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721.
by mark-r 6y ago
So if you discover one of these hacked servers, how should you let them know - send them an email?
722.
by mark-r 6y ago
In my case I had a local Micro Center store, so I didn't have to wait for shipping. It was just an inconvenient drive.
723.
by mark-r 6y ago
Did you even read the link I gave? Sampling theory relies on treating samples as sizeless points rather than rectangles, and aliasing is completely predicted by sampling theory.
724.
by mark-r 6y ago
Sorry, my reply missed an important point - you did an excellent job of analyzing how GPU shaders work, and why they work that way. And for that I thank you. But it just means that I disagree with the entire GPU industry. My reasoning was
725.
by mark-r 6y ago
I have two microwaves, completely different designs, and either one running will knock out the wifi.
726.
by mark-r 6y ago
I'd be happy to just have wifi that didn't lose its mind when you run the microwave.
727.
by mark-r 6y ago
This whole post seems motivated by a misconception. One of the pioneers of computer graphics, Alvy Ray Smith, said it best in his paper "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square": https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/a
728.
by mark-r 6y ago
The last time I went to Best Buy I wanted a laptop. Found a good one but there weren't any out on the floor, so I waited forever for a salesperson to help. They went into the back room and came back out, saying it was an older model
729.
by mark-r 6y ago
The Target system isn't 100% effective though. I once saw a guy ask to see a laptop, then grab it and make a mad dash for the door. He got away with it. I think it was shortly afterwards when they moved the electronics department to
730.
by mark-r 6y ago
I go to Linkedin to find a job, not a gig. I don't know if it's possible to do a good job with both, it seems like opposing goals.
731.
by mark-r 6y ago
An old coworker was a private pilot. He told me that the purpose of the second engine in a twin-engine private plane was to get you to the scene of the crash.
732.
by mark-r 6y ago
You can tell that the pictures of the debris were taken by drones. The area around them has been taped off with police tape, I'm sure photographers aren't allowed close enough to get good pictures.
733.
by mark-r 6y ago
I think the idea is the display comes directly from Google calendar and you don't have much control over it.
734.
by mark-r 6y ago
Too expensive for the utility it provides. A Raspberry Pi with a simple LCD could do the job for half the price. An old obsolete phone would work too.
735.
by mark-r 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if pilot lights aren't illegal now. They're terribly inefficient, more so if your furnace rarely lights.
736.
by mark-r 6y ago
I was about to say that. The old buffer has to be copied to the new buffer, so a naive implementation couldn't possibly allocate them both at the same address.
737.
by mark-r 6y ago
The "numbers less than 256 are the same objects" wasn't done so you could use "is" on them, that's just a side effect. It was done as an optimization, because those small integers are far more common than the
738.
by mark-r 6y ago
I love his JSLinux that allows you to boot Linux (or DOS or Windows!) in your browser. https://bellard.org/jslinux/
739.
by mark-r 6y ago
I knew Bellard had written a very functional Tiny C compiler. I had no idea he wrote it more than once. My respect for him just continues to grow.
740.
by mark-r 6y ago
sRGB was engineered to be indistinguishable from a power 2.2 function, even though it's harder to calculate.
741.
by mark-r 6y ago
Sorry, I don't have any links - I learned it through personal experience. Kept getting ugly blotches in the output that weren't easily explained. Finally traced it to errors that were accumulating because the palette color they
742.
by mark-r 6y ago
When you're doing color error diffusion dithering, you have to make sure the edges and corners of the color space are in your output palette. Otherwise you may get errors that accumulate and can't be eliminated.
743.
by mark-r 6y ago
If you can't patent it, you can't fund it. I don't know if aspirin ever had a patent, but if it did it ran out 100 years ago.
744.
by mark-r 6y ago
I've always wondered if the reason a daily aspirin prevents heart attacks isn't because it prevents clotting, but because it's an anti-inflammatory.
745.
by mark-r 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I've sent those kind of misguided congratulations, probably twice that I can remember. One was a guy who I knew had moved to India, so I congratulated him on moving back to the U.S. - I think he had really just ch
746.
by mark-r 6y ago
Reminds me of the time Netgear routers were hardcoded with the IP address of a NTP server at the University of Wisconsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Ne...
747.
by mark-r 6y ago
I thought HN had automated systems to detect this?
748.
by mark-r 6y ago
The article makes that clear, even if the title doesn't.
749.
by mark-r 6y ago
I loved being able to dial a number just by clicking the hang-up button fast enough and counting. Unfortunately pulse dialing is obsolete enough that you'd have a hard time finding a system where that still works.
750.
by mark-r 6y ago
I did that just yesterday with a comment here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26044548

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