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by maggit 9y ago
The text on the linked page actually compares this to Project Naptha: > For extension gurus: You might have heard of Project Naptha, a great addon that applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while brow
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by maggit 9y ago
You have gotten many decent replies already. I think one thing that is missing is that the phrase talks about "free as in free beer". So it is not a statement that beer in general is free, it is a clarification that we want the me
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by maggit 9y ago
Ah, I apologize, but I have to join the unhelpful choir ;) It seems to me that the question of whether or not electricity has mass is a proxy for whether or not information is tangible. This is the same interpretation that "Greg Gravit
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by maggit 9y ago
The comment is accurate, and electricity should not be considered as having mass. In a direct current (DC) setup, electrons will be moving continuously though the wires in a big loop. But the displacement of the electrons is not the electri
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by maggit 10y ago
Fortunately, you can override it by adding, for example, `text-shadow: 0 0 0;` to <body>. I was unable to read the page before fixing this, I would strain my eyes trying to focus. (Perhaps this problem is exacerbated by "retina&q
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by maggit 10y ago
Hi! I'm the author of Bart. AMA :) Askama and Bart seem to be pretty similar in use (compile time, based on a struct definition) except for the template languages. Askama is rich, while Bart, like Mustache, is deliberately more restric
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by maggit 10y ago
From what I found in Wikipedia, the "kibi"-family of prefixes was not defined before 1998. There's a lot of computer history before (and after!) that establishing the use of kilo for 2^10. Calling this wrong outright is histo
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by maggit 10y ago
amitp, the way you capture the arrow keys for the demo makes it so I can't use the arrow keys to scroll the text of the page. Otherwise, I find you entire site super inspiring :)
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by maggit 10y ago
This is certainly beautiful! And fascinating! But be careful about drawing metaphysical conclusions from this. This is only an example of selection bias. Take random noise, filter it and select examples that probably look animal-like to hum
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by maggit 10y ago
The submission title has been changed from "Replacing the Jet Engine While Still Flying" to "Mozilla’s project to replace Gecko with Servo" (at the time of this writing). Some of the other comments are pertaining to the
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by maggit 10y ago
Macs have a good hw/sw-integration, but there are other features as well; I bought my first MBP for its trackpad, which is still unparalleled, and (as l1k puts it) its form language. I'm running Linux, which doesn't offer the
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by maggit 10y ago
I've been making some notes going along as I have figured out different things over different generations of MBP: - https://plus.google.com/+MagnusHoff/posts/Bnor8DQkKZ4 - https://plus.google.com&#
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by maggit 10y ago
I've been running Linux on my MacBook Pro for quite a while (years?), and while there are a couple of hicups due to Apple weirdness, they are minor. I would definitely call my MacBook Pro a good (and workable) Linux machine.
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by maggit 10y ago
Perhaps it is also a matter of how you fix it. Generally software bugs can be fixed by patching over the Internet, making them less scary, whereas hardware bugs are set in stone. (Stone is mostly silicon, right?) Of course, this is a bit di
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Show HN: Mustachio, a pull-streaming Mustache engine(npmjs.com)
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by maggit 10y ago
I use both in concert in several installations. Varnish is so blindingly fast that it is a great addition in virtually any stack :)
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by maggit 10y ago
As I recall, Apple has made sure to patent all of its touchpad technologies, making sure only Macs have those excellent touchpads. It seems like any competition would have to make good touchpads some other way :/
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by maggit 10y ago
It seems like WSJ inspects the Referer HTTP header, so it disables the paywall if it seems that you navigated to it from a search engine. So, it is not a property of the link. This, of course, makes sure I do not get around the paywall, sin
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by maggit 10y ago
This is the exact meaning of quantum teleportation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation Changing the title to "Researchers quantum teleport particle..." would make it clearer. On the other han
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by maggit 10y ago
This is not an example of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It is instead an overt accusation that the USA is acting uncivilized with regards to this one issue, and should know better because they are otherwise civilized. If it were
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by maggit 10y ago
Wayland is built up of multiple orthogonal protocols that each app negotiates access to with the server. Any given app will probably use multiple of these, for output, input, etc. Not knowing exactly what Text Expander is, I'm guessing
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by maggit 10y ago
For completeness; Wayland also protects against keyloggers. In Wayland, input events are sent only to the application that hosts the window into which the input goes. So, keyboard events go to the app that has the keyboard focus. I'm n
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by maggit 10y ago
Bah! That's a digression, the intended meaning here is clear. Though let me say it is an interesting digression :D It seems that the use of that saying here qualifies for the "Loose rhetorical sense" ( https://en.wi
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by maggit 10y ago
As I understand it, this is indeed a fundamental feature of the Planck length; The universe might have structure smaller than this, but we wouldn't be able to tell. So the Planck length is the shortest meaningful length, in that we wou
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by maggit 10y ago
Ah, sorry, my bad. There is so much talk about null-terminated strings here, and I had only skimmed the article. Whoops :P
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by maggit 10y ago
In addition to what has been said about lexicographic ordering, if the strings are large, say several kB (as they may well be), the entire operation would be dominated by memory latency. In this case it is much cheaper to read each string o
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by maggit 10y ago
> Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, (...). Originally, recorded live-action movie images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection eq
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by maggit 10y ago
It says "legally" right there in the title. I'm assuming this also takes into account EULAs and the like, that would forbid consuming the content while situated in another country.
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by maggit 10y ago
Where did you get "bigger focus" from? It seems to me they are hard at work improving the language all the time.
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by maggit 10y ago
Equally broken for me on Firefox 46.0.1 on Kubuntu 16.04.

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