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by zurn 11y ago
Three.js is the main high level WebGL lib most people seem to be using, also for many MineCraft clones. It's not as web-hostile as Unity. Besides WebGL, it has renderers for CSS and 2D canvas too. There are other actively developed Web
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Techically the money OEMs have to pay covering certification does not go to Google. You may be right that most vendors don't agree to it. But the larger ones that are on the western markets definitely do. http://www.theguard
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Yeah, as per my caveat, you had to build the PC with Linux in mind, from best supported components. And the installation process wasn't really the good part. Interestingly this has remained constant in the last 20 years, though the lis
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If you got the best supported video card and best supported sound card etc (like I said, built the PC with Linux in mind), they worked. It wasn't for everyone, it wasn't polished but I thought it was awesome to have your own graph
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And if you weren't impressed by Windows, by that time Linux was quite good on the PC if you built it with Linux in mind. And you could still dual boot to DOS games.
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> I brought up the "death penalty as expensive" point to metaphorically illustrate the consequences of arguing backward from a feeling, reaching for any argument that would buttress a desire. But I have been making the case th
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Hmm. I don't think many people argue that "death penalty is bad because it's so expensive", and I don't think bringing up climate change & animal rights at the same time in the case for veganism interconnects th
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I think this desire is a case of the best being the enemy of good. The ethical case for veganism is accessible for people who accept the rather mainstream premises that we have man made climate change and unethical treatment of production a
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CPU manufacturers have too much chip real estate to know what to do with: The processor cores must be kept physically small to keep them fast. Multicore has predictably hit the software wall at 2-4 cores[1][2]. Caches also have diminishing
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Typically not so much on the servers. And in nearly all cases a "no third party proprietary code" server requirement is very feasible.
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ClamAV is decent-ish compared to these. It's still written in C so sandbox heavily...
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Because there is a broadly available patch. See eg https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/02/feedback-a...
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> If minimum wage goes up then payroll costs will go up, forcing them to either cut profits or find cost savings elsewhere. More likely: they and their competition raise prices.
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In the macroeconomic figures Canada is reported to spend 10% of GDP[1] or about 4300 USD per capita on healthcare vs your 1524 USD/year[2]. There's two thirds missing right there, and if you are one of the higher payers (average i
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Is there a writeup somewhere on why the Rust people nevertheless decided against checked arithmetic? The current RFC seems to be https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte... which
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There are areas where you could make a typical current processor "up to 5%" faster in exchange for dumping various determinism features provided in hardware that are conductive to software robustness in the same way as checked ari
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Your link's graph shows that nordic countries have highest social transfers and highest consumption taxes. This means that they are countering the regressive effects of consumption taxes with other income transfers. What the graph does
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Replying to myself (can't edit anymore), looks like the W3C spec bungled it in your [1] by referencing "atext" from the RFC. For example, as specified it disallows addresses with periods in them. In the RFC, "atext"
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Why is it so hard to convert these to cash the same instant you exercise them? If there are some special terms attached to your share of the company that prevent you selling the shares directly, you could just make a (transferrable) derivat
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To clarify, The Register is citing this as reason given by police, but without presenting it as fact or corraborated information.
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The email input regexp is only about matching the atext@domain subpart of the syntax. The full email address parsers are about parsing the full allowed syntax you can put in an email to: field that includes address lists and display names.
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Only a minority of the problems in the list are laptop-specific. The hybrid graphics mess is an unfortunate one, though most people are well served by laptops with integrated-only video. People who want to play 3D games on laptops get the s
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> The trick is to share one VM instance between multiple apps. So when the OS starts you start the VM process and then fork with a lot of the JITted code already in place so you get almost instant startup and reasonable process isolation
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here's one: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/10/helsinki-share...
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Shh!
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Mobile app stores are junkyards with terrible discoverability and they have a captive audience.
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They would be.. except Russia and Canada are shrunken on most world or US/Europe maps because of the distortion from the map projection. Yet another mapmakers conspiracy. (everything else that's far from the map center is of cours
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Is there a technical restriction why JS JITs don't transparently apply SIMD to existing loops like normal compilers (=autovectorization)? Or is it in the cards to build it on top of SIMD.js?
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This is a great thing since OpenCL has been spiraling towards the abyss after its main proponent (Apple) abandoned it, and programers seemed to prefer the less buggy and less verbose CUDA anyway. In history of computing there seems to be an
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The one column at the link with that has "medium" and "low" values is "complexity" which means CVSS's "access complexity". So having many rows like this means there are many vulnerabilities that

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