galago

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by galago 10y ago
I think beachstartup may be referring to mechanisms that create dependency.
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by galago 10y ago
If you use LaTeX for typesetting, the document class for slideshow presentations is called Beemer. My understanding is that this is a German psuedo-anglicism related to projectors.
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by galago 10y ago
You're right in general, but you gave the example of jpeg, mpeg and mp3 which are all lossy compression. LZW/ZIP compressed images are lossless. I suspect that applying Zip compression to font files might not reduce file size enou
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by galago 10y ago
All men.
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by galago 10y ago
I own both Canon and Nikon bodies and covert everything to DNG as a permanent storage format. Some cameras (Leica!) use DNG as their native format. If he's simplifying for the masses, its a simplification, but not much different from h
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by galago 10y ago
Isn't the emission of light from modern displays much more continuous, which is why cats now see what's happening?
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by galago 10y ago
The standard-known-framerates predate video--both CRT video and modern displays. Its useful to consider how a traditional mechanical movie projector worked with flashing stopped film vs. a persistent modern display. I would love to hear mor
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by galago 10y ago
You're right, and I think that if machines like this worked as claimed, we would see commercial laundries using them first.
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by galago 10y ago
It sounds like a 'cash heavy' business that might not want a lot of regulatory scrutiny. Plus, the choice spots might technically be in violation of some NYC code and they don't want the cops getting precise about what is and
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by galago 10y ago
Ha! You type "P" for the symbol-- so he doesn't have his own Unicode codepoint? The font may have an ambiguous license, but it appears that it was meant to be widely distributed to promote Prince. Is it available anywhere?
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by galago 10y ago
No, a 'font' is a tool for the mechanical representation of text. First with wood/metal, then with later technologies. Hand drawn letters are in scripts or styles. I think I've been too charitable with my words.
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by galago 10y ago
What's the linguistic term for retroactively applying a word like this? Its like referring to a horse-drawn cart as a "medieval car". I don't think calligraphers would get too upset about it--and maybe contemporary Engli
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by galago 11y ago
Has no one mentioned Basic English yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
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Student put 50M stolen research articles online(washingtonpost.com)
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by galago 11y ago
They do hint at, but don't examine from a technical perspective some of the strangeness associated with dingbats. For example, 'n' in an Office application was/is mapped to a picture of a skull, even though a skull has a
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by galago 11y ago
Your link doesn't imply that. It suggests that "other" is the category replacing iOS in the market, which are no-name brands. Its not a trend where consumers are paying $450 for a Google product, but one where they're pa
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by galago 11y ago
http://www.greenbot.com/article/3012675/android/google-pixel... I feel like this article does a good job of explaining why it isn't selling well. MS Surface is a messy device in the sense that it cobbles
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by galago 11y ago
:/
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by galago 11y ago
These things aren't mutually exclusive. I think there are events that occurred around periods of climate change, which may have caused changes in animal or human migration. This could lead to warfare, or even more simply disease transm
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by galago 11y ago
Over the last five years, the Canadian Dollar has declined more against the Yuan than the Euro or USD. It is mentioned in the article. I think that explains why Chinese investors purchase more property in Vancouver than say, Seattle.
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by galago 11y ago
The two main commuter cyclists in my office have belt-drive bikes, so bicycle technology hasn't completely ossified. They also have disk brakes, and seeing how this is wintertime in New England, they're also rocking studded tires.
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by galago 11y ago
I would love to see this type of analysis applied to other non-Latin writing systems. Also interesting would be a Chinese/Japanese comparison given that Japanese is a hybrid system.
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by galago 11y ago
Perhaps its a limitation of our form of democracy, but if voters think the presidents job 'is to keep the American people safe' and they vote in said direction--well, that's the de-facto job. If the president is comfortable o
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by galago 11y ago
I shoot large (4x5) and medium format film. I think that the 'resolution' is complicated by the entire workflow. He's using a very old lens with a very imprecise camera and imprecise film. The images should probably described
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by galago 11y ago
A couple years ago, one of my ears had wax buildup that made it hard to hear; the nurse who treated me didn't use a Q-Tip, but rather a syringe filled with warm water. She basically said the same things as the article, that removing wa
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by galago 11y ago
Are people downvoting because the things you mentioned aren't actually very effective? The veterans were possibly expecting a certain level of service (as compensation) and they haven't received it. This goes back to things like t
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by galago 11y ago
OK, say you're in Manhattan. Assuming a private car, instead of paying for a garage, should it be acceptable to just leave an automated car driving around, or instead, driving outward until it finds a public space? Would it result in c
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by galago 11y ago
Also, is there a new kind of 'road rage' where one's automated car is defeated in some way by someone else's automated car? Or, if one is blocked out by superior automation? I'm a bit new to thinking about this, but
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by galago 11y ago
This should be interesting. If I were in a Walmart parking lot facing an empty car and it was trying to take a space, I would probably accelerate at it assuming it would back off, since there's no one who cares. If everyone did this, w
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by galago 11y ago
I encountered a Mexican kid outside my house (I live in the USA) who was asking me if I knew where there was WiFi. It turns out he was new to the USA and had a cheap Android phone. From our conversation I realized that all of his communic

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