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by frik 10y ago
Neither MS Outlook nor GMail use a tracking pixel. Such pixel are only used by newsletter or shaddy spam senders.
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by frik 10y ago
European countries have signs in local language plus English. And then there is France, where even in Paris or even international places like Disneyland Paris you find hardly signs in anything but French. General joe also doesn't or do
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by frik 10y ago
Just as annectdote, your blog site is kind of broken on smaller screens (tablet). The useless right sidebar covers almost half of the screen, and overlaps the content (only a bit more than half of it is visible). And then there are many man
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by frik 10y ago
The camera is fixed in an isometric view, sometimes called 2.5D, it's more targeted to causual people. The older Mario 64 had a third person perspective, the camera follows the character. It allows a lot more immersion and more complex
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by frik 10y ago
The two elder people at the end that play with Mario are about the same proportion as Mario. So what do you mean? But for a second you see that the New York level is really just a few city blocks. And all the skyscrappers are just a backgro
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by frik 10y ago
As the dimensions of Switch is only a bit larger than the New 3DS XL, the XL is their best selling model and 3DS is already 6 years old and too slow even for direct Wii game ports without downscaling the textures, though it's still sel
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by frik 10y ago
Well, I thought the same about Microsoft. Back in the days, Microsoft had a good track record. And you bought the product, they were the biggest software company, etc. But late Steve Palmer and especially Nadella changed Microsoft completel
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by frik 10y ago
And in all editions, there is a whitelist of IPs and Domains in kernel mode part of Win10. From their PR only the LTSB edition (most expensive one), allows one to disable all phone-home "features" (even there opt-out, and if you m
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by frik 10y ago
You can't. They whitelisted IPs and Domains in kernel mode part of Win10. Good luck, and I hope you carry a hardware firewall with your notebook.
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by frik 10y ago
Beside LIDAR, A/Google adds a radar now too. I wonder if more and more vehicles have now a radar, isn't it unhealthy to be exposed to so many radar on the road? I mean it's well known that military grade radar can be very unh
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by frik 10y ago
Exactly. Windows 10 has a hard coded whitelist of IPs and donain names in the kernel mode part of the OS (it's 64bit, it's signed, you can't modify it) - those IPs and domains will be ignored from your hosts file or firewall
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by frik 10y ago
But you could deactivate the "customer experience improvement program" in Win7, you can't in Win10.
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by frik 10y ago
That the new MacBookPro doesn't at least ship with two dongles (for USB and Lightning) is pure arrogance from Apple. That MacBookPro 13" without touchbar comes with just two USB-C and an old-school audio port (gone in iPhone7) is
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by frik 10y ago
RTS doesn't work with Controller (without simplifying the gameplay, which would sucks, aka no base building, not hundreds of things to manage, see Halo Wars 1 and C&C 4). But Mouse, Touch, voice and gestures works fine. Rise and Fa
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by frik 10y ago
It's sad that RTS (Real Time Strategy) games are more or less dead for more than a decade. I still play 10-20 year old RTS games like Age of Empire series, Age of Mythology, Empire Earth, C&C Generals from time to time. Especially
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by frik 10y ago
Start there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#History There are various sites that had article about early IE history. And I suggest you to install Mosaic browser on Win7 32bit and try it out yourself -
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by frik 10y ago
You mean IE3. But the code dates back to Mosaic, IE1 is based on a fork of Mosaic. And you can read about it in the credits in the Info dialog of IE up to IE6 (and even all later IE and Edge contain anomalies/small glitches from Mosaic
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by frik 10y ago
> If you're not careful this can drag on for years with half the stuff done Exactly. I would suggest to focus on Servo and a HTML based UI, and take some ideas from Vivaldi browser (which has an HTML5 UI). Firefox needs a "rebo
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by frik 10y ago
It's from a vacuum cleaner robot. It can only scan 2D up to 6m. It's a toy compared to a automobile grade LIDAR that can scan 3D 360 degree with a fast scan rate.
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by frik 10y ago
Definitely interesting. Solid-state-LIDAR is the break-through that makes then affordable. The current-gen big spinning LIDARs are too cumbersome in harsh real world environment, if you think of mass deployment in cars.
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by frik 10y ago
Google Playstore is blocked, as well as all other Google domains. Your Android phone feels like a useless brick - you cannot even connect to a WiFi, as it tries to connect to a Google domain to check if it should show up a input WiFi passwo
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by frik 10y ago
Tesla is using a modified Nvidia self-driving platform too for Autopilot v2, available in early 2017. Nvidia demonstrated their platform with many sensors like 10 cameras, ultra-sonic sensors and at least one LIDAR. Where as Tesla is using
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by frik 10y ago
Last time I tried Gimp (1 year ago), I searched for an option to rotate an image a few degrees. All I found, was rotate by 90 degrees - like in pre-v5 Photoshop. I went back to Paint.net, which is good enough most the times (sadly it's
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by frik 10y ago
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt if open source applications adopt UI defacto-standards made popular by popular proprietary applications. Inkscape, Krita and Gimp have a good or at least good enough UI (it took some years). I don't unde
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by frik 10y ago
Very insightful, thanks!
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by frik 10y ago
Speaking about chat bots. There are the usual simple bots based on keywords and simple fixed coded branches. But for more advanced bots, that uses NLP (eg Stanford's CoreNLP). What's the next step? What do you do with input senten
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by frik 10y ago
Yes. It's kind of a gray pattern. Has someone coined a name for it?
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by frik 10y ago
Or the other way: Finding an Alternative to Windows 10 That non-optional phone-home, non-optional updates, ads on startmenu, little QA (buggy like never before) - Windows up to Win7 was so nice, since Nadella everything went downhill, so sa
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by frik 10y ago
Too many tutorials and examples rely on Three.js and similar frameworks, instead of using vanilla-JS together with WebGL.
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by frik 10y ago
> Much has been said about the ways we expect our oncoming fleet of driverless cars to change the way we live—remaking us all into passengers, rewiring our economy, retooling our views of ownership, and reshaping our cities and roads. &q

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