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by twiss 9y ago
I'm glad they're extending the range today, but it's not really positive PR IMHO. They're shining a spotlight on the fact that they're crippling the hardware, like you said.
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by twiss 9y ago
> Also worth noting that it's not always true that `a >= b` means `!(a < b)` in JavaScript. `'a' >= null` and `'a' < null` are both false. For anyone wondering why (like me), it's because +'
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by twiss 9y ago
There was also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12119080 ("Tabs slower than spaces in Firefox")
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by twiss 9y ago
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BQuOzx7...
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by twiss 9y ago
"Other" is 0.00%, so Chrome OS is highly likely counted as Linux, unless its market share is 0%.
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by twiss 9y ago
"Consciousness" is used to mean lots of different things. The video talks about how we perceive ("are conscious of") the world and ourself. I suspect that if we saw that a cat perceives the world and itself in much the s
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by twiss 9y ago
Cool! I tried it with our logo ( https://www.airbornos.com/images/logo-mark.png ), which is super generic (I spent $0 on it). It came up as 96% unique, even though there's two icons of clouds in the list of similar
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by twiss 9y ago
If I add up the parts of the cartridge, I come to around $88 (including a $35 touch screen). The demo makes me wanna take a picture like that and give the cartridge away. Maybe if it can get under $10 that would be feasible? And before that
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by twiss 9y ago
The WHATWG's philosophy for the HTML standard is never to sway too far from what browsers currently do, mainly to make sure that the browsers can keep up: https://whatwg.org/faq?#living-standard The browsers seem to li
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by twiss 9y ago
They measure lots of client-side feature usage, in part so that they know when they can deprecate something. Here's a list and short explanation [0]. Firefox has something similar [1] as part of Telemetry, although they measure less th
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by twiss 9y ago
> Many developers are surprised to learn that simply adding an empty touch handler to their document can have a significant negative impact on scroll performance. Maybe browsers could do some static analysis for the simple cases? Or, wou
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by twiss 9y ago
> Mines concluded that the United States faces a sixty-per-cent chance of civil war over the next ten to fifteen years. Other experts’ predictions ranged from five per cent to ninety-five per cent. The sobering consensus was thirty-five
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by twiss 9y ago
Very cool idea. The way I interpret it is as a kind of Turing test, where you're supposed to release humans and jail AIs. If that's what you meant, it could be explained a bit better and also maybe add a 50% chance of being connec
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by twiss 9y ago
You can't read the response of cross-origin ajax requests unless the response specifically allows it (with CORS).
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by twiss 9y ago
From the comments, it appears that that's what they're doing: > The origin of the CPU-count dependence is that NOVA divides PMEM into per-CPU allocation regions. We use the current CPU ID as a hint about which region to use and
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by twiss 9y ago
> I purchased these units through a vendor we like to use and they hooked us up, so I won’t be able to share my specific pricing. (...) If you build the systems out on there you’ll find that they come in around $35,000 (USD) each. That d
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Binary Transparency on the Web using Service Workers(blog.airbornos.com)
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by twiss 9y ago
To be fair, your example returns false in JavaScript, unlike in PHP.
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by twiss 9y ago
To those curious what it does, Object.create(Array) creates an object with the Array constructor function (not the Array prototype) as its prototype. The Array constructor function, like all functions, has a length property indicating the
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by twiss 9y ago
We can fix this with Greater than or equal operator (>=): 3 > 2 >= 1 // true What? No, JavaScript doesn't have chained comparison operators, as the author seems to know but not explain. Overall this list is prett
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by twiss 9y ago
Amazon and Ebay should consider paying some multiple of the $399/year Photobucket is asking to remove these messages on their websites. After all, they are benefiting from the free image hosting, too. That could be a better business mo
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by twiss 9y ago
They may be useful, but they make a language much harder to learn to speak correctly, which is a downside for a lingua franca.
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by twiss 9y ago
Many SaaS websites seem to try as hard as possible to hide the actual product from you, with no screenshots, no live demo, and sometimes even no free trial, and a "demo" page that only has a form to request a demo. And according t
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by twiss 9y ago
With all the stories about US immigration recently, I think what people would pay for is: fast-tracked and friendlier US immigration for international travelers, nothing more, nothing less. There are some programs to fast-track US immigrati
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by twiss 9y ago
This makes me think of another potential privacy risk: if you paste a URL in WhatsApp, or click Android's share button and select WhatsApp, it doesn't add a space after the url. Most users are probably aware that they have to add
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by twiss 9y ago
The background article [1] in Dutch somewhat vaguely states that: (emphasis mine) It's hard to do anything against this type of crime: the [ZeuS] virus is particularly effective and the owners are hiding behind anonymous internet brow
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by twiss 9y ago
On the other hand, if you're further from the device, it will hear you less loudly, while it should respond more loudly. Maybe it could distinguish speaking softly from speaking far away somehow.
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by twiss 9y ago
According to the main chart, songs in the top 10 are more likely to be repetitive, and that discrepancy has been growing. That raises the question, is there a causal link between being repetitive and reaching the top 10? If so, the answer t
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by twiss 9y ago
In high school, my math teacher once asked us to write down a random string of zeroes and ones, similar to what they did in the study to measure "cognitive functioning". He then asked us to count the number of times we alternated
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by twiss 9y ago
Small bit of feedback on the game: not being a law student, it took me a minute to figure out what I was supposed to do. From the mention of "Risk Assessment Program", I infer that I'm supposed to assume that everyone was fou

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