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by Strom 10y ago
DirectX 12 is only available on Windows 10, so that's the case regardless of drivers.
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by Strom 10y ago
Siri's voice recognition definitely isn't state of the art, although it got a lot better for me with iOS 10. However even the Google app on iOS has leaps & bounds better recognition in my experience.
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by Strom 10y ago
I certainly don't remember anything of usable quality being available to end-users. My Windows 98 machine could barely play 360p videos and didn't even have a camera. The voice recognition that I do remember trying was of very low
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by Strom 10y ago
ISIS et al are an excuse in anti-privacy moves. More people die to bee stings etc than to terrorist attacks. What's more, the terrorists that get caught are caught thanks to classical investigative work not dragnet spying. It's a
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by Strom 10y ago
It's interesting that while we aren't at 10 GHz quite yet, the functionality that was mentioned in the article [1][2] is here and works even on budget smartphones. -- [1] Imagine being able to speak normally with your computer as
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by Strom 10y ago
This is easy to say when you live in a situation where you're part of the majority and all your behavior is within strict limits of the current culture. Take homosexuality for example. Having that information in the open means death in
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by Strom 10y ago
I guess he means that Microsoft isn't aggressive enough in distributing these drivers via Windows Update. Definitely the case with older Windows versions like Windows 7 where Windows Update doesn't seem to offer GPU driver updates
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by Strom 10y ago
For archival purposes there already are people working on it. The bigger issue is that there's no flow of new people from IMDb title pages. I can set up my own boards for every movie in IMDb but very few people will find them. It'
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by Strom 10y ago
It's standard practice for Russia to do things for one reason and give a completely unrelated official reason as excuse. I'm not too familiar with the specifics of this case, but I can easily imagine this just being a case of nati
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by Strom 10y ago
Successful communication depends on participants understanding eachother. You'll notice that the context of my comment was replying to a person who stated that they are not a programmer. Filling my post with unnecessarily precise lingo
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by Strom 10y ago
I assume you understood that by timing I didn't mean seconds from 1970. Beyond that this seems to be getting into semantics territory on how we define 'seed'. To be clear, I agree with what you're saying about the PRNG f
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by Strom 10y ago
Inexplicably? Let's take a quick look at some history. Russia has attacked & occupied the baltics multiple times. Imperial Russia occupied Estonia during 18th - 20th century, and Soviet Russia once again occupied for half of the 20
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by Strom 10y ago
The CPU architecture bit size (32-bit) has no impact on the random range. You can implement an arbitrary length RNG on any machine. Based on the article it seems that the flaw is that the machine uses the timing of human interaction as a si
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by Strom 10y ago
The ordering is classic phpBB last post timestamp style. This means that it's not about popularity, but all about when the last post was written.
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by Strom 10y ago
It's even easier to mishandle errors and get deadlocks in C++. That is in addition to all sorts of other fun like buffer overruns. If the team is capable of not messing these things up in C++, then they are more than capable of not mes
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by Strom 10y ago
I've also been a happy user of WinAmp for 16+ years now. Milkdrop visualizations are awesome, I have a rated collection of 50k of them.
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by Strom 10y ago
This is incredibly sad news. I have been a regular reader of IMDb message boards for over 15 years now. It's the last actual forum that I still visit. There's so much valuable information stored on those boards, it's a traged
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by Strom 10y ago
This is incredibly sad news. I've been a regular reader of IMDb message boards for over 15 years now. It's the last actual forum that I still visit. There's so much valuable information stored on those boards, it's a tra
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by Strom 10y ago
Microbenchmark results don't linearly scale to everything else. Just because language X can print "Hello, World!" 2x faster than language Y doesn't mean that every other operation is also 2x faster. For example a huge fa
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by Strom 10y ago
First off it uses HTTP/1.1 pipelining. There's not a single actively developed browser in existance that supports HTTP/1.1 pipelining out of the box. [1] Thus you certainly can't use this for web development. Secondly, t
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by Strom 10y ago
These not-real-world microbenchmarks are definitely useless from an engineering perspective. However they aren't completely useless. Their use is marketing. It gets the word out to developers that this product X is really good! So what
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by Strom 10y ago
Loyalty in a free market is a pipe dream. Extremely few employers will stay loyal to their employees when times get rough, say when an employee gets very sick and can't work for several years. Thus no rational person should have any lo
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by Strom 10y ago
I don't think the 30-to-1 ratio is the problem. From my own experience the main problem is grouping by age. Children should be grouped by skill instead. [1] I was always top of the class in math and held back by the slow pace dictated
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by Strom 10y ago
I'm not from Silicon Valley and don't identify as a democrat. I've never even visited the Americas. Throughout my years on HN I've seen that there are plenty others like me on HN. To say HN is for "Silicon Valley a
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by Strom 10y ago
Won't save you if self-driving cars are vulnerable. You'll just get a call that informs you that you need to pay or other self-driving cars on the road will crash into you.
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by Strom 10y ago
Googling for immediate answers on Stack Overflow definitely leads to understanding in my case. The trick is to not just immediately paste the code, but to dig into it and understand why that specific set of instructions is the solution. A b
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by Strom 10y ago
That's a great talk which I've seen multiple times. However I still keep a journal with good security. Sure there's a chance that I'm distracted by something while the journal is open and the police bust in right at that
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by Strom 10y ago
There's plenty of anecdotes in this thread on why it's a good idea to keep a journal. It's also not just about remembering, but about better understanding what you're thinking in the first place. Beyond that, for me pers
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by Strom 10y ago
Don't fall victim to the chilling effect. There are ways to safely keep a journal. If you're afraid of being actively targeted you could even use a airgapped journaling laptop that never gets connected to anything or updated.
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by Strom 10y ago
Yes I keep a journal and have done so for over 5 years now. It's interesting to be able to go back in time and see what exactly I was thinking. However the most useful benefit is immediate/short-term introspection. I tend to first

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