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Media access policy for the 2016 Olympics prohibits creating GIFs(theverge.com)
1 points by Breakthrough 10y ago|0 comments
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by Breakthrough 10y ago
If you use DeMorgan's law on your result, you can simplify it further to ~A | B
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by Breakthrough 11y ago
For the curious, here's a link to the Github repo: https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/ Questions/comments/feedback are very welcome, and feel free to submit any issues or bug reports to t
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Show HN: PySceneDetect – Video Scene Cut/Break Detection and Analysis(pyscenedetect.readthedocs.org)
2 points by Breakthrough 11y ago|1 comments
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by Breakthrough 11y ago
VPaint was recently migrated to Github; you can download the binaries/source directly from the releases page: https://github.com/dalboris/vpaint/releases They migrated the project just a couple days ago, so I
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The Story of the Mexican Fisherman(bemorewithless.com)
1 points by Breakthrough 11y ago|0 comments
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by Breakthrough 12y ago
I initially thought the same thing, but this does address a few things Pygame is lacking for people that are still learning programming/Python. A common question I get is "How would I make a UI with Pygame?" or handle
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by Breakthrough 12y ago
Full Metal Jacket had it's moments of blue and orange, but I'd classify most scenes in the film as 'green'. Then again, Kubrick was known to be obsessive in regards to attention to detail, especially when it came to lig
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by Breakthrough 12y ago
One trick I've noticed to make animations/transitions "snappier" and more natural is to use quadratic/square (power of 2) scaling. For fun I did it on this clock just saving it locally - you can do it by modifying
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by Breakthrough 12y ago
This is my only issue with the article - it's alluded that the -v and -b flags only perform multiplication and bit shifting. By default, this is not true because sox will use a higher bit-count and perform dithering when converti
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
That's awesome, but how much does Europe cost? " Buy our continent, receive a complimentary electric supercar. " -- (Ref: original title was "Europe comes with the fastest electric car")
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
I came here to say "you're only as strong as your weakest link", but I have to admit this is plausible as well. However, from a hacker perspective, what difference does it make? Social engineering tactics are widely known to
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
As a Firefox user myself, with the same problem of having hundreds of tabs open all the time, I've noticed a neat little trick to "unload" all the tabs from RAM if you need to free some up. Just bring up the menu bar (or hit
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Hey, who doesn't? That's a very valid point. Too bad it's muddled in with other fan-boyish comments that greatly detract from the post's legitimacy. Is this a blog post about adding undo to Android, or nit-picking abo
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
You might also want to consider using a sandbox/jail such as AppArmor, to prevent the Python (sub)process itself from accessing any resources should those methods fail. I came across a project called CodeJail, which seems to help confi
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
I whole-heartedly agree, and think this also hints at another issue: as technical experts, we often just don't care about the politics side of things (I think most of us here would align best with a technocracy). We just want to ass
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but even then, who are you to judge someone or something else? This is the exact problem with the computer ecosystem right now (and more often than not, the Apple cult). I understand that you care h
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Sounds like Daniel Suarez' novel Daemon. TL,DR: Programmer dies but his program manipulates the world after his death, then the US government spreads word that the program is a hoax, so later in the novel most people disbelieve that su
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
While I agree it was a bit odd to read this coming from someone in China (given the state of their own internet), I'm as surprised as you are to have read this. However, you have to read between the lines: > How do we make sense
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Funny you mention this, because I don't see US Government , Department of Defense , or the Natural Security Agency on that list (not that I expected to find them there in the first place). Also, last I checked, the purpose of MAPP
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
I'd argue it doesn't really matter, as I assume the US government is fully capable of creating a fully-built exploit out of a major software company's early disclosure of a vulnerability... And yes, I also assume they are us
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Another thing worth mentioning is how the plots were made. Here, the author seems to have just taken screenshots from MS Excel, and not actually exported anything to a portable format. Even the jagged, choppy Excel graphs look fairly
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
They can be... Rickard Gunée actually generated a raw analog NTSC/PAL signal to be connected to a composite cable using a microcontroller: http://www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/sx/howto.php It's a pretty good read if you're into tha
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
It really depends what version of Tetris you're talking about, but it might be possible if it follows the concepts of Playing Tetris Forever ( http://www.tetrisconcept.net/wiki/Playing_forever ) - specifically, the generator they use ( fu
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Right after I read your comment, I realized exactly how useful that might be. From simply helping a friend stuck a particular point to doing entire game walkthroughs/handbooks, his would be a pretty sweet addition to either experience.
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
I just wish those kind of mods worked more "nicely" with multiplayer... Although I still think with all the GTA4 graphics mods there are, I still think it should quality for one of the current most realistic looking games (definitely not wi
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Always interesting to see applications/algorithms sped up with GPGPU implementations. It looks like they get a great amount of speedup by parsing each line in parallel (in the thread blocks), followed up by parsing each individual regular
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
I don't know if I would consider HDMI passthrough as an ace in the hole... I mean I get how it would be cool to be able to overlay your cable box output on the screen, but this also implies that you would have to have your Xbox on every tim
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Yes, but to save money, the patients will have to evaluate themselves and send the results back to the doctor instead. [/sarcasm]
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by Breakthrough 13y ago
Always great to see studies looking at the mental implications of non-psychoactive drugs. I suppose it's common to overlook the implications of a drug on the central nervous system with respect to consciousness, when the drug in question n

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