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by ungzd 7y ago
Also, much older systems: QRA Locator and Maidenhead Locator System.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Article title is misleading. It's not "3D map", like city map with 3D buildings or something like that, it's just a DEM, digital elevation model. It's not a map at all. It's useful for addition information to b
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by ungzd 7y ago
> If a control affects change across an entire area, put it above that area If I select multiple items, usually I do it from top to bottom (and from left to right). So I end up at the bottom of UI. And to run action I have to go back to
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Bat Detector(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ungzd 7y ago
> The most common suggested method was the detection of a signal from the TV's local oscillator. See: superheterodyne receiver. Most modern radio receivers generate high-frequency signal for tuning, which leaks as radio signal (rece
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by ungzd 7y ago
C++ (and even Rust) is not the best language to build UIs. Even if your app heavily uses C/C++ to do heavy computations, "scripting" language will be preferable for "glue code". QML is not a crazy new idea, for exam
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by ungzd 7y ago
Are nodes in first fileblocks in "planet dumps"? And then fileblocks mostly with ways? With this dump configuration fileblocks are mostly useless.
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by ungzd 7y ago
What is even more ironic is that it has anti-adblocker.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Described problems are not unique to monorepos. If changes in some component's repo cause this component to break iOS, but you absolutely must use this change right now for Android, you will be left with branching too. Or, maybe, speci
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by ungzd 7y ago
> Our standards as developers & testers have gotten pretty low. It's just an unsolved problem. No one never knew how to write complex robust software. Even with memory-safe languages. Even with advanced type systems, generative
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by ungzd 7y ago
I'm tired of modern web design. These icons are even not intended to be used on toolbar buttons, but for silly landing page lists. Landings that are all the same on every website. I miss silk icons that were ubiquitous in late 2000s:
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by ungzd 7y ago
Does not look so bad. It's similar to web interface on dropbox.com, but packaged as "electron-like" app. Its functionality is related only to Dropbox, and it can be considered a part of main application. If it was third-party
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by ungzd 7y ago
Immutability
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by ungzd 7y ago
> User-agent: TeleportPro I remember using it to download whole (small) websites on dialup and then to read offline.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Would be even more mind-blowing if it ran real BIOS code on js x86 emulator.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Programming smaller microcontrollers could be much harder (and unfamiliar). You have to use C and C++ only, in which you don't have standard C library. You have to use either Arduino as an OS, and it has no multitasking and perverted T
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by ungzd 7y ago
Someone recently mentioned something called “LHT00SU1”. It’s primarily a logic analyzer, but it has one analog input. (I’m not into EE, never used scopes, just randomly found a discussion about it recently)
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by ungzd 7y ago
It looks bad (even on desktop), but the good thing is that it does not try to break my browser proactively, unlike, say, all news websites. Shockingly, there's no javascript at all!
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by ungzd 7y ago
You can't port Quake to phones, but Gameboy had much worse screen and there were games. Unlike Gameboy, phones have no buttons, but lots of genres don't need fast action and precise pointing. Power consumption might be more seriou
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by ungzd 7y ago
I rather interpret it as argument for "timelessness" of games. People still play 80s games, and it's not because 90s games are worse. (However, Blizzard is degrading, and I find everything that they released after "origi
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by ungzd 7y ago
Nowadays I usually just check what's on sale on gog.com, sometimes on Steam, but gog.com has less junk games, cleaner UI and, most importantly, better reviews: I found out that users there criticize more, give lesser ratings and don&#x
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by ungzd 7y ago
Maybe FRP (functional reactive programming) can give more abilities to reason when designing networked shooters and internal simulation in games. Just like React had revolutionized GUIs (it's not FRP library, but has ideas from it). Wi
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by ungzd 7y ago
There's https://warcreate.com/ , but it's for Chrome. I don't know details of it, but aren't both browsers use the same API for extensions? Then probably it's possible to port it, or to install right
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by ungzd 7y ago
Suppose I'm going to add simple Windows gui for an app today, what should I use out of > 5 year old technologies? WinAPI in classic way, using Petzold's "Programming Windows, 4th edition" as a guidebook? WinAPI wouldn
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by ungzd 7y ago
Java has javax.persistence as a standard interface for ORMs, almost in standard library, and third-party ORMs use it.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Nothing shocking. GUI for machine learning existed for decades, for example Weka and Rapidminer. I don't see "drag and drop" in screenshots, however; it's just awful gadget journalism lingo, common for this site with rev
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by ungzd 7y ago
Computer games strive to look like movies, borrowing established means of expression and cliches from movies (specifically, Hollywood movies). This includes narrow depth of field in cutscenes, color keying by genre (usually orange and blue)
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by ungzd 7y ago
Definition of "porn" is too much different for Pornhub and Tumblr. For former, it's kafkaesque-lovecraftian movies with Hollywood-level effects depicting impossible forms of multi-person sexual intercourse, for latter it&#x27
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by ungzd 7y ago
What are key differences of RCS from MMS?
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by ungzd 7y ago
The real purpose of all these adtech trackers, which are actually useless for ads targeting, is to supply human behavior data to aliens.

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