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by loudmax 8y ago
I think the web is a great target for apps. The other app platforms are either proprietary or have negligible market share. The web as a platform for distributing applications is a better alternative than desktop platforms that are either
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by loudmax 8y ago
If the client device is a desktop computer, sure. Typically, the client is a mobile device whose bandwidth and energy are precious commodities. In these cases, better for the server to do the heavy lifting.
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by loudmax 8y ago
According to manufacturing analysts Munro & Associates, Tesla's electric motors are significantly ahead of the competition. A lot of detail and engineering has gone into squeezing efficiency and performance out of the Model 3. Ju
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by loudmax 8y ago
> I’m not sure what this is adding really. Research doesn't need to be ground breaking to be useful. A course like the one described in the article can be a helpful resource to women (and men) discouraged from engineering because o
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by loudmax 8y ago
Rust in WebAssembly no less. I'm surprised that Cities: Skylines isn't listed as an inspiration because it's also based on individual agents moving around your city. Despite the name, Skylines is really a traffic management
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by loudmax 8y ago
Same here. Chromium 73.0.3683.86 on Arch Linux.
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by loudmax 8y ago
I love maps like these, they give such a great sense of where the people are. A technique that this map doesn't take advantage of is using color or brightness to represent population growth or age distribution, so you can project into
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by loudmax 8y ago
For those too impatient to read the details, check out the "Hear for yourself" examples toward the bottom of the page. They're reproducing decent sounding speech at 1.6 kbps. 1.6 kbps is nuts! I like to re-encode audio books
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by loudmax 8y ago
Not just web. There are a lot of efforts getting WebAssembly to run outside the browser. This could be an alternative to Electron for cross platform desktop applications. Depending on use case, WebAssembly might even be an alternative to
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by loudmax 8y ago
Biggest downside to the Lenovo X1 Carbon is you can't buy it without an OS. You have to pay the Microsoft tax even though it works well with Linux drivers.
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by loudmax 8y ago
Barnum himself spent much of his life in and out of debt. He was a great showman and many of the performances he arranged were extreme financial successes, but he was a profligate spender and he was always one disaster away from going deep
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by loudmax 8y ago
Our Fake History podcast has an excellent series on PT Barnum. He was something of a genius promoter (and self-promoter). Today he's best remember for his circus act, but that was just one of a long line of productions he put on. In
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by loudmax 8y ago
I'm about 90% convinced that you're correct, and about 10% terrified that you're not.
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by loudmax 8y ago
This could be great for strategy games like Civilization, Sim City/City Skylines, Age of Empires. Or, you know, chess. It's also plausible for games where latency isn't a big issue. Something like EVE Online seems like a go
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by loudmax 8y ago
Does anyone here have one of their laptops? How does the hardware compare to similarly priced products from mainstream vendors?
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by loudmax 8y ago
I suspect you're correct. I find it surprising that people buy flagship phones that don't include an SD card reader. It seems that there's a belief among some handset manufacturers that storage capacity is only relevant for
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by loudmax 8y ago
> a proprietary, insecure, easy to lose passport > 15 years after Skype I agree with your general sentiment, but the two phrases I picked out are where you have it backward. Phone numbers are not proprietary. They're difficult
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by loudmax 8y ago
I understand your sentiment, but I have to disagree. No matter how bad things are, we can always do worse.
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by loudmax 8y ago
Flash isn't necessary today because HTML 5 is a shared platform that all modern browsers have in common. HTML and javascript as native as anything else in the browser and they're cross platform. This is critical. The criticisms
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by loudmax 8y ago
Seeing Microsoft die would give me great schadenfreude, but all big companies do some good things and some bad things, so it's worth focusing on their specific sins. I see two of them: their desktop monopoly and their Office monopoly.
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by loudmax 8y ago
Those industry norms from clause 2 are pretty perverse. Sure banning the publication of metrics will prevent the spread of inaccurate information. As a side effect it will prevent the spread of accurate information, particularly accurate
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by loudmax 8y ago
My feeling is that there will be more and more data sharing and we're going to have to reorganize our society around the assumption of transparency. Cheap cameras connected to the cloud will continue to proliferate and face recognitio
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by loudmax 8y ago
I think the issue is the scale of the operation. It's not that the desert doesn't have the capacity to absorb brine, it's that pumping all that brine into one spot creates a local ecological catastrophe. To avoid a concentr
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by loudmax 8y ago
Carbon emissions is a grave problem with existing desalination infrastructure, but this seems something that can be solved. I'd expect desalination to be well suited for opportunistic use of solar or wind power. Build up reserves of c
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by loudmax 8y ago
Your experience running Linux on a laptop is highly dependent on how well it supports the hardware that happens to be in your device. If you're able to research the driver support ahead of time, you may find that Linux runs flawlessly
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by loudmax 8y ago
How easy is it to get a BSD working on a laptop these days? Once you get past UEFI, installing Linux on a laptop isn't particularly difficult. The challenge is that drivers for wifi, audio, webcam, etc, will be very hit or miss depend
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by loudmax 8y ago
Here's one source: https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/issues/taxes-&-spending-p... Here's another: https://risep.fiu.edu/research-publications/immigration/immi... Here's an
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by loudmax 8y ago
I'd suggest replacing the LCD with a touchscreen model so the touchbar can appear at the bottom of the display. This would please the handful of users who'd miss it otherwise, and anyone who'd gone out of their way to develo
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by loudmax 8y ago
I haven't seen actual figures, and it would be difficult to measure, but I have a distinct impression that most trucks in the suburban area I live are used to commute to work, not haul anything. Around here, they're status symbol
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by loudmax 8y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but I think you should look at the bigger picture. Subarus have a reputation for being easy to repair, a testament to thoughtful engineering. But most other brands are not that accessible, whether they're

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