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by DerekL 8y ago
The title accidentally changed the language name “Ruby” to all caps.
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by DerekL 8y ago
> Why do/did ISPs have to deal with net neutrality while large hosting companies and registrars get free reign? *free rein
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by DerekL 8y ago
*diaries
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by DerekL 8y ago
For a long time, downloaded code could only run inside Apple’s WebKit or JavaScriptCore, but since June 2017, you can use any language and interpreter. Apparently, almost nobody noticed: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017&#x
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by DerekL 8y ago
This discussion about how dominant the NES was in which countries reminds me of a question I've had for a while. Is there hard data on the popularity of each game platform (computer or console, home or handheld, etc.), globally or for
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by DerekL 8y ago
The title misspells the name of the object. It's “ʻOumuamua”. The first letter is the Hawaiian ʻokina. The article itself also incorrectly uses a prime character to represent the ʻokina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by DerekL 8y ago
The actual title is “The Discrete Cosine Transform in Action”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
No, it's not just you. Here's a video about that: http://www.thejimquisition.com/ubification-the-jimquisition/
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373306
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by DerekL 8y ago
That's a Venn diagram, not a pie chart.
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by DerekL 8y ago
“Facebook Apologizes After Translation of 'Good Morning' Post Sees Palestinian Arrested by Israeli Police” http://www.newsweek.com/palestinian-arrested-israel-police-a...
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by DerekL 8y ago
To be more precise, Fox is keeping the FOX broadcast network and the affiliates it already owns, Fox News, Fox Business, and Fox Sports. The Disney sale includes FX, the National Geographic channel, and regional sports cable channels.
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by DerekL 8y ago
You can also use the hexadecimal floating-point textual format. 0x3.0p-2 = 0.75
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by DerekL 8y ago
The original article uses an em-dash. So either Are Technica fixed it since it was submitted, or the submission mistyped it.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Wasn't that mentioned in the second paragraph of the article?
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by DerekL 8y ago
> For the same reason that we now understand Santa Claus as the shitty Coca Cola character invented as an early 20th century ad. Those Coca-Cola ads really didn't change the popular idea of Santa Claus. Here's a good explanatio
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by DerekL 8y ago
There's a proposal to fix this by adding value types to the JVM. It's part of something called “Project Valhalla”. http://jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
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by DerekL 9y ago
> It wasn't until a little while later, presumably once most of the professional software companies had good working x86 versions of their software - that the high end mac pro systems started seeing Intel chips in them. The switch t
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by DerekL 9y ago
Meltdown and Spectre aren't backdoors or simple mistakes. They are the unforeseen consequences of speculative execution. Also, other companies' processors are affected too.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> 1.6 Communications. All communications between Google and you, including the Contest website and email communications, will be in English. Since you can't use French to compete in Code Jam, I guess it violates Quebec's Charte
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Additionally, some see the collapse of stores like Toys R Us as the first wave of economic effects resulting from the declining birth rate in the US (note that Toys R Us also owns Babies R Us). Toys R Us's collapse was mostly caus
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by DerekL 9y ago
You've identified a major reason the Amiga failed. The chipset was originally great, but Commodore should have spent the money to keep up with Moore's Law. Something like AGA should have arrived in 1988, not 1992, and with a blitt
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by DerekL 9y ago
I just looked it up. It turns out that Myst was ported to the Amiga, like I thought it would have been, but not until 1997!
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by DerekL 9y ago
You can look on the back. If it doesn't say what series it is, it's a series 0.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Yes, the Commerce Clause is not the best basis for this. Clause 5 is much better: > [The Congress shall have power] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
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by DerekL 9y ago
The Commerce Clause: >Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: [The Congress shall have power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Here's an example. Suppose I'm driving d
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by DerekL 9y ago
The visual design reminds me of the iOS game Strategery. I used to play it constantly. http://strategerygame.com
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by DerekL 9y ago
I saw it last night at the CHM. There was also a screening at the museum at Bletchley Park. Really entertaining, and I learned much. One interviewee explained his labor-intensive method of pirating computer games. I've never owned a Co
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by DerekL 9y ago
> It's more like eating a free buffet and the host asks you to listen to his annoying friends while you eat... That already exists: a church-operated soup kitchen.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Another reason why laptops are usually widescreen is airplanes. The seat in front is often reclined, leaving little room for a tall screen. Also, keyboards are more wide than tall, so an extra wide case allows wider keys or more space betwe

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