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by oofabz 11y ago
Right, my objection to the textured cubes is that they are not the volume equivalent of a pixel. Pixels are point samples without shape or texture. These cubes have both. What I call a voxel is much smaller (on the order of a screen pixel),
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by oofabz 11y ago
This is not what I think of as voxels either, but I fear our older definition is becoming obsolete. You could make arguments both for and against whether these textured cubes are technically voxels, but in the end, language changes, and try
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by oofabz 11y ago
I prefer 28-56 because that was the law between 1909 and 1978 and it worked well. That era was extremely productive for artists and profitable for capital. Hollywood and record labels thrived in those years, so we know we can roll back to 2
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by oofabz 11y ago
When Robert Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers, copyright was 28 years, or 56 if you are approved for an extension. I'm not advocating 14 years; I think 28-56 is fair. Clearly Heinlein would have written the book under those terms, becau
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by oofabz 11y ago
I notice every artist on this list is dead. These long copyright terms do not help artists, programmers, or anyone else who creates intellectual property. They only benefit capital holders - people who purchased the rights and want a return
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by oofabz 11y ago
The demo that zooms in and out of a PDF is much faster than it would be with CPU rendering. When you zoom in and out in an existing PDF viewer, it takes much longer than 1/60 sec to re-rasterize the page. The CPU takes a long time to r
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by oofabz 11y ago
The graphs in the article show that sometimes GPS underestimates the distance. It is merely more likely that it will overestimate.
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by oofabz 11y ago
I hope Mr. Worsley has read "The Worst Journey in the World" to familiarize himself with the dangers he will face.
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by oofabz 11y ago
If they need something in the short term they could use HAMMER 1, it's been stable for years.
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by oofabz 11y ago
I'd like to see Apple adopt the HAMMER2 filesystem from DragonflyBSD. It's a very full-featured filesystem, with snapshots, file history, and hashes for integrity checking. Snapshots could integrate with Time Machine, and file his
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by oofabz 11y ago
You need mutability to write for loops.
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by oofabz 11y ago
IANAP, but if the values of the cells are real-world values like charge, momentum, or higgs field strength, then I don't think they are hidden variables. They are the same variables described by the standard model, but calculated discr
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by oofabz 11y ago
I use FreeBSD and I would love this.
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by oofabz 11y ago
I'm friends with an ER nurse. Her and her coworkers read Erowid to learn about the street perception of drugs, like what is becoming popular, what risks are the public aware of, what dangerous mixtures are people trying, etc. She menti
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by oofabz 11y ago
That's true, it's a bad idea to assume an MTU of 1500. Although there is no minimum MTU in IPv4, IPv6 specifies a minimum of 1280 bytes. So if you send your UDP packets over IPv6, you are guaranteed room for 1232 bytes of payload.
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by oofabz 11y ago
It sounds like UDP packets that fit within the MTU work fine. If you need to transmit more than fits in one packet (1452 bytes), UDP is a bad choice. SCTP is ideal for this use case but it is not well supported by OSs or networking APIs. TC
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by oofabz 11y ago
Can anyone give an example of real-world problems that graph isomophism can be used to solve? I am out of my depth here and I might be able to make more sense of it if I had a concrete example to relate these concepts to.
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by oofabz 11y ago
There are race conditions in rc.d. Like most concurrency bugs, they are rare, but we shouldn't ignore them. Consider what happens if you start a process, and then stop it before its pidfile gets written. Or, if you start a process that
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by oofabz 11y ago
I wonder if all the things we think of as particles, like electrons and protons, are actually quasiparticles on top of more fundamental mechanics.
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by oofabz 11y ago
People do abuse Suboxone though, and while it is not as bad as heroin, it can still ruin lives. I once watched this sad documentary, Reindeerspotting, about a Suboxone addict: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1584813/
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by oofabz 11y ago
I'm not sure you can rehabilitate opiate addicts. Very few of them ever stop using for good. I think the best solution for the addicts would be lifetime prescriptions for buprenorphine (Suboxone). But then how do you prevent others fro
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by oofabz 11y ago
If you are referring to the Apollo DSKY built by Fran Blanche, she is not a guy.
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by oofabz 11y ago
Apple shipped launchd and made it open source ten years ago. They did their part, it's now FreeBSD's job to integrate the code.
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by oofabz 11y ago
If they make it to a museum, then the information on the tablets becomes public and therefore very safe. Discovering and preserving the story is more important than the physical tablets.
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by oofabz 11y ago
BSD tar also has this functionality. "tar -xf <filename>" works for archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, or xz.
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by oofabz 11y ago
I use p7zip, which has also been around for ages. Whether you have a .tgz, .txz, .rar, .zip, or whatever, you can extract it with "7z x <filename>".
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by oofabz 11y ago
Many developers see Apple as a competitor, and Apple has had a long history of putting their platform's developers out of business. For example, iTunes destroyed the market for music library software.
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by oofabz 11y ago
A kid might focus for hours on video games, while telling himself he really needs to write that paper for class tomorrow. Maybe you could say his id is in control of focus, not his ego.
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by oofabz 11y ago
Geany doesn't support Go out of the box, but you can configure it to have excellent support. In the preferences, you can tell it the "go build" commands, and it will be able to build & run your project in Geany's int
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by oofabz 11y ago
I am partial to Luxi Mono myself: http://frammish.org/luxi.png

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