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by jasongill 2y ago
It's most definitely a LM171W02 panel in the iMac G4 which is definitely a 6-bit panel, you can see the specs here: https://www.panelook.com/modelsearch.php?keyword=LM171W02&se... all of the LM171W02 panel family a
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by jasongill 2y ago
Yes, it's an LG LM171W02-TTA1 which is a 6-bit TN panel; most (all?) TN panels of that era were 6-bit at best, so it could only display ~256k colors
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by jasongill 2y ago
"there is noticeable color banding on the screen" The LCD panel in the G4 iMac is only 6 bits per pixel, compared to 10 bits per pixel on a modern Macbook Pro or similar, so the banding is just the dithering required to display th
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by jasongill 2y ago
Yeah, I don't see anything new here, I am guessing that OP just chanced across it. This is not something that is very useful or relevant these days - it's basically abandoned at this point and only works with older versions of Pyt
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by jasongill 2y ago
Not sure if there is something new here but it looks like the same product that has been around for a few years now (wasn't Coral released in 2019-ish?)
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by jasongill 2y ago
I have not; we had a spring "pillow top" mattress and I got the Casper on a whim as a gift for the wife, but after a few years she had enough of the edge of the bed being so soft and hard to sit on without sliding off and she shop
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by jasongill 2y ago
My problem, ultimately, was that my SCM muscles were extremely overworked and felt like I was hiding two brautwursts in my neck - the muscles were so tight that they were pinching some kind of nerves and sending referred pain to my head and
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by jasongill 2y ago
If anyone is suffering from chronic pain that is referred pain from the neck and shoulders, are you sleeping on a memory foam mattress? I "upgraded" to a Casper mattress in 2019 and it took 5 years of debilitating referred pain an
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by jasongill 2y ago
Thank you; yes, he had a clinical history of colitis and other stomach issues, and had visited the ER due to abdominal pain over a weekend. On Tuesday he collapsed at home and was gone. I don't know what transpired with the doctor (and
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by jasongill 2y ago
This article is timely - I just returned home yesterday from the funeral of a very close friend who died of sepsis. He was told at the ER that he just needed to go home and rest and that his stomach pain was likely a colitis flare-up. I won
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by jasongill 2y ago
I have had "move our PHP infrastructure to FrankenPHP" on my todo list for the last year or two - it's Caddy combined with PHP in Go
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by jasongill 2y ago
Apparently, the answer is "yes"
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by jasongill 2y ago
I think the Balatro background is a shader but the technique and effect it gives are different - this one has a static "ring" that shrinks as it moves inward to the horizon, the Balatro one has a fluid motion to it. The Balatro ba
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by jasongill 2y ago
> A Pentium 233MMX is capable of DVD playback No they aren't. DVD playback on early systems was hardware based using an MPEG2 decoder (often included on the sound card that came packed in with the DVD drive, or on some video cards o
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by jasongill 2y ago
I am not a cartographer or any type of a data visualization expert, but isn't the advantage of the hexagon map - the fact that it "highlights trends that are often masked by the geographical quirks of actual state boundaries"
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by jasongill 2y ago
I have seen attacks where directly visiting the site doesn't show anything out of the ordinary, but visits coming from Google (referer) show different content. Have also seen ones where only User-Agent: Googlebot would see the modified
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by jasongill 2y ago
I believe that Apple's platform is called visionOS
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by jasongill 2y ago
Once you do spend a significant amount of money, you'll find that the limits you can set yourself might not even work. We have a multi-organization OpenAI account and I had set a $4k/month limit on one of the child orgs that was b
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by jasongill 2y ago
Not everything in the world has to be written like a manpage. This was an excellent piece that was well written in a unique and engaging style - almost like a Chuck Palahniuk book or something. Written words and spoken words are two very di
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by jasongill 2y ago
an intimate discussion of his life and how it was forever changed by being a telemarketer? It was actually a very interesting and well written read - an autobiography disguised as a sales advice article.
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by jasongill 2y ago
Huh? You're saying that we didn't go to the moon (we did) and your proof is that the computers weren't as powerful as you would have expected them to be? We managed to build nuclear weapons before digital computers were even
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by jasongill 2y ago
So did the Shuttle; all of the Shuttle SRB's were recovered (with one obvious exception) and refurbished and reused at least in part. It wouldn't make sense for either Shuttle or SLS to drop them on the ground
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by jasongill 2y ago
I forwarded your resume to a couple agencies in eastern europe that I know of, as well as a friend in Novosibirsk best of luck to you in 2025!
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by jasongill 2y ago
Can you send me an email (my HN username @ gmail.com) with your resume or some code samples? I have worked with programmers based in Novosibirsk for 20 years and can try to help connect you. No promises but at least can refer you to some pe
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by jasongill 2y ago
You are 100% right. We have the previous "biggest" Echo Show display prominently mounted in the kitchen. Up until about a month ago, we just had the annoyance of periodically having to go in and disable some new "channel&quot
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by jasongill 2y ago
Yes, that's why I commented, because the article's core complaint is about the fact that the OS'es Gatekeeper feature does an OCSP certificate validation whenever an app is launched and there's no way to disable it, and
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by jasongill 2y ago
The core of this article, if I understand it correctly, is that macOS pings Apple to make sure that apps you open are safe before opening them. This check contains some sort of unique string about the app being opened, and then there is a b
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by jasongill 2y ago
I have been using Golang recently and have the exact opposite feeling about it, which is likely due to my limited exposure to it. Needing to constantly check if a specific return value is not nil just seems so sloppy but I have yet to come
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by jasongill 2y ago
Because most people don't build their toolchain from source anymore. When I am trying to help a junior programmer get up and going, it's a lot easier to say "OK, just do `brew install uv` then `uv sync` in the project folder
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by jasongill 2y ago
I haven't measured in a while and I don't feel "weak" per se, but I did notice in the mirror that my left bicep seems to be smaller than I remembered (and that's an area that I don't really have any fat buildup

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