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by sxp 6y ago
That wasn't even 10 years ago. The comic was 9/24/2014: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks I was working on Google Image Search at the time and recognizing photos of animals was
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by sxp 6y ago
The article says that the contract is 0x610b8B78da143fC1E38b36C4EA0f68F86cc3b4f4 https://oko.palkeo.com/0x610b8B78da143fC1E38b36C4EA0f68F86cc... shows the trapped contract. Search for `def transfer(` on that page.
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by sxp 6y ago
Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p.
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by sxp 6y ago
I haven't tried the cloudygamer options recently, but I had no problem playing Destiny and The Division 2 multiplayer on Stadia. PSN might just be unoptimized.
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by sxp 6y ago
For people who want to roll their own system, I suggest following https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/ . That's focused on commercial game streaming services, but there are many threads about people who roll
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by sxp 6y ago
What WebGPU API is this using? If I try on Chrome Canary after enabling WebGPU under `chrome://flags`, I get an exception on the `device.createBindGroupLayout` call because "required member entries is undefined". The API
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Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams(npr.org)
78 points by sxp 6y ago|50 comments
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by sxp 6y ago
There is a similar effect when consuming alcoholic drinks in social settings: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0 > “Our study confirms the benefits of microdosing,..." This is rea
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Microsoft Mesh powers shared experiences in mixed reality(news.microsoft.com)
3 points by sxp 6y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 6y ago
Can you post some specs about the size of the display in inches & pixels? And does it run an open OS? I recently bought an M5Paper which is a 960X540, 4.7" ESP32 e-ink display for $70. So that provides a baseline for your hardware.
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by sxp 6y ago
Roosevelt’s Man in the Area quote sums this up well. > "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man w
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by sxp 6y ago
Is there a need for browser-level support for math formulas anymore? https://www.mathjax.org/ is a good support library if you want math in your webpage and don't want to resort to images. I've used it with https
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by sxp 6y ago
I'm going to miss this catalog. I really enjoyed browsing through the catalog once I learned it was mostly CGI: http://web.archive.org/web/20170327144912/http://www.cgsocie...
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by sxp 6y ago
You can start from the bottom up or the top down. You will need a good math background for bottom up work, but you could also try learning graphics by starting from a high level framework and getting lower in the stack. E.g, learn an open s
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by sxp 6y ago
Nice work. What type of backend do you need in terms of servers/users if this was a real product? Clubhouse has been suffering under heavy load in certain cases. WebRTC is mostly P2P, but there is still a significant server load to han
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by sxp 6y ago
When engaging in options trading, startup investments, penny stocks, and other Black Swan strategies, you can be in a situation where you most all your money 90% of the time, but 10% of the investments have a 100x return. If you pursue this
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by sxp 6y ago
Nice work. If you want to get to the next level, I suggest reading the code for the 100 LoC path tracer at https://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/ and reimplementing it yourself. You can also read http://www.pb
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by sxp 6y ago
Original blog post: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/false-sense-security Notable bit: > We had a group of 35 expert AV/Production team that were isolated in one corner of the office running the live Broadcast. 1
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Peter Diamandis started a Covid vaccine company and hosted a superspreader event(technologyreview.com)
10 points by sxp 6y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 6y ago
> MuskCoin is required in payment for cargo capacity on Earth-to-Mars shipping, or for purchasing real estate on Mars. It has a floating terrestrial exchange rate: the idea is that it's used for mediating interplanetary exchanges. T
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by sxp 6y ago
Yes! Accelerando was the first Singularitarian novel I ever read and I read it in college around the time I read Vinge's original essay so it had a strong influence on my career path.
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by sxp 6y ago
This was an awesome concept at the time. It was one of the reasons I became pro-Bitcoin along with Cryptonomicon . Unfortunately, Stross became anti-crypto afterwards: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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by sxp 6y ago
I'm not coding because I'm reading a webcomic about why other people aren't coding. Feature request: when someone goes to " https://whyarentyoucoding.com/ ", can you cleanly redirect them to "why
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by sxp 6y ago
If you're interested in old-fashioned computers, http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#n... is another good reference of mechanical and paper computers in the context of pre-computer spac
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by sxp 6y ago
While the Alphabet Union might want you to believe that Google was built by slaves, Google pays its SWEs enough that they can easily weather economic downturns. Their safety net is in the form of large bags of cash.
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by sxp 6y ago
It's important to note that the lawsuit being dropped doesn't imply that Yale doesn't discriminate. The evidence from the lawsuit is enlightening. See page 23 of https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release&
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by sxp 6y ago
Treating this as a binary question isn't useful for discussion. A better question would be "what percentage of the people who built the pyramids were slaves?". There will be semantic arguments about the definition of "sl
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by sxp 6y ago
> ...YouTube should not be removing... > Youtube can remove... You're arguing against a strawman. "can" and "should" are different things.
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Tesla’s new Model S will automatically shift between park, reverse, and drive(theverge.com)
4 points by sxp 6y ago|7 comments
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M5Paper – a 4.7“ 940x540 multitouch e-ink ESP32 dev kit for $70(notenoughtech.com)
59 points by sxp 6y ago|5 comments

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