vortico

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by vortico 9y ago
I'm not in the field so I don't want to try to guess how long it will be. But of course it will be in gradual increments of cost, quality, and size. There won't be an exact point in time where we transition to being able to m
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by vortico 9y ago
That is a good point, but PayPal and other services don't need to use cards at all (PayPal balance, attached to a bank routing number), so I don't think it's the reason micro-payments are not the norm. A credit card alterna
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by vortico 9y ago
I would argue that e-readers actually do need reasonably low latencies. The reason I still read books is because I can flip through pages quickly and glance over 20 pages a second as I look for the page with a certain pattern of text or an
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by vortico 9y ago
I like this way of thinking. It explains a load of products and technologies.
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by vortico 9y ago
No, it hasn't. Still, the majority of TV viewers use TV utility providers, not ISPs. When the average couch dweller sits down, grabs a remote, and turns on Netflix instead of "channel 42" on cable TV, WebTV will be commonplac
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by vortico 9y ago
Meaning PGP, or services like ProtonMail? If PGP, it's a huge hassle to set up, and both parties have to do it, so it's no surprise it is rarely used.
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by vortico 9y ago
Yup, it hasn't gone away or stopped growing. It might be taking too long for journalists to find interest in it right now, but that has low correlation to the research effort.
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by vortico 9y ago
The fundamental question for the users here is "should I read an article on a website, which is designed exactly as the users should read and explore it and has 100% support for all typographical element, or on a third party reader whi
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by vortico 9y ago
I can definitely understand why these have grown in popularity. Why is it a surprise?
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by vortico 9y ago
Uber. It's a "taxi service except about half the price because it starts over with no unions". If it's so profitable, why didn't other taxi services do it instead? Is the whole reason because it lowers the bar for t
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by vortico 9y ago
Wouldn't a Javascript X3D-to-WebGL wrapper solve this? That would allow time for adoption to happen during the standardization process, until browsers begin to implement it natively. If nobody is using this now with a JS wrapper, the
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by vortico 9y ago
This would be my #1, as it would have drastically changed (for better or worse) the internet. Although, it's a psycological problem instead of a technical one. You can put a PayPal button or Stripe popup on your page using technology
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by vortico 9y ago
To avoid redundancy, here's why I don't think phones and tablets will take over the concept of a personal computer in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15719836 I believe the situation is even bette
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by vortico 9y ago
I'm out of date. Does E-ink still have ~500ms latency of refreshing the screen? If so, that's the #1 reason I believed it wouldn't be successful when I used them 6 years ago.
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by vortico 9y ago
Eventually at some point, you have to get some work done, and you just can't do that with a tablet screen or a touch interface. The mouse and keyboard will reign, and even if the concept of a non-sanboxed system goes away, the future w
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by vortico 9y ago
Most of them run Xeon, so yes, but about 10% use either Opteron, SPARC64, Power, and Sunway.
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by vortico 9y ago
So the average bail is $75? That seems extremely low, and if true, isn't there some sort of loan service that will lend those amounts to be repaid by the convict shortly after release? Mining cryptocurrency today is extremely worthless
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by vortico 9y ago
I'm not sure why preprocessing progressive JPEGs is an advantage of using this method instead, since you have to process the images to generate the SVG files in the article.
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by vortico 9y ago
The animation is really fun. Maybe I am unusual, but I have never in my life been annoyed at image load time, even in the dial-up days. I just simply open a new tab or window and continue reading an article or writing code if loading takes
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by vortico 9y ago
Looks like we're both out of date! (Although I was more out of date.) It's now the Qt Company since 2014.
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by vortico 9y ago
Code example? Also, being a cross platform GUI as well, how does it compare with GTK, Qt (backed by a much larger company Nokia), Tk, etc.?
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by vortico 9y ago
In my experience, most applications of C libraries are used in places where security is irrelevant, but even if it mattered, there are of course ways to write C without carelessly throwing around pointers. For example, an AIFF to WAV conver
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by vortico 9y ago
C is really great for writing format encoders/decoders that easily bind with any scripting or compiled language in existence. The ease of compiling it on all platforms and producing binaries that export simple "function_name"
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by vortico 9y ago
I've always wanted to pull code out of this project to make a simple utility or script that would print a PDF from the command line without needing to set up printers or run a daemon. If I have access to an IP address or a USB port as
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by vortico 9y ago
If this is what that is, I feel pretty welcome!
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by vortico 9y ago
No, I don't see any reason that this would avoid flickering. The method is chaotic and processes a 2D image, not a 3D image-time volume.
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by vortico 9y ago
It's nice to see a good C library, since it's very easy to bind to it from virtually any programming environment, which can't be said about other languages. And the build system can't be simpler: A makefile with a list o
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by vortico 9y ago
That's reasonable for a library that just supports HTTP. It's not that difficult of a protocol, even though it appears to have 3700 commits. (Do these count the ones from Mongose where it forked from?) Even CURL is mostly just one
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by vortico 9y ago
Cold storage typically means offline storage. That is not what this is. The storage needs to be just as fast as any normal repo. The point of this change is not an infrastructure one, but an organizational one, as a signal to viewers of the
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by vortico 9y ago
I use Github so much these days that a change like this that doesn't have any major disadvantages is always a positive bonus to my life. When a maintainer (like me) doesn't want to deal with a project any more, this will actually

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