mjal
Re:I Love Software Rendering
on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:51AM (#50119937)
Even the oldest and cheapest CRT monitor my family had was pretty pixel-accurate unless you were right at the edges. I was doing pixel art on it as a child and had no issues at all.
Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower
on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:06PM (#42659555)
Nice to see someone discover this! I've always been partial to spot the differences and crossview images - I am able to cross each eye independently of one another, which makes overlapping these sorts of images very easy. For example, I could cross my right eye, while my left stays perfectly still. This causes instant double vision, and relaxing how crossed the eye is lets me line the images up very quickly. It's fun to do in places with a repetitive wall texture, too - seeing something in real life while adding a faux 3D effect on top of it is kind of trippy. Probably my most useless skill, but a fun one regardless.
Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:27AM (#23428224)
That doesn't have to be the case at all. They could send the password (plaintext, hashed or otherwise) elsewhere to get checked that just takes a little bit of time, and get some form of positive/negative response back. Or any number of similar alternatives. It's still bad, but let's not jump to conclusions.
Re:Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
on Friday August 31, 2018 @07:23AM (#17884588)
I'm concerned with the continual buyout of large established UK companies by US ones. It's happened a lot in the past ~10 years, most notably Cadbury's, and not only are there tax implications, but the standard of product seems to drop to the lowest acceptable while attempting to keep the same prices. There's also the issue with business ethics of the parent company, which tend to be rather different than the UK.
Re:SpaceX is working on a kid-size submarine to extract those boys in ...
on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:31AM (#17482899)
I'd be surprised if he wasn't now - I meant in the first place.
Re:SpaceX is working on a kid-size submarine to extract those boys in ...
on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:21AM (#17482854)
Not SpaceX, a partner company. While helping is admirable, if he actually wanted to help in a more reasonable timeframe/more humble way then there are better channels he could have used, this all seems like a publicity stunt to me.
Re:AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on k...
on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:22AM (#17430260)
If it helps, you can click Tools on the right under the search bar on the results page and click Verbatim. I've found that I tend to get better results when I'm looking for something specific.
I feel like a site shouldn't have to assume that you're familiar with their product to understand what they're trying to push. This single page is useless to actually explain what this is in context, you need to click back to the main site (which is at the bottom of the page) to find out, and even then it's very sparse.
Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds
on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:07PM (#16423694)
I think this is a really clickbaity title - it implies that a caloric deficit via keeping track of what you eat isn't a path to weight loss, despite the article itself stating that that is not the case.
Re:How Rust Is Tilde’s Competitive Advantage [pdf]
on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:50PM (#16319443)
CLion debugging works pretty well for most cases, though there are some small issues every so often. I always make sure to report them to the appropriate place if they're not known already, though.
Re:Many packages suddenly disappeared
on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:41PM (#16087332)
We use Nexus at work and have linked up NPM to it along with several Maven repos. I don't know why anyone wouldn't do this if they were a business.
Re:Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:09PM (#16086163)
Some places have no other choices for ISPs. I don't disagree that a VPN would help but that feels like it's simply dismissing that there's a problem.