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Yeah only makes sense if you call it “desktop *NIX dominance” or maybe just “non-Windows dominance.”
Yeah only makes sense if you call it “desktop *NIX dominance” or maybe just “non-Windows dominance.”
Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.
There’s an audio illusion that’s somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion — instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.
IIRC there are vast differences between the states. My recollection is that there is a very strong red state/blue state correlation, which is absolutely shocking (/s, obviously).
Also, https://www.cmqcc.org/
Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It’s almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed — there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!
I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it’s independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still…the computer “knows” what it’s displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.
I think an email address is required to access their respective app stores, but is it actually required for creating an account?
Have you heard the joke about the SEO manager who walks into a bar pub saloon watering hole place to meet friends great cocktails beer on tap?
I just say my name is Bigus Dickus whenever they call me. They usually hang up or insult me.
For the “car’s extended warranty” I just tell them it’s a 1969 Wayne Industries Batmobile. They usually just say they don’t provide coverage for that car and hang up.
Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.
(I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)
I’ve only recently branched out from router defaults…only reason was that I wanted to VLAN off my home network, and mostly just so [Home Assistant-controlled] smart devices can’t talk to the Internet at all.
There’s a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm…
Wild turkeys can fly, too. It’s impressive. I once came around a blind corner on my bike, there was a turkey in the road, and it took off in a manner I can only describe as 747esque — it did not look like it should be able to fly, yet there it was, clearly flying.
It could be fun to implement this under *NIX for fun — cronjob to take screenshots, some OCR, throw it in a database…I’d never want to use this “feature” but as an academic exercise it could be a fun project.
But having it implemented by my OS, and not by me…yikes. No thanks.
I was curious, so I looked it up and it seems that around 3KB is the max for a single 177x177 code (though I imagine this is a “soft” limit?). With 600DPI being common for laser printers, a DPI-limited 3KB would be well under 1cm x 1cm. My hunch is that this wouldn’t be super reliable (DPI limit not necessarily the resolution of the printer?), but I’d be curious to see what the usable QR density actually is. But yeah…a few QR codes should do the trick!
I would be surprised if you couldn’t get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication — 8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today’s standards!) drive.
Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?
Yeah, tenure definitely a double-edged sword. On the one hand, being able to voice potentially unpopular opinions is important. On the other, having dead weight occupying faculty positions which brilliant younger folk would kill for — folks who would be more productive, more engaged, and contribute more to the world — is…well, maybe not great.
No, it was the client — not Google — who had a backup with another provider.
Kids these days can still enjoy the finer things in life.