abdias

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by abdias 8y ago
Good times! I never came across Tracer or Sculpt 3D, but I did start out with Real 3D [1] which actually was created in 1983 for the CBM64 and later came to the Amiga in 1990. About the same time Lightwave 3D [2] came out which first was bo
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by abdias 8y ago
Unfortunately, performance doesn't come free on a computer. Have you tried limiting the number of CPUs Firefox uses? You can see a setting "Performance" in the first tab, uncheck the "Use recommended.." and reduce t
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Ask HN: How many of you have had your GitHub mistakingly flagged?
1 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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The Finger protocol(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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Artbeats Says Goodbye(artbeats.com)
1 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 9y ago
Well, one reason could be that Saudi-Arabia is planning so-called "smart" cities and Google wants to be in the center of it all (a UN driven program - IMO a potential tyranny sprayed in rose perfume). https://www.saudis
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by abdias 9y ago
Is there a chance we could get MAFF: (and MHT:) protocols as well and let our web-extension handle those (single-file archived web pages if anyone wondered)? This would allow us to (again) associate the Firefox browser with for example .maf
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Google announces patent agreement with Tencent amid China push(reuters.com)
3 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 9y ago
PRISM is/was a small program. "Upstream" programs is the what most should be worried about and goes sort of around companies (and anyone/anything else). Though, some companies are handed a court order to "share&quot
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by abdias 9y ago
> As far as I understood the reason Microsoft broke Skype so badly was because they used centralised servers with backdoors In fairness, it was eBay that first bought Skype [1] in 2005 centralizing the data. eBay then sold it to a privat
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Bees and Bombs – Animated Repetitive Patterns(beesandbombs.tumblr.com)
1 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 9y ago
Why do people assume posts on the front-page are driven fully automatic + some secret juicy for points and what have you? Why wouldn't YC just use a human (or two) to bump/nudge posts they would like to climb or expose according t
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by abdias 9y ago
How will you deal with fair-use?
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by abdias 9y ago
There is absolutely no reason for any government to have this capacity unless it is to target potential dissidents and critics of their political agenda (as well as training "pre-crime" tech). Intel regarding terrorist-attacks and
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How to turn off captive portal detection in Firefox(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1 points by abdias 9y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 9y ago
You could actually take any ancillary chunks into consideration, ie. chunks starting with a lower-case first letter. These are non-critical/mandatory.
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by abdias 9y ago
Deflating can be applied to some chunks, but not at will. The zTXt chunk can be compressed while for example the tEXt chunk cannot. The newer iTXt chunk can vary. The two former are limited in scope and language encoding support, so iTXt is
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by abdias 9y ago
Yes, YOU, and me. We can all do our own research to discern what is fake or not.
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by abdias 9y ago
> China, gov't has evolved to a whole new level, they don't manipulate media with fake news, but with selected truth. This is unfortunately nothing new. They did this in the USSR and East-Europe, and even in "free" co
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by abdias 9y ago
Not OP, but here is one related source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02... I do not think the technology involved artificially generated voice though, but simply morphing someone&
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by abdias 9y ago
You mean, like they did pre-2000 [1]? Don't know how good this would sound today, but nevertheless interesting. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...
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by abdias 9y ago
Nice and simple. I had no problem with with UI and I found the music I was looking for (incl. my own :) ).
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by abdias 10y ago
In the early 90s I created a small custom language. The purpose was to learn/build a compiler though, but other projects came along so it was eventually scrapped. I did get fruits from it though in terms of how compilers work. I also c
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WaPo's Jeff Bezos Secured $600 Contract with the CIA(medium.com)
4 points by abdias 10y ago|1 comments
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The Efficient Cure for Social Anxiety Disorder(karger.com)
2 points by abdias 10y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 10y ago
It's a funny story but also shows how pathetic (IMO) some companies and organizations become. They just don't realize the cat is already out the bag. "Damage control" should not be used for censorship. This is clearly fa
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by abdias 10y ago
Why don't UK government leave that responsibility to the parents which are to decide what their children are allowed to watch or not. In the old Soviet the communists very much wanted government to replace both parents and God - seem
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Swallowing human faeces will cure disease, NHS say(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by abdias 10y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 11y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. It was a fun theory though and it will probably not go away anytime soon. Kubrick himself claimed HAL stood for "heuristic and algorithmic" according to this article: http://www.slate.com&#x2F
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by abdias 11y ago
^ famous last words.. :)

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