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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years 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://www.ebay.in/itm/Intex-Aqua-Fish-4G-LTE-with-Qualcomm-...
Comment · 10 years 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-...
Comment · 10 years 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/791767756928462848
[2] https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/793501918790242304
Comment · 10 years 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.com/en-us/HT207275
It looks like even 10.10 Yosemite got a fix. Here's a full list of security fixes Apple has made to its software:
Comment · 10 years 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..
Comment · 10 years 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 format between vector graphics apps.
The only use case I can think of is for standalone vector graphics images, but PDF or SVG is often good enough for that.
Comment · 10 years 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 HTML in SVG. It's going to be one big tag soup. All that is better for the web, but worse as a stable image format.
There are also plans to create SVG-in-OpenType fonts, which would embed SVG inside web fonts. I have very mixed feelings about that. It is nice to have fonts with multiple colors, gradients and animations. On the other hand, do I want to have the same compatibility problems with fonts as I already have with HTML/SVG? I'm almost hoping that SVG-in-OT fails and Microsoft's simpler multi-color font format wins.
Comment · 10 years 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 private use in UK.
In Finland, it is legal to copy CDs (even the ones in public libraries!) [3] and entire books [4] for private use. So, I don't think that 3D printing of furniture is affected in Finland. I can happily continue printing my Ikea chairs.
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12021607/Why-in-2...
[2] https://www.reading.ac.uk/library/finding-info/copyright/lib...
[3] http://www.kysy.fi/en/kysymys/it-helsinki-city-library-legal...
[4] http://blogs.helsinki.fi/copyright-within-teaching/exception...
Comment · 10 years 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.
Comment · 10 years 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 conclusion so that flossing is useless, because it isn't done correctly or it is just a wrong way to clean teeth.
I've had a similar personal experience. My dentist asked me to floss because my gums were bleeding. I flossed for few years, but it didn't cure my bleeding gums. Then my dentist suggested using interdental brushes. I did it for a while and it helped. My gums are no more bleeding.
So, I say no to flossing, yes to cleaning teeth with better means.
Comment · 10 years 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 for the Vulkan C API. Vulkan is a very low level API, so there's a lot of code. It should be straightforward to port the C tutorial to use the C++ API.
We could send a probe to a star and once it reaches it, we could simply beam the AI using a transmitter to the probe. Once AI has done its work there, it can be beamed back to Earth (it there is need for that). Build a network of probes and AI can travel between stars at light speed!