jimbo1qaz

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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I recall someone once designed an image format which stored (image width - 1), and added 1 to the image dimensions while decoding. That eliminates an edge case, but no clue what would happen with MAX_INT image size...
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Why do both Windows and FreeType "faux italic" tilt the font too much for my liking? And why is the "point of zero tilt" at the baseline rather than 25-50% of the way up? This makes faux-italic text appear to be too far
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
From my own reading experience, I found that individually lit "RGB" clusters tend to be white, wherease "GBR" is fuzzy(?) and "BRG" tends to appear purple on the left but green on the right. This is because the
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I think Chrome (PC/Android) implements synthetic bold by expanding the glyph outline, then drawing it with subpixel off. It's prettier than Firefox's "horizontal-only extrusion", but sometimes leads to funny artifac
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
>Unfortunately, the only git clients that draw straight or almost straight branches, GitKraken and SourceTree, are not open-source, thus we will have to design our own algorithm. Jetbrains Community Edition IDEs have straight branches (I
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Liao Dynasty(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jimbo1qaz 7y ago|0 comments
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I prefer e^(i * 2pi) = 1 (or any multiple of i 2pi). 2pi (or tau) is simply a more fundamental constant for nearly all formulas related to trigonometry and DSP (excluding the sinc function).
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Bug: If you move the harmonic-count slider to the left and redraw the wave, the slider moves to the right... If you press Play right after redrawing the wave, the harmonics are there. If you keep spamming Play as the right side of the image
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
In my experience with type inference (quite a bit of mypy, now learning rust), inferring local variable types based on what's assigned to it is not very confusing, as long as me or the IDE can figure out what type is being assigned. Bu
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Misbehaving Signals(vector-of-bool.github.io)
3 points by jimbo1qaz 7y ago|0 comments
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
The Asian values of "respect your parents" and "children have a duty to parents" impedes the ability of abused children to realize that something is wrong. Parents, by making an explicit choice to have kids, are bound to
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Reminds me of nushell, which pipes around 2D tables (which can instead store hierarchical structured data, for example when reading toml files): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Qt is primarily LGPL with some GPL modules, and sells commercial dual-licenses.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I have perfectly normal vision (no nystagmus that I know of), and still notice PWM LED displays moving relative to the surrounding microwave, when my eyes move around.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I am not surprised that CamScanner included a malicious advertising SDK, considering Exodus Privacy shows it has 17-19 trackers: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/search/com....
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
>The background in the following images is barely distinguishable with Inferno (which is already punchier than Viridis), but clear with Turbo.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
>numerical (binary) formats are strictly superior, especially as they're used increasingly often. It's better to have good tools that will provide a human-readable representation, rather than pretend a single, inefficient repre
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Can you provide some actual arguments as to what's wrong with JSON? It's a text format that can be inspected by humans, unlike binary formats. (Maybe IMAP is a text format too, so this isn't an advantage inherently) And JMAP
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I use prezto's 2-3 letter aliases. But that doesn't help when I run `git reset --hard` (or gwR) and erase changes I don't know exist. I wish I could move HEAD to a different commit (git reset), and apply (new HEAD - old HEAD)
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn > In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes ca
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I prefer writing UI by hand, rather than using Qt Designer. In C++, I figured out a few simple macros to automatically redefine `auto w` and `auto l` to refer to the parent widget and layout. Is there a reason Qt Designer generates .cpp fil
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
So Gaussian curvature reuses the words "convex" and "concave" to mean things entirely different from the everyday/lens usage?
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
So the outside of a sphere is convex (positive curvature), a saddle is concave (negative curvature)... and the inside of a sphere (AKA a concave mirror/lens) is also convex (positive curvature)?
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
After typing cc(), nothing I type works: Firefox: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token Chrome: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
You can disable the network adapter from the setup screen. On the setup screen, press Shift+F10 to open cmd. netsh interface show interface netsh interface set interface "YOUR-ADAPTER-NAME" disable
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Magisk (Android rooted-phone modding platform) has a Tethering Enabler module, but it hasn't been updated to recent versions of Magisk (Magisk constantly breaks compatibility with older modules). There was an update not released on the
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
This is analogous to desktop.ini on Windows Explorer, or .directory on KDE Dolphin.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Android does have the FULL_INTERNET_ACCESS permission, but the UI hides it pretty well, to discourage people from rejecting apps with advertising.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I believe Go is weaker than Python. Python dataclasses/attrs (effectively structs) raise an error instead of silently doing the wrong thing, if you omit a constructor keyword parameter. You can still supply default values, which makes
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Going into this paper, i expected they would be correcting for barrel distortion. I was disappointed to read that they instead: >we formulate an optimization problem to create a content-aware warping mesh which locally adapts to the ster

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