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541.
by mark-r 5y ago
Given the legal liabilities Amazon has with their SLAs, it may be working exactly as Amazon thinks it should. Whether anybody would agree with that assessment should be obvious.
542.
by mark-r 5y ago
Making driving illegal for everybody would certainly save people from drunk drivers too. Do you think that's a good idea?
543.
by mark-r 5y ago
I have a Toyota Camry with lane detection. If it thinks you're on the edge of the lane, it beeps at you and gives the steering wheel a gentle nudge. I think they've given it a perfect balance, because the nudge really is gentle
544.
by mark-r 5y ago
You do know that plants pull their nutrients from the soil, right? How is a plant to differentiate a nutrient from a poison?
545.
by mark-r 5y ago
Do you know why they add iodine to (iodized) salt? The nuclear testing we did way back when put so much radioactive iodine into the atmosphere, it was getting into the soil and taken up by the plants we were eating. The body excretes exce
546.
by mark-r 5y ago
Mine didn't even bother with the shoes, she just licked the pavement directly. She's in college now.
547.
by mark-r 5y ago
One end of the element will be neutral and the other end will be hot. No way to avoid that, no matter how you change the plug - the voltage differential is how you get the current that generates heat.
548.
by mark-r 5y ago
In the U.S. the manufacturers have figured out that they can make more money selling an "extended warranty" than they can selling the product itself. So the included warranty is as short as they think they can get away with, to e
549.
by mark-r 5y ago
At some point in the chain it's probably still analog, but the question is where's the switch? I think the compression scheme is very dependent on comparing adjacent frames, so you couldn't have compression until the point w
550.
by mark-r 5y ago
The frequencies involved would be blocked by buildings, so the "line of sight" would necessarily be above them. Thus, rooftop.
551.
by mark-r 5y ago
If you go back far enough, there was no "normal". 40 years might not be far enough back. Different equipment did things differently. Which was O and which was 0 was a matter of convention, there weren't any rules for it an
552.
by mark-r 5y ago
It was PSP 4. Everybody else was heads down working on PSP 5, and I was the new guy, so I got the grunt work.
553.
by mark-r 5y ago
I did the customized splash screen for the version of Paint Shop Pro that was bundled with Hotdog Pro.
554.
by mark-r 5y ago
I never said slashed zeros were unknown, just that conventions hadn't settled yet and were far from universal. Sometime you got a dot in the middle instead of a slash. I don't know if OCR even existed back when this was published
555.
by mark-r 5y ago
In 1971, the idea of selling software was completely foreign. If it was important software like a compiler or OS, it came with the computer you just spent millions on. If it was important software that you needed to run your business, you
556.
by mark-r 5y ago
BASIC has lots of different dialects. Anybody know which one this is, and what modern choices would be compatible with it?
557.
by mark-r 5y ago
In the early days, the important thing was to be able to distinguish between zero and oh. There was no standard yet established for the best way to do that. At least it was better than typewriters, which didn't have zero or one keys
558.
by mark-r 5y ago
I already pay a monthly fee for LTE to my phone. No way I'd want to double it so my camera could have a connection.
559.
by mark-r 5y ago
Raw histograms are a no brainer, I don't understand why this isn't already commonplace. 16 bit raw is another matter. If you're not getting 16 bits of dynamic range from the pixels, all you'd be doing is getting a more
560.
by mark-r 5y ago
That's the thing that's most baffling to me. It seems like GPS as a feature would cost nearly nothing in money or space inside the camera, but it's still extremely rare. Pentax had it in the K-3 II but dropped it for the K-
561.
by mark-r 5y ago
In CPython at least, there's no other way. Everything is an object, even simple types like integers. And references to objects are implemented with pointers. Even a Numpy array which stores a contiguous array of simple values requir
562.
by mark-r 5y ago
If you work with police, you'll hear no end of dumb criminal stories. My favorite was the guy who coated his fingers with glue so he wouldn't leave fingerprints at the scene - then peeled off the glue and dropped the peelings in
563.
by mark-r 5y ago
The most miserable software experience I've had was trying to support a Microsoft BI system built with a no-code tool. It was all drag-and-drop and fill in the boxes. Instead of code you were left with an inscrutable XML file. It wa
564.
by mark-r 5y ago
For sure, you'd need de-Bayering for a start. And stuff like white balance will be in a custom tag.
565.
by mark-r 5y ago
I was surprised by my late 1970's era receiver value a couple of years ago (Technics SA-400). I ended up selling it to a coworker for probably half of what it would have fetched on Ebay.
566.
by mark-r 5y ago
It's not hard to find a USB DAC that will be better than the one built into your computer.
567.
by mark-r 5y ago
It depends on the configuration. My 2007 V8 only came one way with 4H and 4L on the selector.
568.
by mark-r 5y ago
Worse yet, they'll make you pay for a subscription to the spy service! I've had my new car for exactly a year now, and I got multiple warnings that they were going to turn off the connection that they use for roadside assistance
569.
by mark-r 5y ago
The code for BMP isn't very complicated, the hard part is knowing all the rules and corner cases. Like the 4-byte alignment you mentioned, or the fact that the rows are in reverse order of what you'd expect (bottom up).
570.
by mark-r 5y ago
I think all the RAW formats generated by digital cameras are really just slightly customized TIFFs.

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