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by mark-r 2y ago
There's another problem nobody ever talks about. The way our RGB monitors work, some colors will be more intense than others at the same brightness. A red or blue patch will only emit half as many photons as a magenta patch, because
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by mark-r 2y ago
I can't remember the last time I saw a "loudness" button. My receiver from 1980 had one but my receiver from 2000 does not.
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by mark-r 2y ago
You're coming across just fine. The problem is that you made a sweeping generalization that "I think we can all agree" when it is obvious that we cannot. Your definition does not make sense to me, just as mine does not make
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by mark-r 2y ago
Sounds like a product idea, an ethernet cable with a USB C jack to tap the power.
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by mark-r 2y ago
No, we cannot all agree. I think your definition of "portable" is not compatible with most people's. You seem to be conflating portable and removable; those are two different properties that do not have to coexist. If the
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by mark-r 2y ago
I think Washington Post was first to implement it. I remember reading about it here on HN when it went into effect.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite Dilbert cartoons: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/k5hka0/bug...
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by mark-r 2y ago
Sure, ChatGPT knows every word in the English language (and probably quite a few that ain't). But how likely is it to use them all?
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by mark-r 2y ago
I thought he really did change his legal name, in an attempt to get out of a contract.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I would wager more people open a CSV by double-clicking on it rather than using the import data wizard. And even if you use the wizard it takes extra work to specify the type of each column, which most people won't bother with. Writin
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by mark-r 2y ago
I also learned the line with a dot above and below in my country, the USA. But that was a very long time ago, math teaching has changed immeasurably since my time. In Unicode it's U+00F7: https://www.compart.com/en&#x2
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by mark-r 2y ago
If you open a CSV file without going through a specific import process, you don't even get the option to specify a data type. And once it's open it's too late to fix it, the original data is already gone.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I think Prince proved the Unicode assertion. He had to distribute his own custom font so news outlets could continue to write about him.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Apologies, it appears the error is mine. Since there wasn't a link to the home page on the announcement, I edited the link to remove everything after the site. But that took me to the blog home, not the site home.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Thank you, that's all very good information. I was just a little frustrated because none of that was discoverable either in the announcement linked from HN, or their home page.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Why would I try to download it without knowing anything about it first?
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by mark-r 2y ago
And where were the links to those pages on the front page?
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by mark-r 2y ago
I've flown in/out of Phoenix a couple of times at night, and it's glorious. All the streetlights on a regular grid make a beautiful sight.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Yes, that part's obvious just by the name. But what OS does it run on, or does it run in the browser? What features does it have?
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by mark-r 2y ago
It's a little annoying that I couldn't find a description on their site of what FreeCAD actually is.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I spent a good part of my childhood on Girard Avenue North, part of the first alphabetical sequence running east to west. It was always a comfort to know I could find my way home if I knew the alphabet.
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by mark-r 2y ago
The interesting part about Minneapolis is that it has two grids. Early development occurred at angles to the Mississippi river, while later development straightened out to N-S and E-W orientation.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I once wrote a bubble sort into production code, because the total number of elements to sort rarely exceeded 4 and it was what I could do off the top of my head. I don't remember if I left a comment explaining the reasoning, but I th
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by mark-r 2y ago
Interesting that he thinks the clock would be better with a 32kHz crystal than with monitoring the 60Hz power frequency. The power line frequency is very tightly regulated over the long term, and should have an overall better accuracy.
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by mark-r 2y ago
The difference depends on your latitude. On the equator the seasons won't make a difference, above the arctic circle you'll get diddly-squat from your panels in the winter during the endless night. Switzerland is at 47 degrees,
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by mark-r 2y ago
There's an advantage to pure hydrogen vs. synthetic hydrocarbons, the lack of carbon means no greenhouse gas production when you use it.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Wow. If you needed proof that Guido isn't BDFL anymore, this is it.
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by mark-r 2y ago
I can only think about that scene from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Life imitates art.
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by mark-r 2y ago
Pascal with its tight type safety made certain things extra hard, like working with images. C on the other hand let you walk all over it. Pascal was very much my preferred language until I learned C - then I never looked back.
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by mark-r 2y ago
If you couldn't afford Borland products, you were poor indeed.

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