nitrogen

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by nitrogen 5y ago
Compiz and all subsequent compositing managers do the same thing for Linux (each app has its own surface in the GPU and can be composited in 3D), and I believe the compositing in Windows Vista and later is similar.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
simply set a really large diameter I'm not particularly familiar with aviation, so is the radius in this comment (445NM at FL400) considered large? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833002 )
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The "circles" idea from Google Plus was actually pretty useful in theory. If instead of binary in/out pruning, a network suggested moving people between "circles," that might be better than just deleting people unp
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is a really good approach to a lot of difficult problems. I'd had this idea drilled into my head growing up of deciding carefully beforehand so you don't decide poorly in the heat of the moment, but somehow it hadn't oc
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Would four 9V batteries in series with ground drawn from the middle supply enough current?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What should we expect when we are pushing any disagreement whatsoever out of the mainstream? I was vaccinated the day I was able to be, but if I started browbeating everyone else around me who was slower, they'd just cut off contact a
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm sure all those "kooks, cranks and opportunists" had breakfast, too. Should we start calling French toast a conspiracy? Last year when people (in the US) were protesting, violent protests were called "mostly peacefu
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by nitrogen 5y ago
everyone is required to take pictures of themselves inside their homes at regular intervals That is... bizarre. Very bizarre. Do you have a link to read more?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If there's no way to remove energy from the spring then it will oscillate indefinitely. So there has to be a damping factor somewhere.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Doesn't UEFI already provide for the automated installation of vendor malware whenever Windows boots?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Infinite scroll as a concept is good. Infinite scrolling doesn't work with scrollbars, and somehow people still think it's okay to put important links in the page footer... on an infinite scrolling site where it's literall
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Whoops, I didn't notice that the two L's were still capitalized in the normalization example a few comments up.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The SF apartments I lived in for a few years would have been unlivable without A/C -- indoor temps would exceed 80F often. Not sure if it's because multi-story buildings don't get shade from trees, or something else.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What's your fresh air system? My current home (in a mountain state) has problems with CO2 buildup with its central air system, so I'm curious what people with minisplits do to handle CO2.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There are formalized approaches to keeping the server from knowing the password at any time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_a... SRP is one such system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's one bit per alphabetic character, isn't it?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
They are also for off-road recreational use, e.g. in sand dunes.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Note that not all biquad filters are crappy.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If they ran at constant speed they would be even more polluting though. I found myself responsible for a yard for the first time recently, because it was the only housing option that met my needs. Battery operated everything is the way to
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by nitrogen 5y ago
expectation of privacy People keep using this phrase as if it's binary. I 100% expect that when I go in public, there isn't someone following me with a notebook, keeping a log of everything I do. I also expect that someone won
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If a shopkeeper submits footage of a crime to the police, the police should be able to keep it as evidence. What's problematic is proactive gathering and aggregation of footage by police or by corporations.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You might alreay know this: there are USB GPIO devices that get you the I/O without having to program a separate CPU. They're used in custom arcade machines, for one example.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Every small engineering team I have worked on had its own pro duct manager.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
At least some of these are auto-filled templates with scraped data -- I got one where "I was really impressed by your experience at ." -- yes, just a space and a period. Probably slightly modified from the defaults provided by a
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It just doesnt take a trillion dollar company to maintain a decent OS and office suite. It never did. We'd all be so much better off if every trillion dollar company were replaced by 10,000 $100mil companies.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Alcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides. Perhaps, but P(A|B) is drastically different from P(B|A). In other words, what percentage of consumed drinks of alcohol are associated with a homicide? Beyond that, could al
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by nitrogen 5y ago
In case anyone comes across this thread in the future, I've uploaded the video that covers analytic signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjIVSnrPSo FFT section starts at 4:33, analytic signals come up at 7:20.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Someone asked somewhat recently about visualizing analytic signals in 3D ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633829 ). This is my video, with 3D animation, summarizing the FFT and analytic signals, plus a review of digi
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Show HN: Learn more about the Fast Fourier Transform, animated in 3D [video](blog.mikebourgeous.com)
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Given that "sin" is a purely religious concept, and that one's culture around alcohol has a pretty big effect on whether alcohol is associated with misbehavior (there are lots of people and places for whom alcohol does not ca

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