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by nayuki 3y ago
> how precisely you fit those together I mean, read the DEFLATE spec; it's rather short compared to modern formats (LZMA, Brotli, Zstandard, etc.). The RFC version is "16 pages" long: https://www.rfc-editor.or
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by nayuki 3y ago
It sounds like you're still upset about the truckers protest in Ottawa in February 2022.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Exchanging value between two economic entities using primitive card numbers seems crazy when you have better ways. Try to explain buying with a credit card online 200 years ago to someone who has never seen it. You type in about 23 digits (
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by nayuki 3y ago
This diagram would serve as a helpful companion to the article: https://www.nayuki.io/res/dumb-png-output-java/png-file-form... > I won’t go in depth on DEFLATE here (in part because I am not an expert^4) >
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by nayuki 3y ago
I could see implementations tolerating a lack of DEFLATE Adler-32, lack of PNG chunk CRC-32, and lack of PNG IEND chunk.
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by nayuki 3y ago
How does the mouseover animation of that topmost image work? It seems random yet deterministic.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I'll analyze PNG for comparison. The largest width and height is 2147483647 (2^31 - 1). Using the pHYs chunk (physical pixel dimensions), the lowest density we can specify is 1 pixel per metre. So, 2 billion metres (2 gigametres) is so
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do Drivers have been taking away transportation from non-drivers for decades. Look at suburbs without sidewalks. Look at winding suburban culs-de-sac that massively increase tr
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by nayuki 3y ago
Each segment starts with a header that consists of a 4-bit type (numeric, alphanumeric, byte, etc.) and an n-bit character count.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I made an attempt on https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step - use the examples "Force light area" and "Force dark area".
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by nayuki 3y ago
Citation needed, but I think I read that hackers dumped the firmware of Canon cameras by blinking the single red LED on the camera (and foregoing the main graphical LCD). See the CHDK and Magic Lantern projects.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yeah, shoutouts to the USCSB channel; I've been watching them for years. https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB/videos Back to aviation, I can recommend these channels that explain air accidents: https://www.yo
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by nayuki 3y ago
Mostly agreed, except for: > We have to drive and it's a right. WTF? Driving is by definition a privilege. You're maneuvering a 2-ton murder machine. We got into the current mess because people treat driving as a right - I hav
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by nayuki 3y ago
The driving majority has members who support buying tall heavy SUVs and pickup trucks "for their family's safety", running over pedestrians, speeding wherever they please, and protesting any kind of traffic calming or enforce
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by nayuki 3y ago
> is that flying is something that is being done to us, and driving is something that we do ourselves. So the agency, the point of view is very different. Correct. An all-too-popular viewpoint is, "I'm a good driver, unlike eve
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by nayuki 3y ago
Great article. I agree a lot with the safety culture in commercial aviation and the commitment to investigate and fix root causes. Now can we please apply the same standards to car crashes? The same human errors and bad infrastructure keep
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by nayuki 3y ago
This is already the case in Canada's carbon tax. The amount of tax you pay is proportional to the amount of fossil fuels you consume. But the amount of refund you receive is equal to the total tax collected divided by the population; y
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by nayuki 3y ago
That reminds me of the metapixel in the Game of Life, which is a large structure that emulates one cell. https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
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by nayuki 3y ago
I built AES and DES in Excel almost about a decade ago. Note that these are combinational circuits, not sequential - so no feedback or clock are required. https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel , htt
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by nayuki 3y ago
Someone's video on decoding from a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8hDldvfv0 (20 min) My interactive web page on creating a QR code step by step (so basically the inverse process): https://www.
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_characters_in_Unicod...
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by nayuki 3y ago
> He created a website that looks like it was made in HTML with total disrespect for the user experience I find that the filtering on diskprices.com works way faster than the typical search filters on Newegg, Canada Computers, and pretty
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by nayuki 3y ago
> a name-addressable system is actually a superset of content-addressable systems as you can always use the hash of the content as the name itself It's a superset in that sense but not a superset in another sense. In a content-addre
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by nayuki 3y ago
I owned the EF 17-40mm/4 years ago and did not like it, other than the affordable price. The corner sharpness was poor. Plus it lacked image stabilization. I was so happy when I upgraded to the EF 16-35mm/4 IS and got a noticeable
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by nayuki 3y ago
My favorite example is that the Poynting vector points to the direction of energy flow!
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by nayuki 3y ago
Contains sample code: https://www.nayuki.io/page/java-biginteger-was-made-for-rsa-...
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by nayuki 3y ago
> but now only the wealthy will be able to afford to park them, screwing over the population least able to arrange/afford alternatives Think for a minute about what it means to be wealthy. Is it having more money? Yes, but... The tr
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by nayuki 3y ago
The Urbanist Agenda by Jason Slaughter / Not Just Bikes is a wonderful companion podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theurbanistagenda/videos
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by nayuki 3y ago
Should *not be lethal. Btw, I saw some of your older posts against car-centric design, and I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274702 (9 months ago)
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by nayuki 3y ago
I mean that's the deal you enter into with open-source software. In exchange for having full access to the source code for free, you should have no expectations of entitlement of new features or continued support from upstream.

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