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by neilh23 9y ago
If all you need to do is create a negative version of pre-existing image, you can use ImageMagick on the command line: $ converge in.png -negate out.png
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by neilh23 10y ago
Pashin' it doon
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by neilh23 10y ago
It's hard getting something that sounds consistently good in all listening environments - I've seen cases where music is offered in digital format either as 'play anywhere' loud .mp3s or 24-bit high dynamic-range .flacs
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by neilh23 10y ago
The shell '>' redirect will truncate the file first of all, for example: echo "foo" > message.txt ; ( sleep 3 ; echo "bar" ) > message.txt & echo "message: '$( cat message.txt )'
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by neilh23 11y ago
Vim's built-in encryption is pretty useful, although the default cipher is weak (you can override this in the vimrc).
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by neilh23 11y ago
I always liked the quantum bogo-sort algorithm: 1) Randomise list 2) if list not in correct order, destroy the universe The universe that's left will have the correct answer.
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by neilh23 11y ago
Yes - Go is full of concepts like 'aji' (lit. "taste"), thickness, influence, good and bad shape which are features that can only really be evaluated in terms of actual points dozens of moves later. I think Go is particu
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by neilh23 11y ago
Yeah :-)
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by neilh23 11y ago
According to Google - $14,281.50
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by neilh23 11y ago
I play Go a lot, and chess occasionally. I think it's about mindset not skillset - games like these are about solving local problems ('tactics') to achieve a greater aim ('strategy'); people who are attracted to the
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Ask HN: Remote Working
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by neilh23 11y ago
I got some very interesting results from feeding fractal images into a program like this a few years back - unfortunately, I don't have the resulting sounds, but you pick less busy images with filaments, and adjust the contrast - the r
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by neilh23 11y ago
Do you really need to debug events from 3 and half years ago? Full logs only really need to stick around as long as you're likely to want to debug them. Log rotation is a must (I've seen debug logs nobody reads sitting in the giga
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by neilh23 12y ago
Interestingly, that book has a review quote by Ken Thompson. I always wondered if the naming of Go(lang) was related to the game ...