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by a_e_k 6y ago
Likewise, the typical alarm clock icon depicting an analogue clock with physical bells on top is also laughably out of date. But it's recognizable!
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by a_e_k 6y ago
- Stand up an ad-hoc web server with `python -m http.server 8000` and use it fetch some photos onto the desktop over local wifi. - Having a backup of my private repos and dot files that's always with me. Easily keep them up to date wi
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by a_e_k 6y ago
This one has some pretty distracting artifacts to my eye. The red and white pattern on the first woman's shoulder blurs and swims, while the door latch behind the woman with the mask follows her shoulder and even changes size.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
And Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Del, Shift+Ins work out of the box in (windowed) Emacs, too.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
That's pretty awesome! I'll have to check that out on my next walk. BTW, 5 blocks due east of there (by street numbering), I ran across a house decorated with a Totoro theme -- a bus stop sign by the driveway labelled for the Cat
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Oddly, I could see that maybe working if Totoro goes second: "The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Excellent! I was hoping that someone would notice that and get a small chuckle out of it.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Where do you rest your hands when you pause from typing? Or do you have to go back and forth over the nearer keys all the time?
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I expect I will be the first, unless someone takes what I've posted here and uses it to create and publish their own before I write up mine (or the original one used for the contest gets published). Still, I've posted a new image
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Thanks for the heads up. That's odd since it works for me in Firefox (on both desktop and the new mobile) and I don't think I've had to do force enable anything. But it is true that I need to get a certificate and upgrade it
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by a_e_k 6y ago
As the sibling comments here say, that should certainly be possible. However, I don't think that would result in any real compression. At 433 bytes, the DeCSS code takes 3464 bits. Reading the Wikipedia page you linked tells me that
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Yes, the impressive thing to me was discovering just how many such pieces he managed to cram in to a such a small amount of source code, and the judiciousness with which he chose them. While working on an encoder for it (for a future post!)
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A Tour of the Tiny and Obfuscated Image Decoder(eastfarthing.com)
58 points by a_e_k 6y ago|16 comments
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by a_e_k 6y ago
There's been some discussion on HN [1] of this IOCCC-winning program by Fabrice Bellard before, but no real explanation of how it works. This post is my attempt at a thorough exegesis (and something of a tutorial on modern lossy image
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Careful there with that "legit" solution! With extreme values, it can cause overflows and other weird behavior. For example, in Javascript with: x = 2 y = 9007199254740991 then: x = x + y // 900719925
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I'd been wondering if this was a friendly fork. Glad to see it has his blessing.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Did you mean [x,y,z,w]*M? For textbox use, my workaround is to write [x,y,z,w]^T when I want to be clear that I really mean a column vector. Incidentally, your comment inspired me to go spelunking through some old tech memos (Standard discl
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by a_e_k 6y ago
I also view my PC as a tool for doing work (especially these days) and the gaming I do on it is a side-benefit subsidized by said work.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
The old mobile design is still there. You can add .compact to the end of any Reddit URL to get it.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
> Imagine if your electricity company only allowed 'approved Toasters' on their electric grid, complete with special plugins, and a 30% cut of the device. You mean like the days when Ma Bell limited the selection of phones that
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Moxy Fruvous also did a song inspired by the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUdmFecExo
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Adobe had been pretty open with PostScript. From the PostScript Language Reference, 3rd Ed: > However, Adobe desires to promote the use of the PostScript language for information interchange among diverse products and applications. Acco
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by a_e_k 6y ago
A Wilson cloud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_cloud
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Also known as a Wilson cloud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_cloud
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by a_e_k 6y ago
They also tend to have ways to override those heuristics (e.g., `__attribute__((noinline))` in GCC).
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by a_e_k 6y ago
The way I read it was that they'd tortured Stratton and he had the scars as evidence to prove that they had. They might have been tempted to just quietly execute him at the end, dump his body to hide that he had been tortured, and the
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Yes, this is definitely an interesting question. Earlier this year I implemented a version of trellis quantization for some compression experiments that I've been tinkering with in my spare time. My code considers more possibilities
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by a_e_k 6y ago
> As the listener, before responding, it's a good habit to say "This is what I understand about your proposal" and proceed to summarize and give the original speaker an opportunity to correct you. I find a practice like th
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by a_e_k 6y ago
In particular, (0.5, 0.5) pixel centers together with a 1×1 box filter makes for a decent approximation to the square pixels on a display.
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by a_e_k 6y ago
Speaking of information already saved, one of my favorite pizza places has my order history keyed to my phone number. Ordering ahead usually comes down to dialing them up, giving my name and phone number and telling them I'd like the s

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