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by dahart 2y ago
You have very valid points, variation in CRTs was very high back in the day, and the example image does have a gamma/brightness discrepancy, I agree with that. Back when CRTs were dominant, gamma and brightness were all over the map, a
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by dahart 2y ago
> No one was sitting down and factoring in blur, scanlines, phosphor persistence, or etc. Sure they did, implicitly, as a byproduct of using what they had and developing game art on CRTs. That’s the whole point; using the CRT affects you
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by dahart 2y ago
Please don’t forget about 2nd definitions of words, and idioms. The stylistic note here is to be really careful when language policing. From what I’ve seen, it’s almost always wrong and backfires looking bad on you to claim other people’s
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by dahart 2y ago
Perhaps too simplistic since tenure is not the only way to “make it” in academia. Many people have academic careers without making tenure. You’ve also excluded people who publish impactful work, spend time teaching, and leave before seeking
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by dahart 2y ago
Yes, exactly. Both are useful depending on what question is being asked. Either one will need additional conversion if you ask a different question than the measure was designed to answer.
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by dahart 2y ago
I guess I wasn’t clear. Maybe this is one of those cases where it’s hard to get the terminology right in a way that isn’t prone to being misread. Both our comments “Pixels per angle is constant regardless of viewing distance”, and “PPD does
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by dahart 2y ago
Note that link credits Leon. (I’d swear I heard this variation much earlier, but maybe I’m totally wrong.)
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by dahart 2y ago
Human eye resolution is in units of pixels per degree, and not PPI or DPI. Pixels per angle is constant regardless of viewing distance, where DPI has to be converted in order to understand whether a display is high or low resolution. And DP
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by dahart 2y ago
Do you know how many words it had, how accurate it was, and whether it used the disk for lookup? Do you know if it was a port of unix spell?
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by dahart 2y ago
I’m curious - what is Dylan really for? Who should use it, and in what situations? I totally could have missed something obvious, but I read through the intro and the ‘Tour’, and it has a lot of detail about what the language is, but not mu
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by dahart 2y ago
> For want of a better term, I've called this Zigzag order. I learned this has a technical name: the zigzag order is called “Boustrophedonic”, after the Ancient Greek tablets where they wrote right-to-left on one line, then left-to-
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by dahart 2y ago
> However my point is valid for print too I guess. What do you mean? You asked how kids can write without learning cursive, and print is the answer how. What is your point about print? Cursive might be faster for an experienced writer (t
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by dahart 2y ago
Looks entirely accurate except for the end. It’s interesting it didn’t catch “I am” or George’s name correctly, given how difficult some of the text is on this page. Edit: Oh I see from another thread this OCR site is your creation. Nice wo
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by dahart 2y ago
Consider using the reply feature so that your comment appears in context. Also your link goes to the wrong page. Here’s the right one: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/34384201?objectPage=190
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by dahart 2y ago
Oh, so why did you ask ‘renters of what?’ and start talking about home rental? Well, I think it’s unrealistic to not expect car rentals to track their cars. Renting gardening tools might be a different story. However, SASS subscriptions are
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by dahart 2y ago
Renters of cars. Was that not clear from the context? Question was whether data collection and loss of privacy on rental cars should be expected by renters of cars.
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by dahart 2y ago
Maybe the description the author found was describing a tendency of a riderless bike to stay upright? Counter-steering is involved there but I’m not sure it’s the most significant bit. That is a good video though!
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by dahart 2y ago
How long though? I learned the hard way too. It’s worked for lots of people the hard way. But I think there’s lots of evidence now that balance bikes are faster to learn on average. Taking the pedals off is what removes the fear. Steering j
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by dahart 2y ago
> Why I don’t understand, why is it accepted, that both pedestrians and motorists should “watch out for cyclists”, yet there is absolutely no campaigns for cyclists to watch out for cars and pedestrians and to follow the law. There are s
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by dahart 2y ago
In many locales, bikes are legally allowed to run red lights, if there’s no cross traffic coming. Bikes do have to yield to pedestrians, I’m not sure why you think otherwise.
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by dahart 2y ago
Ah I misunderstood. Maybe that is just down to game quality & art style?
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by dahart 2y ago
I’d be curious if you can find some examples of superior UE1 graphics compared to the best of what you can find in UE5. If your question is based on your memory from 98, I would assume the answer is that UE1 graphics is not superior to toda
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by dahart 2y ago
Similar techniques are used, UE5 has Precomputed Visibility Volumes and Cull Distance Volumes, among other render optimizations. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/... https:/&#
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by dahart 2y ago
Fair enough, but it’s called a disorder for a reason. It’s still reasonable for people to talk about the known link between sun and sleep by default, and not assume something’s wrong with you, right? It sounds like you were already aware wh
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by dahart 2y ago
> Fight the sunlight? What the hell do you even mean?! Are you not getting much sunlight? I can understand the reaction to being told something that doesn’t match your experience. But. The link between sunlight and sleep for most life on
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by dahart 2y ago
I don’t know where the trash came from, but it’s frustrating to have someone who doesn’t know anything contradicting my observations. Why are you speculating wildly about where I was, and making assumptions about something you haven’t seen
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by dahart 2y ago
The preceding paragraph says the exact opposite, but I can take the point that multiple sources are saying fishing trash is significant. It doesn’t sound like the trash visible near Mexico is the same as what they call the Pacific Garbage P
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by dahart 2y ago
> Now you’re just being patronising. Jesus Christ, I was just trying to be nice. Your defensiveness is repeatedly leading to misunderstanding and getting in the way of us having a productive conversation. > Right, so now we’re talking
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by dahart 2y ago
This is cool. It’d be interesting to compare the authoring UI & workflow & relative merits of curve-authored terrain to surfel-authored terrain. And those should be compared to patch & poly workflows, as well as painting tools l
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by dahart 2y ago
> Non-primitive recursive functions can’t be converted to iteration. That’s not true, I think you’re misunderstanding the article you linked to. Primitive recursive functions require fixed bounds, but that is not the same thing as all it

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