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Re:The Great Garfield Car Window Toy Craze (2016)
on Friday January 12, 2018 @06:40PM (#16137274)
They're ubiquitous for the same reason as those Apple stickers: bundling, in this case with baby car seats.
Re:DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:31PM (#15803691)
The better format does not always win, and just like VHS, H.265 already has much deeper market penetration in hardware.
Re:ASCII Art: Real-Time ASCII Art Rendering Library
on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:24PM (#15708460)
Check out libcaca[1], a image-to-ASCII library that already available as a mplayer and VLC output.
There's also a demoscene competition where entries can only use text-mode art, TMDC [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca [2] http://tmdc.scene.org/
Re:The new Google Calendar for web
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:53PM (#15494297)
Assuming you have G Suite, create a calendar resource for the room, then add the room to the invite.
Re:The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated
on Monday May 01, 2017 @06:07PM (#14242158)
AAC is also higher quality than MP3 at medium bitrates[1], but this is largely irrelevant for high-bitrate iTunes downloads.
Re:Apple Releases MacOS 10.12.4 with Night Shift
on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:16PM (#13971317)
There is no chicken-and-egg problem because the OS already does color management to map your source color space (sRGB, mostly) to your target monitor's color space. If it didn't, you wouldn't be able to view sRGB content correctly on wide-gamut monitors, for example.
The real challenge is in developing display backlight and phosphor technology to reproduce colors outside of the standard gamuts.
Re:Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many...
on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:42PM (#13562597)
VSTs draw their own graphics. They're basically separate applications that have an audio/MIDI pipe to the host.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and child...
on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:00PM (#13467030)
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. :)
Re:Arduboy – A game system the size of a credit card
on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:54PM (#13059472)
ESP32, the successor to the ESP8266, has both WiFi and Bluetooth, but it's fairly expensive.
Re:Arduboy – A game system the size of a credit card
on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:13PM (#13058876)
Bluetooth/WiFi doesn't require embedded Linux. The venerable ESP8266 can be easily programmed through the Arduino IDE.
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:16PM (#12916332)
Or I can have the candidate code with me for an hour during the interview, and save $100. They get to ask me questions about the problem directly, and I can see where they are struggling, and how they debug (trial and error? Google/SO?)
Re:GIF Site Giphy Is Valued at $600M
on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:37PM (#12839661)
Sounds like Twitter a few years back. These companies are on the same track.
Re:Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display
on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:07PM (#12792886)
That is because: powerful = power hungry = requires a large battery != small.
Re:PurpleJS – An alternative to Node.js for Java projects
on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:42PM (#12756820)
See also Trireme [1], an implementation of Node.js 0.10.32 on the JVM, using Rhino.
Re:Google to acquire Apigee
on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:10PM (#12457832)
Compare the feature set of Endpoints to Edge. There's more to API management than authentication and monitoring.
Re:Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:06AM (#12403369)
RAD use rANS for their compressors. See ryg's blog [0] for more details, and a bunch more interesting posts about compression and various low-level optimizations.
[0] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/rans-in-practice/
Re:The Google X moonshot factory is struggling to get products out the...
on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:54PM (#12383219)
I realize that this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but the reality is that Alphabet is a corporation, not a research university. Corporations by definition need to ship and make money.
Re:Detecting voting rings using HyperLogLog counters (2013)
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @09:36PM (#12356422)
It shouldn't be an issue given that HLL is approximate and that relatively few votes are undone. You could also debounce the vote before recording it in the counter, at the cost of a small delay.
Re:Reverse Engineering Native Apps by Intercepting Network Traffic
on Sunday July 31, 2016 @05:23PM (#12198945)
Another option is Burp Suite (https://portswigger.net/burp/ ) -- ubiquitous in the security world.
Re:Ask HN: Best monitoring system?
on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:29PM (#12146526)
Riemann is a generic event processor. You can use it to generate alerts or aggregate metrics, but you still need something like collectd or telegraf to collect system/app stats from each machine and send it to Riemann.
Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left
on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:07PM (#12083670)
It was always a separate app even after being acquired. That said, Twitter has done pretty much nothing to bridge the two communities.
Re:Elixir 1.3.1 released
on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:30PM (#12073648)
Phoenix is filled with macro magic, and just like Rails is the overwhelming reason to use Ruby, is pretty much the main reason why people pick up Elixir.
Re:Show HN: 24bit RGB "AnsiArt" Terminal Image Viewer
on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:59PM (#11963076)
Re:Common shell script mistakes (2008)
on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:31PM (#11833730)
Shout out to Shellcheck (http://www.shellcheck.net/), a linter for shell scripts
Re:Spectre.css – a lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework
on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:51AM (#11759052)
Use <i> if your use case is "alternate voice or mood" or "different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts"
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-i-...
Re:AMD licences x86 tech to Chinese company
on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:22PM (#11550769)
Suicide rate or suicide attempt rate?
Re:Changes to Npm's unpublish policy
on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @09:14PM (#11386292)
Unless you have the resources of a nation-state, generating a SHA256+ collision is infeasible.
Re:Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate
on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:38PM (#11355211)
When the Bay Area housing bubble collapses in the future, renting will get cheaper, and your mortgage will stay the same.
Re:Startups that demoed at Y Combinator W16 Demo Day 2
on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:16PM (#11350328)
Physio Health: "Time for a nice strecth!"
Re:How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:57PM (#11255358)
A regular events business, not an engineering events business. They could squash TicketMaster if they wanted to.