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by srg0 6y ago
Also in some markets the official local release was a year behind. Given that it's not possible to get an HBO subscription outside of the US, for many people pirating was the only way to watch it.
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by srg0 6y ago
One can get two normally distributed random variables Z1 and Z2 from two uniformly distributed random variables U1 and U2, but the formulas are a little harder to remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%E2%80%93Mull
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by srg0 6y ago
Interesting. I tried it in Firefox for Android, and the desktop site plays for a couple of seconds after screen lock and then stops. It might depend on the video.
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by srg0 6y ago
/Offtopic I remember that at some point it was possible to open a Youtube video in Firefox for Android, lock the screen, and it kept on playing. It was great for some podcast-like / talking channels. Then either Firefox changed or
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by srg0 6y ago
Check out https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascad... Plain-text XML for the frontal face detector is 912 KB. 132 KB gzipped. It should be smaller in binary.
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by srg0 6y ago
The friction of having another store has a cost. I still got my copy of Borderlands 3 on Steam sale, I didn't even know it was initially an Epic exclusive. I think I'm not alone.
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by srg0 6y ago
Measuring weight of the dry ground coffee describes the actual consumption better. The standard espresso quantity is 7 g of ground coffee per cup (25 ml).
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by srg0 6y ago
TIL about European Union Public License: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/introduction-eup... OSI-certified, copyleft, non-viral, GPL-compatible, SaaS-aware, multilingual
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by srg0 6y ago
The problem is that Apple imposes a tax on _competing_ services, and has similar offerings and doesn't allow other payment options. Even if the fee is only 1%, it will still tip the scales in favor of their products and services. That&
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by srg0 6y ago
> Vue is used by major corps in China It might be the case that in China Vue is the default and the most popular choice. And still my point holds: Vue is not the fastest, and is not the smallest framework. Technical merits alone ("f
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by srg0 6y ago
Probably because none of those advantages of other solutions matter for small-to-medium scale business. It's about getting things done _fast_, not getting the fastest thing. And for that purpose, a popular tool is usually better (more
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by srg0 6y ago
According to Yandex Music chart ( https://music.yandex.ru/chart ), currently the most listened track in Russia is "Плачу на техно" by Cream Soda, Хлеб. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Snj1Pt-Hs Su
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I bought a book with Adobe DRM once. It was a relatively obscure book, and I wanted to support the author. Downloaded the file. Installed Adobe ebook software. Then something went wrong. I had to uninstall and reinstall Adobe software, and
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by srg0 6y ago
Gaming folks won't be running games in WSL when they can just run them in W.
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by srg0 6y ago
PCG is not the only game in town when it comes to high-quality reproducible and fast PRNGs: https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG#visual-summary Notably, some newer PRNGs are faster, and still pass all statistical tests
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by srg0 6y ago
> flagging is heuristic based and could easily defeated by a malicious extension author Well, if the reason is the " https://*/*" permission or something like that, and it is flagged and reported automatically,
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by srg0 6y ago
That's interesting. What else is blocked/censored on Facebook Messenger or in WhatsApp? Don't use FM myself.
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by srg0 6y ago
While it was true for _some_ companies in the last 20 years, it won't necessarily remain the same in the next 20 years. Computer business in 1980 was very different from 2000, and it is very different now. And it's not a given th
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by srg0 6y ago
<div class=prewrap>Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
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by srg0 6y ago
Because the change was done manually. Their system probably doesn't implement a function to delete account, or it is not easily discoverable in the UI, or it is known to be bugged. So the employee who did that thought that renaming an
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by srg0 7y ago
I would say that the company I work for doesn't use Slack exactly for this reason. Screen sharing and group calls are not available in the free version, so slack trial didn't went beyond the first three users. Guess what, we'
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by srg0 7y ago
I use a 5.1" screen, and I can see the difference very well. I also watch a lot of FullHD screencasts, and while the phone screen is too small to do read everything, most of the text is still readable. The trick is to watch the origina
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by srg0 7y ago
A $300 (EUR500) phone in 2020, and its screen resolution is 750 x 1334 (according to GSMArena, because Apple doesn't mention it). Sadly, that's not enough to watch FullHD videos. An attractive form-factor aside, weird resolution o
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by srg0 7y ago
I guess you need at least one person on your QA team who is proficient in a top-down right-to-left language and can read and use the non-standard layouts. And I believe that exclusively "top-down right-to-left" spells "Mongol
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Touch controls in the car should not be used for anything that is supposed to be used while driving. 1) They give no haptic feedback and require to look at them to do anything. 2) They are very finicky if the hands are wet/dirty/s
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by srg0 7y ago
> It's really just like emacs/vi I think. Do you mean that one of these techniques is a major mode, and the other is hard to quit?
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The new decree is probably a response to many potentially contagious people fleeing to the south. As I see it, if the draft version of the previous decree were not leaked, the final version would not cause so many people to run away. Frankl
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by srg0 7y ago
kg CO2 per PPP $ GDP: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?end=2...
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by srg0 7y ago
I am sorry to read that you have problems with Google Pixel, but I wouldn't extrapolate it to all phones in general. I'm writing this on an almost three year old Huawei P10, and frankly the device works as well as new. I do miss i
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> If you create an organization on GitHub for a project that is meant to remain personal, Sounds like there were intentions or plans to transform a one man project into something bigger. Some steps were made. Hence, a nice looking websit

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