greggman

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by greggman 10y ago
I don't personally consider this a spoiler but others might so consider yourself informed. Nosedive is about a future where your social media rating affects your real life. As an example you might not be able to enter a popular restaur
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by greggman 10y ago
The GNU Manifesto contains such gems as In response to “Programmers need to make a living somehow.” > All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax: > Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of the price
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by greggman 10y ago
The difference in Japan is you can have zero accent and speak fluently and just by looks some Japanese will have some kind of mental block understanding and/or acknowledging your Japanese. Examples: I can call some business on the phon
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by greggman 10y ago
This is very cool. For me I needed to know why it works not what it does. I worked it out here for 2d transformations http://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-2d-matrices... and then expanded it to 3d, per
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by greggman 10y ago
I don't understand how this regulation will work. Will all open source software have to be submitted to some government run or approved certification? OpenWRT? Linux? Random App that accesses the net? Raspberry PI python script? Sure i
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by greggman 10y ago
Can you buy a TV that isn't internet connected now-a-days? AFAICT they are very few and far between :(
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by greggman 10y ago
Thank you for the concern. You might be right. I guess I assume addition means I can't go without without withdrawals but I know I can go without just fine (long vacations) etc.. so at least at the moment I just look at it as being dis
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by greggman 10y ago
Fascinating. I'm not sure I buy the left isn't just as gullible as the right. Or at least not without more proof? I suspect you'd need a right leaning person with a similar background writing left bait fake news to have the s
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by greggman 10y ago
I'm using Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com/ ) with Google Cloud Storage. Arq is a stand alone backup program that supports a bunch of different storage providers. From their site: > Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Servi
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by greggman 10y ago
I've blocked HN in my /etc/hosts on my laptop. I also recently blocked it on my phone. I can still read it in a VM on my laptop but at least I have to make a conscious decision to view it where as before I blocked them I&#x27
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by greggman 10y ago
Kind of an aside but, If I understand correctly any WebView's contents is completely readable by the app it's embedded in. Which means you should arguably never trust any app that opens it's own WebView for view links. For ex
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by greggman 10y ago
Know of any USB condoms that can filter for device types? Given BAD USB type of exploits there really no easy way for me to know that when I stuck my USB stick in the printer at the library it wasn't reprogrammed to be a keyboard or so
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by greggman 10y ago
Does it ask for a password to enable it? If not the device and also emulate a keyboard to press enter to confirm the dialog. Any idea where is the list of approved devices is. I'd like to clear my list and then plugin some devices and
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by greggman 10y ago
That would suck if anytime I wanted to deal with things back home while travelling I had to remove my local sim and put back in my home sim just so I could receive SMS messages from my bank. Do they offer any non SMS options?
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by greggman 10y ago
Some games do target individual whales, at least according to one article on gamasutra.
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by greggman 10y ago
There's a podcast about how Pepe became a symbol for the alt-right https://gimletmedia.com/episode/77-the-grand-tapestry-of-pep... and some article about the original artist trying to put a stop to that http:&#x2
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by greggman 10y ago
Your website is unreadable on iOS chrome Started with http://rsync.net/products/aws.html but all of them linked at the top are unreadable https://youtu.be/4sz5_XsNDaQ
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by greggman 10y ago
Putting 3d models of people in VR is easy. Getting them to do anything interesting and not just be a few scripted things is much harder and very far from a solved problem. Maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe all you need is the character
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by greggman 10y ago
I would pay to get bugs fixed. The snippet editor has been broken for about 6 months. Funny that a site about code would have a buggy code editor.
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by greggman 10y ago
I will eat whatever is delicious. For example I find "The Loving Hut" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Hut ) pretty yummy and even though I'm a meat eater if I'm near a Loving Hut I'm happy
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by greggman 10y ago
Advice in Japan is stay inside. They claim running outside during an earthquake your more likely to get hit by falling glass and other debris
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by greggman 10y ago
Do we know there will be fewer cars? Self Driving cars allow all non-drivers to use a car.
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by greggman 10y ago
10s of thousands of shipping unity games suggest the problem is not unity. Besides, most games are GPU bound.
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by greggman 10y ago
YC's AirBNB autoplays video on the front page. Drives me crazy since while traveling I'm often on a bandwidth restricted connection
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by greggman 10y ago
Most games aren't written in c/c++ today. Maybe most AAA games are. Most games are written in various engines that use other languages whether it's c# in unity or the language in game maker etc...
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by greggman 10y ago
I don't know if this would change the ranking but I've always wondered if it would be good if threads were ranked by the waited sum of all replies to it. In otherwords the original comment might not have a high vote but if a reply
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by greggman 10y ago
According to Wikipedia 1mile in a plane is equivalent to 1 mile in a 4 seat car per person. So your personal emissions from say round trip SF to NYC is the same as driving a car for 8200 miles. And that doesn't include the other enviro
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by greggman 10y ago
Im sure this is a dumb question but why are your energy wasteful activities ok but others' are not? Who gets to decide that? Maybe you flew 5hrs somewhere and your jet fuel environmental damage ends up being larger for the year than th
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by greggman 10y ago
For young kids this is awesome but Japanese young adults are not nearly as independent as western kids. It is far from uncommon for 20 somethibugs to choose to live at home even into the their 30s. Where does the system fail from this great
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by greggman 10y ago
I agree and have re-played many favorite games on emulators. Unfortunately music / rhythm games are generally unplayable on emulators because of the added latency. Also emulators need better CRT emulation. Crisp and/or bilinear in

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