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by pippy 10y ago
The quality of MacOS releases have been dropping since Snow Leopard. With Sierra, they dropped the accessibility setting for disabling scroll inertia. This is serious for someone who's getting RSI. I use Elementary OS as a secondary OS
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Show HN: CSS BEM Validator service(torleif.nz)
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by pippy 10y ago
Just to add to your point: the titanium used to make the SR-71 Blackbird came from the Soviet Union.
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by pippy 10y ago
It's interesting many countries such as the US, UK and NZ have banned rare earth magnets due to fear of people swallowing them. The data they used to back the banning included all products ingested, and vice wrote up an article here:
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by pippy 10y ago
I can't find any evidence that nuclear testing causes any form of global health risks. The amount of material dispersed is negligible on the global scale, and while I've found a few sources that state this material can cause thyro
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by pippy 10y ago
I agree. Unless the CS major is planning on specializing in embedded software, things like complexity classes and database normalization would be of more use. Even that is overkill, as in my experience leveraging and utilizing software libr
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by pippy 10y ago
Soon we'll have neural networks taking care of most of the animation pipeline. Most animators work long hours for little pay, and in most western countries it's simply outsourced this the third world. There was a bit of drama late
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by pippy 10y ago
This is really cool. I might take this on for a project. Though it doesn't look like it's battery powered, which is disappointing.
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by pippy 10y ago
Also their list of vitial articles give an interesting insight into what they'll want to send up (depending on the medium they choose): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
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by pippy 10y ago
I'll have to agree it's not a good fit. Seemly the only advantage brutalism has is ease of construction. Given that a site, just like a building, usability and aesthetics will pay off in the long run.
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by pippy 11y ago
I have a VT220, and it's pretty cool apart from the high pitched whining sound it makes. I think I might have to recap it at some point
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by pippy 11y ago
Google could easily take the initiative on the DNS query front and implement DNSCrypt by default on Chrome. It would booster client privacy and also block ISP from selling usage data. So it would be a win-win for Google.
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by pippy 11y ago
I would gladly fork out the cost of a university tuition for CRISPR therapy to give my children the edge. But many would be adverse to this, probably to the extent of being a same sex marriage/abortion level of debate.
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by pippy 11y ago
One thing I do like about msys over cygwin is that compiled binaries don't have a dependency on a dll. If msys2 is using cygwin libraries, does it have the same dependency?
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by pippy 11y ago
I use deploynaut as my deploying tool, and I have to say it's made the process much smoother. Previously I'd simply use git to update a code base or sql workbench/pgadmin to update a database.
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by pippy 11y ago
This is a very cynical and hostile view of Apple fighting for the privacy of its customers. If Apple were prioritizing defending their walled garden over privacy, they wouldn't have put strong encryption on iMessage and other services.
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by pippy 11y ago
I've often thought there's a massive market for ReactOS in legacy support. There's so many platforms (ATMs, flight controllers, banking software) that use unsupported windows versions. Many of these platforms would pay an arm
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by pippy 11y ago
From a societal perspective, is it better for us to go after one person who stole $100,000,000, or million people who stole $100? I really like the cross section though. Currently conservatives seem to be obsessed about cracking down on wel
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by pippy 11y ago
If it's not broken, don't muck around with it. Though I think the Apple bar is starting to show its age with higher resolution screens becoming popular. With the latest macs, moving the cursor all the way across the screen is a bi
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by pippy 11y ago
One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn&#
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by pippy 11y ago
Could it be the hike in Federal Reserve Rates causing credit tougher to find?
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by pippy 11y ago
>Turkey shoot doesn't even begin to describe it. If you bring a biplane to a modern dogfight, you'll end up a splat mark on the ground. Kind of unfair example, the Israelis had a lot of time to prepare for that battle. On top o
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by pippy 11y ago
Interesting, I've only ever known about Emscripten based asm.js compilers. TypeScript + LLVM have the benefit of being actively developed with a strong community backing.
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by pippy 11y ago
I love TypeScript - it's my favorite precompiled language and I use it for a few personal projects of mine. But I can't help but feel it's an evolutionary dead end. asm.js / web assembly is what you want transcompiled la
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by pippy 11y ago
The thing that stuck out to me was the Geekbench score. 2,287 vs 6,350 over the course of a decade isn't that impressive improvement. Given it's reflective of what a computer can do , comparing metrics such as Ghz or gigaflops se
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by pippy 11y ago
it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not uniqu
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by pippy 11y ago
It's happening in New Zealand to a similar extent. This current government is raiding journalists homes who publish things they don't want[1] [2]. Even more worryingly the government recently bailed out the other major broadcastin
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by pippy 11y ago
If documentation exists on how to build from source, but it doesn't work [ +10 points of FAIL ] Your source is configured with a handwritten shell script [ +10 points of FAIL ] Most projects I've ran into fall under
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by pippy 11y ago
I really enjoy when people take a fresh perspective on things. Climate change has been cited by Pew Research Center as the top greatest threat, and putting a different spin on things will always be nice to try and convince people. The top r
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by pippy 11y ago
After the heartbleed bug I checked out the openssl code to see what the quality was like. I was horrified from what I saw; single character variable names outside of loops, preprocessor macro soup, no comments for functions. I've told

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