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by mark-r 6y ago
The HN crowd is fascinated by simple but effective "hacks". This appears to be one.
782.
by mark-r 6y ago
I don't think there's anything gray about it. I'd hate to be on the bad side of a bunch of Microsoft's lawyers. Even if there's no perceivable harm from having the collection available, the lawyers will be forced t
783.
by mark-r 6y ago
All the grains are different. I had to hard code a table of those conversions for an application I worked on.
784.
by mark-r 6y ago
Grace Hopper used to give talks and hand out 11.8 inch pieces of wire, calling them nanoseconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Anecdotes
785.
by mark-r 6y ago
Right, how many times are we going to see this same story recycled?
786.
by mark-r 6y ago
AMD can't possibly overtake Intel until the mass market PC makers switch to AMD. Have any done so yet?
787.
by mark-r 6y ago
I might have to look that up. It's hard for me to imagine what dithering and typography would have in common, other than they might both be used to produce a book.
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by mark-r 6y ago
It was nice to see a mention of Robert Ulichney. His 1987 book "Digital Halftoning" covers most of the ground that this blog post does, plus more.
789.
by mark-r 6y ago
You have no control over the browser or search engine your potential customers use.
790.
by mark-r 6y ago
That's the principle behind Gray Code counting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code
791.
by mark-r 6y ago
Backups can't fix what was already corrupted when it was written to disk.
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by mark-r 6y ago
1. Linux sometimes has crashes, not due to software errors but because of memory glitches. 2. ECC would prevent memory glitches. 3. ECC is hard to find on desktop PCs because Intel uses the feature to differentiate desktop CPUs from server
793.
by mark-r 6y ago
I have a simple way of remembering when to leave out the apostrophe. His, hers, its are all possessive and none of them have an apostrophe.
794.
by mark-r 6y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about. You can't do that with a rope.
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by mark-r 6y ago
The exact diet doesn't matter, what mattered is that he believed changing his diet would cure his cancer. In the end of course it didn't.
796.
by mark-r 6y ago
Interesting theory. If you pay 2 teams A and B to work on the same project, and B finishes in half the time it would have taken A, you really didn't spend anything extra did you?
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by mark-r 6y ago
But at least the gate would automatically close once they went through.
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by mark-r 6y ago
They really are supercomputers though. Do you know how much faster a modern PC is compared to say a Cray-1? Especially if it has a decent graphics card.
799.
by mark-r 6y ago
This wasn't a few centimeters - I had trouble finding the park because Google had it a couple of blocks away from its actual location.
800.
by mark-r 6y ago
I once submitted a correction for the exact location of a public park. The correction looked like it was applied, but when I looked later it had been reverted.
801.
by mark-r 6y ago
You'd need to get cooperation from the other folks using the road that they'd replace the rope after driving through.
802.
by mark-r 6y ago
Never trust Google maps blindly. I once let it direct me down some back roads to save a few minutes, while driving my gas guzzling SUV and towing a camper. What I didn't realize was that there were no gas stations along this alternat
803.
by mark-r 6y ago
Didn't Waze get bought out by Google years ago?
804.
by mark-r 6y ago
And what's wrong with hiring people over 40-50?
805.
by mark-r 6y ago
That example looks like it's working directly with RGB, which I expect to be correct. I've also seen it work well in HLS. But I worked on a tool where we were told to change from HLS to CIELab because it would be better, and it
806.
by mark-r 6y ago
That's way too meta for me.
807.
by mark-r 6y ago
If by "negotiate" you mean buy something else or DIY, then yeah. Otherwise good luck.
808.
by mark-r 6y ago
The implication is that this isn't a problem that can't be solved, and thus stronger remedies are unnecessary. There might be some who disagree.
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by mark-r 6y ago
And probably illegal too, due to DMCA.
810.
by mark-r 6y ago
Worse, the software lags turning OFF the radio. If you left the radio running a little loud last time you turned off the car, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it for 30 seconds. The on/off switch and volume knob are i

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