vortico

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   by vortico 7y ago

   White-balancing is a function f(R, G, B, T_from, T_to) -> (R, G, B) which relies on the model of blackbody radiation and a model of the wavelength distribution definitions behind the (R, G, B) values, i.e. the particular color s
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   by vortico 7y ago

   This is probably it, I'm going to say Bingo.
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   by vortico 7y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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   by vortico 7y ago

   >it's lack of protected bike lanes (or other "safe" routes), and lack of cultural acceptance of biking. In my opinion, it's because most people live too far away from the places they need to go in order to bike there.
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   by vortico 7y ago

   I see your point about mobile testing. (I don't do mobile work, so I didn't think of it.)
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   by vortico 7y ago

   It's fantastic that it works with localhost (and I assume 127.0.0.1?), and it's fantastic that it doesn't work with anything else. This is the best middleground.
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   by vortico 7y ago

   Sliding your fingers on glass/plastic has roughly just one primitive analog in the real-world: dragging paper on a flat surface. Scrolling a virtual map or zoomed-in digital photo is a rare application of that. Everything else that tou
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   by vortico 7y ago

   I fully agree. See http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi... for why touch screens are the worst possible interface device, and when used while driving, they are the most dangerous possible interface d
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   by vortico 7y ago

   I was pointing out that your quote was incomplete and cannot be used to support your point. Being visited by law enforcement does not imply that you have committed a crime.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    You omitted the important part: "...with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence." The teaching alone is legal. The in
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Most Constitution-respecting Americans will disagree. Committing a crime is not OK. Conveying information for learning is always OK.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I believe you can actually compute the sunrise time of a location/day that doesn't have a sunrise, and it would be just a complex number (root of some analytic function).
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    by vortico 7y ago

    It exists, it's just complex-valued.
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    VCV Rack 1.0.0 released – open-source virtual modular synthesizer(twitter.com)

    3 points by vortico 7y ago|0 comments
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Haha, in the case of fingerprint drivers, this really tells how 1) useless and 2) locked-down that hardware is, given how little has been done by free/open-source software developers.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    This is also the facepalm moment for me. Yeah, let's just ask Google to make it an independent nonprofit foundation, because they are 100% certain to say yes. If this is the point of the whole article, I'd have to concede that I f
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I don't know what definition of "orbit" the author is using, but what he explains is how scientists define it.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    This is awesome, thanks! My learning style is to read summaries of things and then go deeper where I feel like. I'm not a fan of reading 20 pages of proofs that don't teach me anything new, only to reach half a page that takes me
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I'm talking about projects that are beyond the "oh, neat project" phase and living in the "why doesn't your project work with XYZ??" phase. Money is required for when you need to handle tech support, handle mul
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I tell every entrepreneur that asks me for advice that the donation model for any business gets no more than 1-10% (depending on the industry) compared to a business model of selling commercial software. This is the difference between pover
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Yes, that is because the growth estimates assume that we live in a world where scarcity problems are not solved.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    >feed a world of 9 billion How does the book suggest to maintain this population in a way that isn't immoral? Does this book's plan work with 90 billion people?
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Oh, I see. Never mind then. I've never used AMP so thought it was automatic for all or most websites on the internet.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Isn't AMP blatant copyright infringement? If so, how does a website owner demand the infringement to be taken down?
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Everyone's special :)
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Here it was 15 years later. https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developer...
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    by vortico 7y ago

    That's not an actual exception but a note clarifying what the GPLv2.0 covers.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I don't feel that it's their responsibility to tell people that they are such a service. This should be obvious to anyone who needs secure randomness.
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    by vortico 7y ago

    Cool, I think this explains it. What crytographic hashes are available that take a limited stream of bits over time and generate an arbitrary number of bits when requested?
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    by vortico 7y ago

    I imagine this approach would be insecure because an attacker could easily change the distribution from miles away. And I don't think it solves the problem of radio noise being time-dependent random variables.