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by mark-r 4y ago
Apple's ARM is more compatible with Intel than you'd expect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635720
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by mark-r 4y ago
I don't remember hearing the story behind "rebeccapurple", that was a touching link to include.
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by mark-r 4y ago
Yes, annoyed at Google. They're flexing their monopoly power a bit too much.
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by mark-r 4y ago
Is anybody else bothered that they can't put it in the Google store because they chose to support an older version of Android than what's allowed?
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by mark-r 4y ago
The existing solution needn't even be home built. I worked for a company that replaced one ERP system with another. It was a medical manufacturer, so in many cases the new system had to warp to the established government mandated bus
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by mark-r 4y ago
I saw a hummingbird attack a squirrel once. Nasty indeed. I suspect the squirrel was getting a little too close to its nest.
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by mark-r 4y ago
All that and the Statue of Liberty too! We owe the French a lot.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I have a special test record that has sine waves recorded on it, just for testing the quality of your turntable.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I have a pair of IKEA dressers on either side of the TV, with the DVDs placed 2 deep in the drawers. And then a couple of bookcases in the basement for the overflow that doesn't fit the dressers. The current count stands at 1845.
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by mark-r 4y ago
To me, DVDs look acceptable but bluray is perceptibly better. I do prefer the bluray, but not to the point where I'll pay appreciably more for them. 4K on the other hand is a complete fraud, I've tried about a dozen but I haven&
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by mark-r 4y ago
Consider how many of those linux devices are difficult or impossible to update, and you start to realize the mess we'll be in. At least Y2K affected systems that by and large could be updated easily.
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by mark-r 4y ago
The only manifestation of Y2K that I ever saw was a receipt with the date 1/2/100.
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by mark-r 4y ago
It's a good thing they fixed that problem and became the powerhouse that they are today. </sarcasm>
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by mark-r 4y ago
Hopefully by the time they need to make an hour's adjustment, we'll have done away with the anachronism that is DST. So then they'll have to learn to do it all over again from scratch.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I hated the fact that you had to get 9/10 through the book to find out how it derived its name. The number 7 appears right at the start, but it's a misdirection.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I've found that to be a universal truism in marketing. If your product is missing some important attribute, put it into the name. The power of suggestion overcomes reality. The Red Delicious apple is the very product that hammered t
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by mark-r 4y ago
I had to use APL once back in the 1970's, because I needed the graphics capabilities of an IBM 5100. I managed, but it wasn't a pleasant experience and I've felt no compulsion to repeat it. I admit it was kind of cool to be
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by mark-r 4y ago
Wow, until now I thought Microsoft were the kings of absurd dedication to backwards compatibility. Of course credit goes to Intel here, because they're the ones that retained that 8080 behavior even in their latest x86 chips.
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by mark-r 4y ago
And as I recall Intel lost that suit due to an old cross-licensing agreement. In this case there would be no copying of microcode since the underlying hardware is completely different.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear about what I meant. The idea was to convert the hash to JPEG once it reached the client, so that the browser's native JPEG support could be used to display and cache the image.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I wonder if you could use Javascript to convert the hash into a full JPEG and get the best of both?
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by mark-r 4y ago
In this case it looks like a key consideration is the way each data point fits into exactly 2 characters, no tricky bit manipulation going on. I'd say it's pretty clever.
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by mark-r 4y ago
The blurring in this case is just a natural consequence of throwing away all the high-frequency DCT components. And since DCT is used to create JPEGs there are highly optimized versions available.
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by mark-r 4y ago
SVG would be much larger for the same image, it's XML based.
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by mark-r 4y ago
That's only a small part of the available blend modes. I've always wondered how the digital versions of dodge and burn compare to the darkroom versions.
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by mark-r 4y ago
This is a great writeup, but it's the simplified view. The hard part comes when you need to consider pixels that aren't 100% opaque.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I'd guess that most of the work is being done client side, leaving the server to just push out the text and code. I haven't tried to verify that assumtion though.
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by mark-r 4y ago
So "365" refers to the number of days a year you need to pay for it, right?
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by mark-r 4y ago
The WCAG calculations for contrast are complete rubbish, in my experience they don't reflect reality very well at all. I haven't been able to figure out why though, each of the individual steps looks reasonable.
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by mark-r 4y ago
I read somewhere (probably Raymond Chen's blog) that there were different camps at Microsoft. One recognized that backwards compatibility was a very powerful feature. The other thought that there had to be a limit, infinite compatibi

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