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by sesqu 16y ago
Last time I checked it out, it was intolerably slow on a low-end machine. Now, on that same machine but with the latest Chrome beta, the performance is perfectly tolerable. Looks like gRaphaël is going to be something I might want to use so
842.
by sesqu 16y ago
For clarification: LCD displays like mine have red, green and blue tinted light sources, arranged such that one of each combine to roughly a square. Other displays work similarly, except they don't have any squares. I consider each light so
843.
by sesqu 16y ago
Most importantly, it exposes assumptions. Yesterday there was the post about hand-crafting beating the compiler where the compiler made assumptions that weren't true. Every solution incorporates assumptions, which may prove false or simply
844.
by sesqu 16y ago
Ah. So your position is that there is a distinction, but it's not lexically recognized. My position is it is lexically recognized, but not by enough people. It seems to me that a lot of people do draw a line between pixels and dots, and tha
845.
by sesqu 16y ago
No, that's just the per inch part. I still need to know what the constituents being measured are, as logical pixel vs. physical dot makes all the difference: I don't care about the dot density, as long as there are enough of them; I care
846.
by sesqu 16y ago
W3C recommends the pixel to be interpreted as about 4E-4 radians[1]. Personally I think that's a stupid idea, and I don't think anyone has implemented it, but I would support using such a measure for device resolutions. [1] http://www.w3.o
847.
by sesqu 16y ago
If they're the same thing, which thing is it? The number of pixels (virtual representations; samples) per inch of display, or the number of dots (physical representations; approximate components) per inch of display?
848.
by sesqu 16y ago
If I understand this right, * DPI is print resolution, a property of prints and displays * PPI is image resolution, a property of printed and displayed images * LPI is halftone minimum printing resolution, a property of printers
849.
by sesqu 16y ago
So your argument is that 300 PPI displays are great for processing photos you intend to have printed at 300 DPI. I have no problem with this claim, and I'll extrapolate to "better for >= 300 DPI prints". So, I guess the obvious question
850.
by sesqu 16y ago
While I have previously wondered about the fabric shape, I don't think the similarity is great enough. Unless there is significant variation in brains, the silhouettes differ in way too many places and only really share a couple of major fe
851.
by sesqu 16y ago
Pope Paul IV interpreted Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, painted on the wall of the Sistine Chapel 20 years after completing the ceiling, as defaming the church by suggesting that Jesus and those around him communicated with God directly wit
852.
by sesqu 16y ago
While I have previously wondered about the fabric shape, I don't think the similarity is great enough. Unless there is significant variation in brains, the silhouettes differ in way too many places and only really share a couple of major fe
853.
by sesqu 16y ago
In ASCII. This equation is famous, and crafting proper crop circles requires some familiarity with computers for the GPS and line art. This crop circle, while clever, is not particularly astounding, and is in fact proof against extraterrest
854.
by sesqu 16y ago
Reddit advertising ad been bought previously and independently, so yes, it was free in a sense. No additional cost was incurred, and the author made sure to point out that it might not have been a great deal if their situation had not inclu
855.
by sesqu 16y ago
He mentioned that near the equator, people tend to adopt a lifestyle less focused on planning, and later that our schooling is designed for planners. I found this interesting, since a while back, in the Finland's schools thread [1], I (trie
856.
by sesqu 16y ago
How about instead of average comment score, you consider average likelihood of quality, treating the score (or its log) as odds? That is, w=avg(score/(1+score)). That way a single popular comment won't dominate.
857.
by sesqu 16y ago
I lost most of my respect for them long time ago [--] Take for example the last apache fire video. Do you have another example, from long time ago? That last one was widely panned, but prior to that, their editorialism wasn't criticized v
858.
by sesqu 16y ago
Ha! I didn't expect anyone to point out a scenario where someone did, in fact, have to choose just one tool. That said, Leatherman-like multitools are pretty common among some people, though I'm not sure whether it's just so that they'd hav
859.
by sesqu 16y ago
That's just regular density (smart/total). The article says that's what most economists use, but it's not automatically better - and density is a bit loose of a concept anyway. I'd say it comes down to whether you're interested in a bounded
860.
by sesqu 16y ago
The point being that for most users the faster approach that requires less thinking is to type it twice. Spoken like a touch-typist with a short email address. I feel confident in claiming that annabelle.t.johnson@woodandplaster.co.uk wil
861.
by sesqu 16y ago
It sounds more reliable. I'm not sure about better, though - I can only see it helping to identify unclear writing and witty editorialism, and I only want more attention on one of those.
862.
by sesqu 16y ago
That's actually what I considered to be the cause for the law of large numbers, when I tried to trace the normal distribution to axioms of three-dimensional geometry. I failed to get much beyond that, for lack of ability to reason about e
863.
by sesqu 16y ago
GP just said. Because getting rid of it would be stupid - the current approach is building long-term storage.
864.
by sesqu 16y ago
Few people can do logarithms in their heads - and those that can, usually do it using similar tricks. I realize that "doing math in your head" is well on the decline, but it is pretty essential for speedy approximations, which are what many
865.
by sesqu 16y ago
I'm not so sure about that. All you need is a bit of buffer overrun, reflection, or poor escaping mechanisms - and none of those are exactly rare. Here's a 2006 article on RFID+buffer overflow tat wikipedia pointed me at: http://arstechnic
866.
by sesqu 16y ago
Well, he had just prior spent some time explaining how to convert any growth rate to 100% just by scaling the time axis. So when he says it's 11:59, he means it's 10 years (or whatever) to the end, if one were to assume constant growth.
867.
by sesqu 16y ago
It only has the whitelisting functionality. I kept my noscript on allow-2nd-party, which unfortunately isn't offered in chrome.
868.
by sesqu 16y ago
Well, for one, you're encouraging divergent evolution in an environment where you're at a local maximum. Most organizations take the opposite approach, and try to nail things down when they're winning.
869.
by sesqu 16y ago
Well there weren't really many more steps to take. Between FFT and wikipedia article was only PAQ compression, which didn't require prior knowledge. And they had to ignore a few red herrings, but the spectrogram helped there. I wonder how t
870.
by sesqu 16y ago
for any given skip list implementation there is most probably an encoding of balanced binary trees that outperforms it Not just probably, absolutely. Skip lists are probably pretty balanced, which is always less balanced than actually pre

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