WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

neuromute's comments

neuromute | 7 years ago | on: Australia pushes for spyware on phones

This morning I opened Hacker News and two threads sat next to one another. This thread I'm commenting on now and another thread titled "Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18060543)

How poignant, and yet startling. Australia is seemingly following in the footsteps of China, a country famed for their strict censorship laws, oppressive and authoritarian nature and far-reaching surveillance powers.

neuromute | 7 years ago | on: EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

USB regulation imposed by the EU is a fantastic idea (in theory, at least). The amount of waste in the form of old proprietary device chargers is quite staggering and it poses an environmental problem. If all devices use USB, then this waste is somewhat reduced.

‘Almost every household is believed to have gathered a number of old chargers – estimated to generate more than 51 000 tons of electronic waste per year in the EU.’ [1]

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/electrical-engineering/re...

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars

> Why "ideally"? That would be a recipe for broken, dirty cars.

Not necessarily. Granted, very few countries run a well-functioning socialist state, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible, more that many countries do a poor job when it comes to implementation.

The solution would be quite simple. These smart autonomous cars would contain security cameras that ensure passengers don't vandalise the vehicle. If they do, then it's a simple case of locking the vehicle and driving the passengers to the police station, where they would then get booked for vandalism of public property, and banned from using the service for a period of time. I should imagine that this would quickly curtail the issue.

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars

Self driving cars could solve the problem of congestion and the problem of parking quite easily. If all cars were autonomous, then the flow of traffic could be optimised and things like traffic lights and roundabouts could be eradicated, this would drastically improve travel times. In an ideal world, no-one would own their own self-driving car, there would be a fleet (ideally state owned and taxpayer funded) that you simply order on-demand, like uber. This way there is no need to park. You simply arrange your pickup times either on-demand or ahead of time, so a vehicle is always there to scoop you up wherever you are.

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Building Your First Atom Plugin

So, the first 2 searches pulled back fairly poor results. It would perhaps be useful to have a cycle to next result shortcut, in order to keep searching until you find something of use. That said, the Atom plugin used the same search term and returned a better first result, so it might be worth using something like their method for determining the top result.

FWIW...

First search, "QuickSort" returned:

  6 + 7 = 13
  13 / 2 = 6.5
  6.5 rounded down = 6
Next search, "BubbleSort", produced:

  It depends on the way your data is distributed - if you can make some assumptions. One of the best links I've found to understand when to use a bubble sort - or some other sort, is this - an animated view on sorting algorithms: http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Building Your First Atom Plugin

Is there any plugin similar to this for Sublime?

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious. I searched the package manager and google, but couldn't find anything that offered this functionality.

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Colorized man pages

That site needs some updating. The 'features' and 'images' sections both lack content (merely a message stating "under construction"). Although content > style, I can't help but mention how dated the site looks also.

neuromute | 9 years ago | on: Gimp 2.9.4 Released

I've been using Gimp for many years now, and it serves me well. I learnt Photoshop at university, on a Multimedia Tech course. Whilst Photoshop is a fine piece of software, it is overkill for most users. Gimp might be hard to get to grips with for long-time Photoshop users, but it isn't hard, it just takes some muscle-memory adjustment. For users who have never used either, Gimp is a great piece of software to use from the get-go.

I've also used Krita of late, and that too is a very good piece of software worth checking out if you want to do photo-editing and digital painting.

neuromute | 10 years ago | on: Tor: 'Mystery' spike in hidden addresses

I'd say this is highly likely. I saw it posted earlier on hn and Reddit. If it's doing the rounds, it seems plausible that 25k people just gave it a whirl. The article even states that the spike could be a due to Ricochet, but "mystery" traffic makes a better headline.

neuromute | 10 years ago | on: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

I've got a 980 GTX running on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and it's pretty good overall. I can play most games at a decent framerate in very high quality @ 2560x1440. It can run Portal at 4K, no problem. The rig I have is pretty new and cost just over £2000 though. I've had less impressive results with lower spec'd hardware. As with all things gaming/hardware related, YMMV.
page 2
newer more