XaspR8d

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by XaspR8d 11y ago
True, but this discussion is being used as a lens for the greater social justice movement, where it would be hard to make the same generality (especially when their uniting quality is that they denounce privilege).
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I love that example! But I don't think it won any awards, because it's fairly easy to extend. > What did you take the car driving the man who brought the book that I didn't want to be read to out of up away in for? Almost-
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
True, though Munroe has been quite liberal about word derivations, and '-ment' is a somewhat salient morpheme in English, despite not being very productive. But still I'm surprised the article didn't pass the updated val
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I think the implication is that the 1st phone is the sender and the 2nd phone was the receiver, to parallel how you generally label 1st/2nd/3rd-person or -party. But I definitely had a laugh about someone holding a crazy 5-phone c
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
It only takes a little bit of steganography before everything looks like a secret communication channel! Cool experiment. The biggest surprise to me is that the fluctuations of the real whistle appear to be a fairly constant frequency; I wo
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I've yet to see a payment app reach any major usage in my social network, which is extremely fragmented among Google Wallet, Snapcash, PayPal, Square Cash, Popmoney, Simple, bank-specific apps i.e. Chase Mobile... (Weirdly enough I don
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
As someone with no networking experience, that example slide and the following paragraph could be parody for all I know. That said, I really enjoyed RFC 1925: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
It looks like the page header/navigation got lost in time. Archive.org shows a lot of now-missing content [1], perhaps in the move to GitHub Pages? In any case the download page does still exist: http://mentat.za.net/
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
The problem is that the text is actually two identical layers, the tashkil/diacritics residing on an upper layer with a hints-only font and absolute positioning. You can fix it by giving that layer "width: 100%".
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
Assuming it's RGB, it comes out as (what I perceive as) a pretty mid-range skin color, #c79170: http://imgur.com/zzOUnRn
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I'm curious if the asymmetry has anything to do with the "computational" component, e.g. in solving a system of equations (like estimating distance across multiple sensors), it's best to have an independent basis. If the
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
Yes, and to be perfectly clear, the color matrix is all identity except for the alpha row [0 0 0 21 -9]. This is stretching the alpha range so that many of the semi-transparent areas outside of the original blob that were generated by the g
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
If you can insert the ESC character, u001B, it's easy. (Though note that it appears as the two characters ^[ in the blog post, so your code should start ESC[5m with only one bracket.) Unfortunately Sublime wasn't happy with me try
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I recall playing this a couple times in college, to vastly different results. One 'ended' as a weird race to infinity, where the point values exploded and the winning value increased exponentially every turn. Another created a wei
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
I'm not certain there is an actual paper yet; I suspect from some of the phrasings that it was merely an announcement that their program succeeded, but a formal paper will take a while. I did find this reddit post by Dr. Mann [1] whe
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
This still happens to me frequently on my Win7 laptop.
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
> imagine an AM radio transmitter that transmitted on every frequency of the AM band Forgive my weak physics background, but aren't lasers generally known for having narrow frequency ranges? So if this is just creating white additiv
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
Just saw http://signup.metroia.com/ today in the public Game Development slack.
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
A lot of people have hypothesized that autonomous vehicles will drastically change the economics such that daily car sharing/rental will be cheaper than car ownership, and similarly convenient. This might in turn lead to a decline in c
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
The preconnect relationship is intriguing; I hadn't been following the adoption of resource hints. Sidenote: I find it really interesting that the current spec suggests preconnect and its siblings accept a probability attribute estimat
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
Well I'm not sure of iagooar's intent, but there is an important distinction here that only community members have the actually power to save a language. It isn't their 'fault' by any means because they have to bala
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by XaspR8d 11y ago
Google partnered with several research foundations to back http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ It's not as specific as a dictionary, but it does provide a simple way to find particular languages and upload source mate
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
A little too awesome unfortunately. (It's NYC) https://goo.gl/maps/p4UKe
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
Nice wrapper. That said, the standard Web Speech API really is pretty straightforward if you want to play with the raw API. I'm surprised Firefox doesn't support any part of the API. Granted, it's a Google-pushed spec, but th
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
The voices come from your OS' voice services, so it depends on what your OS ships with. That said, both Mac and Windows have been quietly improving their speech synthesis over the years.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I had to return here because I got whooshed by your comment. (I see now some have picked up on it.)
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
I have no notable background in physics and cannot identify whether this experiment is a valid analog of Hawking radiation, but it's amazing to me that one could substitute that many conceptual components and still have a strong result
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
It's simply plotting 'seconds' over 'items'. Neither axis is a compound unit.
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
The classification of the less-divisible "free-form" signs (especially those seen in narrative and spatial arrangements) is definitely a challenge to linguists, but that doesn't mean that they don't consider them to be c
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by XaspR8d 12y ago
It parallels the emergence of verbal pidgins -> creoles very well. "Recently born" languages frequently lack the grammatical structure that "mature" languages do. Sometimes levels of phonotactic structure are absent a

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