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phiresky
8y ago
That's a ridiculous complaint and you know it. Oh no, you have to wait 5 minutes for DNS propagation, what a scam!
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phiresky
8y ago
You really want to get spammed with "claim your 5ct in donations for signing up on our website!" every day?
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phiresky
8y ago
I think the problem is more that people's ear shapes are pretty different, and the exact way that sound coming from a specific direction presents itself is different for every person - so you pretty much need a different profile (HRTF
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phiresky
8y ago
> - Roundtrip-able (reversible?) You mean injective
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phiresky
8y ago
> The same applied to every supermarket but one near my hotel. I've been able to pay everywhere I've been to in the Netherlands with a normal European debit card with chip + pin (Maestro I think)
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phiresky
8y ago
Nice. I had the same idea a while ago [1], but I didn't make it very far. Good to see that the concept of applying ML to intellisense can actually be useful. [1]: https://github.com/phiresky/deep-intellisense Vide
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phiresky
8y ago
Actual source since this is almost impossible to find from the link above: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8 https://github.com/moracamilo/Bitcoin/ Edit: The study seems to ha
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phiresky
8y ago
The actual amount of energy consumed by one bitcoin transaction is actually pretty exactly the amount of money you pay as a fee times the cheapest you can get electricity in the world. So if you pay $0.2 in fees, you will burn around $0.2 &
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phiresky
8y ago
Similar project of mine that connects a phone to a PC browser using a WebRTC QR code so you can use a pen / touch on the phone to create drawings on the desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvsm84xL9Sk ( https:
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8y ago
The template strings feature is not a just "shorthand syntax", it allows you to do things that were not possible before (see [1]) [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe
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phiresky
8y ago
> (inability to just type in the URL) You could still put all domains of an alternate domain system behind a X.web3.org that loads the whole system client side, and then connects to peers via WebRTC to load the domain X via webtorrents o
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phiresky
8y ago
I'd love to hear reasons why Germany is so horrible in this statistic. Why do we have 2.5x as much plastic waste per capita as France?
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8y ago
> I'm wondering about an importer for the Frink ones... but https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt doesn't seem to have a license?) That data is almost all taken from GNU Units, including the descriptio
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phiresky
8y ago
The same authors did publish code for another recent paper [1]. So it doesn't look like they are adverse to publishing their code in general. [1]: https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/ummenhof/depth..
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phiresky
8y ago
You can keep storing an identifier (like email address) without any problems if you have a reason (like to blacklist them)
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phiresky
8y ago
Where do you multiply colors in a PBR engine?
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8y ago
You should look more into how physically based rendering works. You do actually approximate the energy that reaches the different surfaces (in Watt / (m² sr)) for all wavelengths of light using Monte-Carlo integration. You can send pro
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8y ago
This is really interesting. So far I've been looking for the widest gamut monitors as possible, but I guess it's not that simple. So is there any way to have a wide gamut without getting different results for different people? I c
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phiresky
8y ago
Git bundles are pretty nice, they are just a packfile [1], with a list of refs prepended, that you can clone like a remote. But this also means they have pretty inefficient compression, since every object (or delta) is packed using zlib on