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If VR really gets traction it's probably just a matter of time until Facebook releases a Second-Life-like MMO VR platform tied in with their social network. There will always be go…

> real-time dithering Wasn't dithering done before the encoding? I thought that was the reason he needed ordered dithering.

I wonder if it is feasible to compress cached canvases, either as part of pdf.js or natively in firefox.

You were excited in 1996-Feb-29 when 5.002 was released? Not everyone on hn is in their early twenties, i suppose.

For people without flashplayer: rtmpdump -r 'rtmp://cp262207.edgefcs.net/ondemand/techchannel/10385/videos/OW10002.Claude_Shannon-FL8_550x310_700K' -o Claude_Shannon_Demonstrates_M…

I think swap files are written page-wise, so as long as the start of the page file is aligned, all the writes should be aligned. (assuming memory page size and SSD page size are th…

I think it's part of their philosophy. They don't want to encourage people to use a non-free operating system. edit: also, supporting windows is a lot of additional work

As far as i understood there weren't any "fake" pods, the third-party pods where properly labeled. Also, some might consider it a negative impact on the user experience if they can…

I guess heavy obfuscation is more to blame.

Can you recommend a paid european mail service?

Maybe its just recordings of the fish being fed.

I think he meant there is nothing good about complexity and bringing down the whole system on a crash. For the Linux kernel this is probably an unfortunate necessity, for an init s…

"A plugin is needed to display this content." is all i see ;)

"perhaps due to an advanced civilization with more aesthetics than sanity" :)

As far as i know, the navigation systems are somewhere in between LEO and geostationary orbit.

Those poor idiots. I feel nothing but disgust reading the comments cheering their lethal poisoning.

Or someone misspelled it twice.

Since his comments seem to be broken (or he just does not accept any) i will comment here: I believe it is very well possible (using the UEFI IP stack) to write a tiny and portable…

As the author mentioned, poetry usually compresses quite well, thanks to rhyming. Here is another fun example: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/were-no-str...

Not directly on topic, but i thought the ideas were somewhat related: http://xkcd.com/915/ http://xkcd.com/1095/

Reminds me of those: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrs2Vorw2Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o :)

My idea was that, if you have an object file open with write permissions, you can assume that it has been created/modified anyway, and people will expect the checksum to change. Of…

I dont think it is as hard as it it sounds. Consider, for example, hooking all fclose function calls and testing on every call whether * you have write permission on the file, * it…