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Comment · 1 day ago
The factory equipment would've just been sold to foreign competitors in China and Mexico though.
Comment · 3 days ago
I love the Framework laptops in every other respect, but I just don't get the "swappable port" concept. Those are still dongles; they're just special dongles that can only be used on one brand of machine and which require allocating internal space away from battery, on a machine whose power-hungry OSes can't spare a single watt-hour.
Comment · 1 month ago
This sounds nice, but what if your neighbor's political views are an existential threat to you personally? What if they don't want you to live in their neighborhood because of the color of your skin, or if they don't think you're a fit parent because you let your kid wear certain clothes? There are some things about which we can have friendly disagreements, like Laffer curves, school vouchers, the death penalty, environmental regulations, or whatever. But there are other disagreements which mean we cannot be friends.
Comment · 3 months ago
The chromaticity diagram is basically a straight line between 640nm (red) and 545nm (green), so anything in between (including pure yellow around 570nm) can be reproduced with a linear combination of red and green.

RGBY televisions do exist, but their goal is to boost brightness in the yellow region, not color gamut.

Comment · 3 months ago
It uses nonphysical "imaginary" primaries that have meaning within the coordinate system but not within the human perceptual system.
Comment · 4 months ago
How did I know it was going to be `nvm` before I clicked?
Comment · 1 year ago
The Australian-Vietnamese continuum is well-explained by Australia being the geographically nearest region which can supply native English language teachers to English language learners in Vietnam, rather than by any intrinsic phonetic resemblance between Vietnamese and Australian English.
Comment · 1 year ago
Those seem like standard needs for any kind of CRUD app, so I would call this approach pretty useful. Currently I do something similar by keeping a private primary uuidv7 key with a btree index (a sortable index), and a separate public uuidv4 with a hash index (a lookup index), which is a workable but annoying arrangement. This solution achieves the same effect and is simpler.
Comment · 1 year ago
Could this be used in reverse to correct for color vision disorders, e.g. by punching down greens and blues and punching up reds into the outer range of the P3 gamut?
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't think R&T will ever ship at this point, since the browser vendors are apparently unwilling to absorb the complexity that would be required to add new primitive types with value semantics.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, they run a headless neovim process in the background and sync its state with vscode
Comment · 2 years ago
They'd need some very big RTGs to last that long, and I don't think we manufacture plutonium at the necessary volumes for that anymore.
Comment · 2 years ago
of course this created an interoperability nightmare with third party libraries, which irrevocably forked Google's whole JS ecosystem from the community's 20 years ago and turned their codebases into a miserable backwater.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, once the epiphyseal plates close further growth of long bones is impossible. Only intervention during puberty can influence final adult height.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Japanese equivalent to emoticons are 顔文字 kaomoji, "face characters", and will be familiar as the horizontal ^_^ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ type of emotes.

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