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Markdown is markup. > Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. -- Wikipedia > Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an
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Yeah, a good example of this is here - IMO the background color is just much too bright for the base text color to be so dark. You need a little contrast in the luminosity, even if you have perfect color vision. https://raw.git
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My best guess is that all they meant by "CD quality" was that it was targeting full band stereo replication, rather than narrow band as is typically used for speech. Not that it could achieve transparent compression at any particu
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> While such techniques have been explored before for speech, we are the first to make it work for 48 kHz sampled stereo audio (i.e., CD quality), which is the standard for music distribution. Reading this extremely charitably, I think t
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A site like this would be even more awesome if it showed the power draw for a single drive idling (but not spun down). I'd love to move to a more power friendly NAS in the future. A few years ago when I last checked, larger WD drives a
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Coke Zero is zero calorie, it has no sugar.
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"Sign in with Persona" - really takes me back...
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Plenty of people watch movies in languages that they don't speak. Probably half the movies I see are foreign. Subtitles are obviously necessary in this case, and even if watching foreign films weren't extremely common, working sub
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It's got nothing to do with hand capability, you've misunderstood. For an ambidextrous person, using right-handed scissors in their right hand will work properly, using right-handed scissors in their left hand will work poorly. An
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It's ironic, not one week ago there were a bunch of complaints on this site saying that Google was abusing their position of power (controlling YouTube, Chrome, Android TV, etc) by pushing AV1. Now they bring HEVC support to Chrome and
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Thank you, I appreciate the correction. Did this change at some point in the past? I seem to remember the Arch Linux package downloading a ton of Rust stuff at one point.
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Firefox, on the other hand, seems to download a ton of Rust packages during the build as opposed to vendoring. (Debian maintains a bunch of hacks to allow vendoring all the Rust components, but this isn't the default or the approach ta
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> I wonder where the opposite fact that I hear on the internet that most olive oil is adulterated comes from. I think it might come from conflating two different issues. Most EVOO in the US is "legit" - it actually is EVOO, alt
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> With Cosmopolitan Libc, you can have gdb integration and detailed backtraces for your C program in just one line: add ShowCrashReports(); at the start of the main function > Now if you have gdb available on $PATH, you would get a TU
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It is - by far - the most efficient royalty-free video codec. That's got nothing whatever to do with YouTube.
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> The foods she offered the children were varied, but all were generally thought to be healthy. Their intrinsic goodness meant that it would have been difficult for her small charges to veer too far from the nutritional straight-and-narr
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If I ever take any code from SO, I include a comment with a link to it. Surely that's standard practice for anything longer than a line or two?
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Plus it's very common that the final line spoken in a film is not the line that was in the screenplay. Stuff changes, people ad lib.
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> Nevertheless, the output of the hardware RNGs provided by the Intel or AMD CPUs can be used in a reasonably secure way if the supposedly random values are never used directly, but they are passed through a cryptographic hash, e.g. SHA-
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I love this. Another way to 3D-ize a 2D (sidescrolling, platform) game, if someone wants to take it as inspiration: rather than assume the (infinitely thin) 2D plane of the game to be 1 pixel thick, assume that everything in the 2D plane ha
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Shrug the last laptop we purchased was a boring Dell Inspiron. Wiped Windows and put Arch Linux on it the day we got it without even checking any compatibility stuff. Everything worked out of the box, nothing has ever needed to be configu
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It's probably inherent to any site that allows you to follow individuals. For Twitter that's not much of a problem because most people know better than to rely on Twitter for life advice or product reviews. Letterboxd, on the othe
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> the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed Just to state the obvious, "hardware-specific tweaks" are hardware-specific. It is not hard, these days, to buy hardware where everythin
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> It's a really crazy move from Dolby since they have at least a few products that use Opus Seems like the strategy here is going to be to use FUD to leech small amounts of money from individual hardware device sales from the compan
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That's good to know, thanks!
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A lot of different people have come up with metrics for the optimality of a given keyboard layout. This has given rise to various unusual layouts that are the optimal layout for a given metric. [1] I wonder if the same could be done for a s
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> Indeed, it appears that iOS supports Dvorak layout for external keyboards already This is a little ambiguous, I assume you mean a (rare) hardware Dvorak keyboard, not that iOS supports remapping a standard ANSI external keyboard to Dvo
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A lot of comments here focusing on whether this is a good thing or not, but I'm worried about a more fundamental issue: how is it supposed to happen in the first place? As I understand it, the proposal is that every bit of software run
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The context here is >> Can you play the same game on two devices from the same steam account without hiding offline? > Steam doesn't enforce DRM. You can usually go to the game files and just click the launcher from the file m
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Not sure where the confusion lies here. If the developer wants Steam DRM, then Steam enforces it. It's not just the Steam API integration, if the game has Steam DRM and you try to start it without the Steam-specific files and your cach

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