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by retroencabulato 9y ago
It kind of reads like you have discredited frequency domain compression algorithms. FYI JPEG used a block-based DCT which is very similar to a Fourier transform.
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by retroencabulato 10y ago
Canada is certainly a major instigator, but expand your thinking outside North America and you may be surprised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...
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by retroencabulato 10y ago
> Everyone expects these values to be scoped inside the loop, but go reuses the same memory location for every iteration. I don't see this as surprising as a C++ user. Who is 'everyone' here?
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by retroencabulato 10y ago
What I think would be more effective is strategically placed range sensors that shutdown the ATM if something covers them for a period of time.
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by retroencabulato 11y ago
In the US
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by retroencabulato 11y ago
Superficially, the infrastructure needed to run Alibaba's retail website seems similar to the infrastructure needed to run Amazon's retail website. What do you think Alibaba does?
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by retroencabulato 11y ago
What does sufficiently Turing-complete mean? I thought a system is, or isn't?
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by retroencabulato 11y ago
Let's talk about the content of this demo, not the implementation.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Can you speak for an entire country?
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Who do you expect to be able to use this information? Yes, basic high-speed electronics experience is required.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
I disagree. Standalone gerbers aren't terribly useful for hobbyists, and you'd have no luck opening an Allegro project even if they released that (which they wouldn't due to in-house component libraries containing supply lead
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
And a USB rootkit bundled in for free!
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
No one in Silicon Valley gives a crap about desktops, all the growth is in mobile.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Nice list, but I was confused by the arguments to the dict .get() example until I looked up the definition.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
I wish he would comment more on what he finds wrong with HDLs? I fail to understand why using a HDL for a digital ASIC is fine, but using one for a FPGA in the context of acceleration is not.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Other than pathological examples, PSNR is pretty useful for gauging the quality of photographs, and is very common in literature. Problems aside, it would have been nice to see some rate-distortion curves. I agree eye balling the results is
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
I don't think that article made strong arguments. Using nearest-neighbour resampling on the low-res image is an absolute joke. He didn't even look at an objective quality measurement (PSNR). The human visual system is very sensiti
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
That was an insightful talk, thanks.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
The same article, but with images: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516846343/microview-ch... Despite their mistake, I particularly like testing jig with capsense buttons (although I wonder why?)
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
If something absolutely necessitates using C++, why not use C++? (I'm genuinely asking.)
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
And what about using Bluetooth to detect when the card is lost? That sounds awfully power hungry for this form factor.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
I'm confused; I don't see how the randomness is really important here. I modified the code such that the expected value of each coefficient is a function of the term's degree: randomPoly[n_, x_] := x^Range[0, n].Table[R
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of processor, but a finite state machine is certainly necessary to use USB.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Why do you link to websites with a paywall?
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Here's another single line joke: You must be fun at parties.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Really? Complaining about the style of a for-loop? They are scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Not sure I agree. It is certainly possible to hack up the basic functionality of an embedded system; full of magic numbers and lacking the elegant hardware abstractions, OS layer and power management we all want. Edit: Not to mention in har
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Is "common parlance" in common parlance?
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Fuck safety, they should just stuff the door panels with cells!
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by retroencabulato 12y ago
Did you even read the article?

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