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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Poe's law strikes again!
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
I think the difference is between: "OK, but what do you mean by quickly?" and "Oh that's great to hear. What is impressing you most?"
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
The newer JPEG algorithm JPEG2000 uses Wavelet Transforms which is kind of similar to the Fourier. The Fourier applies a finite window then decomposes into a sum of infinite waveforms. The Wavelet on the other hand applies no windowing func
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Sounds completely unobtainable. Lifestyle at least sounds like a choice that a person could make, and have control over.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Stephenson wrote this about text editors: > emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish [1] I th
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
A wise man once said "More money than brains"
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
I know this isn't the point of the article, but: > developers focus on useless UX features This is the number one reason I have personally delivered poor quality software.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Funny, the Linux kernel performs excellently on my $35, 800MHz, 400mA ARM RaspberryPi embedded machine, my x86 desktop, and some of the world's largest supercomputers with who knows what architecture. For a company with hundreds of mil
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
This is the most soul-crushing category of bug, the kind which keeps me up all night, drinking. Build a skyscraper, and lock the keys inside for the ribbon cutting. Sorry pal you lost your funding Land on Mars, see an alien, but your camera
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Any time you hear "profits are X" remember that is the vocabulary used by our aristocrats as shorthand for "standards of living for the proletariat are X." In other words, we should be grateful for the gifts blessed upon
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Is it really fair to lump Jared Diamond in with Malcom Gladwell? Diamond writes about a career of firsthand research, and has won a Pulitzer prize. His field of study (traditional societies) is by its very nature shrinking daily, and requir
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Cool, I look forward to the next version (17) and the one after that too (28). This is the first Fibonacci version number scheme I've seen, maybe in the spirit of how TeX keeps adding digits of pi.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
I both play video games and experiment with new technologies at home. I don't think it's strange to use the same card for play and research.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Tried to drive up a set of stairs; was promptly placed inside the geometry.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Did I miss something in the article? Where did you get that information? Here's the complete text of the linked article: Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement authorities raided an Internet site that served as a marketplace for
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
More idiomatic Python, and quite clear IMHO print sum(x if x % 3 == 0 or x % 5 == 0 else 0 for x in range(1, 1000))
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
I don't like it any more than you, but to Samsung and its investors, the undeletable Pizza Hut bookmark is a feature. Not only does it generate additional revenue with little additional design time, but it also indicates that Samsung h
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
It's truly the gold standard, if alchemy worked.
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
What's the target market, aside from hackers trying to get familiar with the board, or maybe some really basic debugging? Is exposing pin-level hardware details over an HTTP API really helpful for building larger applications? And why
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
> You can't design a driver for a card without knowing everything about the card Strongly disagree with that statement, though I sincerely wish it were true. My company manufactures hardware and does not provide a reference driver f
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
To confirm or disprove your idea, you could look at the output of the battery charger rather than the input to it. In general, AC-DC converters are pretty insensitive to the harmonic content of the AC input because their role is to remove a
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
SV tech giants creates artificial demand in SF by providing premium buses, without motivating any sort of supply. Developers can't choose to say, build more housing near the place of employment in SF because there isn't one. The c
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
Reminds me of "here's one weird tip to prevent unlawful search and seizure"
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by Sheepshow 13y ago
I guess Google really started taking advantage of "today's digital internet" > Adding "no follow" tags to your Robots.txt file is a smart step but it's simply not enough on today's digital internet.