sam0x17

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by sam0x17 5y ago
But if you were forced to always use the same color profile on images? Why allow more than one? Wouldn't that vastly simplify the problem, as then you just have to worry about the device profile, instead of worrying about variation on
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Frameworks and platforms like wordpress have really killed the cottage industry of web design imo
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor. You're right, a reasonable regulator following the U.S. anti-trust regulations as they were written in the early 1900s
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I do miss the days when every teenager who "knows computers" was thought to be more technically competent than adults with 10 years of industry experience and every small business and sole proprietor in existence was looking for a
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Luckily the vast majority of MacOS users these days don't use Safari, for reasons like this
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Let's not forget there was also a huge public outcry on HN and in other places when it came out that they were buying and selling real estate. So if it was socially detrimental to the company's image, and they didn't have the
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> The cognitive distortion is taking uncertainty and replacing it with the worst possible interpretation. So being a good computer scientist / engineer?
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Things are under a lot of strain today. I noticed AWS lambda went down earlier today for 4 of my clients using completely unrelated stacks in different regions, but AWS status page was all green.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> We're stuck with images stored in the display profile of old CRTs by default, because that was the most practical option at the time. The analogue in photography is photographs lose color clarity and fade as they age. Why should I
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> In candid street photography, I think what people fear is exactly that: bad intent, a willingness of the photographer to exploit the images in order to show ridicule or maybe even obtain sexual gratification. That cuts both ways though
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Right, which begs the question why on earth would there be more than one image color profile. The image color profile should just be implied and the same everywhere.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I've never understood the need for color profiles on images themselves. On monitors and displays, sure, those vary, but why allow people to specify a color profile on an image, thus making images no longer a ground truth for pixel valu
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It's funny too because GitHub definitely knows the license for every single code sample in their database -- they could easily incorporate this
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by sam0x17 5y ago
What web framework commonly uses 5000 in development mode? I've seen a lot of port 3000 and 8888 and 8080 and 10000, but never 5000.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Related and relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7wg8m2/is_it...
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Comments like that though are really just a viable solution in disguise -- make the U.S. more like said country
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Yes, I do this, and this would be great if Python officially recommended spaces, but they recommend tabs, poisoning the well further.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
The colon has always struck me as crazy weird, like we're righting C gotos or something
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Lovely corporate ethics. I posted this in our company slack room as an example of how not to act for bizdev Google benefits too much from this sort of arrangement to have any incentive to stop it, even though these are unauthorized advertis
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I'm unsure of the security of anything on modern Apple operating systems or hardware, since I can't review the source code or hardware schematics.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I find it hilarious that people think there is still justification for an expense as large as office real estate / office rent, when the non-biased peer-reviewed studies all show a 15-20% productivity gain from WFH anyway. So what, you
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> I think my main superficial turn-off was indeed the non-traditional loops and I was a fan of python whitespace indentation I've always been perplexed that this, a very small thing that barely ever comes up since 99% of the time yo
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Yeah the supply chain breakdown study that was posted last week (sorry couldn't find link) points to the fact that demand across the board in almost all industries is quite a bit higher than it was pre-pandemic. Confusingly, supply is
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by sam0x17 5y ago
This is actually just really good product/CE communication. Very technical and very untechnical people alike can read those posts and have a very good idea of what is going on, with a high degree of specificity. You don't have to
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Is it bad that their transparency about the aspects affecting the delay made me want to order?
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> My experience has been that actual code is always superior* to no-code, because no-code is always more complex Yes, usually an order of magnitude more complex, even.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Well in this case, it's more that svelte is the least of all evils when it comes to this. React and Vue have way more boilerplate and React in particular has the most framework-specific stuff of them all. Svelte is much closer to pure
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Or the opposite will happen and they'll hit it more because they won't feel as guilty because the count isn't public
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by sam0x17 5y ago
That said, someone's OKR in legal just got tanked haha
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Oh, I didn't imagine it could be that far. I meant more than a quarter mile = very far. I meant like being 200m from the dining hall vs 3 football fields from the dining hall -- you end up socializing more with people in your dorm if y

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