khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
Blender's pretty awesome. I've been using it since it was Not-a-Number shareware. I think that the "Free Blender" campaign was the first crowdfunding attempt that I ever experienced. It's been awesome watching the p
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by khedoros 10y ago
A bunch of time planning the change and reading through the current version of the code, so that I can add things without breaking everything else (and/or understand the current behavior and the desired behavior, so I can repair the bu
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by khedoros 10y ago
I mostly used it to download ringtones and backgrounds to the phone. It was pretty terrible for any actual web browsing (not to mention the low speeds of the data connection, anyhow).
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by khedoros 10y ago
Not as good of a way as it would be with a modern phone. You'd basically have to find a bug in the HTML or image parsing/rendering. As I remember it, that device didn't support cookies, javascript, plugins, etc. And honestly,
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by khedoros 10y ago
Trees contain carbon. Burn trees, and they release carbon. New trees end up growing in the ash after it falls and re-capturing carbon. It's a natural, cyclic process. The problem isn't that humans release carbon or other pollutant
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by khedoros 10y ago
My 2004 Nokia feature phone had a mobile web browser, with some degree of HTML rendering capability, and no way to update the phone OTA. HTML or data support seem like a weird place to draw the line.
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by khedoros 10y ago
My work blocks a lot of ad sites, completely out of my control. Forbes and Wired are two where I have to just skip the links, if I'm browsing from there.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've considered that. At the very least, it would be cool to have an OS-less piece of hardware with known performance characteristics that I could program as a custom coprocessor. I feel like I've got so many projects on my hands
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by khedoros 10y ago
Are you making an argument that distress and psychological harm aren't a form of "damage"? They added some fairly traumatic experiences to an already stressful time in these peoples' lives without sufficient cause. You&#
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by khedoros 10y ago
What I posted doesn't represent my own opinion, it's my perception of what developers in general might think, based on what I've heard people say in the past. I don't have a big problem with Java (it was the first langua
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by khedoros 10y ago
They've got the reputation as being kind of boring, corporate languages, among some people. Neither one is usually in the list of things that people would get very excited about using.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've got some code in part of a corporate-scale backup system that I wrote in 2008 (right out of college). The product is being put into kind of a permanent maintenance mode, so I imagine that the same code will be there for as long as
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by khedoros 10y ago
She apparently wrote a book 15 years ago: http://www.amazon.in/Tribes-Car-Nicobar-Madhumala-Chattopadh... I don't know how one would go about researching Indian anthropological expeditions to find the officially-docume
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by khedoros 10y ago
The sentence you quoted states that the name came before cultivation, which occurred later in time. Basically "Using straw would only happen in gardened berries, but that wasn't done until long after people gathered strawberries
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by khedoros 10y ago
Also: clouds, nighttime, people walking across the lot, and any other color changes that aren't related to other vehicles being parked in the spots.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Well...there is a V4L2 driver for the Pi camera. Strictly speaking, they didn't have to use the picamera module.
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by khedoros 10y ago
To a degree. Most Linux boxes don't have a couple dozen programmable IO pins and the other connectivity options for external sensors and such. In the case of this project, you'd also have to do some modifications on the image-grab
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by khedoros 10y ago
I thought that they all ("all", excluding prototype hardware) used the same physical connector (a 15-pin ZIF connector). As far as data lanes and such, I'd assume that the Pi-Zero will take its cues from the non-compute-modul
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'm in a cube at my current employer. I like that I don't constantly see people walk by my desk, and that the three developers I work closest with are right next to me for easy collaboration, but with enough separation between us
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by khedoros 10y ago
I think that they mean that you need a carrier-provided device, rather than bringing your own and popping in a SIM. As for the iPhone SoftBank thing: I'm assuming that they're the only Japanese carrier that provides the iPhone (Wi
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Today even with a Nexus phone from Google (no TM software installed) you still have to jump through hoops to tether. Hi, I turned on my direct-from-Google Nexus 5's hotspot, connected my laptop, and posted this comment. T-Mobile&#
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by khedoros 10y ago
Generally, people in the U.S. buy a phone from the telco itself, and specific companies customize the software and packaging of their phones. Sometimes, different models are produced for sale by specific telcos. I understand and agree with
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by khedoros 10y ago
I know that the conversation system in the Ultima Underworld games used bytecode in a stack-based VM. I've read that the original code was in Forth (or something similar) before being compiled into game-compatible bytecode.
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by khedoros 10y ago
>But not useful for the purpose of protecting users against surveillance. I'd argue that it can be useful for that purpose without being perfect. If it stops my communication from being caught in a mass dragnet, then it's usefu
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Are you suggesting that the ability to completely circumvent a system doesn't make that system broken? A system can be broken without being useless. >If the goal of WhatsApp encryption is to protect against surveillance You ski
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by khedoros 10y ago
I haven't looked into it, by my assumption has always been that they've kept certain modules and interfaces as closed-source, but that big chunks of the kernel were open (or that the kernel was closed for some of their SoCs and at
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by khedoros 10y ago
What's stopping them from either providing a way to sync the key to other devices, or allow the device to register its own keys, and they just store a couple copies of the encrypted data? It seems like there should be ways to do it wit
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by khedoros 10y ago
This resonates with me. A lot of my tools update, and I eventually find good uses for the new/changed capabilities, but unless I have a particular use in mind, or unless it provides a concrete benefit, it's hard to chase after the
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by khedoros 10y ago
Some of my earliest motivation to learn programming was to build games. That proved too challenging to learn very quickly, but I had great fun drawing things on the screen and making the PC speaker play music (simulating polyphonic sound by
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'm a private person, and I frequently text things that would be difficult to vocalize. I'm not likely to use speech recognition often, regardless of how good it gets. I also go back and re-edit my messages before sending, fairly

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