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by jcl 9y ago
Heh... the current MacBook Pros only have USB-C ports, so MacBook users now similarly need display adapters until USB-C becomes common.
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by jcl 9y ago
I've noticed Google is pretty good about finding exact matches when you put the search terms in quotes.
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by jcl 9y ago
Curiously, it seems hexachromacy is already within the realm of biological possibility for human females. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachromacy#Animals_that_are...
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by jcl 10y ago
I'm surprised there are no comments here about the code! It looks like the characters of the font are specified programmatically on top of a self-contained glyph-drawing library, all written in a custom Lisp dialect ("patel"
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by jcl 10y ago
I expect it was due getting early traction with indie filmmakers, particularly through its early support for high-definition videos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo
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by jcl 10y ago
CSS to the rescue! :) https://jsfiddle.net/54bpngL3/
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by jcl 10y ago
I personally was convinced Lyft was more moral when Uber employees did things like booking Lyft rides for the purposes of recruiting away the drivers or making fake Lyft accounts to book and cancel thousands of rides. As far as I can tell,
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by jcl 10y ago
These can be convenient if you are only entering text manually. But remapping regular -- albeit rare -- text sequences can have unexpected results when pasting copied content into insert mode in a terminal window. I've been bitten by
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by jcl 10y ago
Blender would seem to be another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History
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by jcl 10y ago
My understanding is that they don't bring the service to exactly the SLO... To prevent overreliance on a service, it can be sufficient to introduce some level of failure, which may still be well above the SLO. http://danl
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by jcl 10y ago
Lovely summary, thanks! I kind of wish the video description linked either to that page or directly to the creator's linked Pouet comment, as they do a pretty good job explaining why the demo is significant. http://www.poue
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by jcl 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_(spacer)
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by jcl 10y ago
Yow... Reminds me of the bug on the first Android phone where all keyboard input was also quietly fed to a root prompt, such that you could reboot the phone by typing "<enter>reboot<enter>" at any time. ( https:/
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by jcl 10y ago
FWIW, there was a BBC article about always-on audio detector apps. Describing an Android proof-of-concept app: "The battery drain during our experiments was minimal and, using wi-fi, there was no data plan spike." http:/&#x
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by jcl 10y ago
On the other hand, humans also have the common sense not to (e.g.) follow the tracks of a car that has spun off the road. I'd expect logic at that level might be more difficult to train for than the relatively low-level visual task of
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by jcl 10y ago
When reducing SVGs for data urls, I've found you can reduce size even further by scaling the image up, then rounding coordinates to integers. I've written a few scripts to assist with this, but I imagine you could get a similar e
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by jcl 10y ago
I believe this is the actual report: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db267.pdf I noticed that the "top ten cause" chart doesn't have an "other" column, but it looks like that
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by jcl 10y ago
"Put very simply: don’t destroy what you don’t understand." The Chesterton's Fence story has always bothered me. The moral puts all blame on the person challenging the fence for not coming to the same conclusions as the buil
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by jcl 10y ago
The author's experience is consistent with my own... Most incidents of wrist/hand discomfort that I've experienced have started in cold or drafty environments. In these cases, I've found fingerless gloves have helped,
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by jcl 10y ago
FWIW, Crack Dot Com's "Abuse", a 1996 platformer, used a Lisp for scripting level logic and AI: https://github.com/antrad/Abuse_1996/tree/master/data/lisp
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by jcl 10y ago
Looks like it's distributed under Apache 2.0, which means it's open source. Whether they take contributions or not is not really relevant to open-sourceness -- under an appropriate license anyone can use the source to run their ow
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by jcl 10y ago
The Scientific American article linked in the article actually uses "HPM" throughout, but it also mentions a "high-powered microwave pulse", which I imagine is what "HMP" actually refers to, analogous to EMP.
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by jcl 10y ago
Likewise, if you're just interested in learning the material, check out alternatives at the big expensive art schools themselves. For example, RISD offers 2-year certificate programs for about $10k. They're composed of community
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by jcl 10y ago
If it helps any, this link seems to work for me to reach the github status page (requires https certificate override, of course): https://107.22.212.99/
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by jcl 10y ago
This link seems to work for me to reach the github status page (requires https certificate override, of course): https://107.22.212.99/ (Alias for https://status.github.com , via https://octostatus-967
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by jcl 10y ago
...and, strictly speaking, the subtractive colors that closest match the typical human eye are cyan, magenta, and yellow -- the "CMY" of CMYK printer inks. Using red, yellow, and blue as subtractive colors gets you a big enough g
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by jcl 10y ago
It looks like they are using a "multi-scale structural similarity" (MS-SIM) metric as a proxy for how well a human will think a compressed image reproduces the original image. Both the JPEG and the RNN images are compressed to th
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by jcl 10y ago
One example predating computers is "henohenomoheji", a face made out of Japanese hiragana, used as a generic face in children's art and crafts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henohenomoheji
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by jcl 10y ago
He must be in some part of their target market, considering that Apple has offered the MacBook Pro 13-inch form factor essentially unchanged for the last 10 years. (...with non-retina display, superdrive, ethernet jack, kensington lock s
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by jcl 10y ago
APM numbers are actions-per-minute, not the actions-per-unit-per-minute measurement in which the AI's performance is reported. It's not clear how the two map to each other -- the AI may well be exceeding human performance when mu

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