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by mcbits 10y ago
It looks like an attempt to warp between the images, but it's not matching up the features correctly. It works a little better in the "around the world" examples. Some parts just fade or have the wonkywarp effect, but it prod
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by mcbits 10y ago
No, but they were probably planning (originally) to license the software. Maybe not at the full $1,000 retail or for 550,000+ computers... I wonder how the software would compare to the commercial offering if they had hired 100 independent
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by mcbits 10y ago
If the lawsuit actually ends up costing billions or hundreds of millions, they could have funded an open VR project on a scale larger than all of Ubuntu instead.
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by mcbits 10y ago
YouTube is like passively watching TV. You can't be expected to know if the Cartoon Channel has properly licensed all of its cartoons. BitTorrent is different because the consumer is also a distributor, although the process is so strea
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by mcbits 10y ago
Tor et al. should be just as legal as speaking or passing notes without an omnipresent camera and microphone. Using one's faculty of communication to plot murder should not. It's reasonable for law enforcement, with a valid warran
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by mcbits 10y ago
There are many scenarios (e.g. Cruz or Rubio might have stayed in), but I'm curious about one where it would be rational to rank your preferred candidate as #2 or #3 or beyond to help them win.
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by mcbits 10y ago
The most straightforward way would be to simplify during the equivalence check and maybe cache the value. Or maybe there is some trick to compare them without simplifying. Point is that you can have a notion of "equal but not identical
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by mcbits 10y ago
That looks like an example of RCV working as intended. The candidate with a lot of support didn't win because a lot of people also strongly opposed him. I don't see how he would have won if his supporters made him their #2 or #3 c
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by mcbits 10y ago
In a formula with multiple Rationals, it wouldn't always be necessary to simplify them before using them. You could just simplify the result if/when it's compared to another result. Also, the UI may need to display the unsimp
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by mcbits 10y ago
new Rational(2, 3) == new Rational(4, 6) You could implement Rationals to be structurally equal by simplifying them immediately on construction, but that may be a lot of unnecessary computation in some cases.
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by mcbits 10y ago
I think his point would be the same (and maybe clearer) if he said assert.isFalse(p1 == p2). I.e. he's not concerned about the testing semantics, but JavaScript's equality semantics which we're expected to assume the test fun
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't follow your scenario. Can you give a real example? If you put your favorite candidate in the #3 spot, it would make them more likely to be the one that drops in round 1 or 2, no?
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by mcbits 10y ago
Right, the graph goes up to Q3 of Nvidia's fiscal 2017, which just ended on October 30. So apparently the fiscal year will end sometime in January. http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial...
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by mcbits 10y ago
They might say they're using a vanilla browser to ensure everything works, but it's worth mentioning it's possible to filter IP addresses in Google Analtyics to stop those hits from being counted.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Individual sites can't measure how much their combined spam costs them due to the ever more aggressive use of ad blockers. In the short term, a newsletter popup probably does increase revenue, but acquiring new users in the future will
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by mcbits 10y ago
Unless I've misunderstood something, I don't think Mozilla has received much if any money from Google for a couple of years now. They have search deals with Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu in their respective markets, which would make me
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by mcbits 10y ago
I think the rants and informal/outsider tone of the article are what I liked about it. It came up while trying to get some background intuition for the Wikipedia article on "spacetime algebra"[0], which follows the Wikipedia
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Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (2014)(slehar.wordpress.com)
111 points by mcbits 10y ago|24 comments
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by mcbits 10y ago
Did the FBI lift these requirements or close down new registrations entirely when they ran the sites? If not, it would make them culpable for more than "just" continuing to host existing content.
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by mcbits 10y ago
If the threat model includes "the police come knocking" and "die in prison" then it's best to assume the phone can be traced back to the store and approximate time it was sold (potentially even the exact time and ca
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by mcbits 10y ago
> According to the holographic principle, all the information in the entire universe can be described on a giant imaginary sphere around it. Verlinde now shows that this idea is not quite correct: part of the information in our universe
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Is 99% a reasonable probability?(election.princeton.edu)
2 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
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by mcbits 10y ago
I think people are attracted to "quantum consciousness" because it's currently the only plausible physical mechanism of free will. Essentially all of society is structured around the assumption that the participants have bona
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by mcbits 10y ago
After we figure out how to increase the mass of our atmosphere 90-fold, maybe. Venus is around human body temperature at the altitude where atmospheric pressure is similar to Earth's.
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by mcbits 10y ago
That article suggests the results had been changing dramatically for 10 months.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Visually inspecting the output in a handful of environments and hoping it generalizes to all current and future environments, because there is no way to programmatically determine what the environment is actually doing with the content, is
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by mcbits 10y ago
Whatever you want to call it when text can barely be read, falls out of alignment, or disapears entirely because a font renders at a fraction or multiple of the size of the desired font, despite being the same "size" in "cent
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by mcbits 10y ago
The shifting page layout is a symptom of a broader problem, in that it's impossible to accurately predict or specify the rendered dimensions of text. Even measuring a container after the fact is unreliable because of the arbitrary amou
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by mcbits 10y ago
This is why I disagree with the shared language interpretation of design patterns. Once you slap "MVC" or any other name on some code, you'll constantly be second-guessing whether new code is violating the pattern. The goal i
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Relax, the expansion of the universe is still accelerating(theconversation.com)
1 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments

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