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by chaorace 3y ago
Just spitballing a high-level implementation: 1. Color correct for the CMYK printing process 2. Load image as a pixel matrix 3. Unwrap pixel matrix into a pixel vector 4. Convert the pixel vector to HSV representation 5. Group each pixel in
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by chaorace 3y ago
FWIW: lithium-ion was also expensive chemistry. If the promise matches the reality, supply chains will eventually realign to the point where consumer applications become feasible.
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by chaorace 3y ago
I think it's more about being against the principle of piping potentially sensitive data to any third party. True, OpenAI doesn't have any real motivation to randomly pluck your data and decide to do something horrible to you
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by chaorace 3y ago
Just FYI: this is referring to USB charging stations, not EV stations. This advice has been standard in cybersecurity training for a long time now and frankly I'm surprised that this is the first time the FBI has felt the need to issue
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by chaorace 4y ago
The solution is simple: downweight all content which generates engagement of any kind
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by chaorace 4y ago
> Could it maybe work the other way, start to make the WWE more real? That would be a tragic mistake for everyone involved. People like being in on the joke when John Cena, a grown man costumed in neon green, runs around the square sta
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by chaorace 4y ago
Python has the misfortune of competing against JS in this arena, which just so happens to have the most obsessively optimized JIT ever.
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by chaorace 4y ago
> An insanely helpful community. Tons of knowledge out there for getting it to do anything you can dream of. This may actually be one of the biggest lasting impacts of the Steam Deck. It puts a lot of enthusiasts with a common interest
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by chaorace 4y ago
Apex Legends uses Epic Anti-Cheat ("EAC"). Valve collaborated with Epic to get EAC functional in Wine back in September[1]. This Wine support is an opt-in flag at build-time, so many games using EAC still remain incompatible (e.g.
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by chaorace 4y ago
Food for thought: with minimal processing, rice can be turned into a consumer-ready foodstuff that keeps for years without refridgeration. The plant itself produces a greater yield per acre than other grains and, when dried, packs an incred
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by chaorace 4y ago
> What widgets are you referring to that you found to have leaks? I'll cite myself here: https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets/issues/11... Here's another affected library [1]: http
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by chaorace 4y ago
> I've been using it for several years at this point and haven't encountered any memory leaks (it already uses so little). It's the community widgets that tend to have memory leak problems, not the core package. As mention
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by chaorace 4y ago
Counter-review: the level of control is unmatched, but it's a little too extreme, I feel. Even something as simple as a volume widget isn't included OoB. Yes, there are libraries of widgets out there, but not many -- and not a
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by chaorace 4y ago
If you folks and Jack manage to make the OLKB module a reality, you'll have me vendorlocked for life. I think I'd go so far as buying 3 of those modules just to be extra sure that I'm set with replacement parts. Uh... comple
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by chaorace 4y ago
> On their github they reference a related project called "HuggingFace" Quick jargon literacy boost: "HuggingFace" is a platform tailored to hosting and sharing ML repositories -- like Github for AI. The parent compan
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by chaorace 4y ago
Is it really the same experience, though? In newsstand publications, you can swipe up/down to skip articles and there's a special 2-pane ToC that lets you navigate by sections. I'm not even sure if the epub format has the cap
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by chaorace 4y ago
> in the medieval and early modern era the wealthy had many more surviving kids than the poor Per Figure 2 of Fertility trends by social status by Vergard Skirbekk[1], we see that -- globally -- high social class begins to exert an ove
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by chaorace 4y ago
Recursion is recursion, obviously.
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by chaorace 4y ago
It would only have explanatory value if you could prove that "intelligent" people have become relatively less fertile over time, compared to the population as a whole. Of course, historically, we see that the rich and educated upp
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by chaorace 4y ago
As a Linux user, I've given up on alternative Spotify clients. The official client sucks... but at least it works consistently and has full feature support. Instead of replacing it, I've resolved to minimize my interaction with th
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by chaorace 4y ago
Skipping to the good stuff from the patch notes: > Wangyang and Arjan reported a bottleneck in the networking code related to struct dst_entry::__refcnt. Performance tanks massively when concurrency on a dst_entry increases. > This ha
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by chaorace 4y ago
It's a persona that the system_prompt.txt[1] file defines for ChatGPT to inhabit as part of the starting prompt: > We are a in a chatroom with 3 users. 1 user is called "Human", the other is called "Backend" and
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by chaorace 4y ago
It depends on the domain. For example, recursion can be extremely useful when processing a tree of data.
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by chaorace 4y ago
The thing that really irks me is that the generator pattern doesn't have to be an OO-first feature. Observable streams[1] work with the same basic foundation and those are awesome for FP. It's really frustrating that standard
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by chaorace 4y ago
Case in point: Tail Call Optimization has been part of the JS spec since ES6, but remains completely unimplemented in all mainstream browsers/engines besides Safari[1]. For all but the most predictable inputs, you're pretty much f
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by chaorace 4y ago
I think the core problem is that it's very hard to create an AI that's impressionable enough to internalize a conversation without being so impressionable as to turn into putty in a skilled user's hands. If you ask me, the be
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by chaorace 4y ago
While it's very civil of you to wish recovery upon LastPass, I don't really think the product is deserving of redemption. This is not the first major incident and it demonstrates little growth in relation to prior breaches. The
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by chaorace 4y ago
> there are generally two necessary aspects to "getting good": game knowledge and understanding your opponent At the risk of overcomplicating an astute observation, I'd say that there are actually three aspects: game knowl
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by chaorace 4y ago
If anything, this strikes me as a person who just really didn't like what they were doing and eventually imploded along their own personal fault-lines. Not to be overly reductive of their psychosis, of course -- one cannot disentangle
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by chaorace 4y ago
It's all about hardware. I've addressed it quite well with a three-pronged approach: 1. Motorized standing desk - typing from varying postures keeps strain spread out 2. Kensington trackball mouse - less hand sweeping / tempt

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