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by w0mbat 6y ago
I think that only works in Tetris.
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I noticed at Microsoft that the tallest people always got promoted. It never made any sense to me - we weren’t playing basketball.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Tesla made me give a presentation, that's the only time I've encountered this request. That was fine with me. The presentation bit went well and they were an easy crowd. Someone else got the job though.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
>"Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term?" I assume you know that happened all the time during the Reformation period with Henry the Eighth starting it, with a contrasting
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by w0mbat 6y ago
There is a major factor that kicks in when a browser gets the most market share, particularly >50% of the total, as Win IE did in the 90s and Chrome did a few years ago. Because web site developers test their site in the "top"
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by w0mbat 6y ago
ARC is built on top of the retain/release pool system, but it automates everything from the programmer's point of view so you almost never have to explicitly interact with it.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I am freaked out by the line, "Retain and Release methods for working with Objective-C garbage collection". Do they mean the abandoned GC system Apple tried, or the obsolete manual pool-based system Apple used to use? Either way,
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I looked at Merriam-Webster online, the snippet Google pulls from the OED and the Mac dictionary app which uses the New American Oxford. "Locate" would lead to less confusion among readers. It unanimously has the right definition,
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I localized my cat to Japanese and now he says "nyan" instead of "meow".
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's actually wrong usage, and should be replaced with "Locate" in this context. "Localize" has various meanings, but in a physical location sense is to restrict something to a particular area
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Google tried this. They set up this cadillac in-house childcare system, as you'd expect from Google, but it got out of hand as it scaled. When they switched to charging the parents more of the program cost, there was a huge backlash. E
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I'd forgotten about negative heights! Unexpectedly negative values in BMP files were another surprise that required extra code.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I wrote the classic-Mac image-display app, "Shomi" (originally DePICT) which tried to display anything as fast as possible. In modern times such an app would be just a bunch of API or library calls, but in the early days I had to
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I would say that is a major factual error in the article. Although the barges are less glamorous than rocket stages, they are reused more times, and so are more permanent a tribute.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Any long lens you buy is going to use the telephoto design, it's a given. A fairly mild crop to say make a 85mm simulate a 105mm is almost undetectable in terms of quality, and the difference that can make to the look of a portrait be
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by w0mbat 6y ago
You are actually making my point for me. The perspective change you are talking about is called "a dolly zoom". A dolly is a little cart that runs on a track, so the camera can be physically moved in a straight line, in this case
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by w0mbat 6y ago
It’s really not. The lens is not the key thing it’s the distance from the subject. There is no flattening effect. Amateurs typically plant their feet and use variable focal length lenses to frame the shot, and are missing out on the perspec
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Telephoto means long focal length. (Long not “high”). It’s not true that only a handful of pixels would be left with a modern sensor. The point is that perspective is a result of distance from the subject or subjects. Long lenses make it c
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by w0mbat 6y ago
There is no such effect. Telephoto lenses do not compress. You could see the same perspective by taking the center part of an image shot with a normal lens, ie by cropping. This is easily verified.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
Ironically, the Hush extension for Safari (which aims to limit cookie tracking, amongst other goals) blocks that page. I mean this one, not the Chrome extension of the same name. https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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by w0mbat 6y ago
A car stereo is supposed to have two +12V input wires and one ground wire. The yellow wire is named "constant" or "battery". The red wire is named "accessory" or "switched". The black wire is ground.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
You haven’t wired it properly. If there is no constant power wire just run one from the battery.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
The current technology is to weld or rivet a specially shaped flat steel shield over the cat. It is more secure than an cage and actually improves the car's aero-dynamics.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I read an article describing how some thieves will deliberately set off the alarm and then break the window. The theory is that everybody ignores car alarms and the alarm covers up the sound of breaking glass, a sound that people do not ign
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by w0mbat 6y ago
When someone steals a car battery it's because they want a battery, not money. Often they leave their car's dead battery behind.
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Absolutely. I had a shitty experience at Apple, manager/team lead treated me as a beginner despite me being in a senior engineer role and I was highly experienced from some other major companies. He thought time at Apple was the only m
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My reaction was that any kind of tape can hold 580 Terabytes if it's long enough.
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No worries.
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It's "boilerplate". It's because a reusable letterpress metal plate of text is called a "boilerplate" because it looks like the manufacturer's nameplate on a steam-train's boiler. That led to any reus
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It's nice to see Toyota putting some effort into electric car tech at last. They got this early lead with hybrid tech leading to the Prius, did some plug-in hybrids, but never went for it with a mainstream EV. The only pure EVs I saw w

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