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by pippy 6y ago
There's a great article that explains how to use math to address the issue you metion: https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photoshop-computes-color... Thankfully using interpreted languages has the added benefit o
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by pippy 6y ago
I did something similar to this. I wanted "Lazy loaded" SVG images. Generating an average color over an area would render horrific results - an area with equal red green and blue would be gray for example. My solution was to conve
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by pippy 6y ago
For me MySQL isn't even worth touching. Just this week their 'stable' binaries from their website threw seg faults while executing large SQL batches on my dev box. I replaced it with mariaDB and had no issues.
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by pippy 6y ago
I just installed a dual flush toilet and the first thing it does is start tricking water down the bowl. The instructions called to cut two rods inside the cistern if this happens. I'm too scared to do this with a new toilet, and i don&
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by pippy 6y ago
The large outsourcing of pollution would also be heavy industry.
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by pippy 6y ago
or one: Bitcoin. you'd have to wait 8 years though
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by pippy 6y ago
Everyone knows about chernobyl. No one knows about pike river. Yet they killed the same amount of people. Every single nuclear incident is propagandized, yet dirty energy gets a free rap. It's a shame as global warming will cause much
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by pippy 6y ago
> the ability to infer causes from observed phenomena So 'reading the room'. In social settings you can't follow logic and rationale blindly because there are these things on two legs full of meat and organs that don'
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by pippy 6y ago
To expand on 3: most spy satellites operate in sun synchronous polar orbits. This is so they can cover the entire earth and will have their solar panels lit by the sun. This also has the ramification that they'll always be in the same
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by pippy 6y ago
An underlying tone of this article which most people in this thread have missed, was the impact of hitting the ground running. Godot quickly gets something on the screen for someone to build on. Qt is difficult to get something running. The
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by pippy 6y ago
Putting a filter: grayscale(); over the title makes the emojis melt more into the text. it makes it a bit more readable.
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by pippy 6y ago
I've never bought into the ruse of an increasing population implying a higher standard of living. Politicians love this as a stagnating economy can appear to be doing better, by pointing to an increased GDP that usually rises with an i
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by pippy 6y ago
I had the idea to set mine to the Digg logo as an act of protest I'm protesting by not using Reddit. Ruqqus has so far been an OK alternative, though it's a bit slow both in terms of content and site speed.
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by pippy 6y ago
Reddit has become insufferable in the last few years. It used to be a great news and community aggregator, but since they switched to a social media platform the quality of content changed. It's easy to brush this off as the 'hive
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by pippy 6y ago
How long will it be before Google, Apple, and Microsoft start pulling certificates for apps governments deem unacceptable, such as organizing protests or communicating?
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by pippy 6y ago
My dad worked in a substation in the 90's which had the aesthetic of many of these pictures. Wall to wall switches which controlled the power distribution to half of New Zealand. Halfway through the 90's they upgraded to a few bor
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by pippy 6y ago
It's crazy the value of vintage computers. My dad gave me an IBM XT 286 he got for nothing in the late 90's. It was for me to take apart and destroy so I could learn a bit about computers, which I did. Now just the keyboard is wor
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by pippy 6y ago
To add to your list: * using engagement as a ranking metric. This ensures the content is addictive, even if it's low quality * the reactionary fabricated content they keep because it went viral * important news won't surface until
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by pippy 6y ago
Here's a nice variation to the problem, and the solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vJSNXPEwA
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by pippy 6y ago
As a New Zealander my opinion on the government changed for the better after the pandemic. They listened to health professionals and implemented their advice. Far too many governments have industry in their ear overriding anything else. In
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by pippy 6y ago
If the tools are good enough, there would be communities of people making better music than the original artists. It would put record companies in an interesting position.
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by pippy 7y ago
Ironically Eric used these techniques in his interview with Joe Rogan three days ago. Eric blamed the divergence of the income and production relation on the modern academic environment. Which is a bizarre conclusion to draw, instead of the
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by pippy 7y ago
The article missed another point: they're competing with US based tourism. Every person who chose to go on a cruise didn't visit a US city and spend money there.
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by pippy 7y ago
The increasing complexity of web browsers has less to do with companies using browsers to shoulder competition out (after all, why would they bother to make their engines open source?) and more to do with the web becoming the default applic
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by pippy 7y ago
Krita is not an image manipulation tool, it's a digital painting application aimed at artists. Comparing the two is like saying that oranges are inferior because they're not a truck. GIMP on the other hand is an apt comparison. Li
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by pippy 7y ago
All inventions have prerequisites that people don't think about. The steam engine is the first invention people think about if they were time travel, scribble something on a bit of paper and become rich. You'll need several boring
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by pippy 7y ago
It's because their actions exposed illegal activities that various governments were partaking in. The same organizations which define what a criminal is, and are supposed to be held accountable to the people. Having people that are abo
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by pippy 7y ago
A few years back I wrote a basic bezier curve library with boolean operations in C/C++. Bezier curves are fantastic when you get started, they're easy to deal with and the math is well documented online. However the edge cases are
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by pippy 7y ago
If you earn $10k out of a ~15% to 10% marketshare, you've only earned about $100k total. You're not going to get your money back.
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by pippy 7y ago
The original minesweeper had a smiley face up the top, which would turn dead if you lost, and would have a :o face while picking a cell. Having the face change if there are safe cells available would give the face a purpose.

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