neckro23

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by neckro23 12y ago
> In one surviving letter to a friend, he joked that his rereading of the Bible had finally revealed that the sin for which God had punished the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah was not in fact buggery, but the taking of snuff. He and h
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by neckro23 12y ago
GPU scaling has been a standard driver feature, on Windows at least, with both NVidia and AMD video cards for awhile now. It doesn't really matter what the monitor does.
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by neckro23 12y ago
I remember this sort of thing being called "push" back in the day (1995 or so). Before animated GIF support was added to Netscape this was the only way you could achieve animation of any sort on the Web. The only concrete example
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by neckro23 12y ago
The bigger issue was that (IIRC) the source for Steam, which wasn't yet launched, was also leaked.
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by neckro23 12y ago
No, that's just your browser (annoyingly) removing the trailing slash from URL shown in the address bar. http://www.foo.com/ is the "correct" URL. Remember how HTTP works -- you connect to foo.com port 80, t
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by neckro23 12y ago
Here you go: http://www.moonviews.com/2012/06/printing-the-moon.html
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by neckro23 13y ago
VirtualBox is the only app I've ever seen kernel-panic OSX. Twice.
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by neckro23 13y ago
It isn't (I have one, a whole $15/year due to some ridiculous sale some months ago). Consider that it's userspace only, so kernel doesn't count. I'm running a (light-duty) nodejs app, nginx to proxy it, tmux, and
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by neckro23 13y ago
Software power-off is a feature of ACPI, which didn't even exist when Win95 came out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Powe...
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by neckro23 13y ago
It's pretty straightforward -- always rebase your feature branch on top of your upstream before you merge, ensuring that the merge is a fast-forward and your feature branch's history is at the end. This also gives you a chance to
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by neckro23 13y ago
Gaming on Mac has gotten a lot better, mainly thanks to Steam. I'm a huge gamer type, but for assorted reasons my "real" gaming PC isn't actually at home so I'm usually "stuck" with my Macbook. SteamPlay
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by neckro23 13y ago
Lingo, the scripting language for Macromedia Director, looked almost exactly like that. It was a real pain in the ass as soon as you tried to do anything more advanced than, say, drawing rectangles.
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by neckro23 13y ago
Even uncompressed and being extremely generous with the bit depth/rate: 32 ch * 24 bits * 96 kHz = 73 Mbps. That's a drop in the bucket on an 18Gbps connection. As mentioned, this is probably aimed at theaters. Also consider tha
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by neckro23 13y ago
This is pretty neat. I've been doing a similar thing lately (rendering arbitrary-sized bicycle chainrings in SVG), so I have gears on the brain. I'm surprised this one uses canvas instead of SVG, actually. Compatibility reasons?
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by neckro23 13y ago
Can't help but notice that the --disable-new-menu-style switch no longer works, which is terrible news if you hate Superfluous Google Whitespace as much as I do.
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by neckro23 13y ago
Beer with coffee in it. Problem solved!