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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.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en

AAC is also higher quality than MP3 at medium bitrates[1], but this is largely irrelevant for high-bitrate iTunes downloads.

[1] http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

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.

VSTs draw their own graphics. They're basically separate applications that have an audio/MIDI pipe to the host.
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.

[1] https://github.com/apigee/trireme

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/

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.
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.
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: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
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.
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!"
A regular events business, not an engineering events business. They could squash TicketMaster if they wanted to.

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