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Well, not only it is quite long just to say "BGR was used a lot back then", even the back story is wrong : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horses-pass/ https:

by kalenx 8y ago

Well, not only it is quite long just to say "BGR was used a lot back then", even the back story is wrong : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horses-pass/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horses-pass/

girvo 8y ago
The article said that as well, so I’m unsure what your complaint is.
- kalenx 8y ago
  No, the post about OpenCV and BGR talks (for about 80% of it's length) about how everything we know in transportation, up to space shuttle, is linked to horse width. Which, as pointed out in the link I provided, is simply false (or at the very least a gross oversimplification).
  - yreg 8y ago
    The author stated that the story is "not-so-true" and copied from Snopes, but he didn't include the debunking.
    - ballenf 8y ago
      One of the key points of the "debunking" seems to itself make a logical error: > The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War and, in the process, rebuilt much of the Southern railway system to match its own But the article earlier states that the North won the Civil War because of the logistical superiority of its rail lines that had settled on using the English standard gauge. Even if the South had settled on a single alternative gauge, they would have been unable to easily acquire rail equipment from abroad without added expense. Snopes' attempt at debunking achieves the opposite in my reading.
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lovelearning 8y ago
I don't agree with this kind of "just to say" trivialization. Storytelling is an art many enjoy writing and reading. I actually learnt some new things I didn't know before. I had assumed all digital cameras have always been using YUV or variants. It's also helpful that the author reported his conversation with the original author of OpenCV - that kind of authentication is rare and valuable. I can imagine the comments here if the blog was actually a one line article stating "BGR was used a lot back then".

by kalenx 8y ago

girvo 8y ago

The article said that as well, so I’m unsure what your complaint is.

kalenx 8y ago
No, the post about OpenCV and BGR talks (for about 80% of it's length) about how everything we know in transportation, up to space shuttle, is linked to horse width. Which, as pointed out in the link I provided, is simply false (or at the very least a gross oversimplification).
- yreg 8y ago
  The author stated that the story is "not-so-true" and copied from Snopes, but he didn't include the debunking.
  - ballenf 8y ago
    One of the key points of the "debunking" seems to itself make a logical error: > The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War and, in the process, rebuilt much of the Southern railway system to match its own But the article earlier states that the North won the Civil War because of the logistical superiority of its rail lines that had settled on using the English standard gauge. Even if the South had settled on a single alternative gauge, they would have been unable to easily acquire rail equipment from abroad without added expense. Snopes' attempt at debunking achieves the opposite in my reading.

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lovelearning 8y ago

I don't agree with this kind of "just to say" trivialization. Storytelling is an art many enjoy writing and reading. I actually learnt some new things I didn't know before. I had assumed all digital cameras have always been using YUV or variants. It's also helpful that the author reported his conversation with the original author of OpenCV - that kind of authentication is rare and valuable. I can imagine the comments here if the blog was actually a one line article stating "BGR was used a lot back then".