iamdead

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by iamdead 7y ago
> Apple got a lot of explaining to do for the market to justify its price tag. If it were down to feature lists and price tags, Apple wouldn't be selling very many phones. It seems Apple might be explaining itself in a way that does
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by iamdead 7y ago
To the contrary, non-gamma-correct compositing is very common, since so many programs (both historically and today) simply never bothered to do it correctly--but we get good results anyway. In most situations we wouldn't notice the dif
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by iamdead 7y ago
My hot take is that physical correctness for graphics is very much in vogue right now, but this is coming at the sacrifice of psychovisual and physiological properties of graphics. Gamma-correct compositing is one of those things that is ac
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by iamdead 7y ago
This is a pretty thorough article. Why would you focus so much on gamma correction? How would you expand it?
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by iamdead 7y ago
I know someone who converted one of these into a home-made terminal, so they could connect to the computer at school and work from home. They drilled a hole into the TV, added a socket for video input which bypassed the antenna/demodul
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by iamdead 7y ago
The story is a simplification, and that's its flaw, like most stories. My experience is that while lifetime and cost are often correlated, they aren't always, the ratio is often a curve, and the curve is different for every produc
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by iamdead 7y ago
No, you are not liable when someone robs the bank you use.
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by iamdead 7y ago
Product of zero or more primes. Otherwise you cannot factor 1.
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by iamdead 8y ago
In confidence, I’ve heard stories of simple cost-saving measures at fabs that have resulted in 9+ figures of damages. Honestly, I am impressed at how well these companies keep it out of the news. It’s a shame because the stories are really
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by iamdead 8y ago
From what I understand, Intel's 10nm process is roughly the same as 7nm processes from other foundries, and Intel's 14nm is more or less 10nm on someone else's scale.
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by iamdead 8y ago
Does anyone else remember that this feature was present in old versions of Eudora on the Mac? It would literally put icons of chili peppers on your emails to say how spicy they were.