gknoy

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by gknoy 5y ago
I didn't know either. DSC is Display Stream Compression, and has been part of the spec since 1.4. According to Wikipedia [0], > DSC is a compression algorithm that reduces the size of the data stream by up to a 3:1 ratio.... Using D
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by gknoy 5y ago
I have to admit, I don't like the limited tries per day thing. I like the move limit, but it's frustrating not being able to finish the thing and have to wait for tomorrow before trying to figure out a better strategy.
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by gknoy 5y ago
Does this mean that the ice cream machines at other places are just happily dispensing unsafe food?
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by gknoy 5y ago
That would be hell. One of the best tactics I remember using on the paper one was skipping things and coming back later.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I love how whenever I log into Outlook with SSO, I'm immediately taken to a page that says I've logged out, and then have to go back 2-3 steps in my browser to a previous view of the calendar (or mail). It's like whoever rol
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by gknoy 5y ago
I'm not the parent, but I think patents for drugs are a good thing. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but the ease of copying them (once a chemical is known) combined with the cost of finding the drugs seem to fit very well w
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by gknoy 5y ago
I'm so glad you mentioned Padua's art and book. Her book ("The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage") was just a joy to read. The footnotes are magnificent, and span multiple pages, and it was just altogether ent
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by gknoy 5y ago
I think that the fact that we had irrefutable video evidence of it happening (as opposed to e.g. Martin or other "well the officer thought he had a gun" events) made it much easier to gain traction in the public consciousness. The
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by gknoy 5y ago
My guess is, it has to do with how you handle 1, 2, N. The first time we write something, we write it just for that specific case --- no point overengineering if you don't know you'll need it. (Hence the "YAGNI" advice
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by gknoy 5y ago
I still recall my father having various error messages from software (browsers, website, Word, etc), and when I'd translate them it was almost always a case of the error message being meaningful to me _but not in those words_, and so w
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by gknoy 5y ago
At some point in that line of events, where do the bulldozers come out? Is the government obligated to preserve the condition of vehicles that are effectively a roadblock? (It probably is, but at the same time .... how far are you going to
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by gknoy 5y ago
It seems like a good reason to have settings be something that are _automatically exported / stored_, so that you can put them in version control and re-fetch them later, or at least export/import.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I mean, ideally I'd like to be able to define my own don't-go-there areas, such as near airports or areas that smell bad, but having defaults that route traffic around areas like this seems good. Legislating that traffic/etc
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by gknoy 5y ago
Reading deeper on that article, you'll notice a couple of things: - they were using the lane for passing - the citation came _before_ taking more than 1.5 miles became illegal which means that they ticketed her for something that wasn&
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by gknoy 5y ago
I think you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy : An arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend.. and one much more controversial.... Th
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by gknoy 5y ago
Looking at the map, I'm surprised that Google Maps/etc don't route around such abuse. For people that have no choice but to go through there, fine, but this seems like the kind of thing that would be worth driving an extra ha
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by gknoy 5y ago
I've been able to stream Netflix, Disney+, and Prime to my TV via chromecast, and it's a weird mix. The main detriment is that for all the apps, when streaming from my phone, people watching the TV can't use the TV+Remote to
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by gknoy 5y ago
It's fairly inconvenient to have to use your phone as the remote, especially when you want to do something on your phone (or watch something else) while the kids watch netflix. We have disney+, and my TV apparently thinks we're no
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by gknoy 5y ago
While one could, it's not an idiom I (native speaker) have ever heard. I've heard "very few", but never "quite few", and I can see why hearing the latter might cause the listener/reader to mistakenly auto-
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by gknoy 5y ago
I nearly never look at individual commits in a PR. I realize that this isn't applicable to all codebases, but when troubleshooting why a bug happens, or was intended to work, I find it a lot easier to look at a squashed commit than at
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by gknoy 5y ago
The "charge more" advice I've seen, e.g. from patio11, seems to be aimed at charging _new clients_ or for _new contracts_, and in almost all cases has the caveat that one should almost never up-charge existing clients for the
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by gknoy 5y ago
> the standard way that this is done allows minor and point releases to be trusted. I feel like this event (and previous ones) has taught me that one should NOT trust patch and minor version upgrades to work. Obviously we want them to,
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by gknoy 5y ago
Interesting. I'm sure my unfamiliarity with those colors my response (for which I am sorry), but if you have experience coding in Python and/or Java, and are willing to work in those, there are likely companies looking for that (e
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by gknoy 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you consider your skills? What languages or frameworks you have experience with? Keep in mind that often your skill with a particular language is not what they're looking for - many of us have changed jobs to
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by gknoy 5y ago
Can you elaborate on why this is a good metric? It sounds plausible, but I don't understand why.
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by gknoy 5y ago
> All you had to know was that if you are trying to find some large number that is divisible by other prime numbers, the deltas between the candidates will be the product of the numbers. "All you have to know is .. {this magic}&quot
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by gknoy 5y ago
It looks like you're getting downvoted, but I think it's clear that the woman's perceived role at the time was NOT just eating bonbons. I think the fact that the cartoon portrays this in comedy and exaggerated form (just as t
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by gknoy 5y ago
It's still worth following up, especially since this is fresh in their mind from this fairly public posting. :) > At that time I was ... open to moving to another state to work for you. Now that's not much of an option Many tec
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by gknoy 5y ago
I'm sure they put the burden of proof on the person wanting the refund. Yikes.
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by gknoy 5y ago
I find what you said really interesting, mainly because I don't think I've _ever_ used likes or dislikes (or their ratio) as a metric for choosing what to watch. The most I've interacted with dislikes is when seeing some help

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