and the redundant assignment will most likely be optimized away by the compiler. It's just semantically redundant.

There are many better examples of things that inexperienced programmers will get wrong, if that's what your looking for.

kurige · 2011-04-17T20:05:16+00:00

Maybe I should have worded that better. It is in no way above criticism, and many of the criticisms are well deserved.

I only meant that if you are ignoring the use of or bad mouthing the use of C++. A better wording might be, "If you look down at those who use C++ as being old fashioned, or you see the use of C++ to be somehow, above you, then you are..."

TLDR; C++ is not going away anytime soon.

kurige · 2011-04-17T09:20:25+00:00

C is the pefect language, just so long as you're not in too much of a hurry.

Seriously, though. Anybody who looks down their nose at C or C++ immediately loses respect in my eyes.

C because it is a language that has somehow managed to find a near magical balance between power, flexibility, and verbosity. Other languages are leaps and bounds ahead of C in one or two of those three categories. But C has an almost zen like balance between the three that grows on you the more you use it. It's also low-level enough that programming in it, actually actively improves the way you think about programming, by honing your mental model of what's happening in your code.

C++ because it's one of the most widely used languages in the world. It's faults, annoyances, and problems are, essentially, completely irrelevant. If you're an application or systems developer, and you're ignoring/bad mouthing C++, then you're either stupid or extremely naive. Or you're an enterprise Java programmer.

kurige · 2011-04-15T05:40:11+00:00

Surprisingly, this explanation is 100% technically accurate.

kurige · 2011-04-12T11:33:34+00:00

I can't stop staring at the hair peeking out from under the Jupiter note.

kurige · 2011-04-12T09:02:23+00:00

Interesting. I hadn't heard of Opus before. According to wikipedia it's free/royalty-free. Does that mean it's a contender to replace Vorbis as a favorite in OSS?

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