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by mixedbit 7y ago
We shouldn't use "believe" and "don't believe" terminology when we talk about scientific facts. It is more proper to say that people refuse to accept the climate change.
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Maybe this was some social engineering attack, and the victim wasn't blocked by Google, but lost the account to the attacker?
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Movies demonstrating how CLT building standup to earthquakes and fire: https://alexschreyer.net/engineering/much-abuse-can-cross-la...
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by mixedbit 7y ago
There can be many pointers pointing to the same allocated memory. For example, if you have a cyclic list with two elements head.next and head.prev pointers will both point to the second element and free(head.next); free(head.prev); would be
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Perhaps malloc() could allocate 1 byte extra at the start of the allocated block with some magic number written to it and free() could assert that the number is correct and change the number to mark the block as freed.
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Is the explanation text correct that direct shadowmapping is used only on walls, ceiling and floor? The shadows on furniture also look like they would require shadowmaping.
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by mixedbit 7y ago
It is not static, the light source moves, it is the same as if the models would move. They explain that they update light probes, they could do the same if the models would move. I think the limitation here is the number of lights. They use
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Firefox Reality(mixedreality.mozilla.org)
372 points by mixedbit 7y ago|157 comments
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Should Twitter also ban links to Amazon S3 or any other cloud storage? It can also be used to host arbitrary JavaScript.
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by mixedbit 7y ago
Good that Google+ is up again
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by mixedbit 8y ago
Most sites today display cookie or GDPR popup, such sites could abuse clicking OK or Cancel on such popup as the user action that triggers enable notifications.
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by mixedbit 8y ago
Popular forum software (discourse, phpbb) have good mechanism for comments moderation. For example a comment from every new user can require approval before it becomes public. YouTube doesn't seem to have such mechanism, so the moderat
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by mixedbit 8y ago
'We believe it occurred after launch as a result of the API’s interaction with a subsequent Google+ code change.' It is very hard to believe that they can't track when exactly the bug was introduced. All code changes are trac
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by mixedbit 8y ago
Python core libraries have great code. You can open pretty much any module and be able to understand the source without much context.
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by mixedbit 8y ago
I own Asus Zenbook for about 6 months and I'm disappointed with the problems it has on Linux. At least with Ubuntu 16 here are things that don't work out of a box (I didn't try Ubuntu 17 or 18, but based on my readings 17 has
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by mixedbit 8y ago
Chinese move to EVs in impressive. In Shanghai to register a new car you need to wait on average more than a year and pay an equivalent of several thousand dollars. Unless you buy an electric car, in which case you can register it immediat
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by mixedbit 8y ago
Long time ago I wrote about this technique: http://mixedbit.org/referer.html Besides back button navigation, I also had ideas to use a fake malware warning or just take a victim directly to fake search engine results.
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by mixedbit 8y ago
It enforces no internet before sleep rule. Personally I find it hard to stick to such habits just by my own will. Too often I find some excuse to turn on my laptop just to check one thing, which then turns into one hour wasted browsing rand
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by mixedbit 8y ago
My WiFi router is turned off automatically at 9PM. No fancy electronics is needed for this, just something like: https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/24-hours-auto-switch-off-...
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by mixedbit 8y ago
How about Atlassian?
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by mixedbit 8y ago
> Through poor security or malicious action that app leaks that information to third parties. It's neither poor security or malicious action. Web site isolation rules by design give full privileges to any third party script the webs
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by mixedbit 9y ago
You can tie such visit to a real person. For example, if this is a Facebook user, and your site includes resources from facebook.com, Facebook will know exactly which real person visited your site, and the user did not give you consent to s
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by mixedbit 9y ago
They probably could, but it isn't happening. It is hard to find a cloud service that seamlessly works with some other cloud service without explicit integration between the two services. Email was introduced and has become a popular st
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by mixedbit 9y ago
This is the reason why proprietary cloud services will never be as flexible as traditional programs on our computers. With N cloud services there need to be N^2 integrations to make them all work together. With N desktop programs it is enou
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by mixedbit 9y ago
A laptop with powerful external GPU is also a nice way to have quite portable VR setup
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by mixedbit 9y ago
In TCP if you ACK something that wasn't sent the ACK is dropped.
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A new WebVR browser(supermedium.com)
3 points by mixedbit 9y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 9y ago
The easiest thing to do from the accounting and complexity perspective is to use a reseller. We use paddle.com and are very happy with them. In such setup, reseller is selling your product/service and handles all the invoicing, per cou
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by mixedbit 9y ago
It is impossible to make headless and normal browser send 100% indistinguishable traffic. The timing of the browser requests is influenced by rendering that for the two versions will be always different.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
It is a pity Amazon didn't make the deal earlier. Can you disclose if the Goo team got anything out of the acquisition? Great to see the project lives on!

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