sesqu

36 ms·

331.
by sesqu 14y ago
There are no small amount of times when you'd want to wrap a block with links, including headers, summaries, and composites. It's actually unfortunate that in so many cases where people wrap blocks with anchors, they go for the inner-wrap m
332.
by sesqu 14y ago
JPEG artifacts are separate from the definition of a pixel, yes, but not to the extent you propose. The artifacts are specifically a result of pixels becoming corrupted during the compress-decompress cycle, and feature most prominently wher
333.
by sesqu 14y ago
Fair enough wrt/ point samples. But I didn't see his point as being that; I saw him arguing that pixels are correctly interpreted as representing an area of zero, which is very convenient when you're fitting a function to interpolate betwee
334.
by sesqu 14y ago
Excellent video, though I do wonder about the treatment of pixels as point samples. I've seen it before, and it appears to be a popular viewpoint among code designers, but it doesn't agree with how I use and create pixels, or with my unders
335.
by sesqu 14y ago
To be frank, he got the mechanism, the scope and the barrel from a store. What he actually built was the scaffolding, which is still nice but more like assembling or repairing an AK than building one.
336.
by sesqu 14y ago
I checked the link to The Straight Dope about the reading comprehension tests they had conducted; turns out they hadn't conducted one at all. So I guess the author didn't read slow enough before writing.
337.
by sesqu 14y ago
I wouldn't call smoothstep an approximation to a sinusoid - both are sigmoidal, but that's about it. This smoothstep in particular is just a natural cubic spline interpolator, arguably the simplest sigmoidal interpolating function.
338.
by sesqu 14y ago
Regarding Alexa and Compate, you're half right. They're wrong in useful ways, but not the way you suggest. What's important to realize is why they're wrong - sampling bias. So they give an accurate representation of a certain demographic, b
339.
by sesqu 14y ago
It doesn't. A dead person is effectively immune, that is "recovered". Popular modifications that do affect the model include temporary immunity and new births.
340.
by sesqu 14y ago
It's worth noting that Watson didn't beat the Jeopardy grandmasters with accuracy, but with speed - not that that isn't useful in healthcare, given sufficient accuracy.
341.
by sesqu 14y ago
I must disagree. Without the top navigation visible, removing the outer box is clearly a good idea. And splitting the bottom section instead of subsetting it looks better and is reasonable, but in my opinion is less usable . Allow me to cl
342.
by sesqu 14y ago
Personally I hate the minimalist fad, and this is speaking as a minimalist. I want a UI that shows me information I need and exposes actions I can take. That means (relative) timestamps and quote buttons, not client devices and administrati
343.
by sesqu 14y ago
I think you underestimated the pixel counts. It's hard to be precise because of the bleeding, likely due to scaling, but adding one to the pixel counts results in a much more reasonable 0.294 sales per pixel. This would indicate the special
344.
by sesqu 14y ago
The units are actually rates: sales per day.
345.
by sesqu 14y ago
No, the left hand should not be squared. It's a special property of the Poisson process that applies to the numbers, not the units.
346.
by sesqu 14y ago
> A login form will be accompanied by a Login button Forgive me for this tangent, but please please please follow the above advice. I've had it with login and search forms that replace their submit button with javascript.
347.
by sesqu 14y ago
The entertainment market is another good example of what he might have been thinking of. Many games consoles and video devices have been sold at a loss, though it's obviously a greater gamble than selling payment plans disguised as service.
348.
by sesqu 14y ago
The problem with the ECDF is that it's harder to get a feel for, being cumulative. I spent a few days once playing with N-bin histograms, and still feel those should be the default (with non-compact ends, maybe gamma distributed) over smoot
349.
by sesqu 14y ago
For what it's worth, I disagree with that chart. It breaks conventions, makes assumptions, and has an eclectic selection, so use it only for suggestions.
350.
by sesqu 14y ago
So what is the CIA responsible for? Stealing Wikileaks's secrets?
351.
by sesqu 14y ago
You're underestimating the number of non-photographic JPEG files in use despite lacking transparency. It appears a significant number of people don't care about artifacts. That said, JPEG does today support lossless compression, if you real
352.
by sesqu 14y ago
GIFs are simpler, more widely supported, animated, and in many common cases result in smaller filesizes. But I believe the real reason they're still around is people don't want to fix what isn't broken. There are a lot of cases where PNGs a
353.
by sesqu 14y ago
The File API is still kind of poorly supported, but you could add that depending on your browser (though you'd want to use an extension, since it'd be a bit more code). As for live-editing HTML, that's usually been considered out of scope f
354.
by sesqu 14y ago
Some of the data seem a little suspect. The grade correlation result is unreasonably strong, and the bin sizes aren't specified, among other shortcomings. That said, this was a very entertaining read. edit: Appears to be from 1990.
355.
by sesqu 14y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. If not, you may want to read up on prominent cases like Anwar al-Awlaki's assassination.
356.
by sesqu 14y ago
There are two issues at stake here. The curious layman would, I argue, rather study the vacuum cleaner than quantum mechanics, if only because the former offers a well-understood topic to study, whereas the latter offers hostile theories an
357.
by sesqu 14y ago
Are you saying you disagree? Because that sounds willful.
358.
by sesqu 14y ago
It's not only the textures that's the problem. Wine's app tracker reports that in 2010, Saints Row 2 would crash on launch. It's possible it runs now, but that doesn't leave Saints Row 3 with a good outlook.
359.
by sesqu 14y ago
It was released in the fall of 2011. I would be surprised if it ran well under wine.
360.
by sesqu 14y ago
A person I respect likes the author's writings, so I've read his technical posts before. Unfortunately, turns out respect isn't transitive (even on the technical level).

More ›