greggman

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by greggman 10y ago
Agreed, especially because analog controllers have been common in video games since forever. Apple 2's joysticks were pretty much all analog. Was Pong analog? (I'm pretty sure the Atari 2600 paddle controllers were not analog, the
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by greggman 10y ago
Random trivia: "ahem" is a cultural / language based thing. Other languages use different "words" for "ahem". The same for grunting sounds. For example the sound people make when they need to push somethin
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by greggman 10y ago
Getting off topic but ... by advertising do you mean obvious commercials or submarine ones? I ask because my podcast player has an advance 30s, 2m, rewind 15s buttons. When a commercial like ad starts it takes me like 2-3 seconds to skip it
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by greggman 10y ago
I am going to answer that pretty much nothing will save your parents from the internet. While I agree a chromebook won't get owned your parents will still likely get phished. I have no idea how to solve that. http://blog.gre
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by greggman 10y ago
Chrome actually does play most MKVs
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by greggman 10y ago
There's also offscreen canvas coming soon which should help. Offscrren canvas will let you render in a worker and display with zero copy
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by greggman 10y ago
Id say texting is worse for me. Before 2000 I called my friends and talked, sometimes for hours. Now I never talk to friends on the phone because social norms have changed that calling might be interrupting where as texting is not. Texting
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by greggman 10y ago
Hey I know, I want to be able to connect to a device's flyweb server and give it voice commands. Oh, can't do that, accessing the mic requires HTTPS. Sorry, I didn't mean to be snarky, I worked on a project that has some surf
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by greggman 10y ago
Is there a need for IoT devices to serve HTTPS?
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by greggman 10y ago
I'm wondering if Adobe couldn't just run flash through emscripten for WebAssembly. I'd be curious what problems are still there. Offscreen Canvas is coming soon which should help in some ways.
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by greggman 10y ago
Karaoke in Japan is generally not public like it is in the West. Its done in small private rooms with 2-8 friends. Also Japanese people have plenty of places to let their freak out.
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by greggman 10y ago
I have a 2014 15" MBP maxed out. LG makes a 15" 2.1 lbs laptop. The case is made of magnesium alloy. The specs aren't as good as a MBP but that's not really the point. The point is NOT that I want the LG. The point is th
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by greggman 10y ago
I didn't quote from the spreadsheet. I quoted from the totals on the webpages. In other words, the quoted values are from when each browser was first created to today. The spreadsheet is just 2015-2016
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by greggman 10y ago
No offense taken. Basically I'm jealous of people that can get by with Macbook Air or Macbook. I see no reason a Macbook Pro can't be much lighter. I do WebGL and Unity stuff and both the air and macbook just don't cut it so
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by greggman 10y ago
All browsers have about the same amount of bugs but Chrome's design or as they say "defense in depth" acknowledges that there will always be bugs so tries to make it as hard as possible for bugs to allow bad things. Compare v
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by greggman 10y ago
My number one consern was weight. I've been carrying my MBP for the last 3 years working out of coffee shops and co-working spaces. I'm tired of lugging around 4.5 lbs. Especially when there are 2 lbs 15 inch notebooks. Apple lowe
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by greggman 10y ago
I am really intruigued when people say they do most of their computer usage on an iPad. I get massively frustrated anytime I try to do almost anything other than consome on an iPad. As just one example trying to copy snd paste almost anythi
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by greggman 10y ago
I call it "copyright infringement" "Stealing" implies something is taken and by being taken the owner is deprived of that thing. "Jill had her bike stolen and now she has to walk to work". "Copyright infri
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by greggman 10y ago
For those that can handle old pre CG movies there's a great old movie where computers make their own language. Highly recommended Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/combine
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by greggman 10y ago
Was prepared to buy one if it was 2.5lbs for the 15" (or maybe even 3 lbs). Instead it's still 4lbs LG makes a 2 lbs 15 inch. (Not saying I'd buy the LG. Only pointing out Apple has room to do better) I agree it was a very di
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by greggman 10y ago
If you applied your logic to DNA sequencing. The first DNA sequencing took ages and by various estimates at the time it would have taking 100+ years to fully sequence DNA. Fortunately exponential progress doesn't work that way and full
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by greggman 10y ago
AFAICT there's 2 paths to A.I. Path 1 is understand how the brain organizes info. Recreate those structures with algorithms. This path is 100+ years away Path 2 is just simulate various kinds of neurons with no understanding of how the
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by greggman 10y ago
Simulating a brain is not aliens. Or maybe it is an I'm hopelessly naive. Lots of smart people are working on simulating brains and there estimates are that's it's not that far off from being able to simulate an entire brain
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by greggman 10y ago
I fell for this one :( The signs were there but the simplicity of the email I think is what lowered my guard. http://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/
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by greggman 10y ago
You need to know it's locked when you open it. Which means you need plugins for popular software. Photoshop, Maya, Unity, 3DSMax, Blender, etc. P4 has many of these integrations so that artist and other non-technical people will know t
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by greggman 10y ago
Becareful what you ask for. How is any software nowadays different? If I setup a raspberry pi with camera and there are exploitable bugs in the software is the creator of the software liable? Does every piece of software open source and clo
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by greggman 10y ago
As pointed out in other comments LFS is not enough
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To play devil's advocate. Let's say in 2030 we can fully simulate a human brain and it works. Let's also assume it runs 10000x faater than wetware (a highly conservative estimate?). That means in about 1 yr it should be able
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by greggman 10y ago
The law still let's you have druggie sublease as long as it's 30days or more. It also lets you have them over for free.
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by greggman 10y ago
Everyone has their own anecdotes. I've owned 1 Toshiba (5 years), 2 Vaios (both still work, one from 2000, the other from 2006), 3 Macbook Pros (2008, 2012, 2014). Of those only 1 broke. The 2nd Macbook pro about 2 years in the GPU die

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