tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
> I find this to be the most elegant way to handle dithering Yes, it's so simple, it can be applied in a single pass on a single pixel buffer. Because in convolution kernel terms - it's only sampling from half of a moor neighbo
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by tomxor 4y ago
> I know people who still use flip phones and this basically segments them out even further. We aren't all impoverished, it can be a conscious decision. I like how SMS just works, it's far from perfect but feels closer to an in
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by tomxor 4y ago
Exactly, both systems are imperfect, but I'll take the half functional one over the inhumane one that also discriminates and ruins people while making excessive profit.
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by tomxor 4y ago
I appreciate technically accurate, we all do that's why were here - I might suggest a little more context awareness though, lest you miss the point. Tangents are also fun, just not like this: > and you're entirely wrong But i&#
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by tomxor 4y ago
What is your point? are you merely trying to argue your original comment was somehow correct based on a technicality? Sure I forgot about colour correction, congrats... It's pretty absurd to argue uniform pixel data manipulation for co
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by tomxor 4y ago
I went back and forth on gaps. I like the idea of maximising screen space utility (original reason for gaps feature rejection), but disliked the visual "feel" of i3wm window borders. Eventually I realised this was due to the visua
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by tomxor 4y ago
Not GPT? I'm guessing whoever instigated the generation of the article. Either that or dev/urandom, so sure GPT is prompting us in as much as a dice roll + finger on a page is. I think people put too much stock in this stuff, it&#
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by tomxor 4y ago
> If in the future AI can write as captivating and as structured as a skilled human, then why should we not enjoy reading it? GPT, stable diffusion etc, all very clever and fun. Still about 3 billion light years away from anything resemb
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Every camera and software pipeline for a photograph alters the raw images. You're just more aware of it. No, you use a half decent professional camera and you can even opt for RAW format, the only processing your getting is the av
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by tomxor 4y ago
Bundling DNS with hosting is fine, bundling registration with hosting may be dangerous as per sibling comment. It doesn't matter too much which side the DNS server is on, although the registrar provided ones tend to be less reliable.
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by tomxor 4y ago
It really doesn't matter. For some threads on HN the article headline works as a seed for discussion where we gain more value, then the content isn't always that valuable human or GPT. For other's where the content is more im
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by tomxor 4y ago
Thanks for this warning. Even worse for me, because my laptop keyboard has some kind of horrible encoding causing latency on the shift key, so I'm constantly doing :Wq when I type fast enough... Yeah I had the suspicion it was human er
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by tomxor 4y ago
Registrar != nameserver, although they tend to provide one, they also tend to be complete crap IME. Have a look at your hosting provider (which hopefully is not also your registrar). e.g I use Linode's nameservers which are pretty reli
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by tomxor 4y ago
> 4-color, double-walled, matte boxes + HD foam inserts [...] the most expensive line item on your BOM [...] And then they get thrown away. I hate this whenever I buy a consumer product, I look at the box and think, that's a £10er I
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by tomxor 4y ago
> "just give me the damn data and let me format it" That perfectly sums up the feeling
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by tomxor 4y ago
I just realised I've gradually replaced all of my GUI apps with terminal based ones... I use rtorrent, and as such cannot possibly have issues with UI colour because I define them "system wide" by setting the ANSI colours, wh
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by tomxor 4y ago
> One of the drawbacks of white-space sensitivity is the accidental mixing of distinct white-spaces (e.g., tabs and spaces) I discovered something really surprising regarding whitespace awareness of others, TL;DR that many juniors fundam
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by tomxor 4y ago
I already use mullvad, and as good as they are no VPN is immune to the issues I mentioned unfortunately.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yea, it's not like they substantially diverged from the iframe spec and then abandoned that idea but left it active in a major version that needs support... wait
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Solving this in a way that doesn't block tons of regular users [...] is precisely where nearly all of Cloudflare's $15B market cap comes from. It's not a binary solution. Cloudflare very much does block tons of regular u
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by tomxor 4y ago
I came here to say exactly this, it's extreme hypocrisy. Cloudflare but also others from small to large services justify blocking IP addresses using the basis of "some IPs being a source of too much trouble"... but this doesn
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by tomxor 4y ago
Only a minor one but: > It’s estimated that, at its pick, in 1929, *peak
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yup, I have a bunch of vim bindings to give it standard text editing behaviour because it's just too hard to kick muscle memory when you are exposed to it every day through every GUI text field's common behaviour. Jumping between
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by tomxor 4y ago
+1 Ideally try to combine exercise with something you enjoy, so that exercise is the side effect. Then it becomes effortless and something to look forward to. As an over-worker, but also someone who enjoys their job, I still find it importa
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Why focusing on transistors count then? I did not say transistor count, I said power density due to transistor scaling . There is a difference, transistor counts have continued to increase since 10 years ago for other reasons, but it
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Koomey's Law says compute costs will be ~1/16th / ~7% in a decade. Probably worse, Koomey's law is an observation based on the effects of Dennard scaling (constant power density while doubling transistor count due t
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by tomxor 4y ago
And JS engine, the whole thing is basically safari with a different URL bar and ancillary stuff like bookmark syncing. As far as the code is concerned it's 100% Safari. I don't know why non iOS browser play the stupid pseudo suppo
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yup, it's not like we have to support Safari 15,14,13 ... wait
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by tomxor 4y ago
> but safari does have the IE 11 like constant fighting when you have to support it. Yes, and is also very IE like in that it's not evergreen, various iOS devices stuck on specific revisions that Apple has left in various states of
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by tomxor 4y ago
I was a web developer when IE6 support was still a thing. Safari is the new IE, it may not be as bad yet, but it's right on track, cumulative regressions being the norm.

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