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by maggit 12y ago
I would have loved to switch away from Dropbox (for example because of Rice, but also because of NSA), but I haven't been able to find anything that works for me with as little hassle as Dropbox. Lock-in by delivering a superior produc
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by maggit 12y ago
> The most expensive rare earth element you can currently send to Mars is platinum (...) > All other things you could send either decay quickly (platinum) (...) I don't understand. Did you mean platinum in both places? In that ca
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by maggit 12y ago
Maybe it is not always on after all: "One of the cool things about Android Wear smartwatches so far has been the always-on dimmed mode, so you can always flip up and see what time it is. The Moto 360, however, doesn't roll that wa
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by maggit 12y ago
From what I gather, it is always on. Do you have a citation to the contrary? "Like both already-released Android Wear watches, Moto 360 will feature an always-on screen, which is a power-saving dimmed display that still tells the time
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by maggit 12y ago
> Also, forcing the user to include manual gamma correction for a format that already has a known gamma curve is not ideal. To this point, ImageMagick has built in understanding of colorspaces: convert lama.jpg -colorspace RGB -res
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by maggit 12y ago
I had no idea what a control group is, so here is a short summary for others in my position: - cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, account, and isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, et
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by maggit 12y ago
shadeslayer, how about a PPA for testing Plasma 5 in Kubuntu 14.04? I'd love to try it, but rebooting seems a great inconvenience :)
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by maggit 12y ago
Related, and also interesting (especially as a response to "TinyGL is a lot faster than Mesa"), is Mesa's llvm rendering backend llvmpipe. It compiles the rendering pipeline to llvm bitcode which is then compiled to machine c
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by maggit 12y ago
I was so happy to be able to see through the keynote without the presence of these two guys or anybody like them. They were always more focused on wowing the crowd than actually saying anything, always begging for more applause with ridicul
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by maggit 12y ago
The entire premise of the linked article is that doing it the way you suggest is too expensive for the common case, where no overflow happens. Further, it implicitly asserts that the cost of a hardware trap/exception, while great, will
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by maggit 12y ago
> wrapped integer types A google search for "wrapped integer types" gives me the Wikipedia article on Integer Overflow as its first result. The other hits seem to be related. What else do you mean by "wrapped integer types
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by maggit 12y ago
Another alternative, which doesn't need media queries, svg: http://jsfiddle.net/pJt4N/1/ SVG for the arrow: <svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewbox='0 0 10
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by maggit 12y ago
Use `min-resolution: 2ddpx` media query for high-resolution graphics rather than/in addition to `-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2`, to allow non-webkit browsers to display high-resolution graphics. I have tested this fiddle and found
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by maggit 13y ago
You might like the assembly tutorial I am writing: https://plus.google.com/111794994501300143213/posts/9gxSUZMJ... It's focused on actually doing rather than how stuff works. In order to succinctly be able to
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by maggit 13y ago
I'm experimenting with xrandr's --scale option for this problem. For my external monitor with a native resolution of 2560x1600, I can run "xrandr --output DP3 --panning 5120x3200 --scale 2.0x2.0" to have it act as a 5120
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by maggit 13y ago
I'm using a 13" retina MBP with Kubuntu, and I wouldn't describe the hidpi support as awful. You need to make sure that X has the right DPI setting and additionally make some explicit adjustments like resizing the mouse curso
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Actually getting started with Portable Native Client(magnushoff.com)
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by maggit 13y ago
This is not in any way meant as a refutation to your point, but merely as a "for your interest" piece of information: From working in the TV industry, I can tell you that real money comes from sports broadcasts, which also means t
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by maggit 13y ago
"Show HN: Kurikku -- Source code with annotations, like Rap Genius"? That at least gives me an idea of what's going on.
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by maggit 13y ago
"Rap Genius for Code" might be an amazing pitch for avid users of Rap Genius. I wouldn't know. I don't know or care exactly what Rap Genius is, even though I remember there was a recent controversy involving Rap Genius.
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by maggit 13y ago
I'm writing a tutorial in x86-64 assembly on OS X that you might enjoy: https://plus.google.com/+MagnusHoff/posts/9gxSUZMJUF2 Its focus is actually writing assembly on an acutal computer, with the goal of imp
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by maggit 13y ago
I can't make up my mind about which of the following is better: > A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses. or > A Chinese spy manage
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by maggit 13y ago
I get incredible value out of Stack Overflow. Do you not? Does the fact that this question is locked diminish its value or the value of Stack Overflow in any way? Of course, Stack Overflow is not made for interesting questions. Notice that
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by maggit 13y ago
> Those commands aren't available by default because the culture doesn't encourage that workflow That's not the reason. The reason is that they want to keep the standard interface to hg minimal. Unfortunately, I cannot fin
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by maggit 13y ago
For interest, the method of literally emulating light bouncing around seems to be called Photon tracing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_tracing ). It creates realistic renderings of just about anything if you can a
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by maggit 13y ago
Well, I can't speak to your personal experience, but the "click-click-clicking" is in my experience a perfect example that most people try to do what the flight attendants tell them to. As soon as the plane lands, there is
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by maggit 13y ago
In the case of the baseband processor, the company that put code into it is not the company that put the phone together. It is a complex trust situation. In this case, you can reduce the number of agents you have to trust by using the secur
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by maggit 13y ago
At this point it is just a definition question: - A compiler takes some input, does some specific stuff to it (like lexical analysis and parsing), and writes some output ("code generation") - An interpreter takes some input, does
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by maggit 13y ago
Can anyone elaborate on "prepares the ground for future developments using Wayland and Qt 5."? Does it have any impact on this release? On the face of it, it looks like justification for not being able to list more user visible fe
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by maggit 13y ago
"Social democracy" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy ) is a more correct term, though on Wikipedia there seems to be an even more specific article on the "Nordic model" ( http:/&#x2

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