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by mark-r 5y ago
It's worse with snow. I'm in Minnesota, I speak from experience.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Polarizers also reduce the amount of light, increasing the required camera sensitivity and noise.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'm siding with Jeff on this one, for the exact reason he states - the problem is massively underestimated. There are too many things that us creatures with brains take for granted that computers simply can't handle.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Exactly. Not being able to see where the lanes are because the paint is covered by snow brings about a whole new level of challenge.
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by mark-r 5y ago
> the landing gear is so overbuilt That was something that caught my eye in the picture, it seems to have an endless number of tires on the ground.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Survivorship bias it's called.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I don't think it was JPEG, it was a custom format that contained multiple resolutions.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I took a different conclusion from the plain text article. The argument isn't about open formats, it's really about plain text, simply because there's no need to have a tool to make use of it. Even open formats can get aban
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by mark-r 5y ago
If a C or C++ programmer did that they'd never find their way out of the rabbit hole.
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by mark-r 5y ago
This is exactly why overbooking exists. Airlines expect that a certain percentage of their passengers won't make the flight, for whatever reason, so they sell a few extra tickets so the seats won't be empty.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I had a gas pump receipt that said "1/2/100" for the date.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Have you heard the phrase "death by 1000 cuts"? That's what programming in modern C++ is like. I agree they don't quite make the case for "doom" but it's still not a pretty picture.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I might have been a little off on the reason, but they really did remove Easter eggs: https://web.archive.org/web/20171123041231/https://blogs.msd...
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'll bet if you rendered those screens as 2-color GIFs, the compression would make them similar in size to the ASCII text. Then you wouldn't need fonts.
435.
by mark-r 5y ago
Microsoft eventually had to remove Easter eggs entirely, because of government contracts that specified there could be no undocumented behavior in their software.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I once had a similar disagreement with someone on a public internet forum. Their statement wasn't wrong per se, because the factors we were arguing about were based on a well defined mathematical relationship. I just thought they had
437.
by mark-r 5y ago
They could have invented a better term. It's almost like they wanted to confuse people.
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by mark-r 5y ago
It's not just Samsung though, you can run into problems with anybody. When we built our house my wife's company was doing a cross promotion with GE, so we were able to get a good discount on GE appliances and we loaded up. The d
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by mark-r 5y ago
I have a 65" flat Samsung TV that I'm mostly happy with. But every once in a while, maybe after a couple of months, the video will start flaking out. Knowing it has a computer inside, I just do the classic thing to fix a compute
440.
by mark-r 5y ago
I hate the way the term LED was usurped by monitor makers. I would expect a LED monitor to have one LED per pixel, not use a single LED to backlight a whole bunch of normal LCD pixels.
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by mark-r 5y ago
There's definitely an element of sRGB in there, but it feels grafted on to something older. Like someone was tasked with throwing something together from whatever references they could find. P.S. sRGB was motivated by a desire to qua
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by mark-r 5y ago
I keep hoping Microsoft will go one step too far and everyone will be forced to switch. Hasn't happened yet.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've wondered where they came up with their formula, because it's not obvious and the results are so clearly wrong in many simple cases. The best I can figure is that they just re-worked some some formula from back in the green-s
444.
by mark-r 5y ago
Didn't you know that 87% of statistics are made up on the spot?
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by mark-r 5y ago
The GP was talking about a place where "pay a day of salary and move on" isn't a realistic choice. If there's fraud involved, you need to be able to prove it.
446.
by mark-r 5y ago
I'm a big fan of ISO 8601. Eliminates the confusion, and sorts lexicographically too.
447.
by mark-r 5y ago
This is a really good technology demonstration. I must admit I still think JSLinux is more impressive.
448.
by mark-r 5y ago
There's one thing I don't understand. These chemicals are ubiquitous in the environment because they're non-reactive - nothing breaks them down. But if they're non-reactive, how do they affect our health?
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by mark-r 5y ago
It would all depend on being able to prove he wasn't the same person. Keep the recording of those video interviews!
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'm glad you put the 2020 in the title, but I don't think it's necessary - this kind of story is timeless. Mark your calendar, next year will be the 20th anniversary of this tragedy.

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