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13y ago
So when will these filters be available on WolframAlpha?
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13y ago
Awesome. I've been meaning to do the same thing for Final Fantasy VII PC.
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13y ago
I too would be interested in sourcing Qualcomm SoCs in small quantities. If you don't mind, please drop a note Attn:Pete at http://sensoray.com/support/receiveinfo.htm
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13y ago
The Chromecast supports HDMI CEC in order to turn on the TV and switch inputs, so I don't understand why it doesn't support allowing the TV remote to control the Chromecast. Most TVs support CEC, and HDMI sources can request to b
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13y ago
I once encountered a big self-revolving door exiting the secure area at an airport, and I wondered what would happen if I kept going around it in a circle. Let me tell you what happens: it alarms loudly, and the TSA employee was not amused
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13y ago
Which phone can do realtime 4k encoding? Can you tell me which SoC it uses? Edit: It's the Acer Liquid S2, with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC
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13y ago
Another thing that's misleading, Facebook isn't the one paying out: > Now, Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust, is trying to mobilize fellow hackers to raise a $10,000 reward for Shreateh a
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14y ago
He was in the 3rd grade in 1955. He wrote his first computer program sometime after 1970, on a 360. Therefore he did not write his first computer program in 3rd grade.
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14y ago
Non-authorative suggestion: 1995 movie "Four rooms" and the phrase "room for improvement"
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14y ago
ting.com, a Sprint MVNO $6 per device per mo, plus automatically adjusted tiered payment for voice, text, and data, shared between devices. Devices are not subsidized, and must be purchased up front, but it ends up saving money in the long
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14y ago
About the pv overhead, I sent a note to the pv author saying that on Linux at least the transfer function could take advantage of the splice system call. Splice "copies" data from one file descriptor to another file descriptor, avoiding ha
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14y ago
The article[1] linked from the demo mentions an optimization that the image is preprocessed so that the javascript code only updates the pixels that are cycling. I wonder how another method would compare - modify the palette table in the P
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15y ago
If you haven't played Braid and don't want to spoil the ending, skip the 4 paragraphs starting with "After traversing Braid’s five main realms,"
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15y ago
More details about the mystery language can be seen in the referenced source of the article: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duq...
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Lambda calculus with Church encoding in C
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In an nVidia Optimus configuration, there is no actual switching between the IGP and GPU. The LCD display is connected only to the IGP. The discrete GPU is connected only to the PCIe bus. Therefore to display anything from the GPU, the c
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15y ago
From the readme: "It uses Linux system calls to interface with the network stack, which makes the code unportable across platforms, but keeps it completely libc free." Were you expecting it to program the NIC directly? It's better to leave
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15y ago
This reminds me of Portal: The Flash Edition http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/