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by vortico 8y ago
Is it true that Unix time is as simple as it seems? Is there exactly one second between adjacent integers? Do all Unix time values occur only once simultaneously around the world?
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by vortico 8y ago
Absolutely, don't use a company as large as Google for your data services. An individual customer is not a significant income source, so they care less about their customers. But there are several services out there offering paid data
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by vortico 8y ago
Google Finance was a free site if I remember. If a consumer expects a level of service without offering a payment, any pains the consumer has are entirely their fault. If it was a paid service however, the consumer should control (via a con
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by vortico 8y ago
Archival is a weird animal that doesn't behave like other things in tech. It's like scrapbooking. It doesn't have to be perfectly organized or available online. The archivist just has to be extremely consistent throughout his
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by vortico 8y ago
Really cool! Do you offer collection archives for download, for distributed archival purposes? It seems like this archive ( https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/3ajwe4... ) has more.
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by vortico 8y ago
Very similar. Kitty has scrollback. Alacritty handles double/triple-click and drag correctly, although I think kitty may have fixed thia recently, making it king.
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by vortico 8y ago
The feature of this product is more similar to turning the phone off, since it requires some time to open, just like turning the phone on.
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by vortico 8y ago
I wish I was on that side of the spectrum. Mine is on the other extreme. :)
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by vortico 8y ago
For Ubuntu, you're probably right. For a year-old immature project like mine, it's definitely better to work on steering the cruise ship itself rather than work on tiny problems on it. Every project has its own rules, so make judg
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by vortico 8y ago
Sounds about right. For me it's probably closer to 20-30 users.
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by vortico 8y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion, but when a project is starving financially, responding to bug reports should be the first thing to go. Hugely popular features and large subprojects that change the direction of the project are more important
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by vortico 8y ago
It's an every-field-centric viewpoint. Every field that creates something is more efficient with a keyboard. You even just supported this point yourself.
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by vortico 8y ago
A bluetooth keyboard is a keyboard, I'm not saying it isn't.
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by vortico 8y ago
I agree with the mentality that touch = consume and type = produce. The efficiency and imtimacy of user interaction of keyboards is simply unmatched with other competing input devices. Open-ness of platforms is secondary.
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by vortico 8y ago
Voting with your money is only effective when lots of people do it. If this product is sold in a supermarket, 99.999% of people will have no idea how to even parse this article, so everyone's decision in this thread has absolutely no m
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by vortico 8y ago
I believe the best you could do is extract the raw OCR'd text from the document (with some other tool). No formatting or text hierarchy is preserved in the OCR process, only the physical locations and size of the text on the page. From
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by vortico 8y ago
This is an excellent archive. Although, I find it a bit funny that they warn "over 8GiB (!!) of space" for the entire page of samples, while most commercial single-instrument sample sets these days are often 25GB+, and a symphony
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by vortico 8y ago
Community building is the most noble project on the Internet, and this is a unique attempt to organize it further. Communities, not software or commerce or entertainment, is what the Internet was motivated from in the 90's and will be
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by vortico 8y ago
It's interesting hearing stories like this. One thing to remember is that for the same time you got to experience his presence while shaking hands, you were also a part of his life experience too. It sounds like you certainly remember
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by vortico 8y ago
There are two correct answers: Use std::filesystem on C++17, or rename() on POSIX and MoveFileExW() on Windows (which are what boost::filesystem calls internally). These answers are correct because they answer the question literally, and so
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by vortico 8y ago
It's a tradeoff between adoptability, readability, portability, ease of embedding, average familiarity of toolsets, ABI managability, and strictness of rules to access arrays and references in the implementation. C likely wins in all o
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by vortico 8y ago
I think the solution to this problem is for the "asker" to know how to respond to these recommendations. I honestly don't have good advice for this, so I usually just do this. "How do I list a directory with C++ without
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by vortico 8y ago
We're talking about open-source software. And in most cases, open-source software is delivered and installed by source, and there's no such thing as an ABI issue in this case. Only API issues remain.
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by vortico 8y ago
What FOSS projects have you improved the backwards compatibility of? This isn't a discussion of C verses another language. The issue with backward compatibility on Linux (for example) is mostly the versions of glibc, libstdc++, ALSA, X
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by vortico 8y ago
If Microsoft does one thing right, it's backward compatibility. After all, Windows is the operating system running old nuclear codes, hospital monitors, army navigation systems, etc unchanged from the 90's. So your retro games wil
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by vortico 8y ago
This discussion is about shallow DoF. You cannot have shallow DoF with a lens with a small aperture diameter. Both the aperture diameter and sensor must be large.
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by vortico 8y ago
In that case the aperture diameter will decrease. f-number does not directly affect depth of field, except through the aperture diameter.
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by vortico 8y ago
With everything else constant (f-number, sensor size, magnification, etc), increasing the aperture diameter will increase the circle of confusion and therefore decrease the depth of field.
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by vortico 8y ago
Agreed that would be the largest factor, besides DoF. Although, I've been surprised by iPhone 8 or greater noise levels. In the article's video, you wouldn't notice the noise at that resolution if taken with a modern iPhone.
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by vortico 8y ago
"Misrepresenting the product" means to fabricate a result that misleads potential customers to think that they will get a similar result when using the product. If (for the sake of argument) a DSLR and phone camera produced identi

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