A lot of people here complain of RSI and comment how the pedal helps solve that. I tried solving this by creating a keyboard layout especially for vim:
TL;DR: some guy misunderstands what the TCP window is for, what a chunk is, and where latency comes from. Hilarious quotes like "latency comes from light speed" abound, the guy writing that junk nicely sums it up with a big plug for his own company. Technical writing at its worst, done only to pull in pointy hair managers who know nothing about the technology they're being lied to about.
This has to be asked: can someone reply with a breakdown of all of Miahi Pătraşcu's work, at least the important bits, with a single sentence description of why it's important? Let's remember Mihai for the good he did for us, I think that's the best way to commemorate him.
TL;DR:
1. Justin.tv started as a lifecasting experiment. You could see the guy take a piss and sleep and stuff.
2. they started selling it to others. Soon enough, someone hacked it to rebroadcast pay tv (especially sports)
3. they decided it ain't worth it and started closing up shop, but then figured out they could use it to broadcast Starcraft games.
Why did I have to read fifty pages for this amount of actual content?
I am not sure how that "is unix": how is an implementation of unix apis in python related to capturing http responses? I really like the idea but I'm missing this crucial piece of information to make sense out of the whole thing.
I think they may become successful for the time being, although they have some issues with UX and technology they need to work out first.
What they do is they display a short ad video and have the user answer a comprehension question. Apparently it's not as hackable, although I'm not sure how that will work if they become popular: Producing a video is fairly difficult, so you can only have so many videos running, and I can entirely see a cracking group able to simply watch every possible video and crack it. Recognizing videos from a finite set of possibilities is a solved problem. However, as long as they're not huuuuge, they're better than reCaptcha. I think currently everything that is popular will be cracked sooner or later, so the only hope is in people having new ideas. This becomes less of an art now and more of an unending race. So for the time being, Captcha Ad seem to be OK. The ads they place are acceptable, and they pay loads more than the typical ad box, which is good. They're only doing germany right now, but they have plans entering the english-speaking market.
I'm willing to believe it when I see it. Can you offer tangible proof that there is detail available in the final image that would not be possible of the image were being generated at 1920x1200?
How do you manage the often-found expectation of customers that pay daily rate that overtime is unpaid, when those customers more often than not end up making sure you do a lot of overtime?
The resolution by the OS is ostensibly 1920x1200. This is what apps see and what they render bitmaps for.
This is then upscaled twice in each direction to 3840x2400.
Then, this finally somehow gets put on 2880x1800. As I understand it, it gets downscaled from 3840x2400 directly to 2880x1800.
LOL, it just dawned on me. You guys have been taken for such a fucking ride. I've just checked the numbers, I hadn't noticed it before.
The physical resolution of the monitor is 2880x1800. This is exactly 1.5x more in each direction than 1920x1200, which is the original input format.
Now you must understand two things:
1. scaling is a DSP process.
2. You never use floating point operations in digital signal processing if you can get away with integers, because integer operations are so much cheaper and because the result is always more precise. (The only reason to use floats is to get more headroom, but that's a detail you don't need to worry with because it is in no way applicable to resolution scaling. You could use floats for pixel colour, and many systems do that already)
So what does this mean? How do you multiply by 1.5 if you can only use integers?
--> YOU MULTIPLY BY THREE AND DIVIDE BY TWO. <--
The intermediate resolution of 3840x2400 exists solely as a tiny step in the rescaling algorithm, a step which in itself does not add any information that wasn't there in the original 1920x1200 image. Similarly, some of you audio people may realize that most of your VST or AU plugins have 64x oversampling. Does this mean that your project is working at 12 MHz sampling rate? NO!!! Your recorded material is still at 192k, and your project still does not contain any useful information above 96 kHz. Don't be silly. There's being tricked when not knowing, but given that a majority of the people commenting on mac hardware here seem to have some idea of audio processing, that's just fundamentalist hypocrisy.
You've fallen prey to sensationalist marketing and measurement of e-penis. Except your e-penis is completely made up and never actually happened.
Wow, some people in this thread are so, extremely, gullible. I had really come to expect more from HN, and am truly disappointed and dismayed.
I guess we've reached the nesting limit. The people in question are trying to hang sociology and group theory onto those theatre exercises. The "tutors" are, well, let's just say really odd. How can I find out more about those original theatre exercises?
> The people who did really great things in history -- whoever you might choose as your examples -- did they achieve it by being significantly more rational than everyone else? Not really, no.
Observational bias. Rationality of thought process in non-technical situations is rarely externalized; unless you talk of scientists, you're highly unlikely to remark on how highly rational he is being. In fact, the only way I can come up with to make such a statement fit in literary fashion is when you're making a quip on someone:
"It was highly rational of Nixon to start the Vietnam War."
Wait a fucking second. Did you say theatre exercises?
There's a group of people doing them theatre exercises, they rent a hall down the corridor from me periodically. I've always known there was something really fishy about them. Are you saying they might be scientologists? Becuase that would really fit to the group's MO.
Reminds me of my Mensa membership (hey, at 16 you're young and impressionable). Quit that ghetto a week into reading their mailing lists. Imagine the complete opposite of HN.
> Pay the students $50 for each correct answer, and there's not a doubt in my mind that the results will be the complete opposite of what he's seeing now.
You've never tried tutoring kids who get kickbacks for good scores then. Absolute fucking nightmare. Motivation to study must come from within for it to be successful in any way.
https://bitbucket.org/cheater/us_split.
It's just like us qwerty, just more ergonomic.