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by zbuf 10y ago
A nice idea. The trouble is our reliance on expecting displays to reproduce frequencies (aka. crispness) that is beyond the Nyquist frequency of the display. So with the proposed bayer pattern, we can no longer represent horizontal and vert
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by zbuf 10y ago
Are alpha-beta (or alpha) filters a subset of Kalman Filters? I ask because I don't know enough about the Kalman Filter. But it seems that the parent post could also be accurate. I imagine many implementations of the Kalman Filter take
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by zbuf 10y ago
The reason the Kalman filter is so significant is that there isn't a standout "killer app"; there's a whole bunch of them. It's much more fundamental than any of its applications, which are all around us.
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Skype's onerous ToS for broadcasting or podcasting an interview(podability.com)
1 points by zbuf 10y ago|0 comments
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by zbuf 10y ago
Hmm, this headline is bought to you from the "too cool for school" crowd. The citations in the article are a little flawed to support the argument. Torvalds "doesn't use a debugger", except the actual quote contains
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by zbuf 10y ago
I'm glad someone mentioned this. There is interesting history around DVS because the first mainstream product "Final Scratch" used a modified Debian Linux OS (I believe the prototypes were on BeOS). This was in around 2000. I
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by zbuf 10y ago
People don't really talk 'double buffering' in audio, just 'buffering' or ring buffers. I suppose since we're already working in larger (and sometimes flexible) batches of more than two samples. And it's a
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Remote pair programming with Cleanfeed(blog.cleanfeed.net)
2 points by zbuf 10y ago|0 comments
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by zbuf 10y ago
We ssh into a box and run unix "talk" ... More seriously, is there a reason for native? Just it's a fairly arbitrary request without more detail, since a network connection is needed anyway. eg. WhatsApp web client is good en
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by zbuf 10y ago
You'd have to explain to me what you think makes the Linux code of particularly high quality; I don't think it's a good fit for the criteria in the question. Whilst it may well well engineered as a project of this size, the c
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by zbuf 11y ago
Brit here. When you say "Post" to me that means "Mail". I couldn't work out why I would want to mail an item to someone else, so they could mail it back to me :)
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by zbuf 11y ago
Every time this sort of hardware appears on a news site, somebody always chimes in with "I can't see what the fuss is; you can, of course, get equivalently/more powerful and cheaper devices yadee yadda" but it's nev
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by zbuf 11y ago
I run my own email server, but partly because I've done this since I started using email. I'd be unlikely to start again today (but see my final point, below) Every year the process gets more and more involved. Usually it's a
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by zbuf 11y ago
> I believe a key to home automation is the automation part. If I have to control it manually, it's by definition not automated. Yup, this. I built an automated heating system. It does all the right things at the right times. I neve
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by zbuf 11y ago
Yup, I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say I quite like strcpy() In good code it spells out in one glance that there exists a guarantee on the size of the destination buffer. Supplying the string's length just brings redundant
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by zbuf 11y ago
Where I come from the word "monkey" is used to describe an incompetent or fool. I doubt anyone would see a racist connotation here, but it has been used in that context too. I don't know what MailChimp is but I'm already
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by zbuf 11y ago
Not calling it "SurveyMonkey" would be a good start for a business product. For me, and when I try to put myself in others' shoes, I find it hard to see how a professional organisation linking to "SurveyMonkey" can
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by zbuf 11y ago
Yup, and it seems we forgot about static linking, then broke it, and now are reinventing it in new and convoluted ways. I do think Linux could make smarter use of static linking in places. Weird, esoteric and tiny libraries with unstable AP
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by zbuf 11y ago
The general trend upwards is interesting, but is anyone else more intrigued by the dip in 2008 followed by the spike in 2010? My hypothesis is that this is being heavily influenced by automated emails from certain websites that the author i
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by zbuf 11y ago
Thanks, interesting to hear. If I heard correctly this is a case of incompetence -- which is certainly a problem. Though the information I heard was about lesser-known CAs granting certificates to enable some kind of snooping. It seems that
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by zbuf 11y ago
I am interested in (a). Recently I heard from a trusted source who works for a popular CDN that some top levels CAs, who are trusted in my browser, are known to be issuing certificates for domains which they have no authority to be doing so
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by zbuf 11y ago
Taking a look at the ALSA code now; at a glance the loopback timer comes from include/linux/timer.h -- it doesn't look like there's any immediate dependency on a hardware interface or indeed any other device in the syste
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by zbuf 11y ago
Other posters are right, that services should really be started as services. I have a piece of code which turns any basic foreground app into a daemon, with logging and auto-restarts and it's great for node.js and similar. Time being a
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Streaming desktop audio on Linux without PulseAudio or JACK(pogo.org.uk)
3 points by zbuf 11y ago|2 comments
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by zbuf 11y ago
The xz installed on my system carries a rather promising -T option, but then this text below it > Multithreaded compression and decompression are not implemented > yet, so this option has no effect for now.
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by zbuf 11y ago
The article misses (but the comments here touch on) that all compression algorithms have a built in obsolescence, even the fancy shiny xz. It's not the algorithm per-se that go obsolete, but their use in specific cases until all are di
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by zbuf 11y ago
MAPS.ME is a great app, very slick and has all the signs of something that's very well developed. It's almost entirely replaced Google Maps for me, justified by the speed of its UI alone. I'd be fascinated to know how it just
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by zbuf 11y ago
I've no idea what you're on about, so for me it would just make you seem a little odd (sorry) -- and an overall negative impression. You have to explain the reference in the question too, so I think you get that. After all, the be
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by zbuf 11y ago
You post is very broad but I understand the core question you're asking. I have done some work with a streaming servers in the past on BSD and Linux and, whilst my knowledge could be dated, I'm currently sitting at home with a col
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Show HN: Cleanfeed – Live audio-over-IP in a browser(cleanfeed.net)
2 points by zbuf 11y ago|0 comments

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