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by rorrr 14y ago
Agreed, we actually would love to hire more females at my last job, but there are just not enough qualified women in tech. Most candidates are white young guys. I don't think it's industry's fault that women choose easier majors and not Com
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by rorrr 14y ago
Pixel fitting can be very powerful, and can make certain things look much sharper. http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting
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by rorrr 14y ago
> What other purpose could gambling software be used for? Educational. Recreational (no money involved). Research (like to collect gambling data). To learn how to code and/or how games/strategies work.
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by rorrr 14y ago
Most people are not involved in production anymore, most of it is automated, and levels of automation will only increase.
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by rorrr 14y ago
> It turns out that these people [hunter-gatherers] have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors That's got to be a logical fallacy. A single farmer with modern tools can feed hundred
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by rorrr 14y ago
Airless bicycle tires are available, and they are relatively cheap: 1) Husky Airless Street = from $19 2) Amerityre Flatfree = from $35 http://www.bikemania.biz/airless-no-flat/husky-airless-stree...
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by rorrr 14y ago
Shared with GPU, btw.
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by rorrr 14y ago
> A normal integer in binary representation ALWAYS consumes 4 bytes That's not true. Most languages have 1-byte integers, 2-byte integers and 4-byte integers.
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by rorrr 14y ago
PSYC is not there http://about.psyc.eu/
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by rorrr 14y ago
That's not true. WebGL can get you to pretty much any level of animation you would need, it's just much harder to code for than CSS.
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by rorrr 14y ago
Even cheap modern SSDs can handle 400-500 MB/sec reads. You can consume 500 MB chunks of video into RAM and eliminate I/O bottleneck completely. Video encoding is CPU-bound, not I/O bound.
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by rorrr 14y ago
It's not clear what the instruction set is. Is there any software that can run on it (and not on ARM A9 like in their demos)? It's also not clear whether it's a SIMD solution. If that's the case, they are basically reinventing GPUs.
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by rorrr 14y ago
Raspbery Pi is 700 MHz, single core, 256MB RAM. This is 1.7 GHz, quad core, 2048MB RAM. If anything, it's more efficient per watt than RPi (and per dollar).
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by rorrr 14y ago
What ARM needs to do is start a multi-core revolution. Give me 64 cores, 128 cores, 1024 cores. That shit would be so useful for video encoding.
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by rorrr 14y ago
I think it's the opposite. Many good short .com and .net names are taken by squatters and/or users who don't do anything with them. This will give a good opportunity to the rest of us.
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by rorrr 14y ago
You're basically arguing against the visualization of information. Just think of how dumb that is. You might as well argue to publish all government data in Klingon, it will make the life of dumb criminals even harder.
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by rorrr 14y ago
So you're blaming the website for showing some publicly available information in a more accessible form? That's security by obscurity. So not security.
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by rorrr 14y ago
This was public information before this interactive map.
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by rorrr 14y ago
Yeah, VLC is collecting money too, that's what this post is about. Regardless, even if VLC is free, I just like Splash better for basic playback. I realize VLC is extremely complex and full of all kinds of features, but I don't use 99% of t
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by rorrr 14y ago
You can get a 112 square foot tent for $60. Doesn't mean you would want to live in it.
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by rorrr 14y ago
So? It's not like we're running out of people.
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by rorrr 14y ago
VLC used to be my favorite video player. Then I discovered Splash Pro Ex. Seriously, if your computer isn't very powerful, you can watch full HD movies without any stuttering, barely any CPU load, and has half of the load on the GPU compare
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by rorrr 14y ago
The real problem is the cars not stopping. All these idiots should get tickets, points, and their insurance should go up.
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by rorrr 14y ago
It helps a lot, assuming the user can use most of the page while you ajax-load the less important stuff. Perceived speed is extremely important. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-u...
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by rorrr 14y ago
Specs aren't everything, you can compete on price. Lots of these alternatives are MUCH cheaper than GoPros. 99% of people don't even know of resolutions higher than HD, and 99.9% wouldn't know what to do with them - there are no affordable
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by rorrr 14y ago
How many people can lift 30kg 2 meters up? How about doing it continuously? You're also forgetting that it require human energy to power it, which requires food, which is usually more expensive than batteries or gasoline or kerosine.
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by rorrr 14y ago
There are tons of GoPro competitors: Contour Contour+2, ContourRoam Sony Action Cam (HDR-AS10 and HDR-AS15) Polaroid XS7, XS20 and XS100 CamOne (camonetec.com) AEE BlackEye XTR (Magicam SD21) (www.aee.com/en/) Tachyon (tachyoninc.com) Unman
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by rorrr 14y ago
He's using 600D (which would be my choice as well for that kind of setup). The cheapest one I can find is $439. $439 * 50 = $21,950 Then lenses. Not sure which ones he uses. One of the cheapest lenses is 50mm/1.8, and it's a pretty good len
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by rorrr 14y ago
Make sure you buy a life insurance with that baby, if you're planning to go on US roads.
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by rorrr 14y ago
Try getting a serious sickness in the US and watch your $600K melt away, watch your insurance company dropping you, or refusing to cover you because you forgot to mention some minor thing when you signed up. Intestine transplant costs more

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