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by ferongr 13y ago
Has there ever been a successful assassination using this method? If some cut my brake lines I would know about it the moment I started the engine and applied the service brakes while putting the car into drive/releasing the e-brake, o
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by ferongr 13y ago
The broadband connection usually has latency depending on the protocol. ADSL2+ with data interleaving can be as high as 32ms. DOCSIS has at least 5ms for the first hop too. And that assumes your ISP's (or whichever) DNS server is close
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by ferongr 13y ago
To be honest, the video in TFA looks like something out of a 2009 game, it's not particularly impressive. And I guess it'll probably be a rolling demo, not having the requirements of a complete game that also has to handle a bunch
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by ferongr 13y ago
The competitive games I have first-hand experience with(LoL, DOTA2, World of Tanks) have no pay-to-win elements and the different heroes/items/tanks/ are all balanced. And this whole discussion is about f2p games with microtr
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by ferongr 13y ago
Skill-based matchmaking is better. Furthemore, pay-to-win elements cannot be justified, even as a boost for weaker players in games that revolve around PVP competition. Skilled players will exploit them and create havoc in the overall balan
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by ferongr 13y ago
>Windows Media Player, Firefox, iTunes, ... None of these drive the signal to digital clipping.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Well, mastering engineers rarely heavily clip audio (ok, Death Magnetic, but that's an exception rather than the rule). What they do is apply heavy dynamic range compression. Even in cases the signal clips lightly, it probably won&#x27
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by ferongr 13y ago
While any software that accesses an audio interface using integer formats, VLC is to my knowledge the only average user-oriented program that can end up in such situations. I would suggest VLC disables this feature for new installs and move
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by ferongr 13y ago
Analog limiter ICs (that I know of) limit the signal according to input voltage, something that does not catch this issue. Furthermore, limiting power at the audio codec level would require for the codec to have that feature and I don&#x27
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by ferongr 13y ago
While I don't support Dell's decisions, digital (and analog) clipping can easily damage speakers driven at what is normally their maximum power they can handle, since the resulting clipped waveform carries a lot more energy than a
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by ferongr 13y ago
>Huge torrents are hard to get I'm not sure about this claim. From personal experience using ADSL, a 3G USB stick, my uni's 100Mbps connection back in the day and lowly 128k ISDN, I'd say that a torrent can either saturate
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by ferongr 13y ago
>All browsers Obligatory "Firefox doesn't suffer from this". It will display the default sans-serif system font while the website's font load.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Isn't the Jolla UI and parts of the userland closed-source? If that's the case how can one be use the OS is free from "surveillance"? This also doesn't take in account the privacy issues about what the baseband firm
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by ferongr 13y ago
>Once I hit 50 or so tabs scrolling becomes horribly jerky That could be a GPU driver issue. GPU scheduling is generally horrible outside the "run a fullscreen game as fast as you can and screw everything else" usercase.
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A Warning: Do not turn in illegal files you found to the police.(boards.4chan.org)
163 points by ferongr 13y ago|125 comments
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by ferongr 13y ago
>which integrates Google Now I now know which app I'm ditching once I get a 4.4 device.
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by ferongr 13y ago
>A quick check of condom sales (and/or VD statistics) can verify if people have less sex. Or it could mean that Japanese people have more unprotected sex and that they value personal hygiene and health more, resulting in lower condo
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by ferongr 13y ago
It's very hazy. If the userland (running atop of the Linux kernel) is closed source then there's few things you can do. Also, you can't just rip out binaries and redistribute them at will, EULAs usually forbid it.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Open source OSes will probably not have CDMs available, except when prepackaged into a proprietary widget (Android, ChromeOS, B2G is Mozilla decides to play ball)
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by ferongr 13y ago
I like it. imgur breaks with click-to-play plugins (you have to activate a hidden object manually) and the commenting functionality and association with reddit put me off from using it.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Maximum theoretical bandwidth may not have increased at the same pace but modern memory controllers are a lot more efficient. I'd wager that the CPUs are kept adequately fed even without extremely fast RAM like on GPUs.
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by ferongr 13y ago
>70s dub-reggae records and the like would undoubtably sound worse if they were recorded straight to digital and pressed to CD. Similarly, lots of 21st century music would lose its edge if it were printed to tape and pressed to vinyl. Th
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by ferongr 13y ago
I don't know about the specifics of Doom 3's developer decisions but I know that when it comes to CPUs, performance has really skyrocketed. A low-end desktop Sandy-Bridge i3 CPU running a single-threaded task on one core is almost
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by ferongr 13y ago
Actually, for me personally, the most egregious flaw of Code is the backlighting that illuminates not only the characters but also the tray underneath the keys. I've used such a keyboard in the past and this ends up being very botherso
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by ferongr 13y ago
It's more likely that a somehow extremely directional soundwave would knock a phone off the table than provide any appreciable amount of power.
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by ferongr 13y ago
How can one extract usable amounts of power out of sound? Even 100dB SPL has actual power around 1mW/m2.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Wouldn't all modern power management ICs operate the laptop directly from the power supply while float-charging the battery resulting in negligent amounts of heat?
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by ferongr 13y ago
Cars have windows and stuff.
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by ferongr 13y ago
>Newsletters aren't spam Unsolicited marketing e-mails are spam. Unless I have explicitly opted into them I mark them as spam in GMail.
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by ferongr 13y ago
>How do you discover new music? Not him but personally, I still discover music the same way I have for the past 17 years. Music sites, conversation with fans of bands I like, magazines, bandcamp (myspace in the old days), spontaneous pur

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