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by gulpahum 10y ago
Exactly! That's why I think we should keep building better AI. It'll be AI, which will be traveling out to the stars, not humans. We could send a probe to a star and once it reaches it, we could simply beam the AI using a transmit
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by gulpahum 10y ago
You should be able to get Intex Aqua Fish phone (a manufacturer in India). It runs Sailfish 2.0 created by Jolla. (I haven't actually ordered Aqua Fish, so I can't say much about it). Here's one seller in eBay: http:/&#
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Some monkeys are also flossing their teeth and teaching it to their children. Smart animals. http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/2009-10/monkeys-teach-their-...
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Interesting that he mentions Bret Victor. He was actually one of the designers of the much criticised touch bar [1][2]. He is also working on some other changes for Apple. [1] https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/
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by gulpahum 10y ago
I got an update to 10.11 El Capitan yesterday, which probably fixes the vulnerability. You can see the fix in Apple's support page, have a look at the bottom of the page about "System Boot": https://support.apple.c
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Nice explanation. However, it didn't explain how the debugger can stop again at the breakpoint after the last step? The interrupt command has been replaced with the original command, so the process won't stop again..
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ITU standardises universal charger for laptops(itu.int)
2 points by gulpahum 10y ago|0 comments
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by gulpahum 10y ago
What would be the purpose of such a simpler vector format? Several formats already exist for various use cases: PDF for printing, SVG for web graphics (simple content and icons), OpenType fonts for vector based text and SVG as an exchange f
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by gulpahum 10y ago
You're right. SVG2 requires full CSS support. CSS brings lots of complexity, like calc(), CSS variables and so on. All that is needed, because web developers use SVG2 inline in HTML documents. It is also becoming more common to embed H
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Laws about making copies for private use differ from EU country to another. The author is only talking about UK, which has strict laws about copying for private use. For instance, it is illegal to copy CDs [1] or entire books [2] for privat
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by gulpahum 10y ago
What about minimum of a non-differentiable function? I've been using something like Nelder–Mead method (downhill simplex method / amoeba method) [1], but it gets slow near the minimum. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by gulpahum 10y ago
There are studies which show that flossing isn't effective. Here's an older article mentioning three studies: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspomeroy/2013/10/17/dentists-... I read the con
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by gulpahum 10y ago
The new Vulkan C++ API from Khronos is based on vkcpp. Here's examples for vkcpp to give an idea how code with the C++ API looks like: https://github.com/jherico/Vulkan Here's a basic tutorial with comments f
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Introducing Vulkan-Hpp – Open-Source Vulkan C++ API(github.com)
130 points by gulpahum 10y ago|70 comments
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by gulpahum 10y ago
The repository should really mention the origin of the source code and the license. I'm always a bit skeptical about the legality of ancient source code suddenly popping up. The origin is mentioned in their blog post. Very nice that Fu
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by gulpahum 10y ago
libui [1] is a promising new cross platform GUI toolkit. If I need a GUI for a small cross platform desktop app, I will definitely try it. It uses MIT license, which means there is less headache for commercial applications. It is also more
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by gulpahum 10y ago
They have an SDK built on top of Qt Creator and it runs on OS X, Windows and Linux [1]. Linux may offer some advantages, such as access to the phone file system. OSX has a bit cumbersome ways to access it [2]. If you want to write programs
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by gulpahum 10y ago
It has a bit unusual user interface. They designed it to be usable by one hand, but I think they just ended up with a bit messy UI. It takes some time to get used to and some features are not easy to discover (like the top sliding menu or t
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Just few weeks ago, Nokia announced that Nokia branded smart phones and tablets will be entering market soon. This time they are based on Android OS. It'll be interesting to see how well they'll sell (compared to Windows Phone).
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When Being Human Got His Goat, This Designer Became One(npr.org)
5 points by gulpahum 10y ago|0 comments
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by gulpahum 10y ago
I had a look at a Metal tutorial [1], which does the same initialization as the Vulkan tutorial. Indeed, it has similar concept, but is also simpler (partly because it is written in Swift, not C++). I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper,
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by gulpahum 10y ago
I've always wondered how Vulkan is bootstrapped and its drawing surface attached to a window. Now I know. I would assume that the code for Linux and Android is similar.
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Looks like the EU will only get the standards from the US: "The US insisted on its request for the commission to “require” in its standardization request, CEN and CENELEC to involve US experts in its standards development process (with
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by gulpahum 10y ago
And they are also planning a new Star Wreck short film! http://www.starwreck.com
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by gulpahum 10y ago
I didn't know that Adobe RGB has a straight 2.2 gamma. :) I don't know the details about the Apple's gamma curve, but these guys have measured it. Perhaps it gives some answers. (I'm not sure how to read that graph..) h
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Apple is bringing P3 support to Safari. There is already media query to check for P3 screen, which is useful to switch between P3 and sRGB images. https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/#color-gamut They might also ad
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Apple doesn't use the exact DCI-P3, they use "Display P3". DCI-P3 has gamma 2.6, while Display P3 has gamma 2.2 (the same as sRGB). I wonder why they didn't go with the correct gamma? Does sRGB gamma compatibility help h
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Finland shouldn't be at the top of the list. There is still self-censorship going on, especially related to opinions about Russia. It's called "Finlandization": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandi
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by gulpahum 10y ago
I agree. I used to compose small pieces with soundtrackers [1] and it was a lot of fun. However, I've never been able to learn staff notation system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Soundtracker
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by gulpahum 10y ago
Richard Branson is one of my favourite entrepreneurs. Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia are still his, right?

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