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by mark-r 9mo ago
But not same-day. But even that's a bit iffy - I made a purchase from Amazon recently where they promised same-day delivery, on a Sunday no less! But it didn't actually arrive until Wednesday.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
Maybe that's why it will take 2 months, they need to clear out the old inventory so they don't have a de-mingling problem.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
It's about time! They never should have allowed 3rd-party sellers on the platform until this was in place. I've been saying for years, Sandisk makes the best Flash cards but never buy them from Amazon, just for this reason. Too
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by mark-r 9mo ago
> This is a well known problem because early computers with monitors used to only be able to display characters. It's not just monitors. My first exposure to ASCII art were posters that were printed on a Teletype, in the mid 1970&#
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by mark-r 9mo ago
This is something I've wanted to do for 50 years, but never found the time or motivation. Well done!
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by mark-r 9mo ago
The cooling fluids have been illegal to manufacture for a very long time. I wonder if there's still enough left in the world to keep one running?
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by mark-r 9mo ago
Cray's design for Control Data before starting his own company was interesting. You were required to start each subroutine with a jump instruction, and the subroutine call instruction would modify the memory at that location to a jump
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by mark-r 9mo ago
They needed someplace to put the power supplies anyway. The seat cushions just added a touch of whimsy. Could you imagine IBM putting seats around one of their computers?
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by mark-r 9mo ago
I was part of a group from the University of Minnesota that traveled to Chippewa Falls to tour the Cray plant. I expected to see exactly what you describe, the computer behind a big observation window. But instead they took us to a machin
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by mark-r 9mo ago
We can't. I don't think the LLMs themselves can recognize when an answer is stale. They could if contradicting data was available, but their very existence suppresses the contradictory data.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
My browser underlines the word statin to indicate a misspelling, but does not underline satin. We've been trained to believe the computer is always right when it flags an error, but unfortunately it's not 100% accurate.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
Funny you should mention the floating point rounding mode, I actually had to fix a bug like that once. Our program worked fine, until you printed to an HP printer - then it crashed shortly after. It took forever to discover the cause - th
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by mark-r 9mo ago
Are hi-res screens really that common-place? Resolutions have gone up, but so have screen sizes. I don't think Windows has seen the need to change their default DPI assumption from 96 in at least 20 years.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
You're not alone. My wife just assumes anything with serifs is Times New Roman, and she's a lot more normal than I am.
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by mark-r 9mo ago
I took a close look at Georgia a few years back, and found myself surprised by how much I liked it. Unfortunately both Georgia and Calibri are owned by Microsoft. You aren't going to find them easy to obtain for Linux for example; cal
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by mark-r 10mo ago
I'd love to use proper dashes more often, but my keyboard only produces ASCII. Getting them is more trouble than it's worth.
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by mark-r 10mo ago
The video was posted on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497093
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by mark-r 10mo ago
I thought it was ozone depletion, not greenhouse effects, that led to the fluorinated gas phaseout?
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by mark-r 10mo ago
They never mention what advantage CO2 has over any other gas, like plain air?
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by mark-r 11mo ago
How did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used?
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by mark-r 11mo ago
The first step is to convert from the RGB color space to something more perceptual, like Lab. I'm sure there's a standard for comparing the color similarity of two images but I'm having trouble remembering the name - too ear
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by mark-r 11mo ago
That was disappointing. I expected from the title that it would cover modern use cases. When's the last time you needed to use a web-safe palette? It's still useful if you're trying to display a 10-bit-per-channel image on
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by mark-r 11mo ago
Not only DNG, but I think most (maybe all?) raw camera files are based on TIFF.
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by mark-r 11mo ago
Isn't cheese usually sold by weight? So your theory, erm, has holes in it.
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by mark-r 1y ago
Haven't there been studies showing that a bicycle is the most efficient form of movement available?
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by mark-r 1y ago
They don't show up in second hand shops because their value is essentially negative. If it doesn't sell, you have to pay to dispose it.
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by mark-r 1y ago
The seating was just a clever way to hide the power supplies. That thing required a LOT of power.
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by mark-r 1y ago
Vending machines are already taking credit cards, the dollar coin's time to catch on is long past.
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by mark-r 1y ago
I always wondered what took them so long. Pennies are so worthless people won't even stoop to pick one up if they see it on the ground.
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by mark-r 1y ago
They said these innovations are what the state is known for, but I've been a Minnesota resident my entire life and didn't know refrigerated trucking was invented here.

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