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Visual signals and interfaces have information density and permanence, which gives gleanability. You can put lots of things into your visual field (e.g. multiple application windows, multiple computing devices, multiple inanimate objects),
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This sort of post was most useful in the days when the term 'NoSQL' was being thrown around as the silver bullet that would revolutionize one's business, and there was a significant knowledge gap between the domain experts --
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I get what you're saying about the benefits of PaaS or other managed services, but Netflix serves most content (by volume) off of appliances [1] they ship to ISPs that feed into the network at points-of-presence somewhere close to an e
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Direct link to 1.0.0 spec (PDF): https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-spec/releases/download/v... Unofficial working copy (HTML): https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/ Source (of
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No need to dip down to DSP. You can do this with Android over AP-less ("peer-to-peer") Wi-Fi, so you're coding against a nicer API and Android will speak the protocol for you [1][2]. [1] https://developer.android.c
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Update the chooser flowchart [1] when it's out of beta or when appropriate. This page also has brief descriptions and comparison tables. [1] https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/
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Last discussed 9 hours prior; at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394551
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I've found the kiosks to be laggy and inconsistent in accepting touch input; any orders that have multiple different items take longer for me to key in at the kiosk than to verbally express at the counter. But having the ability to cus
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One way, like you say, is to set up a listener on a public network and have it spawn a different event, which gets handed down to your private server through a specificly-punched hole. But there's a lot of things to pay attention to: t
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Because many of the gains of successive video codecs comes from finding more efficient ways of encoding motion , which is something you clearly can't exploit with stills.
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"This new JPEG activity aims to develop a new image coding standard that provides state-of-the-art image compression performance, and that addresses shortcomings in current standards. To encourage widespread adoption, an important goa
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It's somewhat odd to suddenly see lots of excitement in the 'continuous-tone still images' space, and I can't help but think that on some level, JPEG the group to wants to retain relevance at a time when the world is fin
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Developers and commentators have long held that developing for the PS2 and PS3 was fairly awful [1][2][3][4], so I'm not sure I buy your point. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/02/oddworld-creator-
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Last discussed 3 days prior; at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339636
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The Switch and XBox One aren't really competitors to the same degree as the Xbox and PS4, and the games in this announcement aren't the sorts of games that sell a particular console. Rather, they're the sort of stuff you can
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This is exactly how most DRM schemes work. You ping the keyserver a key, they check if you're still authorized, and if you are, they send you a key. There's even a bunch of tech that got built into commercial OSes [1][2] and hardw
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The classic way of leveraging private investment in some kind of capacity-carrying infrastructure for public good is to rule it a common carrier [1]. All of this 'Title II'/'net neutrality' spat of the last few year
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Good post; a lot to unpack. This administration's objections to the AT&T/TWC merger was probably rooted in television because the administration's opinions about net neutrality are rather well-known; it's doubtful th
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That's in Windows XP. In later versions, Explorer stores all thumbnails in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, which can very well be on a different volume than the original file.
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My prediction is that if self-driving cars commingle with human-driven cars on the same roadway, and are common enough to show up during your commute, road safety will improve slightly in aggregate, but the immediate environs of traffic sur
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We're asking a lot from this kind of software (for good reasons), but humans commit hundreds of leaps of faith of various severity on the roads daily -- failure to yield, failure to maintain a safe following distance, assuming other dr
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People move for one of three reasons, which to me feel successively less discretionary: (a) they get a job offer (e.g. Wall Street, Chicago), (b) they're moving to a job cluster hoping to find something eventually (e.g. LA, NYC, SF, Ve
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Gamification increases as understanding improves. Information is exploited.
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Speculative execution isn't an inherent security risk, but it typically entails a cache fill, which can, if not cleaned up or not isolated, can be used for a timing attack. That's the real issue here: that execution results in mut
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Here's some possible scenarios that illustrate what could play out: - They could zero-rate their own offerings, making them available at a very low price and not counting them against data usage. - They could offer no-cost access to so
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This is part of Chrome's scheme to avoid protocol ossification -- where you realize you can't deploy any enhancements because of widespread non-standards-compliant (but likely, for the original implementer, "good enough"
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The acquisition target is 'Time Warner Inc.', primarily a television and film company, whose products and subvisions include HBO and Cinemax, the TV networks CNN, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, TNT, and various joint ventures with US
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Residential vs. non-residential zoning always tries to tilt towards non-residential, because it has a better potential of return. Although both pay property taxes and both require utility services like water, sewer, and waste collection, no
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Malls were always predicated on the assumption that well-to-do suburbanites, increasing in wealth and in number due to relative prosperity in the upper subdivisions of salaried workers, would spend their disposable incomes on getting boutiq
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The reason the productivity of CLIs was often extolled is because throughout most of interactive computing's lifetime, CLIs and scripting have been intertwined. It was possible and commonplace to invoke parameter-oriented CLIs from ano

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