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by dahart 1y ago
Modern printing uses dithering. When you’re going from a high bit rate down to 10 bits or 8 bits, it’s completely fine to use random dithering. Random might not be as fun to write about as Bayer dither patterns, or error diffusion, but for
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by dahart 1y ago
How to build the ordered threshold map isn’t obvious, there are some very clever ideas & techniques. That said, it might help to keep the ‘threshold’ part in mind. The grey pixels turn into black & white via thresholding, i.e., dith
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by dahart 1y ago
A bummer, sorry to hear it, that sounds frustrating. The big difference might be that I found my bike for sale in the local classified ads (a couple weeks after it was stolen), and I had the thief’s phone number, before I called the cops. T
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by dahart 1y ago
As others have mentioned, the headline stat is unsurprising (which is not to say this isn’t a big problem). Here’s another datapoint, the CDC’s stats claim that rates of thoughts, ideation, and attempts at suicide in the US are much higher
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by dahart 1y ago
I helped catch one of these repeat offenders when my bike was stolen. When it was recovered they told me they had a huge warehouse of bikes that nobody would claim, and mentioned 90%-ish of all bikes aren’t recovered and they were having sp
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by dahart 1y ago
I see, and I agree completely. I don’t see the CTO as having that role, but you’re right I guess some people do. That’s one reason it makes sense to at least try to put some definition to the role, isn’t it? To help people realize it’s not
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In my experience, yes in startups, and no in large corporations.
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by dahart 1y ago
> The one thing I can think of is “organization-wide architecture oversight”, which is a pretty toxic role to assign. I don’t know that I understand what you mean by toxic or why, but I’ve only ever seen the architecture overseer kind of
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by dahart 1y ago
The difference you’re tasting is primarily flavoring, not sugar density, so that’s not a great test. People can’t really tell the difference by taste between hard candy made of pure sugar and hard candy made of sugar plus cornstarch, especi
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by dahart 1y ago
There is a difference between 60% sugar and 100% sugar. Why is the difference between pure sugar and Jolly Ranchers meaningful to you? Is there a different outcome or recommendation? It’d certainly help to explain what difference you see an
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by dahart 1y ago
> Reading is def not 100% linear, as I find myself skipping ahead to see who is talking or what type of sentence I am reading (question, exclamation, statement). My initial reaction was to say speak for yourself about what reading is or
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by dahart 1y ago
Collecting money to use for providing aid is their stated purpose. When they provide aid, they are aiming for your money and it’s not a “scam”, both things can be true.
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by dahart 1y ago
There’s nothing wrong with using synthetic images when you say you’re using synthetic images. The issue is when synthetic images are implied or claimed to be real without disclosing the image provenance.
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by dahart 1y ago
Like, I agree, but at some level I’d actually rather see a fake picture of a drunk driving crash (or no picture) and know this is what the aftermath might look like but nobody died in this particular shot. For drunk driving in particular, t
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by dahart 1y ago
Was going to post this too, I bookmarked it after seeing it on HN and I use it often. Yeah it seems to help me a bit. It seems handy just to identify tinnitus tones, when you have clear tones (I not not everyone with tinnitus does). I’d be
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by dahart 1y ago
Note that the site that hosts Neuromodulator also has free client-side color noise generators, white, brown, pick, etc. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
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by dahart 1y ago
Typing in BASIC programs from magazines… brings back memories. Remember the Mad Magazine that had a program to draw Alfred E. Neumann? Here I just found it: https://meatfighter.com/mad/ That and going to the weird room
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by dahart 1y ago
The white burst generator reduces my tinnitus for a while. It’s less effective than it used to be, but when the silence part of the cycle starts, I can hear my tinnitus drop in volume. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/
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by dahart 1y ago
This comment illustrates the core problem with reductionism, a problem that has been known for many centuries, that “a system is composed entirely of its parts, but the system will have features that none of the parts have” [1] thus fails t
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by dahart 1y ago
Again, what makes you certain that this paper or any other won’t suddenly get citations and importance in the future? You simply don’t know that. It’s not even relevant whether your uninformed prediction turns out to be correct later, that
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by dahart 1y ago
Hey I appreciate your comment, but you were doing a fine job! In case it comes up later, here are another couple of resources to defend science funding: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/new-report-shows-nasas-75-...
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by dahart 1y ago
That proves… absolutely nothing? You’re demonstrating the fundamental misunderstanding of science the Golden Goose page refers to. It’s expected - and a necessary part of science - that not all papers succeed. The funny thing about this is
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by dahart 1y ago
Are there? Multiple papers? Citations please. Even if true, I have to assume there’s a high probability that you’re leaving out important context, misunderstanding the results, or just plain exaggerating.
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by dahart 1y ago
That paper seems interesting. Why are you implying it’s pointless? What is your expertise in Mammalian or evolutionary biology? How do you know this won’t contribute or lead to something useful in veterinary or human medicine, or bioenginee
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by dahart 1y ago
Tribalism is having a side that you calls yours.
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by dahart 1y ago
Oh, the very first thing I need to say is that I missed the fact that you’re not the same person who said there is no such thing as an honest advertiser and that all advertisers are scum. I did indeed assume you were defending that stance a
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by dahart 1y ago
Non-programmers and the lay public do not assume what source available means, nor what open source means, in terms of what you can and can’t do with it. Most lay people would assume that if source is available, then you can do what you want
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by dahart 1y ago
Yes we have clear & good descriptors available. I wasn’t arguing against those. I was simply pointing out that those aren’t the only definitions of the words free & open, which is a fact. It’s a fact that FSF and OSI have both use
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by dahart 1y ago
It’s fine if you want to define advertising as paid announcements here in this thread, though words have multiple definitions and I’d be willing to bet every single dictionary you checked includes definitions that don’t involve payment (I j
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by dahart 1y ago
Open source does mean source available to many people, especially the non-programmer lay-public, no matter how much OSI and people who adopt OSI’s definition dislike it, c.f. the dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/di

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