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by mrob 2y ago
Outdoor daylight typically has more blue light in it than indoor light, yet outdoor light appears to be protective. So yes, "unclear" is accurate.
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by mrob 2y ago
The "in contrast" is to chickens and guinea pigs, where the opposite occurs. What relevance this has to humans is unclear.
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by mrob 2y ago
While I agree with most of this, I wouldn't call ball mice "cosy". Ball mice were unreliable and cleaning the rollers was an annoying chore. Optical was a big upgrade, especially as it went mainstream with some exceptionally
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by mrob 2y ago
I don't think anybody makes achromatic glasses lenses because they would be too thick and heavy. AFAIK, every optician sells PADC (e.g. CR-39) lenses.
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by mrob 2y ago
Very few screens are bright enough to compete with the normal brightness of outdoor sunlight. There's no evidence that close focus or looking at bright screens causes eyesight problems. Bright light actually seems to protect against my
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by mrob 2y ago
>More expensive lenses have a coating to compensate for this chromatic aberration. You can't compensate for chromatic aberration with a coating. You need a compound lens made from multiple elements each with a different dispersion,
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by mrob 2y ago
LCDs imperfectly block the backlight to make obviously impure black for #000000. Every OLED I've seen has slight light emission for #000000 (leakage current?) too. And very few monitors are used in a perfectly dark environment, so ther
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by mrob 2y ago
They're not serious: "color: #191919;" Here's some real high contrast, and IMO a perfectly designed website: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.
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by mrob 2y ago
I blame what I'll call the Art Teacher's Fallacy: "Pure black does not exist in nature, therefore you must never use pure black." This is equivocating on the meaning of "pure black"; your paints or computer scr
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by mrob 2y ago
LLMs are at a great disadvantage here because they operate on tokens, not letters.
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by mrob 2y ago
There are two different British curry traditions. The oldest is Anglo-Indian cuisine, which did originate with the British Raj. This is the one that inspired Japanese curry, because it was served on British Navy ships and the Imperial Japan
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by mrob 2y ago
If you're following close enough for them to be a danger to you then your driving is already unsafe.
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by mrob 2y ago
"People" says nothing about how common it will be, only that it will happen. It's happened to me and I'm confident I'm not the only one.
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by mrob 2y ago
They also talk about forging. Forging can produce higher quality parts because metal has a grain structure. Just like wood, it's easier to break between grains than across the grain. Forging is deforming the metal without melting it. I
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by mrob 2y ago
Comparing latency with maximum tap rate is the same kind of fallacy as comparing it with reaction time.
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by mrob 2y ago
>wait for the signal to switch from off to on for say 10ms before you act on the transition That is the worst way to debounce, because it adds 10ms latency for no good reason. The better way is to act immediately but ignore further input
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by mrob 2y ago
Your actions are pipelined. The waiting happens in parallel with doing the next action. The 250ms delay causes a timeout exception and flushes the pipeline.
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by mrob 2y ago
The F1166 standard permits up to 250ms latency for touch screen response. That is ridiculously high. It practically guarantees people will think it's not working and tap again, undoing any toggle function they might have activated. The
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by mrob 2y ago
You already have to maintain code for seeking by time. There's not necessarily any easy way to convert between time and frame count.
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by mrob 2y ago
I don't mean to imply it is, I'm simply explaining the reasoning behind my own decision. Fluoride might influence your choice even if you do drink tea.
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by mrob 2y ago
Yes. I buy moderately cheap ones, which I find work just as well as expensive ones.
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by mrob 2y ago
I use an even simpler and more reliable system to avoid running out of toothpaste: brushing with plain water. Evidence suggests that brushing with toothpaste (called "dentifrice" in scientific papers) does not remove any more plaq
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by mrob 2y ago
If you don't need astigmatism correction, spherical contact lenses give much better image quality than glasses. You don't get the image minification/magnification that you get with glasses, and the off-axis optical aberration
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by mrob 2y ago
The concept of radix economy assumes that hardware complexity for each logic element is proportional to the number of logic levels. In practice this isn't true, and base 2 is best. >Ternary circuits: why R=3 is not the Optimal Radix
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by mrob 2y ago
You can record the standard rock band setup with minimal hardware. Direct input guitar and bass, processed with amp simulation. Electronic drum kit with some good samples (most modern recordings use drum replacement anyway even if they&#x27
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by mrob 2y ago
Firefox makes you jump through hoops too. To enable the UI for adding custom search engines you need to set the undocumented preference "browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh" to true.
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by mrob 2y ago
Weapon switching is a big part of competitive Quake. Easy-to-reach weapon keybinds give you an advantage.
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by mrob 2y ago
The "secret" knowledge isn't necessary if you're persistent enough. Japanese Youtuber PiroPito has an ongoing series of videos (with English subtitles) of an almost entirely unspoilered playthrough: https://ww
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by mrob 2y ago
That water tip might be a good idea if you live in a desert climate, but in a lot of places it's only going to make your guitar go warped or moldy. Ideal humidity for acoustic guitars is usually stated as 50% relative humidity. It&#x27
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by mrob 2y ago
Earache Records released several remasters of classic metal albums with increased dynamic range: https://bandcamp.com/search?q=full+dynamic+range&item_type=a... (also finds some other high dynamic range albums)

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