I have had really bad acne since I was a teenager. Went to a dermatologist for awhile to get it somewhat under control. It was a game changer for me when I asked what the cream they were using to make larger pimples pop so easily. It was salicylic acid, specifically wart removal cream. Just a dab of it on the surface…

Honestly I don’t think that’s fair. From my extensive experience with soldering irons I would say they are dangerous for children to handle and should be rated accordingly. Which effectively translates to a parent must purchase the soldering iron for the child and monitor their usage of it until they see that they are…

That was what bothered me about it. If he was poor, black or white his ass would have been in prison. It wasn’t just the fact that he was rich. Of course the fact he was black played into my feeling but not out of racism. It was because I grew up in an area that is predominately black folk so I’ve seen first hand just…

No honorary addition of Wendy’s chocolate Frosty as dipping sauce for fries?

That would explain why I haven’t liked KFC’s honey in a long time. I love to pour honey over my chicken and give it a minute to sink in but in the past several years I stopped doing that at KFC. Can’t stand the taste of corn syrup, makes everything taste like I’m eating emulsified corn and I’m one of the weirdos that…

Sadly I don’t think we’ll lose that ‘it was better in the past’ crowd. It’s unfortunate because those people cause problems for the ones just getting into it and looking for things more modern. As a long time watcher of anime I did at one point have the opinion anime was better through an arbitrary point in the past.…

It’s not just men. I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 28, had to take to posting on craigslist to find someone since my social skills suck too much for the normal way guys would hook up. What I found was disgusting to me. So many women wanting to be called names, choked, spit on and treated like crap. That’s a…

Yes or no. It really depends on what you consider better. If you considered original unmodified image scaled up to your monitor resolution so that it looks pretty much like playing it on an equivalent size TV, then yes. If you want some smoothing to the sprites and tiles, it really depends on what emulator you use and…

Think about the process of creating an edible vs smoking a joint.

It doesn’t matter what title you assign to someone, beginner, intermediate, expert or professional. At the end of the day they are still human and will trust certain things that they normally don’t screw up. I have been a programmer for 20 years and much more thorough in my testing of code than any other programmers…

That last point. Smart and/or intelligent people make bad decisions all the time. Nor does educating people on what the substance does. I knew full well exactly what cigarettes do to the human body and materials we commonly use. Knew the process down to how the chemical processes as they were understood 15ish years…

I would wager there is a statement in an if block that has a single ‘&’ (binary AND) instead of a double ‘&&’ (boolean AND). Not all compilers warn you if there is no equality operators present, some just blindly assume 0 is false and anything other than 0 is true. Very easy mistake to make, especially on a mechanical…

Yeah. Worth looking into for any item you wind up needing in bulk. I recently learned there are companies that produce such variety boxes for just about everything when I needed a lot of various electronic and mechanical components that typically need replacing or are generally useful. The most surprising part is how…

I have done that before. Wrap around, loop back and continue on. Was on a bundle of cables that needed tensile strength and dental floss was what the dollar store had that would easily get the job done. No fun to replace a cable in though, have to rewrap a good section of the cable to get it loose enough.

Can find variety boxes on Amazon. Just recently seen one with around 6000 individual pieces of varying widths and lengths. They even came with a plastic case with the different length/widths divided up into their own sections. The type that has the slit on one side to anchor it around something before tieing your…

Not so much with Illusion’s games. They use a pretty amazing simulation system across the entirety of the model. Things like cheeks and the little flab the models have to their arms and legs respond to physics just like cloth, boobs and hair. The problem with their system however is that they don’t seem to have any…

No. Have a nice long read.

Would you have the same reaction if it was an MMORPG and spending an equivalent amount of time leveling at the same camp? That’s where my mind went when I read up on it. Certainly have spent that much time at a given camp in EverQuest grinding out AA points typically at night when my insomnia would kick me out of bed.

The process is much less than that. The code was found in their binary for non-pirated copies. This tells us that it exist in the code base and probably isn’t called on legitimate copies. So this means the functions that perform the key logging are there, they have an address in the function table.

Thank you for pointing this out. I regularly get verbally (or textually) abused when I try to point the same thing out to people. Probably wouldn’t have even needed to “take him to get help”. Just having a support structure, even one friend to stop you when your going towards the deep end is enough for most people.