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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Cllickbait witholds information to make you click. This headline is clickbait because it witholds information. "To fix a drowned phone, soak it in isopropyl" is better because it's a summary and conveys information.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Clickbait headline deliberately fails to explain what to use instead of rice. >What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the conductive stuff in the water. You can do this best by using 90%+ isopropyl (rub
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
44100Hz is sufficient to store any audio signal audible to every human studied to date (not dogs).
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I think QML is used for Qt Quick and not compatible with desktop-style Qt Widgets. Qt Widgets .ui files are human-unreadable, and when edited in Qt Designer, usually lead to incorrect tab order (see LMMS's settings screen). All of thes
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I somehow doubt this headline means that "A long-lost vessel from the 1800s was found by accident, when it became NOAA-tested equipment".
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
14" 1080p Windows laptops have overly small text at 100%. Lenovo uses 150% DPI by default.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Chroma subsampling is a terrible idea for non-photographic images. People are not "terrible" at color perception. I can clearly see its harmful effects to on-screen captures, line art, anime, 2d video games, or even Super Mario 64
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
In the retro console scene, sadly there are many programs with multiple independent forks which cannot be merged together. Famitracker is a NES composing program. It was originally a monolithic cathedral project written by jsr without a Git
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
LZMA is better than gzip i think. Also secrets deserves to stay in the library, Python has hashlib and it should have a secure RNG by default. glob too (or Path.glob). And I've used shlex for command-line-escape parsing (it might not h
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
- MicroG felt somewhat unmaintained, it took months for my bugfix PR to get merged. Maybe it's better now? idk... Nanodroid's fork was more active at the time, but idk if it's trustworthy or still active. - Getting SafetyNet
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
I use poetry. It has bugs (`poetry install/add/update` treats git-URL dev-dependencies as end-user dependencies). I sent a bug fix and it was not merged for months. I now use my own fork of Poetry with this fix added.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Why not "if a multi-argument list is too long to go on 1 line, each argument must go on its own line"? Maybe that would fail to put long strings on their own line?
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Mozilla Persona was deaigned so "the identity provider does not know which website the user is identifying on." But it did nto catch on. As a user, it seemed like "so i need to login to Google on Mozilla.org... it's just
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING if TYPE_CHECKING: import whatever def foo(param: 'whatever'): ...
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Twitter does pester you to log in when scrolling down someone's profile, I think. Maybe it was on mobile.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Good: - AV1 has a palette predictor designed to improve on pixel art by storing individual pixels as indexes into a palette. - Chroma from luma helps preserve exact colors in pixel art, assuming color is lonely related to brightness (won&#x
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
Maybe the notification heading should be bigger and/or bold? IDK about the app title.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
HackMD is a decent online Markdown editor.
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by jimbo1qaz 7y ago
>why offload the variable resolution to the client side when it can be done at compilation time? So I can use Stylus to override one CSS variable and change the appearance, instead of having to save the website's entire css file, fi
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
Their website has Javascript which causes every single page to spend 3 seconds stuck at a white screen before showing content. Disabling JS makes content appear nearly instantly.
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
Tex Gyre Heros, Nimbus Sans, FreeSans, all Helvetica clones.
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
This doesn't support native high DPI rendering. I think it's rendered at low DPI, and upscaled/blurry on my laptop. Other commenters have stated that it uses canvas.
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
I find type hinting to be very useful, but it has some gotchas (also present in unhinted Python), where the type you get isn't the type you expect: - Int and float from numpy arrays are np.int/float32/64. And round(np.floatXX
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
When scroll-wheeling through a KDE/Qt scrollable form, if your mouse cursor happens to land on top of a slider/numeric/dropdown widget, the form will stop scrolling and all scroll inputs will instead scroll the widget. I repo
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
The easy and obvious solution to info leakage and XSRF is for the web standards committee to ban third party cookies from being sent in cross-origin requests. But that would break Facebook Like buttons from tracking your browsing activity..
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
I wish gcc indented all the note lines, to indicate that they are sub-bullet-points of the actual error/warning.
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-gener... > It turns out that font rendering in the Linux ecosystem has been wrong since scalable fonts were introduced to it. Text must be rendered with li
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
I've beem working on a similar algorithm. I'm writing a program which takes multiple channels of near-periodic audio wav files, and outputs a phase-stable oscilloscope video. This is done by FFT-correlating (a buffer of recent osc
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
The Agg C++ library defines every class as a template, taking duck-typed parameters: - type of Agg object passed into object - type of "algorithm" used (or similar) I read matplotlib's Agg C++ backend. Guessing which Class A
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by jimbo1qaz 8y ago
Do you use https://github.com/Tencent/libco or https://byuu.org/library/libco/ ?

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