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721.
by mrob 2y ago
About 1kg of carbon dioxide, not carbon. 1kg of CO2 is only about 0.27kg carbon.
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by mrob 2y ago
"Flicker can be perceived during saccades at frequencies in excess of 1 kHz" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/147715351243636... "The temporal modulation appeared as a spatial patte
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by mrob 2y ago
I'm reminded of what happened to Instant Brands. They made a series of popular electric pressure cookers, but instead of remaining a successful medium-sized business, they took on a lot of debt in an attempt to expand, then went bankru
724.
by mrob 2y ago
My GNU/Linux system using LXQt feels faster than I remember Windows 95 being. I attribute this mostly to higher refresh rate on the monitor, and optical switches and faster polling on the keyboard and mouse. Modern gaming hardware is g
725.
by mrob 2y ago
Is there some application that demonstrates the utility of this language? E.g. it's tempting to dismiss Haskell as something invented by mathematicians more concerned with the elegance of their abstractions than actually getting things
726.
by mrob 2y ago
The nitrogen is just a propellant for forcing the beer through tiny holes that make the dissolved CO2 come out of solution in tiny bubbles, which form a more stable foam. Very little nitrogen actually dissolves into the beer.
727.
by mrob 2y ago
But in practice, the thing that's actually rewarded is cramming for exams. Students respond to incentives.
728.
by mrob 2y ago
Alternatively, how do publicly schooled children make friendships after their schooling teaches them that the default social interaction is hostility? A large proportion of socialization found in schools would be illegal if you tried it in
729.
by mrob 2y ago
This claim relies on an pedantic definition of "causes". The biggest direct cause of global warming is water vapor. However, the main thing affecting water vapor concentration is other greenhouse gases. Therefore the root caus
730.
by mrob 2y ago
The correct way to solve the market failure of externalities is taxation, not social shaming.
731.
by mrob 2y ago
Isn't it just the geometry of the guitar constraining the ends of the string to have zero amplitude? The fundamental has peak amplitude only at the center of the vibrating part of the string. Higher harmonics have peaks in amplitude at
732.
by mrob 2y ago
Agreed. Squash the image back to 4:3 aspect ratio and it looks completely normal.
733.
by mrob 2y ago
100ms is much too long to feel instantaneous. Open a low latency terminal such as xterm (ideally also with a high refresh rate gaming monitor and gaming keyboard), and compare "sleep 0" with "sleep 0.05".
734.
by mrob 2y ago
Does setting pdfjs.enableScripting to false in about:config protect against this? IMO, permitting PDFs to run Javascript violates the Principle of Least Astonishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_ast
735.
by mrob 2y ago
I'd rather have 1080p at 120Hz than 4K at 60Hz. The most legible font is the one you read the most often (people had no trouble reading cursive or blackletter scripts when they were standard), and pixelation in no way compromises legib
736.
by mrob 2y ago
Yes. And 1000Hz lets you get reasonable frame pacing even at non-integer multiples of 60fps.
737.
by mrob 2y ago
1000Hz is enough for near-realistic motion clarity without strobing (which is visible well into the kilohertz via phantom array effect).
738.
by mrob 2y ago
Yes, and hardware support for encrypted RAM already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment However, this will never be perfectly secure against backdoored RAM in a multitasking environment,
739.
by mrob 2y ago
I think backdooring the RAM would be easier. Modern DRAM has lots of complicated features (e.g. link training, targeted refresh, on-die ECC). I don't know exactly how it's implemented, but that's plenty of complexity to provi
740.
by mrob 2y ago
It costs you sharpness.
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by mrob 2y ago
Text legibility is paramount, not rendering quality. Monochrome bitmap fonts are extremely legible once you're used to them, and they don't need 4K displays. Vector fonts with high-quality hinting and antialiasing disabled are alm
742.
by mrob 2y ago
Or just disable antialiasing altogether. Generally you'll want to enable full hinting too. Quality depends on the font. I use the DejaVu fonts because they look good like this. I'd actually prefer bitmap fonts everywhere, but this
743.
by mrob 2y ago
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) was earlier and the ending sequence is CG (printed out and traced onto cels so traditional 2D characters could be drawn on top).
744.
by mrob 2y ago
You don't necessarily need all the code to be fast. I think writing correctness validators in a memory-safe language would go a long way toward securing media formats. Run the validator on all untrusted media to confirm it strictly con
745.
by mrob 2y ago
From the util-linux "mount" man page: "Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior, the system may still write to the device. For example, ext3 and ext4 will replay the journal if the filesystem is
746.
by mrob 2y ago
This has been tried before. In Waterworld, the bad guys are literally called the "Smokers" and smoking is a big part of their culture. It's so over the top it seems more like a parody of anti-smoking campaigns. I doubt it eve
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by mrob 2y ago
For many versions now, removing the separate search bar via Customize Toolbar reverts to combined URL bar and search bar. It also leaves the search option in the right-click menu.
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by mrob 2y ago
I don't even want my browser to support searching from the browser UI. If I want to send information to Google I'll visit their web page directly. I don't want to do it by a misclick. It's surprisingly difficult to disab
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by mrob 2y ago
The ethical way of doing this is opt in. It could be done like Debian's Popularity Contest[0], where you're offered a chance to install the data collection software, with the default being don't install. Firefox could do this
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by mrob 2y ago
Hard to say exactly, but I'd guess ages 11 to 16. UK, boys' grammar school (selective state school). When you're not aware of the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve it's the most obvious explanation for how education works. I m

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