angus-prune

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by angus-prune 9y ago
I believe this was deliberate - it was a way to keep parents out and keep it appealing to teens. It is like slang, it changes every generation so that teenagers have a private language which their parents and teachers are excluded from. Whe
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by angus-prune 9y ago
And then there is 4k, which is limited to certain intel chipsets.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Reddit became popular because Digg pulled exactly this redesign and drove away all their users. Who wants to join me in founding the next Reddit, ready for the exodus?
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by angus-prune 9y ago
How does 2fa work in practice for credit card payments?
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by angus-prune 9y ago
It is worth comparing this against the cost of minting money. A brief search showed that the US mint used 694,462.4 gigajoules in 2011[1] (~0.2Twh). The US is ~25% of world GDP, so lets times this by 4 for a naive cost of minting across the
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I didn't know that there were mandated limits on processing power. Do you have any more info on this? What processing are there limits on? Is it just the wind tunnel equivalence (Were there limits on wind tunnel time back in the day?)?
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I am not bullish on cryptocurrency at all. BUT... If a tipping point comes, it won't come from your grandparents, or your parents in 20 years time. It will come from India or Africa where banking is not entrenched (or even available) f
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Its not without human intervention, it is with only bronze age (iirc) level maintenance.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
This already happens and has been going on for a decade. https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2010/aug/07/computer-...
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Facebook's real name policy affects some people lots more than others - particularly lgbt people, and sex workers. I'd guess that amongst my friendship group around 5-10% of people have been affected by this. This is disproportion
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Apple have also hired many senior Imagination engineers and employees over the last few years. From Imagination's perspective, rather than changing to different technology, Apple are trying to reimplement Imagination's technology,
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by angus-prune 9y ago
When I tried it might have worked if you'd fully bought into the apple ecosystem, but in a mixed corporate environment it just wouldn't work. A document had to be somehow transferred into each viewer, and manually saved back out s
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I have an SP3. It is the best device I've bought in years. I interact with the device in a fundamentally different way. I will sit and read a document with a pen and no keyboard (to proofread, highlight and makes notes). I'd tried
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by angus-prune 9y ago
There was a massive scandal over UK complicity in US extraordinary rendition over here a few years ago. The UK government was roundly condemned and the practice stopped (including refueling US rendition flights from elsewhere). This will no
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by angus-prune 9y ago
You've done this, and I haven't. But I thought you just diluted every round - so that 28% would end up as 21% if you sold a further 25% of the company.
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by angus-prune 10y ago
That'd be a fascinating piece of tech. I'd bet against it being achieved before GPU's have caught up with the requirements though.
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by angus-prune 10y ago
Do you mean Windows 7? Thats an OS which has been out of mainstream support for two years now. I wouldn't hold your breath for much to change. I haven't used Windows 10 on a high DPI external monitor, but it certainly works well o
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by angus-prune 10y ago
One of their strategies is to starve competitors of investment by hoovering up as much as they can themselves. This doesn't mean that they're in a good financial position, just that the signalling is different from other VC fund
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by angus-prune 10y ago
In almost every case you're correct. If its a hobby project, or it allows you to make a normal living you're likely to be fine. The danger comes when you end up founding the next facebook and there is some real money involved. T
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by angus-prune 10y ago
I meant file extension. My bad.
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by angus-prune 10y ago
I entirely get what you're saying, but GIF doesn't mean GIF anymore. Many sites and applications are silently presenting MP4 or webm instead of actual gifs, often with the file format gifv. "gif" has stopped meaning a .g
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by angus-prune 10y ago
All the software I've seen (and I'd be fascinated to see anything I've missed) does not work in a way (afaik) that would be useful for a robot painter. Photoshop filters and more advanced converters like DeepArt produce somet
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by angus-prune 10y ago
This isn't remotely true. Look at the wiki article on dog food [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_food#History ] - diets for dogs have been ad hoc and varied for thousands of years. I'd argue that it is only w
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by angus-prune 10y ago
There is a missing piece of automation here still. The robot can replicate recorded movements - brush angle, pressure, timing etc. An photoshop filter can shift pixels around to make a photo look like an oil painting. What nobody has come u
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by angus-prune 10y ago
I honestly can't tell when you're being sarcastic, when you're trolling and when you honestly aren't getting something. The market you seem to think doesn't exist absolutely does. It has been well served for well ov
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by angus-prune 10y ago
The thing is, this market does exist, and is very well served. I've seen stalls in malls offering this for over a decade, I've seen website offering this for years. I don't think anyone is saying that this market doesn't
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by angus-prune 10y ago
Applying photoshop filters doesn't actually require any manual intervention. The process can be entirely automated and Adobe will even sell you a licence to run a fully scripted version of photoshop on a server. There is definitely a m
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by angus-prune 10y ago
Really worth getting yourself to a gallery. Painting is applying pigment to a page using a liquid which then dries after it has been applied. This liquid could be water (for watercolours), an acrylic polymer compound (for acrylic paints) or