Crespyl

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by Crespyl 9y ago
I'll add the caveat that for HiDPI displays you're still likely to run into scaling issues, particularly if you have differently sized displays. I hear that for some specific cases Ubuntu/Gnome 3 handle things acceptably, bu
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by Crespyl 9y ago
And still pushing Metal...
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by Crespyl 9y ago
The "picture of person" attack works for basic version of facial recognition, like the one Google or Samsung have been doing for ages (though I think both now allow you to require a moving face with blinking or whatever). What App
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by Crespyl 9y ago
My error metrics dashboard begs to differ. Maybe we can just relabel everything in terms of "features discovered".
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I knew it was big, but didn't think it was that bad. I'm not familiar with iOS, does that figure include the apps locally cached data and/or embedded resources (I imagine retina images and icons could add up quickly) or is th
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I recall being both impressed by the complexity and either annoyed or impressed by how well formatted the raw HTML output was. "How can they possibly stand to work on this when it's all jumbled together on one line??" I would
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I read that as AR development having more in common with game development, which makes sense given the emphasis on performance, 3D rendering, and latency.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
"Dear Player"
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Electron is designed to be bundled into your app, I'm not aware of any distros/package tools that allow Electron apps to share a runtime. The JVM (and apparently qbrt) is designed to be shared, apps are expected to use the install
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Exactly, even HDCP isn't that hard to work around.
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The only problem I've had recently is that I can't seem to split up different ports on the same card (optical home theatre/soundbar for music, desktop stereo for everything else), but that's not something I was able to d
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Though with applications not already designed to act as thin clients, it could potentially be useful. It doesn't take much horsepower to just open an application like Blender, but it might be useful to run it on a powerful server and a
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by Crespyl 9y ago
If I understand correctly, it works a little bit like how X11 used to run over the network. The program UI state and program data is all server side, but the actual rendering happens client side. Instead of sending the client a stream of X
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Steam is actually somewhat interesting because they've explicitly added a "Family Sharing" feature that allows Steam accounts on the same computer to access each others library of games. It still requires a relog cycle to swi
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That sounds extremely interesting, do you have a write up or source code somewhere? I'd be interested to hear about more applications of adaptive/genetic code to network security.
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In fairness, an equally simple observation is that there might be something wrong with your potato chips. Not that I think CA's level of labeling is reasonable or at all helpful.
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See "local loop unbundling." Right now, we generally treat "the internet as the grid", but there's no inherent reason we can't separate "the internet"/IP address and network peering from "th
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Not yet, but I'd love to see it. Having moved to Texas recently, I was really impressed by the electricity set up. There's one company which, I assume, is granted a local monopoly on power distribution (Oncor for my area, IIRC), a
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but there have definitely been times (long camera movements/rotations in particular) where I thought "jeez, that's a low framerate". Some movies have it worse than others, and maybe it's m
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I wonder if that's because ad companies are inherently dystopic, or because ad companies are paying huge amounts of money to be constantly in everyone's head, and thus come easily to mind when thinking of possible futures (or inde
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Well, we did have XULRunner...
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Interesting stories can provide a useful framework for inspiration, setting goals, or looking at what "rule sets" are in play. If it's intended to be a "simulate (a substantial part of) everything" game, the above s
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I think when things like this happen, it usually falls under the category of "bad news is bad news" and people will want to reach out to friends/loved ones who may have been affected. If my friend is going overseas for a mont
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by Crespyl 9y ago
This "context switch" cost of moving from keyboard only to keyboard+mouse (or mouse only) is why I always have both VimFX for keyboard controls in FireFox, and FireGestures, for mouse-only tools for doing most things. Whether I&
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by Crespyl 9y ago
There are a lot of bad ideas that work great "as long as everything goes well". Unfortunately, everything does not always go well, and some ideas are better at handling that than others.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
It seems hard to find a new messaging app that isn't based on Electron. Mumble is still around, Matrix/Riot seems to be coming along nicely and I think they have voice calls now. For my group of friends, we just gave in and use
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Is being a video call app a requirement? It sounds like you'd probably be better suited with a webcam/streaming tool that supports authentication.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I'm not convinced that it'd be any harder or more expensive to print a series of unique QR codes onto objects than to use NFC chips. The heavy use of (granted, not strictly QR) 2D barcodes in physical mail/shipping suggests i
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IIUC, existing services use geostationary orbits, which accounts for a lot of the cost and latency. The new plan is to use a large number of satellites in LEO, with receivers able to switch to whichever are currently in view. Lower orbits
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Kobos have proven to be pretty hackable, IIRC someone on the mobileread developers forum got Debian running on one, so ssh/tmux should be possible. The refresh rate is pretty low though, even for a text based terminal, I suspect intera

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