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Comment · 6 years ago
I do not believe "some voters" will motivate the politicians. Instead it is the bread manufacturers, farms, importers, and every other large business with enough weight to convince politicians that a bread coupon is better for Americans than cash. Unsurprisingly they do this with cash not coupons.
Comment · 6 years ago
My idea from decades ago, which I'd love to see implemented, is to capture the height information of the painting and reconstruct it in the browser using physically based rendering. Let the viewer decide what environment to put the painting in, and be able to move around and inspect from every angle. That's the biggest thing that's missing when looking at paintings online: there's no depth and no setting. Some paintings literally shimmer from small dots of glossy paint, others are heavily built up, I want that recreated online.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion, it's neat that pihole maintains a git repo like this. I didn't get a chance to try it out though, I just installed from scratch.
Comment · 6 years ago
I like Pi-hole, but

pi@pihole:~ $ pihole -up

  [i] Checking for updates...
  [i] Pi-hole Core:     up to date
  [i] Web Interface:    up to date
  [i] FTL:              up to date
  [] Everything is up to date!
pi@pihole:~ $ pihole -v

  Pi-hole version is v4.4 (Latest: v5.0)
  AdminLTE version is v4.3.3 (Latest: v5.0)
  FTL version is v5.0 (Latest: v5.0)
Comment · 6 years ago
The Applet Arcade https://web.archive.org/web/20020604024000/http://theshadowl... https://web.archive.org/web/19981201063456/http://members.ao... https://web.archive.org/web/19961222221629/http://www.serve....

Sometime in the mid to late 90s I came across the Applet Arcade. It's just a collection of Java applets maintained by a person who also runs a paranormal website (The Shadowlands http://theshadowlands.net/ ). I have yet to find its successor: The Javascript Arcade.

Comment · 6 years ago
Is there an index of all the pages on this site?
Comment · 6 years ago
The question isn't "what should all([]) return", it's "why does all([]) return True". I think the answer is "because that's what the simplest implementation returns", not "because someone considered the mathematical implications".
Comment · 6 years ago
I see many complicated explanations for "why all([]) behaves this way" that justify the behavior as good because of logical or mathematical purity. I am implying that these explanations are so long worded because they're wrong. I think they are good reasons for keeping the behavior as-is, but the code was probably written first and was written to be simple and just happens to produce mathematically consistent behavior at an edge case. It would be interesting to see the history of the function, to see if the implementation has changed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I'd really like to see people post screenshots comparing Google and DDG results for cases where they consider one better than the other.
Comment · 6 years ago
I have 960 fps video of some LED bulbs in my house. It's very apparent that some bulbs do not flicker (perceptibly), some flicker at 120Hz, and some flicker at 60Hz. At night I can sweep my eyes across the bulbs and see the dashed lines resulting from them turning off and on.
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Comment · 6 years ago
The last application I saw was using micro Doppler signal recognition to determine if someone has fallen down. Consider a nursing home or hospital bathroom where cameras would be considered intrusive.

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