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by slacka 12y ago
While, Firefox has been crashing for the past few versions, both Chrome stable and canary have been completing the WebGL Conformance Test without crashing. There is probably something wrong on your end, if it won't run on your rig.
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by slacka 12y ago
As a child, I dreamed that I would grow up to a world where genetically modified organisms were the key to sustainable agriculture. Plants that eliminated the need for petro fertilizers by enriching the soil like clover and were resistant t
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by slacka 12y ago
My 60 yr old mother runs 2 small nonprofits, and is responsible for the web content and design. She's a pro with Word Perfect, but gets confused by simple HTML tags, and no interest, time, or aptitude to learn HTML/CSS/JavaSc
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by slacka 12y ago
I am not surprised by the hypocrisy of the US government here, but where is the proof? He doesn't directly link to the June 2010 report to back his claims. While I trust him, the critical thinker in me despises not being able to check
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The Community Has Beaten Epic At Porting The Unreal Editor To Linux(gamingonlinux.com)
4 points by slacka 12y ago|2 comments
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by slacka 12y ago
> This idea that we need to burn it down to build a new technology stack for the web seems kind of laughable. Why would we do that when we could just replace the piece that is bothering us - JavaScript? Neither I nor the article said ne
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by slacka 12y ago
For my job I'm often dealing with pdf datasheets, so yesterday when Opera claimed on HN that web technologies were good enough, I fired up FF and put it to the test. > "Web is rapidly losing users as it fails to adapt to disrup
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by slacka 12y ago
Does your profile explain why large PDFs are so laggy when scrolling in PDF.js? For example take http://www.math.mtu.edu/~msgocken/pdebook2/mapletut2.pdf open it in FF and hold the page down or up. On my laptop, t
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by slacka 12y ago
> However, does low resource usage necessarily imply lack of innovation regarding user experience? If you care about UX innovation, LXDE is not for you. That niche is filled by KDE 4, Gnome 3, and Unity. With XP support ending, I've
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by slacka 12y ago
Very impressive! I just left a bug report with instructions to get it working with VC2013 Express. How does your technique in epanos compare to https://github.com/notaz/ia32rtools used to decompile Starcraft so it cou
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MIT brain game leads to neural circuit, scientific paper(bostonglobe.com)
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by slacka 12y ago
Could you please elaborate? How does NoTex compare to other TeX web tools like http://fiduswriter.org/ or even http://arachnoid.com/latex Your front page doesn't do a good job of describing its feature
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by slacka 12y ago
FYI, I think most people here are looking for rational arguments or at least anecdotal stories, not opinions.
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by slacka 12y ago
While we have achieved greatness with the Von Neumann evolutionary line, now that the Mhz free lunch is ending, it’s time for us to recognize that its sequential nature is holding us back. There are still many branches of Computer Science t
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by slacka 12y ago
Firefox's memory usage has ballooned since FF 13. https://areweslimyet.com/ On my 512MB Raspberry Pi, this used to be FF's greatest strenth. Unfortunately the latest versions are getting nearly as bad as chrome.
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by slacka 12y ago
Yes, with just a few tabs open Chrome's multi-process architecture shines at cost of being a memory hog. As a result Chrome starts thrashing long before FF. FF 8-13 really shined in memory usage. Unfortunately even by their own interna
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by slacka 13y ago
Like Deep Blue, Watson represented a major advance in the state of weak AI. However at its core, it's still just a text-based statistical search engine. It has no ability to "learn" new abilities. Its algorithms will use prev
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by slacka 13y ago
Setting up a private bridge only helps if you have friends or family living living under an oppressive regime. Anyone who run an obfsproxy bridge will be helping the to alleviate the shortage of bridges.[1] The quickest and easiest way is t
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by slacka 13y ago
> but no one cares that "Watson doesn't know it won". I care, especially that Watson doesn't know when it lost or learn from its mistakes, because it doesn't actually understand anything. Watson's fragile in
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by slacka 13y ago
I recently watched a video with Stanford AI researchers talking about how the general case of searching for an object like a coffee cup in office is still an unsolved problem. At the same time, my German Shepherd with a pea sized mammalian
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by slacka 13y ago
But how does yet another "bags of tricks" chatbot help to advance the field of AI? The Turing test and projects like this are a distraction on what should be our true goal of creating general AI. There is a large amount of evidenc
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by slacka 13y ago
For those not familiar with OpenFL, /u/larsiusprime posted a nice summary of how it's used: "OpenFL is is a programming API that mirrors the Flash API, but in the Haxe language. So you take your old ActionScript code and
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by slacka 13y ago
According to wikipedia, SemiAccurate is a news/opinion site similar to The Inquirer. Is there enough information about the DX12 API yet to confirm this?
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by slacka 13y ago
So just to clarify, this is only the measurement of an artifact most likely caused by gravity waves during the period of inflation. We still have not directly measured gravity waves in our current universe, right? I think the fact that grav
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by slacka 13y ago
Valve covered how these tools are used in their Porting Source to Linux: Valve’s Lessons Learned talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNVfUygvio slides here: http://adrienb.fr/blog/wp-content/upl
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by slacka 13y ago
The tools that he used to convert x86 to C can be found here: https://github.com/notaz/ia32rtools Video of the game running on an OpenPandora here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWnyDrNQO4 .
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by slacka 13y ago
The Holographic Versatile Disc format has existed since 2004 and can store up to 6 TB vs Archival Disc format capacity of only 300 GB - 1 TB. Any idea what advantage ADs have over HVDs?
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by slacka 13y ago
This is great news, but what I'd really love to see is the Chrome team focus on their memory footprint. Chrome < 20 used to run great on my 2GB ultrabook, now Firefox is my only option. Chromium on my Raspberry Pi can barely handle
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by slacka 13y ago
It's crazy that the US blew over 4 Trillion and countless lives for oil in Iraq. Yet, we spend practically nothing on technology that could offer clean, safe, energy independence. I'm happy to see any money going into fusion resea
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by slacka 13y ago
It took the video game industry nearly a decade for most games to come out with network code as effective as X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter's and QuakeWorld's at hiding latency, packet loss, and bandwidth limits. Even recently, many fight

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