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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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The cracking scene, demo scene, and games industry were all built long before Windows. C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Atari. I think it's important we had a generation of instant-on machines that gree…
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The device and its software are based on assumptions. Fair enough. It makes for convenient measurement if it works. Does anyone know if some of the more radical/fringe diets might break the ass…
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Somewhere, there's a vindicated coder shouting, "See! I told you that extra code and storage to allow for a schedule of arbitrary future insertions of leap seconds would pay off!"
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Yay, more sleep! Wait... ( very briefly thinking about broken assumptions, date calculations, month-end assumptions, 0:59 versus 0:60 vs. 0:00, ...) dammit, I just lost more than I gained! Thanks, …
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There are quite a few studies that suggest the brain performs better when it's cooler. Three are discussed here. ("Cool room" was 19 C, "warm room" was 25 C.) http:/&#…
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If law enforcement has sufficient cause to arrest someone, then getting a search warrant after the arrest should be easy. If it wasn't easy to obtain such warrants then either that aspect of ju…
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I use a Kinesis Freestyle with wrist rests, split, tilted up toward the centre, with an Apple Magic Trackpad elevated and sitting tightly between the two halves. I enjoy this setup very much.
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What hostility or ridiculousness did you see? I've been on Dyn forever, as a free user to keep a host entry for one remote, nonprofit dynamic-IP server. Starting exactly a year ago, once per mon…
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You're living the dream for some of us. So thank you for sharing some of your secrets. Well, I'm hoping I get some secrets... I just paid $9.99. :)
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The author's tool is excellent and achieves impressive ratios. But once you open the "I can accept information loss" door, it might be worthwhile to experiment with other image manipula…
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Interesting but misleading. The author applied a blur filter which allowed the non-lossy PNG format to compress better. That's not lossy PNG. The information is lost in the blur (or other pre-p…
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Thanks for the ID on the crater. Observation... Copernicus is 93 km in diameter. The crater in the old print is approximately 9.3 cm in diameter. So in 1850, that astrophotographer printed a detail…
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Wow, from a quick browse, I think the moon crater image from the 1850s is what I find most technically impressive because it intersects telescope optics, negative chemistry, and printing chemistry. A…
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Sigh. 7 minutes ago... browsers not working, multiple devices. Check "both" google.ca & google.com... fail, so from there I naturally assume the Internet is down or else it's a rou…