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by JD557 3y ago
Hijacking this comment in case you (or someone from HN) knows. Is there any particular reason that AIFF uses an 80-bit extended float precision for the sample rate, instead of a 32-bit integer like WAVE? I assume this was an oversight at th
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by JD557 3y ago
I'm quite happy to read this, because my experience was also awful - they didn't accept the IMEI of 3 phones I tried and their app is full of ads (not to mention that I kept receiving scam calls). I really hope that it's beca
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by JD557 3y ago
Yup. I'm quite hopeful that Scala could become a very nice ecosystem for creative computing, not only due to libraries but also tools that enable a (near) live coding experience like Scala CLI, Polynote and SCRiBBLE. It's not all
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by JD557 3y ago
It was the most common, but not the only method. You could (at least on Nokia phones) go to any wap site and download a .jad/.jar straight to your phone. I did that a lot on my series 30 (3510i). I think other manufacturers allowed tha
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by JD557 3y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think this is always true for physical SIMs. I recently bought a temporary SIM in the US during my holidays (StraightTalk) and was surprised that you can only use the physical SIM after you register online with y
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by JD557 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is: matrix rotations in 3d can lead to gimbal lock. That's why most 3d engines use quaternions instead. Geometric algebra offers a simpler alternative to quaternions.
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by JD557 4y ago
I think you can still be fingerprinted without cookies or Javascript (e.g. with HSTS supercookies). It's obviously not as effective.
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by JD557 4y ago
I would say even earlier than 2008, at least if my memory is not betraying me. I guess it depends of your definition of blog, but I remember Fotolog being incredibly popular circa 2006 even when compared to mainstream social networks. While
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by JD557 4y ago
I'm also a big fan of QOI as a simple imagine format. Yes, it's not as good as PNG (as the sibling comments point out), but I view it more as an alternative to PPM (and maybe a BMP subset), as something that I can semi-quickly wri
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by JD557 4y ago
Looks like it just went online: https://youtu.be/832JF1o7Ck8
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by JD557 4y ago
While fortunately I never had to call 911, I'm pretty sure this should be the case. Whoever answers the phone should be ready to either give you immediate instructions (or transfer you to someone who can do that) until an ambulance&#x2
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by JD557 4y ago
There are a few issues for that, but they haven't seen any activity in a while: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3796 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues&#x2F
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by JD557 4y ago
One alternative that I sometimes do is to continue the work on a new branch (just as if I was doing stacked PRs), but not send any new PR until the first PR is merged (or at least approved). Mostly because stacked PRs are usually not ready
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by JD557 4y ago
I'm not sure if I would call it a trend, but I would say projects released under under "Ethical Licenses" (such as the Anti-Capitalist Software License (ACSL)[1] or the Do No Harm License[2]) might fit the "you may only
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by JD557 4y ago
Probably this one about German playgrounds: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/24/why-germany-is...
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by JD557 5y ago
I think it makes sense in this particular case. I was actually looking for something like this for a while. I just want a glorified `autoindex on`. I don't want to manage an extra container just for that. (I'm speaking in regards
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by JD557 5y ago
I think you might have a bit too much nostalgia (or maybe we just had very different experiences), but I remember Mac OS 8/8.6 crashing a lot, with the dreaded bomb icon. Everyone I knew with an iMac had a toothpick or paper clip in th
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by JD557 5y ago
I think the word you are looking for is "permutation". However, if you can use a permutation as a hash function, you might be fine with just using the identity function.
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by JD557 5y ago
Same. I've been thinking about cancelling my subscription since September, as the quality of games seem to have decreased (or at least my interest in them) and I haven't really played any of them. I've kept the subscription m
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by JD557 5y ago
> So, let's make an odd_int_less_than_20587 type and a billion of other types? I see your point, but I think that (while not always), it can still be pretty helpful to add your custom types to make invalid states unrepresentable. Th
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by JD557 5y ago
Not really that "big", but I think Scaleway doesn't have an US presence. Might be a viable option for smaller players.
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by JD557 5y ago
One aspect of region locking that makes me very confused is dubbing. I just moved to Germany and a lot of movies in streaming services are only available in the German dub, not with the original voices... Why? I mean, I assume that for some
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by JD557 5y ago
I think about that once in a while, and I still think my most meaningful work was a small tool that I built while in college (almost 10 years ago). The university website was pretty bad and in some programs the class enrollment was on a &qu
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by JD557 5y ago
I was also thinking about this. I remember the days of "Does anyone have a Nokia charger with the slim head?", and it was not fun at all. Nevertheless, from that Wikipedia: > Although compliance is voluntary[...] Which sounds w
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by JD557 5y ago
> How do you get anything done when the cost of testing an idea is several hours?! I haven't used rust in production, but usually you can just use `cargo check` to only run the typecheck. Using `cargo build` is also usually much fas
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by JD557 5y ago
They claim to be using a LSTM, and I believe that any RNN-like architecture should (in theory) be able to learn a loop pedal. If you aren't familiar with RNNs, think about it like a NN that instead of learning a input -> output func
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by JD557 5y ago
That's weird... I have tried it (I use it a lot on PC) and it works just fine. It even has some extra features, like LaTeX support. I guess you mean it doesn't work on mobile browsers? (Never tried that)
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by JD557 5y ago
I think using the tweetdeck interface ( https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ ) also helps, since it doesn't show recommended tweets.
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by JD557 5y ago
While I agree that it's not really 3 times, I still think that it's useful to use that description when talking about games that do this, to be explicit that the "New game plus" option is integral to finishing the game.
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by JD557 6y ago
It's funny, because as a MacOS user I pretty much never use multiple desktops, although I used it a lot in GNOME 2, because of how obvious it was that there was something in another desktop[1]. I think it really help multiple desktops

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