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by carlosdp 8y ago
For a server, sure, but for a client?
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by carlosdp 8y ago
That's quite a claim, what makes you think state lotteries ruin any lives at all? Per capita lottery spend was at just $225 a year in 2016 [0], so no one is going broke playing the lottery, and the revenues typically go to state progra
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Netflix doesn't even provide ratings anymore. It provides "match percentages," which are trying to predict how well it matches your preferences, not the overall quality.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
That wasn't really the original commenter's point though...
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by carlosdp 8y ago
How does it know someone is holding an actual credit card and not a fake printed one?
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by carlosdp 8y ago
I'm on the PWA + WebAssembly train now as a solution for this. I really think we're finally getting close to a world where desktop-apps become truly pointless with Wasm + PWAs, and the WebGPU spec.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
No, it's definitely the hardware. Hardware makers like to tout that VR is waiting for its "killer app." What's really missing still is the "killer hardware." They're all still devkits (speaking as someone
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by carlosdp 8y ago
I've used most of those tools, they are all pretty terrible to use. You can't very easily take a rendering engine designed for massive geometric modelling and just plug VR into it without major performance sacrifices. I always got
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by carlosdp 8y ago
These products have existed for a while and don't really make a dent.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
This is... really impressive actually. Such a simple mechanic, but well executed. I like how the red block concept is introduced to you after the first few points are scored. The details of the implementation are really impressive for a fir
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by carlosdp 8y ago
> Amid the accounts of corruption, murder, and drug smuggling, Vice News’ Keegan Hamilton wrote on Twitter, there was a brief moment of levity when lights in the courtroom went out. When the electricity returned, someone shouted “He’s go
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by carlosdp 8y ago
> "whereas a Namecheap domain is less than $10/month." Small typo there, I think you mean $10 a year.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Partially true. Softbank as a whole is not funded by Saudi Arabia. Softbank's "Vision Fund", which invests in many US tech companies is like 45% Saudi money ($45b of a total $100b fund). The Vision Fund is the fund that inves
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Oh this is actually really cool, especially because the lightweight nature of JS and the way this is designed means plugin experiences are more plug-and-play when you join a modded server, rather than having to have a plugin pre-installed o
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by carlosdp 8y ago
> Why not let them decide what they want for their country, rather than shoving your ideals on them? This assumes most of their citizens have all the information about the implications, which is very unlikely, for the very reason everyon
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Idk about the fax issues in rural areas, I'm sure it's possible cause fax is hard, but Twilio definitely has SMS Shortcode support.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Yea, I was just adding on to your comment to shed light on why ISOs can be good in certain situations.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
This is if you exercise at/after the IPO. If you can afford it, you can exercise early, get taxed on that earlier value, and then it will be mostly capital gains. Higher risk, cause it could end up being worth nil, but higher reward.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Twilio has a Fax API: https://www.twilio.com/fax
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by carlosdp 8y ago
It kinda surprises me that Google is the one to jump on this rather than Mozilla given that Mozilla has already implemented version of a lot of these APIs (at least the mobile-related ones) as part of FirefoxOS. I guess maybe not having tha
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by carlosdp 8y ago
This is a great idea. One interesting consideration would be how it would handle symlinks. Would it follow them? Could that be used as an attack vector to exit the user-specified directory?
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To Build a Better Ballot (2016)(ncase.me)
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by carlosdp 8y ago
That demo was really cool (had the pleasure of seeing it live), and the Kite & Lightning guys are really great at these kinds of hacks. Keep in mind while this setup suits their needs for video-game class animation, the iPhone only supp
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Yea the author insinuated that stock 3D libraries were also an advantage. Anyone who's worked in animation or video games knows you can't generally just grab a bunch of assets from a store and put them in a work and expect them to
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by carlosdp 8y ago
So for CPUs yes, for GPUs we have seen massive progress even just this year. The Nvidia RTX cards have actual real-time raytracing, not some demo, an actual working product, that can handle massive scenes. I saw a Pixar Renderman talk where
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by carlosdp 8y ago
The Nvidia RTX Quadro cards recently released can actually handle that size a scene with ray-tracing in real-time, just fyi, and Disney/Pixar is using them now.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
So like, studios and FX shops like Pixar and ILM are very much aware of these techniques, because they are leaders in them (they closely partner with Nvidia on things like the super impressive real-time raytracing of the RTX GPUs, for examp
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by carlosdp 8y ago
XSS attacks aren't the only thing to be worried about. As noted above, you could buy subdomain like "support.micro.blog" and trivially phish people's micro.blog credentials, for example.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
The DirectX -> Vulkan translation layer does in fact help compatibility quite a bit actually.
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by carlosdp 8y ago
Someone above mentioned this: https://www.sococo.com/ which is video conferencing that gives a map of where everyone "is" in a virtual office and makes getting on chats lower-touch. Seems to solve part of that puz

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