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871.
by mxfh 12y ago
I think most effective way to improve sound quality is to get a good DAC as close as possible to the output. Headphone amps with integrated DACs do wonders for little money. When possible go for XLR on the last mile to the speakers (good ne
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Procedural Planet Generation(experilous.com)
224 points by mxfh 12y ago|37 comments
873.
by mxfh 12y ago
Falls into the, some-of-the-most-boring-person's-I've-met-where-backpackers category. Had the same experience; especially in Berlin you'll find not a few of them. Some quotes on that this is not just a recent development:
874.
by mxfh 12y ago
The developers, Laurent Thillet, blog is here: http://3dflashlo.wordpress.com/ including other crazy stuff like this: http://3dflashlo.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/png-to-script/
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Map Warper(mapwarper.net)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
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Moondust and Duct Tape (2008)(science.nasa.gov)
31 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
877.
Wherewolf: A serverless boundary service, with interactive raycasting demo(source.opennews.org)
14 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
878.
by mxfh 12y ago
New rule: Don't use images with source resolution <= 800px for full width headers.
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Friends in Space(friendsinspace.org)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
880.
Library of Congress Digital Gazetteer(loc.gazetteer.us)
1 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
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Codepoints.net(codepoints.net)
1 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
882.
by mxfh 12y ago
Great multiline stuff. Could be improved by using the actual U+2212 minus sign −, not - (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS) when getting super pedantic. Did something like this last week making extensive use of unicode block 1D400 and different space w
883.
by mxfh 12y ago
Since it wasn't mentioned here earlier, it's worth to take a look at shapecatcher to see what glyphs might resemble latin letters. Scribbling something resembling the latin capital letter A returns for example any of these codepoi
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Bl.ocksplorer.org – Learn D3.js by Example(bl.ocksplorer.org)
5 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
885.
Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software(nytimes.com)
240 points by mxfh 12y ago|76 comments
886.
by mxfh 12y ago
I assume the Humble Bundle app didn't leave Google Play on it's own yesterday: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/102477658774/a-notice-rega...
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by mxfh 12y ago
Forking is not enough, the whole thing has to get out of it's wiki format and be transitioned into some kind of purpose built system, the wiki approach was great for growing fast but is hell to maintain or understand when used for cont
888.
by mxfh 12y ago
Any plans to integrate soft hyphenation out of the box? This makes block layouts look so much nicer. https://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ https://github.com/bramstein/hypher Also this tool s
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GOP Pierces Democratic Monopoly on Technology, Targeting, and Voter Mobilization(nationaljournal.com)
1 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
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UTR #36: Unicode Security Considerations(unicode.org)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
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UTS #51: Unicode Emoji(unicode.org)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
892.
by mxfh 12y ago
Had a small twitter discussion with the editor of the article yesterday, that for example the data on trash is not comparable (different metrics in different municipalities, for example counting collected foliage or not), especially that it
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Mapping differences in two German economies(dw.de)
1 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
894.
by mxfh 12y ago
The Transitabkommen of 1971 guaranteed free Travel for Citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany. http://books.google.de/books?id=GiCgOUq96dgC&lpg=PA115&ots=G...
895.
by mxfh 12y ago
You won't get a proper global Mercator map through light projection (a so called geometric projection) from a sphere, the relation is purely mathematical. A central cylindrical projection is what you get when you put a light in the c
896.
by mxfh 12y ago
You could go full circle by mapping a tessellated tile-able projection like Peirce quincuncial back onto the spherical lampshade via the inverse stereographic projection. http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/peirce/ h
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Pumpkin geometry: shadow sculptures that illuminate an ancient math technique(theguardian.com)
18 points by mxfh 12y ago|1 comments
898.
by mxfh 12y ago
The Skeuomorph is strong with this one. Why isn't there a single chronograph type clock face that displays the current date in an easily readable form and does't clutter month and day of month all other the place? It's just
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Aerial Burton 3D display projects images into mid-air(diginfo.tv)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
900.
Jam Handy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments

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