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sovok
12y ago
It would be cool if the position and rotation would be synchronized between the two, so I could choose a nice view in the Real-Time tab and switch over to Photo Realistic to get the raytraced version.
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sovok
12y ago
It's probably just used to create the .tga images loaded in https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird/blob/master/src/gam...
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sovok
12y ago
I made http://lunicode.com , which does Zalgo, Flipping and other things.
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sovok
13y ago
Or try ImageOptim, which bundles these and other tools with a nice GUI: http://imageoptim.com/
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sovok
13y ago
A silly project for playing with Unicode (sıɥʇ ǝʞıl) and ASCII Art. About 900 visits per day, 10€ per month income. Almost pays for the server. http://lunicode.com
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sovok
13y ago
Really nice. Now I know the meaning of those squiggly lines. I also like the sparse full screen layout. A few minor things: While jumping to time points works, scrubbing does not. Instead, the notes image gets dragged. You could embed the i
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sovok
14y ago
The "Stop Autoplay for Youtube" Extension helps with that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-...
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sovok
14y ago
I remember them from Super Mario 64. They used sprites do give the impression of high-poly spheres: http://i.imgur.com/59T0Kqj.jpg
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sovok
14y ago
Maybe not that big of a deal. If Facebook doesn't comply, they only have to pay 20000€: http://translate.google.de/translate?twu=1?sl=de&tl=en&#...
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sovok
14y ago
The Unarchiver works for me: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver
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sovok
14y ago
It went as high a 8 mio viewers, so ~488 GB/s. Maybe a new record for Youtube?
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sovok
14y ago
I found only estimates: http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ 40-50 billion pages. From the site: "The size of the index of a search engine is estimated on the basis of a method that combines word frequencies obtained in a large offline text c
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sovok
14y ago
> I want to inject nanorobots into my body which will transform it gradually, cell by cell into an improved synthetic one. In this way, immortality and superhumanity can be achieved without loss of continuity. Just last night I thought
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sovok
14y ago
Looks quite similar to Curl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language) ), although Curl only runs on the client and needs a plugin. It got a lot of press ten years ago but is now mostly forgotten. Opa runs on the client and
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sovok
15y ago
Grapher does this quite well. It comes with Mac OS X and plots various things, 2D and 3D: http://www.google.com/search?q=grapher+mac&hl=en&tbm... It also formats the equations nicely and lets you copy them as PDF. Makes a decent f
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sovok
15y ago
But according to this article, the server seems to only translate speech to text, with the whole natural language processing and AI happening on the device.
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sovok
15y ago
The german Raytrix lightfield cameras* have ~1/4 effective resolution. If the Lytro is comparable, then its "11 Megarays" could mean about 2.75 Megapixel. * http://www.raytrix.de/index.php/RX_en.html
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sovok
15y ago
I think it follows from Fitts' Law or rather is its reverse: If the cursor is outside an area, the bigger and closer this area is the easier it is to purposefully hit. ⇔ If the cursor is inside an area, the bigger this area is and the f
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sovok
15y ago
Thanks, now I'm stuck at slide 16. A simple changelog would be better...
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sovok
15y ago
A problem might be that as soon as you discover that number, you can't tell anyone on the web about it. This for example has no results as of now: http://google.com/search?q=813115181452319
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sovok
16y ago
I didn't see the Beatbox button first and thought she now sings the letters, like http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pvpvpvpvpvpvpvv%0A Other languages yield interesting sounds too http://translate.google.com/#de|es|pvpvpvpvbvbvbvbvpvpvp
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sovok
16y ago
They have been acquired by LastPass: http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2033
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sovok
16y ago
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=instant+search+something
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sovok
16y ago
Nifty. Only the info window is 38px too far left in FF 3.6.11: http://imgur.com/M7546.png
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sovok
17y ago
Great app. I struggle reading notes while playing and the small keyboard is really helpful. There's also a bug in Für Elise, it ignores the repeat signs.
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sovok
17y ago
Curl tries to be this. I remember reading articles about it years ago, but it never really took of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_%28programming_language%29
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sovok
17y ago
This is amazing. I'm building a little canvas drawing tool myself ( http://kritzl.robsite.net -> 'Mal was') and this is great inspiration. Very slick interface and really fast, impressive. Although the fill tool seems to have a very hi
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17y ago
No, they just recommend using alternative browsers and to switch often. Although the BSI warned against lots of things in the interest of privacy, mostly Google products (Chrome Beta, Google Wave, ...). On the other hand they have the power
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sovok
17y ago
The "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" advised users to avoid IE at least since 2004: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...