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by pierrec 12y ago
It's too late to edit, but I now realize that what I wrote is pretty confusing. Especially the part with "You don't speak Chinese, right?" which should be between quotes. It's the translation of the previous sentenc
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Yes, it also works for questions phrased in the negative, and 对/不对 (dui / bu dui) ("that's right"/"that's not right") does not make any sense as a response to that question, you need to use 会&#x2
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This is only meta, but something needs to be done to prevent Github threads from getting flooded by useless replies as soon as they gain some popularity. And there is far worse than this one - some will have you scrolling through an avalanc
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This also surprised me. You can do the exact same thing, but with millions of particles, if you store and process them on the GPU. The first example of that technique being used in WebGL is probably by Mr.doob [1]. Since then, there have be
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I think that the "thumbs up" vote should be separate from the possible "encore/repeat" vote. People probably vote thumbs up just to counteract other's thumbs down (inevitable once there are enough participants)
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This blog post, which summarizes a talk on IPFS, provides a better introduction than the landing page or the Github readme: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/ipfs-the-permanent-web-by-juan-... It's annoying that there
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by pierrec 12y ago
Contrarily to the appending trick that you mention, this allows you to apply PNG compression to your arbitrary data, and then make use of the browser's decompression capabilities on it. Though that's still kind of an odd use case,
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Pack arbitrary files into PNG and access them using JavaScript(github.com)
67 points by pierrec 12y ago|29 comments
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Very cool. This could be useful for some applications, but I don't see it becoming a thing for general use cases unless it's implemented and exposed directly by the browsers. Even then, the main problem is that the internet is sti
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Here's a 1990 Glass piece that's extremely melodic - not only that, but two melodic subjects are exposed then superimposed in a powerful counterpoint. The first subject is exposed at 1:55, the second at 4:10, and both are in count
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This article seems reasonably objective at first, until it suddenly turns on you and becomes extremely opinionated: " The problem is that Glass’s music fails to do what I believe all great music does, which is to structure time in a pr
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In my youth, the closest thing I ever had to a gaming console was a Palm. There was a plethora of quirky, indie, and experimental games for Palm OS, here are some of the best I can remember: - All games by Naoki Ito. This Japanese genius ma
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"Normally a language of this type is too slow to do signal processing." That is one of the founding principles of many current sound synthesis programming tools. In light of the recent developments in JIT-enhanced languages (I&#
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It is ASCII (edit: ok, as per the replies, more like poorly-defined Extended ASCII since it uses 8 bits instead of 7). For every character that has an ASCII value, the Unicode code point and the ASCII value of that character are the same. U
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I played with this a few days ago when it was submitted as "Show HN" (but only got 3 points). It was originally vulnerable to Javascript injection (with potential for XSS), since the "ascii stream" had no protection aga
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It is infinitely scalable. What amelius is saying is that there's no font hinting at all ("at smaller pixel-sizes" probably meaning rather at small font sizes, which is when you need hinting). Hinting is a very complex operat
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>why can't electronics reproduce the sound of a violin? Well, if you're referring to synthesis based on physical modeling algorithms, it's possible, but it's just too complicated. A basic, not-too-expressive sound is
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> What I rarely see is nomads successfully travelling the world with: 1) A Significant other / spouse 2) Children, and/or 3) Assets Welcome to the world of boating! I lived 10 years of my youth on a sailboat with my family, an
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As of now there's still no article about the "incident" in their blog[1], but I'm sure there will be one soon. At first glance, users, comments, etc. appear to be working, though there aren't many new uploads yet. [
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Definitely, a bit of hand-held camera motion can do wonders for realism, in the same way that an ultra-smooth camera can add an unreal feeling to a real scene. And modern 3D software suites often include excellent features for realistic cam
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I'm kind of disappointed that the folder names actually have to contain the code. From the title, I got the wild phantasm of a language entirely encoded into folder structure - ignoring their names completely. Maybe it would be "P
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Well, the 1982 1k implementation he was trying to beat did not cover these rules either. In fact, this version implements pawn promotion to queen, which the ZX 1k version did not. So the part about beating a 33-year-old record stands. An in
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by pierrec 12y ago
Article L.3421-4 of the "Code de la Santé Publique" (law concerning public health) forbids incitation/encouragement of the usage or traffic of classified narcotics, even if it does not lead to anyone actually using them. The
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That's actually a very interesting question. Evolution means that out of all states that stem from the current one, the optimal one tends to endure, so the "best of all possible worlds" is indeed a pretty good way of phrasing
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They're not just comparing the faulty drives numbers. Maybe you misunderstood the way they presented the data: in the first table, the "Number of Drives" column refers to the total number of drives they studied for each model
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I'm a bit late to the party, but isn't development of new LuaJIT features pretty much halted? The notice on [1] saying that Mike Pall cannot accept new sponsorships for the project was added one month after the last LuaJIT release
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The idea is that you can daisy-chain many devices without using a hub. Among thunderbolt devices, I believe most screens and high-end hard drives provide the two ports necessary for daisy-chaining. USB also supports this quite well, and hig
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> the issue is that many earbuds don't seal the ear canal very well For those wondering which earbuds do provide decent isolation, there are, as you stated, the pretty expensive "in-ear-monitors", but you can also go fo
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Agreed. The potential backlash against innocent French and European Muslims is one of the scariest things in these events. France is full of closeted (and not-so-closeted) islamophobic fascists, and this attack of violence against words is
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I wonder if it's technically useful or if it's a commercial move. I have an Ideapad Y470 (a model from 3 years ago), and I got the impression they tried to limit the RAM below what the hardware could run, maybe because they want t

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