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Estonia e-Residency is now open for applications(apply.e-estonia.com)
6 points by SoapSeller 11y ago|2 comments
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by SoapSeller 11y ago
Hmm, It's 9$ for the bare board, no hdni/vga. The charge 15 for the adapter which should cost much less to produce. Also, it's look like allwinner's version of broadcom's rpi, so they mught get the various chips dir
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Mystery person puts shuttered music site Grooveshark back online(arstechnica.com)
3 points by SoapSeller 11y ago|0 comments
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
First, for youtube, right-click -> Stats for nerds. Watch the "Dropped frames" counter, with hw acceleration it usually stays close to zero("-"). For youtube&everything-else, you got two major tools: 1. CPU usage,
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
The missing phrase in the post is "hardware acceleration", which is is completely broken for VP8/9(In Firefox & Chrome, IE&Safari doesn't support either). I'm using an extension[0] to force youtube to serve
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
This project(at least for me) is a little bit misleading. Because it isn't rendering HTML using WebGL. It using html2canvas[0] to rasterize the browser rendering into a canvas, upload it to WebGL, apply effects and patch-back events(i.
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
There are some efforts out there to do full JPEG decoding in CUDA[0], and hybrid approaches[1]. Actually, AMD supports JPEG decoding via OpenCL implementation in their drivers[2] and Intel has native hardware decoding in their latest GPUs[3
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
I did, with the AKG K1000[0](They are very uncomfortable, btw). The problem with soundstage is that most recordings are made for speakers. Binaural recordings + headphones results in much better and much more realistic soundstage. With the
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
OpenMP is terrible. While you can argue whether introducing pragmas as control structure is a good idea or not, the performance issues with high load(>80% total cpu) and the caveats(two OpenMP versions in same app, multiple threads runni
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755288
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Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years(arstechnica.com)
273 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|99 comments
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A machine that turns Coca Cola back into water(dezeen.com)
3 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|0 comments
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
Yandex and Baidu.
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
From the "Start" page: If you didn't type it correctly, you might not see anything. If this happens, make sure that you've copied the example code exactly This is definitely a big no-no if your goal is "to ma
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
It's somewhat sad that AMD can no longer compete head-to-head with Intel so they have to produce processors based on ARM designs. I'm really hoping that someone will compete with Intel on the high-end CPUs, maybe IBM's PowerP
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Cable companies: Wer'e afraid Netflix will demand payment from ISPs(arstechnica.com)
3 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|0 comments
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OnePlus One review: Big, fast, cheap, open, efficient, and unlocked(arstechnica.com)
5 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|0 comments
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
30-day active users is somewhat problematic for a service like Drive. I am accessing(reviewing) on weekly basis some docs that other people have uploaded to Drive and shared with me. So I'm considered "active" user while I do
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
Yep, ICC's output is much bigger: clang 29K gcc 36K icc 89K
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
I've used the same flags like the OP have suggested in the source header comment.
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
Not for this example. On E5-2680 v2(Ivy Bridge): ./magic_forest_gcc 617 655 606 7.22s user 0.36s system 100% cpu 7.580 total ./magic_forest_icc 617 655 606 7.00s user 0.34s system 100% cpu 7.340 total ./magic_forest
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California company Aerofex accepting preorders for $85,000 hoverbikes(arstechnica.com)
4 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|0 comments
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Amazon’s latest patent is sillier than the peanut butter sandwich patent(arstechnica.com)
4 points by SoapSeller 12y ago|0 comments
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by SoapSeller 12y ago
I'm using ASUS VivoTab Note 8 for a couple weeks now and I'm very happy with it. It has proper(IIRC Wacom) digitizer and the Atom processor is is handling OneNote touch + web browsing quite well. The only let down is screen reso
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A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia(arstechnica.com)
252 points by SoapSeller 13y ago|152 comments
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by SoapSeller 13y ago
Didn't Google won the the "Oracle vs Google" case on the ground that APIs aren't patentable? What prevent MS(or any other big player) to re-implement GMS?
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by SoapSeller 13y ago
When I interviewed with Amazon a few years ago, almost all of their recruiter emails ended up in Gmail's Spam folder. Clicking on the "Not Spam" didn't seem to fix this, and I ended whitelisting amazon.com. At the time I
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by SoapSeller 13y ago
"for Ubuntu"? really?
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by SoapSeller 13y ago
This is the most annoying hn post I've encountered. Ever. Every single link here(post & comments) redirect me(on my android phone) to the Play store listing for their "Wait" app, that doesn't contain any useful infor
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by SoapSeller 13y ago
JIF is already taken by JPEG[0], so GIF, with a hard G. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_Interchange_Format#JPEG_fi...

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