Jyaif

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by Jyaif 6y ago
The fact that you think that the blurred background example is fake is a testament to how well background replacement work.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Another example of the Linux Kernel not scaling because of the lack of stable driver API. You are supposed to put your driver in the tree for it to stay compatible, but it gets removed if there are too few users!
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> web browser needs a rewrite with thin web specs Flutter was started by Chrome engineers asking the question "what would the web look like if we could strip out all the things that makes it slow without worrying about breaking comp
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by Jyaif 6y ago
To the people that say that true No-Code will never happen: It has always been possible to create software without writing code, it's just that historically it has been expensive.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> an area with lots of sun, little precipitation, lots of relatively new, big, and straight roads, no real wildlife that might jump out into the road, and that is notoriously hostile to pedestrians. You just described a quarter of the US
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Facebook isn't doing anything special here, I believe this is what the majority of stores are doing, include the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. In fact, I'd be curious to know which virtual stores do not do that.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Yes, eventually every cloud vendor will shutdown. The question people should ask themselves is wether the convenience of having an app store where you have a X% chance of losing your purchases every year outweighs having to manage the physi
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Not sure about your percentages, but yes in essence this is the pros and cons of socialist countries. Now the question is wether this is good for a given country in the long run, knowing that socialist countries will tend to attract poor pe
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Does anyone know what happens to your purchases if you delete your google account or your apple account?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
No, we constantly hear how good we are supposed to have it with healthcare and education, and how it's horrible in the US. Nobody talks about how qualified workers are earning 3x more in the US, with everyday items costing less.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
The rail automation is solved, entire metro lines are automatic in several places. Unfortunately while it is an easier problem to solve, it's also a less financialy interesting: in a train the labor cost of the driver is much lower tha
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by Jyaif 6y ago
In the playstore you can support old devices by keeping the old apks available ( http://developer.android.com/google/play/publishing/multiple... ). This would work very well for GPSLogger.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
A good illustration of the western world sabotaging itself.
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10 billion is what, 5 months of their net profit on the app store? Even if they do get fined this amount, it would have been worth it for them to abuse their position with the developers.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Wow, this is indeed going to be a game changer for me. Until now, I had to ask players of my game to download a webserver to be able to create new levels and test them in the browser. Not anymore!
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Because WebAssembly allows you to sandbox the code, which you can't with regular assembly.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
"Please note that at this time we are not ready to make Luau implementation publically available in the source form" 1/ Code source is not available, so it feels like the purpose of the page is just to brag about how good you
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Side note: It's a pretty website, but the text is quite hard to read. Note necessarily a problem if you want to filter out people that favor content over form, just something to be aware of.
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Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic(youtube.com)
134 points by Jyaif 6y ago|7 comments
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by Jyaif 6y ago
numworks offers a calculator that is the same price, but with a modern processor and UI. Bonus: you can actually customize the OS because the code source is available.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
It's pretty obvious that thought experiments have existed for a long time ("If I kill him, I can mate with the females"). I think what the blog post is saying is that thought experiments applied to physics became popular with
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Try doing the following queries from your address bar: view.java main.rs main.cc libc.so winrar.zip
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Virtual models gives you a lot of flexibility. For example, you can change the skin color of the models depending on the country of the IP address. You can even tailor the body types of the models for every customer to maximise the sales.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Best $5 million ever spent.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Why is he doing that work? Does Apple not fix every jailbreak exploits by themselves?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Some of these apps offer suggestions based on the content of the clipboard. How else can they do that without looking at the clipboard?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
It's a dirty move, but it's an immensely lucrative move. By switching users to Edge, they are switching them to Bing. The vast majority of users won't notice the switch since Edge and Bing both look a lot like Chrome and Goog
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by Jyaif 6y ago
I assume this means that APIs such as https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162... are not available for their instant apps (the so called "Clips") ?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
The Vectrex video game console had special overlays that matched the games layout, for example: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,154425.msg16...
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by Jyaif 6y ago
The GameControllers API on macOS is completely useless. They forget to say it in the documentation, but only a tiny fraction of game controllers are supported, so you have to use a lower level API to have any level of compatibility. On iOS

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