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541.
by barrkel 3y ago
You need to synchronize the spin rate of the drums on either end. If there's a difference of half a rotation over however many hundreds (thousands?) of rotations to transmit the photo, you'd end up with a completely distorted pict
542.
by barrkel 3y ago
Yes, I was looking for the bit where they addressed skew. You can even see it in the demo with the string, horizontal lines come out wavy after transfer to the other spool due to small differences in synchronization.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Normally how this works is that national laws dictate what an app can do when operating in the nation's territory, and it's then up to the app owner to decide whether they want to do business in that nation's territory or not
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by barrkel 3y ago
> An employee familiar with G.M.’s Smart Driver said the company’s annual revenue from the program is in the low millions of dollars. It doesn't seem in the car company's interests to take on the reputational risk for this kind
545.
by barrkel 3y ago
I found your comment by searching for "it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another" because it stood out as a fallacy.
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by barrkel 3y ago
The VCL has a window managed by TApplication and it's the window which shows up in the task bar, but it's not the application's main window, which is generally a TForm descendant. When you minimize the main window (certainly
547.
by barrkel 3y ago
Anything in Windows that could get keyboard focus basically had to be a window. If you could tab to it, window.
548.
by barrkel 3y ago
There was a fad for putting icons on dialog buttons. That was the most obvious Borland stylistic trait. Big green check mark on "OK" etc. That, and Delphi applications not having a minimize to tray animation due to the application
549.
by barrkel 3y ago
One object receiving different messages for painting its innards vs its chrome isn't particularly ugly. Most apps don't want to customize the chrome so they'll let the base class handle those messages, but the option is there
550.
by barrkel 3y ago
It's not what the HN submission says, and the title doesn't show up on mobile (Firefox).
551.
by barrkel 3y ago
This kind of writing is written less to inform others than to trigger nostalgia in people with a similar background to the writer. It's laden with jargon and uncontextualized events that you need to be an insider with similar experienc
552.
by barrkel 3y ago
The link between revisions of a commit is not explicit. Actually immutable history is fine, as long as all history is captured. But git doesn't capture all history, instead making revisions to an earlier commit is done by "rewriti
553.
by barrkel 3y ago
Git doesn't do stacked commits well (you want to rebase all downstream local branches when you modify an earlier commit) and doesn't do commit revisions well (tracking changes to earlier commits). Git hews too closely to immutable
554.
by barrkel 3y ago
I cook with peppers maybe once every couple of months, and the lead time to a decision is between 2 hours and 2 days. I also have two housecats who will eat almost anything leaf-like if the cat grass runs low. Does it make sense for me to g
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by barrkel 3y ago
To be clear, szechuan peppercorns are from various species of trees and shrubs, and are not related to chili peppers (or black pepper). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper When combined with chili pepper it&#x
556.
by barrkel 3y ago
If that's the case it didn't work - the goal of a negotiation is to come to an agreement. It's trivial to disagree.
557.
by barrkel 3y ago
Unfortunately rsync can't see the galleries populated by WhatsApp. I basically paused my backup efforts until I have the energy to configure a harder to use system like syncthing or similar.
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by barrkel 3y ago
LLMs are token completion engines. The correspondence of the text to the truth or authoritative sources is a function of being trained on text like that; with the additional wrinkle that generalization from training (a desired property or i
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by barrkel 3y ago
What is an Android TV device? Is that distinct from the FireTV? I plug my FireTV Cube into my projector. It has some kind of smart TV functionality and a second remote to go with it, but it's on a dongle and I don't plug it in bec
560.
by barrkel 3y ago
I don't have complaints about my FireTV Cube - honestly think it's a very good device. Way way faster than FireTV stick. Runs jellyfin well too.
561.
by barrkel 3y ago
This "feature" is what prevents my backup app backing up my WhatsApp photos. It's not a feature I want. I want to enable this on demand.
562.
by barrkel 3y ago
I've never seen more maximized (full screen) windows than people using MacBooks and swiping between them. Which I do too when using my MacBook.
563.
by barrkel 3y ago
> alienated a lot of people who only knew how to use Windows-like desktops This is needlessly inflamatory. Many people simply don't like macOS style desktops. In particular I like my menus attached to my windows because I don&#x
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by barrkel 3y ago
Big changes are risky. The core of making continuous deployment work safely is ensuring changes are small. If you have CD after a huge PR lands you are in risky territory, the chance you need to unwind is higher, but the size of the PR mean
565.
by barrkel 3y ago
Looks like a partial attempt at reimplementing Google's Piper/Critique workflow. Which works well, but not on GitHub because GitHub is not like Critique or even Gerrit. Stacked commits need frequent rewriting of the stack. You pus
566.
by barrkel 3y ago
Retry is not an unusual response to unreliable hardware, and all hardware is ultimately unreliable. Software running at scale in the cloud is written to be resilient to errors of this nature; jobs are cattle, if jobs get stuck or fail they
567.
by barrkel 3y ago
I wonder if it could identify new books with titles it's never seen before.
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by barrkel 3y ago
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/responsible-...
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by barrkel 3y ago
There's a quadrant of the market which is poorly served by the Cloud model of elastic compute: persistent local SSDs across shutdown and restart. Elastic compute means you want to be able to treat compute hardware as fungible. Persiste
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by barrkel 3y ago
Random distribution in the sort order mean the cache locality of a btree is poor - instead of inserts going to the last page, they go all over the place. Locality of batch inserts is also then bad at retrieval time, where related records ar

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