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by n3k5 7y ago
20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21862073
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by n3k5 7y ago
Consider that you're not starting from 'no kerning', but from deliberately bad kerning. The overall width is a given because it tells you the tracking (letter-spacing) you're aiming for. It's common for this paramet
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by n3k5 7y ago
This has existed (at scale, not just experimental prototypes) for over 10 years. I can't recommend anything in particular as I don't use it myself, but the very first search term I tried ("online jamming") turned up some
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by n3k5 7y ago
As others have pointed out, 500ms is huge for some applications. But when the use case is selecting a song from a playlist, starting to hear the track 1 second later is totally fine. It's often preferable to a stream with <30ms la
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by n3k5 7y ago
Hmmm … I wonder into what kind of action they'd most likely be shocked. > So you took a private email address I gave you in confidentiality and handed it over to some hacker site which, without making any verification that you own t
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by n3k5 7y ago
There were other possibilities, but you were punished for taking a guess when there were guaranteed-safe squares. Guessing is only supposed to be safe when you have to do it.
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by n3k5 7y ago
That's the one; thank you very much!
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by n3k5 7y ago
Also see … I mean hear: Radiolab's piece on the early days of snowflake photography (featuring Pope Kenneth, of course): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/25720... > […] how it a
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by n3k5 7y ago
I usually think of dither as trading spatial or temporal resolution for dynamic range. This quote reminded me that this isn't the full picture: > these computers […] performed more accurately when flying on board the aircraft […
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by n3k5 7y ago
Another technique for tuning into the perception of horizontal motion: Use your hands or forearms to block your view of most of the picture, leaving only a narrow horizontal slit. For me the effect persists upon expanding my view to the ful
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by n3k5 7y ago
> I would like something that works uniformly across Windows, Linux desktop (such as XFCE, GNOME, KDE), and macOS. Löve [0] has a great approach to cross-platform deployment [1]. It's not exactly constrained when you compare it to
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by n3k5 7y ago
> When someone does figure out the pattern, they waste a couple minutes moving their mouse very slowly across every square inch of the screen in search of more. Ableton Live (a DAW) has an interesting solution for this: There are no to
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by n3k5 7y ago
2019: "The ellipsis character (…) means a dialog or separate window will open and prompt the user for additional information or to make a choice." https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline..
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by n3k5 7y ago
TL;DR: If drumbot.glitch.me doesn't work for you, try running it locally [2]. It's surprisingly effortless! First attempt at trying this out: 502 Bad Gateway. Second attempt: I thought I didn't want to mess with Node, so I do
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by n3k5 7y ago
For the purpose of making a tree data structure, all linear orderings would be equally useful. Hashing only provides a partial order, so it's important to choose a hash function that won't assign the same hash to large batches of
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by n3k5 7y ago
It's set up so all contestants get the exact same set of mods. Finishing in world record time in such a competition is indeed meaningless; it's just about winning the race. So this isn't necessarily what you'd call a ran
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by n3k5 7y ago
> 5G is about throughput, not latency. For now. But in the longer term, the telcos are promising lower latencies. I think the magic search term for entering the relevant rabbit-hole is URLLC. Seems like the main factor in Wavelength&#x
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by n3k5 7y ago
You have to look at the plug in combination with the socket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko#Safety_features
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by n3k5 7y ago
No, silly, it's only in months with an ɹ.
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by n3k5 7y ago
> Maybe one day I will revisit this project and properly rewrite the whole thing. I recommend doing it in GLSL. It's very little effort to implement (about 30–50 lines of code) and even on a modest GPU it'll run fast enough s
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by n3k5 7y ago
In some ways, this looks promising: Maybe in a few years, they'll be supporting many more countries and payment providers. I'm not overly skeptical about Brave being able to become a viable alternative to my current go-to browsers
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by n3k5 7y ago
People who have a bit of a clue about how human colour vision works know that the "purple doesn't exist" factoid is bullshit. No, that's not facetious; that's the proper technical term: "Purple doesn't exi
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by n3k5 7y ago
> Intrinsic Gravity by Still This one is fun to watch on a 3D display. (As much of it is black & white, anaglyph should also be worth a shot.) Most of the effects could have plausibly been rasterised or blitted into a flat plane; a
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by n3k5 7y ago
There's a problem with this proposal: As cooling down the entire fridge via this method is not feasible, you'd have to thermally insulate the can from the outside case of the fridge. As in a normal household fridge, the can would
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by n3k5 7y ago
You missed that the noise function is given n-dimensional coordinates as an argument. Rather than picturing an RNG, you can think of it as a texture unit that samples from an n-dimensional image of some noise with certain characteristics. T
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by n3k5 7y ago
Yeah, pretty cool, if you're into cypherpunky solutions to an extent where you don't mind the accompanying dystopia. I get why some users need Tor, many of them for agreeable reasons, and that they would benefit from more people u
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by n3k5 7y ago
> The difference between a product and a feature is nothing. Granted, but the comment you replied to was about the difference between a feature and a company.
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by n3k5 7y ago
That's depressing, but I will remember that when I come across an unnecessarily AMPified URL, I shouldn't blame the publisher for making this possible in the first place.
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by n3k5 7y ago
> If I search "Non-standard evaluation in left-hand side of mutate command R", it's a bit weird that I'm expected to click the first StackExchange rather than getting a canonical answer excerpted. Are you saying tha
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by n3k5 7y ago
> variations in timbre Good insight, but these variations are correlated with variations in pitch. It's a single note in the sense that it's always a C; not necessarily always the same octave. > horns [...] can only play

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