crishoj

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by crishoj 10y ago
The flow of money doesn't terminate at Humble.
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by crishoj 10y ago
Do you have a reference for GTK supporting FB rendering? The best I could find was this: > This current DirectFB GTK+ 3.12 port lacks drag and drop, selection support, cursor shapes, full-screen support, geometry hints, properties, and m
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by crishoj 10y ago
Kivy's multiplatform support is impressive. An application I'm working on at the moment runs in X on Ubuntu, on Microsoft Windows and on a Raspberry Pi 3. On the latter Kivy draws the UI using the frame buffer directly, without X.
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by crishoj 10y ago
Could you describe Japan's approach in greater detail?
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by crishoj 11y ago
Looking forward to https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency/PRISM et al
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by crishoj 11y ago
Protip: Have your stuff sent by Yamato courier directly to the airport. This includes your luggage! After several of my first stays in Japan, I found myself lugging unwieldy luggage (and even bicycles) through the subway. But, no need. Do a
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by crishoj 11y ago
The statistic might be stupid, but it does a marvellous job of illustrating immense inequality in wealth distribution, something which is both factual and important. Would you not agree?
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by crishoj 11y ago
Your average electrical utility also provides electricity "24/7".
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by crishoj 11y ago
In fairness, from the article it's not actually clear whether the server literally had an uptime (as reported by the OS) of 18 years, or whether it had simply been in constant service (modulus power cuts) for 18 years.
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by crishoj 11y ago
There's also the pv(1) utility on Linux and OS X Homebrew: DESCRIPTION pv shows the progress of data through a pipeline by giving infor- mation such as time elapsed, percentage completed (with progress ba
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by crishoj 11y ago
Does this also entail that no Saudi Arabian [0] or American fossil fuels will be used in the entire supply chain? [0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/...
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by crishoj 11y ago
It strikes me that while the back-and-forth of autonomous private vehicles (to send parents and kids off on separate trips) might reduce the total number of cars, it would also probably increase the amount of cars on the streets at any give
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by crishoj 11y ago
All the patents in question seem to relate to cellular radio technology, and not to touch screens per se.
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by crishoj 11y ago
Being a remote worker without a fixed office, I have given up on the ergonomic chair. A laptop stand and a detached keyboard seems like a viable option, though. To other "nomads" out there: Any suggestions? What works for you?
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by crishoj 11y ago
> [They] receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries. I assume the author is alluding to Saudi Arabia here. How absurd is it not of the West to * on one hand is claim to oppose Islam
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by crishoj 11y ago
According to the byline, "John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics and American studies at Columbia University."
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by crishoj 11y ago
> most fuckups that ever happened How about not blatantly ignoring all the human misery caused by failed extreme free market experiments, such as Pinochet's Chile and 1990's Russia?
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The world's first ocean cleaning system will be deployed in 2016(minds.com)
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by crishoj 11y ago
tl;dr: Proxied FinFisher boxes serve up google.com when opened in a browser. Actual IP address revealed by entering the query "what's my ip".
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by crishoj 11y ago
iCloud contacts synced across several Macs/iPhones. I use GMail through in the IMAP interface and keep the contacts syncing here disabled.
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by crishoj 11y ago
Since iOS 7 or so, iOS updates have been incremental, sized in megabytes, not multi-gigabyte blobs.
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by crishoj 11y ago
For the iOS version of the Thai-English Dictionary from thai-language.com ( https://appsto.re/us/QS7jQ.i ), I use a content-less FTS4 index and indeed do not store the actual dictionary content in SQLite at all. In this
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by crishoj 11y ago
Would be neat to add know and suspected Five Eyes interception points.
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by crishoj 11y ago
Did you mean to post this on stackoverflow.com?
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by crishoj 11y ago
Another enlightening point is that there is a significant loss in the optic fibers: > The whole process was horribly inefficient, with a success rate of 6.4 × 10−9, mostly because photons kept getting lost in the fiber optic cables. Bu
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by crishoj 11y ago
Can anyone explain (in layman-like terms) how one goes about transporting a single photon over a distance of 1.3km? I really like to have a general idea of the technology involved. "The researchers started with two unentangled electron
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by crishoj 11y ago
The generators in this project are deterministic, and the tests thus repeatable, according to this extract from the README: Avoid calling Math.random in your [custom generator] functions, since if you do so, test runs won't be repeatab
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by crishoj 11y ago
I see. Thanks.
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by crishoj 11y ago
As in SELECT MAX(a), c, d FROM t WHERE b=x? MySQL will return a random c and d, not necessarily the c and d from the row with maximum a...
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Chinese Mobile App UI Trends(dangrover.com)
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