dmccarty

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by dmccarty 2y ago
1000ns = 1us :)
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by dmccarty 2y ago
It's a good article, but I think you could sum it up neatly by saying "photographic masses search for photographic rules, come up empty." I've been doing amateur/hobbyist photography, as I suspect many here have as
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by dmccarty 3y ago
The site is a bit more enjoyable imho once you realize that even the satire is self-reflecting satire. (And checking html for comments in 2024? We've forgotten more than we ever knew.) On a more serious note, it pains me a bit that ou
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by dmccarty 3y ago
I highly recommend doing this. I also highly recommend not doing it digitally. I recently came across an email I'd sent to myself a decade ago. It was a serendipitous find and could've easily been lost for all time among the 100
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by dmccarty 3y ago
Great point, I wish I'd mentioned it. The expense of the printf dwarfs the log / log (double divided by a double then cast to an int), which itself is greater than some repeated comparisons in a for loop. It's key to be able
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by dmccarty 3y ago
Processors are inherently awesome at branching, adding, adding, shifting, etc. And shifting to get powers of 2 (i.e., KB vs. GB) is a superpower of its own. They're a little less awesome when it comes to math.pow(), math.log(), and m
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by dmccarty 3y ago
Ahhh fonts, where everyone gets an opinion and they're all super important. If you're designing a font not just for legibility, but primarily for safety, then it seems extremely important that each glyph is uniquely distinguisha
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by dmccarty 3y ago
It's a nice little tip, although I have to question any article that claims task manager items are "randomly moving around." FWIW I always assumed anyone who really cared about this stuff was using Sysinternals's excelle
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by dmccarty 3y ago
Mostly agree with the other posters here. To add my own anecdotal piece, I had a majority of the 12 symptoms[1][2] defined as long covid. Got covid immediately in Northern Thailand, Dec 2019. Over the next 24 months I went from a healthy
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by dmccarty 3y ago
That was one of the ostensible reasons, although the real driver likely had more to do with commercial than technical reasons. There were probably some AOL types who accidentally opened toolbars and couldn't figure out how to close the
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by dmccarty 3y ago
> “That means we have the real Christmas snow.” Well, maybe, but not likely. They have the snow from a well-intended but arbitrary chronological switchover. Now if they have snow from 6 - 4 BCE[1], then it's likely they have first