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Feature request: I wish it would be possible to vote on his posts, even though they are "dead". Maybe individual posts that get enough upvotes can be unbanned,

• geetarista 12y ago
  Maybe it already does. Somehow this comment isn't dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7791436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7791436. Not sure what it means, though.
  • jacquesm 12y ago
    It's probably a bit old-school for you but let me explain. The RAMDAC in an 'original' old style VGA card only had 6 bits per channel, and 256 LUT positions (also called the 'palette'). This allowed you to select 256 colours out of a maximum of 262144 colours, or 2^18. So the maximum output value was 252, or hexadecimal FC for each channel. You can't really output 24 bit ('truecolour') then because every colour channel will miss the lower 2 bits, and what should be 'white' will be slightly grayish and so on (white then becomes hex 0xfcfcfc). Does that explain it adequately?
    • geetarista 12y ago
      That was a very good explanation, but I was actually referring to the state of his comment. Meaning that I was unsure whether it means that it is indeed possible to bring a comment back from the dead or if this comment was somehow an exception to his deadban.