Derbasti

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by Derbasti 4y ago
One of the best books about programming I have ever read. Simply brilliant!
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Windows does the same thing: the moment you open the Task Manager, the top three items magically throttle themselves.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
That's exactly how I feel as well. I blog for my own benefit. If anyone else finds it useful, too, that's great. But it's not the goal. In a way, my blog serves as a platform to develop my own ideas into full arguments, even
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by Derbasti 5y ago
There's a lot of mud-flinging in this thread about the superiority of this software or that. Frankly, this is all BS. All of these softwares are capable of producing professional results. The difference is made by the user , not the s
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by Derbasti 5y ago
I seem to remember I did contact support, but they were less than helpful. Might be misremembering, though. It was a while ago.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Well, the entire operation took maybe 20 minutes. I connected a graphics tablet for the occasion, which made click-click-clicking the pictures relatively quick. I did actually weigh that time against how long it might take me to find/l
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by Derbasti 5y ago
On the one hand, WSL has made Windows truly viable as a developer platform. But on the other hand, this sort of aggressive marketing bullshit makes it such an unfriendly place to be. I want my computer to treat me as an adult. Since it incr
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Last year, I tried to migrate a personal picture blog away from WordPress.com. So I cancelled the subscription, and hit the delete-everything button. Which refuses to work. Because I still have a subscription, see, so why would I want to de
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by Derbasti 5y ago
It's true. There is a balance to be struck between living the moment, and capturing it. The former is much more important in my book. After all, the purpose of a vacation is to get rest, and experience new things. It might also be wort
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by Derbasti 5y ago
> I don't think I've ever thought "boy, I sure wish I took less photos back then". I have thought the opposite. I have come to realize that the vacation itself is only part of the fun. Reminiscing about the vacation a
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by Derbasti 5y ago
I'd actually be willing to bet that we will go back to a more 3D look before the decade is over. Not my big toe, though. I need that. Maybe, a bottle of beer, or something? I'd argue that the flat 2D look is cool these days becaus
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by Derbasti 5y ago
> In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow. The worst offender is the login prompt. In Gnome, from the lock screen,
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Smartphones rely on stacking multiple exposures in very quick succession. They can do that because a smartphone sensor can scans extremely quickly. In a smartphone, it doesn't make a difference whether you take one long exposure, or se
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Thank you for saying this. I fully agree. In order to keep everyone fed and happy, and sustainable, we need fewer everyones.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
It's not the the camera that lacks dynamic range. It's your screen. There's a fundamental problem with photography: a scene can contain up to 20 EV of dynamic range. Your camera can capture up to 14 EV. But your screen or a p
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by Derbasti 5y ago
The raw file contains light level recordings affine to the real scene illumination. (The black point is raised, which is why it's affine, not linear). (Assuming no bright pixels are clipped). Each rgb channel is a filtered spectrum. Bu
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by Derbasti 5y ago
This book was absolutely amazing! It is astonishingly well-written, almost actually exciting to read at times, and chock full of fascinating insights and anecdotes. Oh, and its main text was really useful as well, uncovering so many program
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by Derbasti 5y ago
And once you've read that, continue with "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces", and "Crafting Interpreters". CODE is great to get a sense of what a processor is and does. Operating Systems shows how processes, file
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Source Code or it Didn't Happen. Science that is not reproducible is not science. If you can, publish something high-level. Matlab or Python or Julia is fine. C or Java, not so much, because the build environment will not be available
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by Derbasti 5y ago
A while ago I was trying to compare a few of my cameras. It was a cloudy day in early fall. All three cameras and my eyes agreed that the sky was dull-grey and the leaves on the trees drab-brown. To the iPhone, however, the sky was more blu
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Funny that you would mention trying to publish such findings in journals. I tried... more than two times, as well. Rejected with the most spurious of claims, despite my presenting evidence disproving them. Frankly, these journal submissions
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by Derbasti 5y ago
This is what my dissertation was about, in a different field: Everyone using the same datasets, even though they are severely flawed. As it turned out, differences between datasets proved significantly larger (by a big margin) than differen
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by Derbasti 5y ago
I think the point is that books do highlight things: Headlines, italics, Capitalization. Just not silly technicalities like parts of speech.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
A few years ago I switched my color theme to something very simple, just as an experiment. Somehow I never found a need to change that. I highlight comments, keywords, and strings. Comment and string highlights are helpful if they contain c
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Very true. Regrettably, janitorial work is extremely hard to publish, as I had to find out. Mostly because reproducing other people's work, or comparing methods, is bound to find unfavorable conditions where a method does not work as
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by Derbasti 5y ago
I was 30-35. I had worked in the industry for a few years before that as well. But working at a company taught me very different things than the PhD did. It feels like I learned to program at the company, and I learned to think at the unive
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by Derbasti 5y ago
This is an important point. Doing a PhD is not a great choice financially (usually). But where else can you invest a few years into personal growth and attaining knowledge on your own terms? As much as my PhD was stressful and grueling at t
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by Derbasti 5y ago
> It’s certainly possible, for some problems, to automate the problem away. But other problems (for instance, finding and fixing bugs) cannot be fully abstracted, often requiring user input. I think that's not the right way to look
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Noise
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by Derbasti 5y ago
And yet it still asks for a boatload of cookies. If it really were "clean", it wouldn't need the cookie banner (see Github, for example).

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