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by thdrdt 6y ago
Wow nice to read. I started with 3D Studio in DOS because I once saw a FLI file of a rotating clown's head. I was blown away by the lighting and decided to track down the software it was made in an start using it. It would be great to
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Software that lasts is software that is a joy to use. Imho the tech, how good you are at programming is all not very relavant when the user doesn't like to use your software. I have written a small CMS for a company which was replaced
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by thdrdt 6y ago
But doesn't JWT sometime force people to use it in an insecure way because of how it is designed? In a JavaScript browser app without backend server it is impossible to use it safe. The token must be visible to JavaScript which is unsa
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Direct link to the 2020 Initial Quality Study page: https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2020-initial...
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Some time ago I experimented with a reduced color palette and dithering while keeping the fill alpha info. It reduced the file size a lot while keeping the alpha.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
"COVID-19's behavior has been quite simple so far." What do you mean with behavior? People are still discussing how it spreads. The latest news is it travels as aerosol and that in badly ventilated rooms keeping 1.5m distan
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by thdrdt 6y ago
As far as I know Google also used third party data for their maps. That's why the data can be different if you view Google Maps in the US or Europe. Some licenses are only allowed in Europe for example.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
In my opinion the article is way to nostalgic. I have seen the images of the child houses. It was complete horror and super inhumane. I can handle a lot of bad stuff but those images have been haunting me for a long time. Very very sad and
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Hardware is software embedded in electronics so it cannot easily be changed. But there are electronic components that can be programmed with software.
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OpenCart and Prestashop are open PHP/MySQL shops with a lot of available payment provider plugins.
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Christopher Alexander wrote a lot of books with rules for building. He also said in one of his talks that he could imagine software that could generate a building (or the basic form) with the rules as constraints but with user input for the
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I think Houdini is a different kind of beast. You have software like 3ds Max, Maya, C4D, Blender and others. And then you have Houdini. But you can use Blender more procedural with the modifier stack. And there are great add-ons like Boxcut
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My money is on the virus being an aerosol and badly ventilated indoor events accounting for most of the transmissions. There is growing evidence for this and also that the amount of virus particles you get into your system determines how si
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The alternative could a webapp. But this all depends on what hardware access you need. In the end it is a choice of business model. Taking the risk of making money while being dependant on one party (Apple, Youtube) is always a huge risk.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Well I mostly agree this should be the first steps in building an app. But there are a lot of areas where interaction with JS shines over form posts. For example a form where a choice determines the next steps in the form. This could be don
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by thdrdt 6y ago
This is not complete true. Most combustion cars perform best around 90km/h. Below that speed air resistance is not much of an issue but gears help a lot getting the best performance out of the engine.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
As far as I remember it was difficult to re-implement because the Flash player was backwards compatible with all Flash versions. And this was also why there were so many security issues.
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Not an exact answer to your question but there are a lot of things taking more memory than you would think. Today websites contain high res images. Well, you might say, 800KB isn't much. But that is the compressed size. The bitmap data
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by thdrdt 6y ago
When I tried drawing portraits I really had to relearn how to look. In my mind eyes were positioned at the top of the head while in reality they are in the middle. But when you draw cartoons it looks a kind if silly when eyes are drawn at t
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Exactly. For example a path tracer takes multiple samples between 0,0 and 1,1 to create anti-aliasing. But what I also miss from the article: shouldn't the range of a pixel be -0.5,-0.5 to 0.5,0.5? If you translate a pixel, to for exam
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by thdrdt 6y ago
Vibrant.js [1] also does this. It is nice to look into the source code to see how it is done. But in my experience it works around 80% of the time because there are so many exceptions. [1] https://jariz.github.io/vibrant.js&
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by thdrdt 6y ago
It is also true that heat will add resistance to the electrical installation. So most of the time energy producten is way better when there is sun but it's cool. Energy producten can be much better in spring than in summer for this rea
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Well the point is: it looks like we can go freely but only when we are not in closed spaces without good ventilation (and low humidity). Studies [1] have shown that "20 percent of Covid-19 cases accounted for 80 percent of transmissio
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More and more researchers start to believe that the virus (also) spreads as aerosols. They also believe the amount of virus that enters your body affects how sick you get. This might also be the reason that healthy health workers can get si
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Most people don't know this and the timeline also doesn't make it very clear: PHP never started as a language but as a templating system for C. Feature requests were quickly added and that's why PHP became a language with a l
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From the original article [1]: "That's not necessarily a problem. Netflix can produce a television series without confusing consumers, just as the military can train fighting astronauts without anyone mistakenly thinking the stre
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Yes I believe too much zinc reduces copper intake.
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"I'm taking Vitamin D, Zinc" Why aren't governments promoting this? For most people it is relatively easy to get and it is already proven to have benefits. You can still get Covid-19 but it reduces the effects signific
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2012: https://www.instantfundas.com/2012/10/how-to-unblur-out-of-f... 2017: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00783.pdf (Pixel Recursive Super Resolution) 2020: https://venturebeat.com&#x
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by thdrdt 6y ago
I was commenting on "I still do not understand, why you folks with Nvidia hardware expect it to work out of the box in Linux" It does work out of the box for most people. Of course there are people with problems. But overall you

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