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by oofabz 13y ago
It would be cool if the "radius" automatically scaled to ensure there are not too many or too few people in the chat. This could be accomplished with a Voronoi diagram.
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by oofabz 13y ago
Volume snapshots are a better way. The only filesystems I know of that support them are ZFS, BtrFS, and HAMMER. I'm not sure if snapshots are implemented using hard links or if they are more fundamental. Another way, which is worse, is
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by oofabz 13y ago
IPv4 is not just about larger address space. It has better autoconfiguration, better multicast, better MTU, and it has a constant size header to make routing easier. Unlike IPv4, it works well with no centralized server assigning IP address
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by oofabz 13y ago
I hope it will support IPv6. The article mentions DHCP and has an example address of 1.2.3.4, but IPv4 seems like a poor choice for a new LAN protocol in 2013. Not everyone has IPv6 internet connectivity but we do all have IPv6 LAN. Apple h
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by oofabz 13y ago
Aleynikov has lived in the US for twenty years and owns a house in Chicago. It sounds to me like he is an American programmer, not a Russian programmer. I don't see why his ancestry is relevant.
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by oofabz 13y ago
Top Gear also made a Bond submarine car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfOwSTXP-3o
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by oofabz 13y ago
I am no physicist, but could they decay into a virtual Z boson, which imparts momentum onto a nearby real particle?
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by oofabz 13y ago
A vector format is insufficient to make an image look good at all resolutions. Without hinting, lines are not aligned to pixels, making them blurry. We have solved this problem with fonts, but it is extremely complex, both for the artist an
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by oofabz 13y ago
I was recently busted in Oregon with a similar amount of pot. My punishment was eight hours of community service.
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by oofabz 13y ago
This is not for performance. OpenGL has very low overhead, and already allows you to "directly tap into the hardware" and "fully exploit the capabilities of modern GPUs". AMD wants people to write code that will not run
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by oofabz 13y ago
A reporter could also break the rules and stealthily send a text message.
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by oofabz 13y ago
It is also interesting to see video of these rasterization patterns. The pattern is not exactly the same from frame to frame. Nvidia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFx6StqpRdY AMD: http://www.youtube.com/wa
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by oofabz 13y ago
glPushMatrix and many other functions were deprecated five years ago with the release of OpenGL 3. It is only available now in compatibility profile contexts, for backwards compatibility. You can't use it in core profile, OpenGL ES, or
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by oofabz 13y ago
Hey pornel, I'm glad you found my lossypng code useful. It's great to see the algorithm made available to a wider audience.
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by oofabz 13y ago
When you project a map, there are three properties you would like to maintain: shape (aka conformality), size (aka equal-area), and direction. But you can have at most two of these properties. Mercator preserves shape and direction at the e
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by oofabz 13y ago
It's not just theory, you typically get about 3 instructions per cycle in practice.
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by oofabz 13y ago
I use GNU Parallel. I like it because its interface is simple - input is piping filenames to it, just like xargs, and output is nicely collated to the screen. I used to use ppss, which does the core task just as well, but the interface is m
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by oofabz 13y ago
>The last de-facto LTS compiler we have had was gcc 2.7.2.1 The new de-facto LTS compiler is gcc 4.2.1, the last version released under GPLv2. After gcc switched to GPLv3, Apple and FreeBSD stayed on 4.2.1.
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by oofabz 13y ago
The DHS includes the Coast Guard, Customs, Immigration, and FEMA. Abolishing these critical functions would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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by oofabz 13y ago
The article was written in 2007, when Intel's latest CPU was the Core 2 Duo. Lots of people still had P4's back then.
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by oofabz 13y ago
C also has an empty for loop that works like while (1): for (;;) {}
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by oofabz 13y ago
There is another similar app called MathPad, a Mac app first released twenty years ago: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwidholm/MathPad/
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by oofabz 13y ago
Why wash if you're only using the urinal? Your penis is cleaner than your hands.
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by oofabz 13y ago
For now, banks continue to profit from crowdfunding. They get a percentage of each credit card transaction. However, they could be in serious trouble if an alternative payment system becomes popular. The stage is set - NFC and Bitcoin are g
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by oofabz 13y ago
I listen to Jay-Z, and I am disappointed that you think me and my fellow fans are incapable of political thought. Many of his lyrics are political in nature (e.g. "99 Problems"), and like many aging pop stars, he has a lot of olde
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by oofabz 13y ago
Is there anyplace I can buy a print of the Voynich manuscript? I have long been fascinated by it but I've never seen it for sale. Amazon has some books about it, but not the manuscript itself.
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by oofabz 13y ago
The Haswell Xeon E3 series is quad core, single-socket. It uses the same die as desktop Haswell CPUs. The Mac Pro is six core, double-socket, so it must be a "-E". Based on the availability date (later this year), it must be Ivy B
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by oofabz 13y ago
No, they are Ivy Bridge-E. Haswell-E doesn't ship until 2014.
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by oofabz 13y ago
It is true that smoked crack is more dangerous than insufflated cocaine. It has a faster, more pleasurable onset, and effects don't last as long. These properties both make it more addictive. Many prescription drugs use an extended rel
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by oofabz 13y ago
Arbitrary scaling makes images blurry, even vector graphics. It's a difficult problem to solve because computer graphics are highly aliased - they have many details only one pixel wide. We have solved this problem with fonts, which have hin

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