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by kpil 9y ago
CIELAB gives nicer looking gradient with clear colors without brown or gray tones, while keeping the luminosity more or less the same.
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by kpil 9y ago
Ah, Yes. I failed to mention that my point is that it's still a problem.
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by kpil 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's granted that the military can talk to other forces and civilian radio. In general I'm don't think aviation have marine VHF and vice versa, except maybe the coastguard and other special cases.
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by kpil 9y ago
What is the gain?
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by kpil 9y ago
Yes. The proprietary connectors used by Nokia, Ericsson, etc, before USB where all "better" in the sense that the contacts were just pressed against each other, just like what used to be (?) on Ipads and Macs. I've killed a n
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by kpil 9y ago
Lovely pun in the headline.
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by kpil 9y ago
Flight sims. Elite dangerous. I think motion sickness might be a problem for some people though.
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by kpil 9y ago
I think that QueryDSL on top of JPA on Scala is just about as good as it gets. It is also complex and requires that you really master all the ingredients... If SQL is a mystery to you, it will just be a painful experience.
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by kpil 9y ago
Stacking a hundred thousand scans in order to find something made me think of the dead salmon study that won the igNobel prize.
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by kpil 9y ago
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a keyboard is guaranteed to spot spelling errors and trivial errors absolutely last of everyone watching.
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by kpil 9y ago
"The marginally better gaming CPU, that you can't buy until next year." Not as catchy.
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by kpil 9y ago
Where can you start? Wouldn't starting from West Sahara shave of some days? Or would you drift too far south?
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by kpil 9y ago
>However, for most use case they won't be as good as a more specialized tool It's just a small set of problems that really requires a nosql database. Most (if not all) nosql databases are perceived as less complicated since the
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by kpil 9y ago
That scene is a pastiche of a sequence in The Crying Game though, so that's the actual joke.
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by kpil 9y ago
I think it's genetic. I never really liked beer, until I discovered hoppy ales. Thanks to the trend, I can now find decent beer almost everywhere. I recently tried some sort of dry-hopped lemonade - no beer at all, and I found it to be
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by kpil 9y ago
Yeah, only that it does that without any context. Ligature mishaps are doubleplus-unclean.
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by kpil 9y ago
A good question, but unfortunately no answers. The statement - "Nobody becomes a software engineer because they love writing code" - is definitely wrong and it's a bit sad that the author isn't enjoying the magical act o
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by kpil 9y ago
Liberty profile isn't exactly painful, but everything else Websphere is. Regarding DB/2, I don't think that the installation process is the most interesting property of a database. The database is about as good as you can ge
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by kpil 9y ago
Maybe DB/2 and Websphere liberty profile... They tack the name 'Watson' on a lot of stuff, but some of that might be good.
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by kpil 9y ago
Solution. Add an additional unix control key to all keyboards. Maybe actually instead of caps-lock. I think I've solved all my keyboard related problems know.
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by kpil 9y ago
Exactly, even fairly complex script languages manages to boot, execute and exit in just a few milliseconds. Maybe jigsaw is one piece in the puzzle to reduce the time it takes to start. I doubt it's so bloody complicated, except AOT co
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by kpil 9y ago
The last time AMD was competitive, they delivered really good value for money. Yet they were only available in the "enthusiast" market segment as Intel were able to give all OEM strong incentives to not buy AMD. Is there any chanc
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by kpil 9y ago
The only thing slow about java is the time to start the jvm. For everything else to be faster you need asm, c, c++, fortran, or rust. Loading an applet over a modem in 1998 doesn't count...
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by kpil 9y ago
There is still typically dilution when the central banks buys bonds, only that it's indirect - coming from the increased (overheated?) market value of the mansion(s) used as collateral for the bond. It's definitely increasing the
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by kpil 9y ago
There is a huge class of money that is created when a bank issues an covered bond (backed by real estate), which is bought by a central bank. The money is both created from thin air and at the same time connected to the underlying assets in
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by kpil 9y ago
It depends. The banks nets the transactions a number of times during the day, normally using a central bank. In the mean time the credit on your account is debited a 'float' account that accumulates any debt to other banks or thir
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by kpil 9y ago
It varies by country if it's zero-day credit between banks (before a cutoff time) but i don't think it's legal within the EUR zone to have more than +1 days to credit. (I think Finland is +0. Germany and France probably not,
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by kpil 9y ago
Detecting a shady website is a core competence of any admin.
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by kpil 9y ago
I've been given a ride in the passenger seat of a RHD car in a RHT country, ie the steering wheel is on the "wrong" side. It's actually quite stressful before the driver (hopefully) stops at a zebra crossing after you ac
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by kpil 9y ago
I live outside US. I had no idea. Here you get full credit worthiness based on your income, savings and loans. The income and (by tax proxy) savings are public, so no loans and some income and moderate savings will give you full credit.

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