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maaark··on Reddit Blackout Tracker
A little fast huh?
maaark··on Winamp Clone Whips the Llama's Ass on an Espressif ESP32
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2lepog/til_t...
maaark··on Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
My monitor is 32:9, I don't care how wide the vertical taskbar is.
maaark··on Usability of Footnotes
I can't believe he wrote a whole article on the usability of footnotes, using footnotes, on a site without links to return from the footnote back to where it was used.
maaark··on [dead]
Art, I think.
maaark··on Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
"fibroblastosis" -- appears to feature in some medical journals

"bryosphere" -- something to do with moss

"biosprint" -- a brand of yeast.

Many of these 'non-words' have already been taken....

maaark··on March Retail Sales Plunged 8.7% as Coronavirus Shutdowns Took Hold
Are we even supposed to be buying stuff right now?
maaark··on Colleges Want Students with Character, but Can’t Measure It (2014)
A process which most recruits survive. Not too useful for university admissions, which are generally expected to have a 100% survival rate...
maaark··on How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
underground is somewhere...
maaark··on The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)
14 years later and we're still all eating Heinz. Sorry, Jim.
maaark··on Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'
I wouldn't be able to stop myself from saying "way-als" in a mocking accent. Just like how I can't stop myself saying "moo-ney" when I hear it from a Dubliner.
maaark··on How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015)
On second thoughts, I'm guessing that what this ACTUALLY does is make sure that the petrol engine doesn't waste fuel recharging the battery unnecessarily at the end of the trip when it's going to get plugged in.
maaark··on How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015)
>It also has a "battery drain mode." Basically, when you are ending your journey, you will tell the Regera where you will be parking the car, at home or a charging station. The Regera will then make sure that the battery is fully drained before it gets to the end point, which means it'll be ready to accept a charge. Very smart. It has a fully electric mode of about 22 miles.

I thought this was the worst thing you could do to lithium cells?!

maaark··on Acquiring absolute pitch in adulthood is difficult but possible
There's a lesser form of tone-deafness (perhaps that's not the right word for it) where you can't tell with certainly or consistency the direction or extent of a change in pitch.

You can still hear and appreciate music, but you can't whistle or hum along to a tune.

maaark··on How I hacked modern vending machines
That's a dumb movie plot. Vending machines measure and weigh coins. A coin-sized chunk of ice does not weigh the same as a coin.
maaark··on The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what?
The sun is white.
maaark··on Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
When the individual is worth more than many nation states, I have no problem with singling them out.
maaark··on Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
for MK:Wii, use a mushroom just as blue shell briefly gains height before smashing down on you.
maaark··on Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
Why leave out 2011-(mid)2012?
maaark··on Ray Tracing Is No New Thing
We've also long since passed the point where games have pre-rendered scenes that could have been rendered in-engine on high-end hardware.

The only tip-off I had that (some of) Nier Automata's cutscenes are pre-rendered was the drop to 30fps...

maaark··on Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
> There’s one 1080 Ti GPU to start (you can just as easily use the new 2080 Ti for Machine Learning at $500 more — just be careful to get one with a blower fan design)

I don't believe there are any blower-style 20-series cards. The reference cards use a dual-fan design.

maaark··on Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent of the time
I'm pretty sure OpenAI only plays the single simplest hero, mechanically. The other 115 would be varying degrees of "more difficult" to play competently.

Also, it only played mirror matches. If it had to play any hero against any hero, that's 3.393109e+190 possible matchups.

maaark··on What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?
That doesn't sound right to me.
maaark··on LibreOffice 6.1 released
Thanks, I hate it.

The old icons were far clearer as to their purpose. Save is now a download button in case children don't recognize a floppy...

maaark··on When Genetic Diseases Threaten Patient Privacy
When it comes to my health, fuck your privacy.

When it comes to your health, fuck my privacy.

maaark··on Introducing Android 9 Pie
Nah, they're stopping that now.
maaark··on Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban
The UK did too. The cap is 0.
maaark··on And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake
showing that you're not holding a weapon.
maaark··on Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
whips
maaark··on Image EXIF Orientation Bug – or Feature?
A note for clueless windows users:

    convert /?
    Converts a FAT volume to NTFS.
    
    CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]
    
    
      volume      Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
                  mount point, or volume name.
      /FS:NTFS    Specifies that the volume will be converted to NTFS.
      /V          Specifies that Convert will be run in verbose mode.
      /CvtArea:filename
                  Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory
                  that will be the place holder for NTFS system files.
      /NoSecurity Specifies that the security settings on the converted
                  files and directories allow access by all users.
      /X          Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.
                  All open handles to the volume will not be valid.

You probably can't do any damage attempting to use it to convert images, but there might be a way to screw up attempting to convert an image so badly you destroy your filesystem.
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