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by pasta 8y ago
I think this is already happening in games. With ray tracing the reflections are calculated from the player's view point. The audio processor then uses this information and outputs 3D sound. I think it will be interesting to see how th
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by pasta 8y ago
By caring about privacy and voting to prevent this. I believe this is also the biggest intent of Black Mirror (where I believe the video is from). For example Facebook and Google have so much data about you that a drone can track you down b
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by pasta 8y ago
It's also possible to design cities for both people and cars. The trick is to separate them. For example a shopping street where no cars are allowed could have parking lots at the back of the shops. So trucks can supply the shops and c
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by pasta 8y ago
It depends on what you wan't to use ray tracing for. If you want to calculate global illumination with path tracing (which is a form of ray tracing) then you need multiple samples per pixel to get a noiseless result. Most of the time a
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by pasta 8y ago
Sony + Sailfish OS could also be an option since support for Sailfish is official.
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by pasta 8y ago
As others point out: it's the click bait title. You open the article because you want to know about the cure. But the article is about insomnia. So you start skimming the article until you give up. If the title created an expectation t
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by pasta 8y ago
One simple trick to start a conversation is to ask about someones hobbies. Because this is what people like to talk about. Tried this a lot of times and it always works. Most of the time the conversation will go into other interesting direc
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Ask HN: Should we abandon copyright?
9 points by pasta 8y ago|8 comments
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by pasta 8y ago
If PHP, then ProcessWire [1]. ProcessWire is a Content Management System, not a CMS which includes a design or layout system like Wordpress. So as a developer you are free to develop the front-end the way you like. Which is easy with the pr
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The Ocean Cleanup Project Starts Today(theoceancleanup.com)
4 points by pasta 8y ago|0 comments
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by pasta 8y ago
There are two types of copyright at work here: 1. The music (score) 2. The recording of a performance of the music For old music nr.1 has expired. But nr.2 can still be copyrighted. The question is: how does Facebook know the performance is
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by pasta 8y ago
I'm getting to the point that I believe social media is making us dumb. For example: a real conversation has so much more depth because of facial expressions, change in voice, and so on. An emicon can't replace that.
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by pasta 8y ago
The Jaguar I-pace already is a good Tesla rival. And now Mercedes will follow. I think Tesla won't go away but I think in a few years they will be just an other electric car brand.
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by pasta 8y ago
I think the argument was that we don't have materials that are stong enough and light enough and cheap enough at the same time.
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by pasta 8y ago
This is a very old problem and solutions and knowledge has been available for over 20 years. But I think the main problem is cost: not waiting for the rain to clear, not making time to install temporary bulk heads, and so on. Edit. for exam
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by pasta 8y ago
Arial: "It was created to be metrically identical to the popular typeface Helvetica, with all character widths identical, so that a document designed in Helvetica could be displayed and printed correctly without having to pay for a He
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by pasta 8y ago
A friend is working for a newspaper. He records interviews. We tried all the software we could find to turn the recording (Dutch) into text but there is nothing that gives a helpful result. I know that a recording-to-text is different than
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by pasta 8y ago
I once drove my bike through The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Belgium. They all have bike lanes (well France sometimes have them) but what is different is that most bike lanes in The Netherlands are separated from other lane
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by pasta 8y ago
Ah I was refering to the website because the title is also about a handwritten website. I'm using Firefox and I cannot select any text. That's also why I commented about how to create your own handwritten font that can be used for
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by pasta 8y ago
This is a nice experiment. But ofcourse not very usefull. For example you cannot copy paste the text. But if you like something like this then you can use Inkscape for example to: Write all letter on a peace of paper Scan it and impor
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by pasta 8y ago
You first should define stress: Being responsible (of thinking you are responsible) without having full control to change a difficult situation.
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by pasta 8y ago
You are misusing the phrase and don't have a clue about being burned out. Energy levels are like a rubber band. You can stretch it. But when you are burned out you are at the end of the stretch and even destroying the band so it won&#x
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by pasta 8y ago
Eh, no. They did not discover that mining sites are being placed in deep locations. They discovered that whales visit those locations because they dive deeper than thought. So maybe: "Deep diving whales may cause licensing issues for p
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by pasta 8y ago
Presenting yourself as someone else is called fraud in my book. Changing the back button might be clever but all the rest is just simple. But people don't do this because I think in a lot of countries this is illigal. There is a way yo
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by pasta 8y ago
If there is a need for such bridge and you can show me your plan, your R&D and a working prototype I might support your bridge project. Maybe you should check the website and see it for yourself.
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by pasta 8y ago
Support the ocean cleanup project. Some people are very sceptical about the project but it's the only project that is trying to collect plastic asap. Asap = 18 days from now. https://www.theoceancleanup.com/
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by pasta 8y ago
"performing studies with fifteen people" The study only shows that blood flow to your brain drops when you are sitting for a long period of time. So I think 15 people is a huge sample in this case. The study doesn't even ha
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by pasta 8y ago
Mmm. I guess my memory is bad. I really thought the GUS came before the SoundBlaster, but maybe I didn't have a GUS Max but a GUS.
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by pasta 8y ago
Then I think the GUS was around $400. The only thing I remember I was amazed and sad at the same time when I heard the SB2. Halve the price twice the sound. And ofcourse Dr. Sbaitso..
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by pasta 8y ago
My first sound card was a Gravis Ultrasound Max I bought for around $400 maybe? Cut out a part of the PC cage so it could fit. Added memory from an old video card to it and it worked great. But things were going so fast that maybe one/

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