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by gblargg 2y ago
I have a 200W LED flood light and it was the most depressing thing to shine indoors. EVERYTHING was covered in dust and filth that you wouldn't see under normal-intensity light. It felt like things had collapsed and I was surveying the
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by gblargg 2y ago
My neighbor takes them so I get the benefits too.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I did this once years ago (on Mac OS classic). I had an mp3 player I liked for its low CPU usage, but didn't like the UI. I figured out the entry points for the mp3 decoding routines and turned it basically into a library to call from
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by gblargg 2y ago
Like falling into a black hole; you don't notice as it happens, only looking back with more context.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I thought it was a source code control system at first.
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by gblargg 2y ago
They had the original actors record the lines to dub. They didn't necessarily have the budget to re-shoot the entire movie with them saying the lines in English, so that's not work lost. The "AI" here is a program that m
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by gblargg 2y ago
Wow, I didn't know Android phones were susceptible to this. Apple did this to a phone I had but I assumed Google couldn't since there are so many manufacturers with varying setups.
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by gblargg 2y ago
Fun stuff. Reminds me of writing code to restore a state snapshot for a sound module with its own processor. It had four byte-wide shared I/O registers in a row. After restoring almost all memory, I put a two-byte infinite-loop branch
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by gblargg 2y ago
Firefox supports stopping gif animations after one loop. Set image.animation_mode to once in about:config.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I assumed that's why Chuck put "up" in quotes, because it's not actually going up, but seeming to with respect for the sight line.
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by gblargg 2y ago
It's also more involved to verify operation. Graphics are easier to "measure" and compare. Sound is also much more timing-dependent, e.g. when timers are running on their own all the time. It's disconcerting when sound i
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by gblargg 2y ago
Agreed, the example immediately made me see it as an example for the Obfuscated C contest.
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by gblargg 2y ago
Block-based defer is also important when using macros that inserts blocks. They can use defer without care for how nested they are invoked.
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by gblargg 2y ago
Nobody is forced to use them. If they really want an audience swayed by arrows, I don't want to be part of their audience.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I don't want to hide the arrow. I WANT to know what channels to avoid just by looking at the thumbnail. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by gblargg 2y ago
More misleading is that it implies that all packages can be made 90% faster. This is one particular package.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I mostly skip videos with arrows in the thumbnails.
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by gblargg 2y ago
Website implemented with op amps as well?
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by gblargg 2y ago
I caught a friend's mother going through a ritual like this with the dishwasher. She had to press the heat mode or something on the dishwasher four times in a row before starting it (so it toggled it on and off twice). Who knows how th
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by gblargg 2y ago
"In the future they will carry their telescreens with them, even into the bathroom."
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by gblargg 2y ago
Or if people backed up more often.
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by gblargg 2y ago
https://archive.is/G6I98 (for those not wanting to enable JavaScript)
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by gblargg 2y ago
I had to stop getting Samsung Pro Endurance microSD cards after three in a row failed after a few months (write speed dropped below 2 MB/s). This was after the update to the blue and white color scheme (and higher endurance figures, ha
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by gblargg 2y ago
> A failsafe firmware reset back to factory state. Or perhaps to the very first released firmware version. This way they don't have to support updating from any version to the latest, just from the first one.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I made the mistake of updating my HIKMICRO mini thermal camera. Before it worked as a normal UVC USB webcam with any app or camera/video program on the PC. After it just has weird green coloration with hardly any variation, and only wo
596.
by gblargg 2y ago
You make a good point about being quirky. People using these "font" tools for Unicode should at least know about the problems it creates so they don't think it works smoothly like proper font styling. Personally my brain clas
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by gblargg 2y ago
You don't just prevent accessibility software from reading it, you likely stop most software from reading it: spell checkers, search engines, things that read it aloud (which anyone can benefit from), AI. If you want your message to ge
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by gblargg 2y ago
And unsearchable, perhaps a bonus.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I'd imagine the main way one reduces instances of these mistakes is to restrict resource ownership into certain patterns which have a clear place for freeing, and rules that ensure it's always reached, and only once.
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by gblargg 2y ago
I think the best proof of authenticity is already there, in the quirks each particular camera model has in the recording encoding. It's likely that a forgery would easily be shown to have differences in encoding when compared with a vi

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