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by frik 10y ago
The original title of this post was "The sheer amount of data Windows 10 sends from your PC". Which was shorted from the article title "Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will
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Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft(theregister.co.uk)
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by frik 10y ago
I don't get why we see so much negative about Apple here on HN. Yes, they made some wrong decisions. But the OS (macOS) is still the same, and most pro use an iMac nowadays. On the otherside it looks grim if you eant to continue the PC
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by frik 10y ago
IBM uses a special version of Prolog with a different syntax and database access functionality. They hired a department of a university. MS Windows (network code) contains a Prolog with C-style-syntax.
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by frik 10y ago
You can thank MS for fxxkxng with CM. Now they sponsors Ubuntu, and see how they shift direction. Worst case scenario is EEE of Ubuntu/Canonical.
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by frik 10y ago
Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were pretty good. Then both shells lost their way. Why do they try to be a bad clone of macOS rather than keep being a Win98 on steriods (KDE 3) or a more simple shell for normal users (Gnome 2).
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by frik 10y ago
Android is huge. Android works great without GooglePlay, and just raw Android. You just need another AppStore or just install apps manually. Ask one of your Chinese friends, they have a driving eco system over there.
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by frik 10y ago
Let's keep Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) an individual company. One of the worst case scenarios is that a big company buys Canonical and f*cks with Ubuntu.
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by frik 10y ago
How much has another company paid, that Ubuntu dropped it?
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by frik 10y ago
Flattr was midly popular, then Patreon ate their cake. Not really a fan of both, as pretty much any hobby project that tried to monetize with Patreon lost its soul. If something is free and suddenly they want money for it, even if there are
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by frik 10y ago
Wrong. After Age of Empires 3 (2006) there was no new Age of Empire worth to mention. (Age of Empire online was a Free2Play/whatever game based on the years older Age of Mythology engine. Microsoft closed the Ensemble Studios. Lately M
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by frik 10y ago
0AD was great two years ago, still in alpha though. I try it once a year but the progress is very slow, and things are more broken (AI) than two years ago (tried it in Dec 16). Don't get me wrong you can play many map styles, and get h
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by frik 10y ago
I had great hopes in Act of Aggression which tried to be a C&C Generals clone. Sadly even after the second redux release it not a good game. And sadly beside all gameplay deficites the graphic engine looks as often worse than the 2004 o
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by frik 10y ago
I was speaking about RTS and in the sense of Age of Empires 1 and Empire Earth. The main dev of both this titles Rick Goodwell mentioned A* was used in Empire Earth the first time, older AoE1 used an older less CPU intensive algo. @omginter
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by frik 10y ago
What do you use for simple HTML tables that need some sorting and paging functionality? There are various old JQuery libs around. Can someone suggest something simple for React and/or vanilla Javascript? (would be interested in both)
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by frik 10y ago
Looking at the CSS Grid examples, I am not sure why? Tables and Divs with reflow can do the same, but with more predictable outcome and less boilerplate. How about optimising the existing render-paths even more in Blink/Webkit/Gec
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by frik 10y ago
RFID chips get obsolete. Eg original Mifire chip is considered insecure and should be replaced. Do you know which chip you have in? I saw the related Mythbusters episode and they mention it not easy to remove the chip after some years.
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by frik 10y ago
A* was pretty new back then. Previous iteration of games just 2-3 years older used older algos, or invented new path finding algos due CPU constraints.
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by frik 10y ago
Not only advanced A.I. is basically dead knowledge in modern games, also Bots. Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and many more games had offline bots with whom you could play multiplayer maps. Most relied on predefined paths added with the m
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by frik 10y ago
Half Life 1, Far Cry 1, Fear 1 had really great A.I. Where HL1 and F1 were corridor shooter, where A.I. is easier, Far Cry 1 had A.I. in open world scenario where soldiers flamked you around a hill and such. The A.I. was written mainly in L
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by frik 10y ago
I prefer movies, over this stretched story arc that is quite common with series. To meet the goal a few episodes of each season are just filler with little going on. I don't want to waste my time watching TV series. I would prefer movi
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by frik 10y ago
Adapt? Really? It doesn't seem so. They are in their own world, and don't care. But no wonder when you read about the crazy head of Sony Pictures, the woman that got kicked because of the scandals that got made public (emails leak
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by frik 10y ago
Samsung exit strategy is Tizen. But they forgot to use the exit strategy back when Samsung produced 80-90% of all Android phones about 3 years ago. Now many cheap but equal as good Chinese phones got released. But Samsung might still try it
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by frik 10y ago
So the vulnerability is online in the service of mathjs.org: Math.js is available as a RESTful web service: http://api.mathjs.org
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by frik 10y ago
Is this a late April fool?
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by frik 10y ago
Thanks for the link. Btw. one of the subway drivers explains in the YT comments that NYC had this gesture first, Japan copied it in the mid 1990s. Conductors point at the board because it is required by TA rule. This idea was adapte
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by frik 10y ago
I miss it too. I kept iOS6 on one of my iPads and stay with Win7 (instead of the ugly as butt newer editions). Win9x classic theme, XP's Luna theme, Vista/Win7 glass theme, iOS 1-6 theme were all so nice. I can also live with iOS7
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by frik 10y ago
Can someone explain why both orgs contain the world "Open" - I would say pretty misleading. OpenAI hasn't released any open code or anything open. And is OpenAI even about A.I.? (as several other here mentioned it's not
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by frik 10y ago
Related snip: Relationship disclosures OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and live in the same house as Holden. In addition, Holden is engaged to Dario’s siste
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by frik 10y ago
Some older operating systems used a database-filesystem or database like filesystem as storage. I heard older IBM systems had something like this. BeOS had BeFS with inbuilt metadata index. NTFS + WinFS in user land vision was a bit like th

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