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by mcbits 9y ago
Kdenlive (video editing), Natron (vfx/compositing), OBS Studio (streaming/capture)...
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by mcbits 9y ago
I wonder if an AR device that only renders stationary floating text could be produced with much lower GPU (and thus power) requirements than the current crop of headsets. What I want is a computer + headset that can be fully powered by mode
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by mcbits 9y ago
I also prefer proportional fonts, but some people's "ASCII artsy" programming styles, along with editors themselves, make it hard to use readable fonts in practice. What I would like is a language-aware editor that can visual
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by mcbits 9y ago
That's fascinating. I had heard people can survive longer submerged in cold water (like falling through ice), but didn't realize there was such a profound and easily induced effect on heart rate. Can be used therapeutically?
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by mcbits 9y ago
Based on the relative sizes of the currencies, this is closer in scale to the Bernie Madoff scam, but happening overnight instead of gradually over 20 years.
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by mcbits 9y ago
If we put "cash in a hidden safe" at 1, I'd put "money in a bank" around 10. My checking account was once drained by the state on a clerical error. Or almost - they left me 17 cents. They did have a process to get i
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by mcbits 9y ago
Human intelligence at the individual level evolved pretty gradually, but there hasn't been enough time for biology to explain our advancement in the last 10,000 years or 500 years. Culture and social organization are the essential nurt
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by mcbits 9y ago
I think that would have a significant impact on how research universities are funded. The University of Wisconsin recently won a $200m patent lawsuit against Apple, coincidentally (?) just as they were losing $200m of state funding.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Looking at it from the other direction, we can start with the premise that applications like Excel, Max, Nuke, and Blender are already visual DSLs. The users are "programmers" of a sort, but not "coders" because they don
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by mcbits 9y ago
PiHKAL
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by mcbits 9y ago
One person has $100 million that they'd like to turn into $1 billion. Another person has a plan that is likely to fail, but it's new territory with great potential. If no deal happens, one person still has $100 million while the o
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by mcbits 9y ago
Subjective perception is "hard" because everything we know about physics works exactly the same without it, so at this point we have literally no idea where it fits. But this is kind of a predestined result because the way we appr
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by mcbits 9y ago
It's not trivial to match any arbitrary profile with an offline identity, but it is possible to cluster pseudonymous profiles into "almost certainly the same individual" by patterns and peculiarities in how they use their dev
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by mcbits 9y ago
What's terrible about it? It's concise, memorable, and apparently nobody else is using it. Perhaps it's terrible because some people use the word offensively, like "Queen"?
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by mcbits 9y ago
"That should probably be '¿Dónde está el baño?', but the question is clearly asking 'Where's the restroom?'" "Wrong, sorry. My sheet here says 'Where is the bath?'"
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by mcbits 9y ago
It's high (or low) enough to use the word "significant" and look for supporting evidence in future studies.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Even if this were a good study, you couldn't conclude that from it. The conclusion would be that red meat consumption is somehow associated with longer telomere length. Some have speculated that extending telomeres or preventing them f
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by mcbits 9y ago
Neat, sounds just like my back yard in the morning!
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by mcbits 9y ago
One advantage is that multiple languages can target the same IR and benefit from the same optimizations. Another is that more development effort is focused on one IR instead of spreading it across all of the languages targeting it. One poss
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by mcbits 9y ago
Visual Studio supports column-based selection using Alt+Shift with up/down arrows or the mouse to select a column, so you can add any number of spaces or any other text on all of the rows at once. I'd assume SSMS is the same, sinc
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by mcbits 9y ago
People sometimes do a background check on themselves to see what the employer says if they're suspicous about it. Other than that, I'd imagine the chances are pretty slim that some other prospective employer would spill the beans.
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by mcbits 9y ago
The blue jays around my yard make a particular toot when a human gets too close. It's reliable enough that I know someone is walking by the house whenever I hear it. (There is not a lot of foot traffic here.) They don't seem to ma
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by mcbits 9y ago
Not sure if you are implying the US, but that is a common mistaken belief in the US. It's actually legal to give a negative review of a former employee, as long as it's 100% true . The problem is that the employee might try to su
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by mcbits 9y ago
I'm not a fan of the disconnected global menu for regular windows. For maximized windows, however, the way Unity integrates/eliminates the menu and title bar feels very natural and is one of my favorite features.
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by mcbits 9y ago
The reasons aren't so different from the reasons for writing any other software. 1. Even if the project never replaces the other software you use, you gain a better understanding of that other software by solving some of the same probl
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by mcbits 9y ago
The word "genius" in the modern sense (extraordinary inborn mental ability) is about 200 years older than the practice of IQ testing, and it went through at least two definitions before that. The common theme has been that genius
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by mcbits 9y ago
As a non-Go/Python user, those two snippets look practically identical to me, although I understand just enough to have written the same comments. Unfortunately, the comments don't tell me what I'd really like to know about t
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by mcbits 9y ago
A news summarizer called Summly. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquires-summly-app-150...
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by mcbits 9y ago
With some sort of "proof of upstream" cryptocurrency that trickles a percentage back to the content's origin node along with other nodes in between. Users would earn credits by leaving their devices connected and forwarding d
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by mcbits 9y ago
You're ignoring (or overestimating) the enormous segment of the population who wouldn't even have an Internet presence if it didn't come with the phone, and getting the phone was already the one of the most mentally challengi

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