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Comment #34851352
Agreed. But bearded women will likely only be used to bully.
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Comment #34851338
The proposal has a section comparing the frequencies for "pregnant-man" and "pregnant-person" with "elephant". It was a criteria back then. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20190r-…
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Comment #34843604
Right, but not not with a beard.
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Comment #34843592
She is Creative Director for Android and Google.
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Comment #34843409
Also. There is no bald man, or facial hair variations. But there is a bearded women. https://emojipedia.org/woman-beard/
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Comment #34843361
My issue is with those emojis is that they don't meet a few of their own criteria for a new emoji to be accepted. Their guideline: https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#selectio…
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Comment #34843348
There are some code points ranges that aren't reserved by Unicode.
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Comment #34843311
The "Pregnant Person" is another, different, variant! https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-person/ https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-woman/
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Comment #34843221
I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-wi…
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Comment #34839384
Intel released a couple days ago new Xeon-W CPUs with AVX-512. The wx-24xx uses the same p-cores as alder lake, but with avx-521 enabled. Same for wx-34xx but with raptor lake's p-…
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Comment #34677470
Yeah, it is obvious. But word "interpolation" isn't to be found anywhere in the text. IMO, having something like "color interpolation in HSL Cartesian space" would make it crystal …
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Comment #34664758
Metamerism is not an issue with displays. You can find at the spectral distribution of the tvs and monitors on websites such as rting and hdtvtest. And things such as "viewing cond…
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Comment #34664597
This is color interpolation. There are others js libraries that does the same thing, but they lack a good interactive tools. But, unlike others tools, this tool exposes the "xyz co…
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Comment #34621524
There are plenty of evidence that the activation of ipRGC inhibits melatonin production. My question was about the "ratio of yellow photons to blue photons". Fun fact: Blue light c…
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Comment #34615735
"Deep red" leds. They are used to grow cannabis indoor, very easy to find.
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Comment #34615549
Image with the light sensitivity of the photoreceptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically_photosensitive_r... Note: Melanopsin is the name of the ipRGC's photopigments. --…
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Comment #34319739
Despite being a public park, managed by a governmental entity, there is an entrance fee. Likely to restrict the access of poor people, since it doesn't seem to be lacking funds (th…
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Comment #33780618
From microarchitecture.pdf On Alder Lake (pg 172). > The reader is referred to the timings for Tiger Lake and Gracemont. On Tiger Lake (pg 167): > Warm-up period for ZMM vector ins…
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Comment #33780276
> It takes literally 1 to 10 microseconds (10,000 nanoseconds) to talk to a GPU over PCIe. The CPU has an overhead of about ~10us to enable the AVX512 units. It also dramatically r…
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Comment #33009885
I've been studying color theory (its harder than you would think) on my spare time; and I did my undergraduate thesis was on posit few years ago. I think using posits may be a good…
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Comment #33009650
Posit always have more precision than a IEEE floating with same number of bits because it has more bits for the mantissa. Posit would likely enable to better compression with Huffm…
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Comment #33009078
Something like "compressed floats" would express well the name.
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Comment #33009069
The posit is a compressed floating point encoding with a flexible data structure with a trade-off of precision (the number of bits after the dot) and magnitude (the absolute value)…
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Comment #32681807
GMail users are anything but a small population.
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Comment #32633181
Yeah. It always all about economy. Not long after slavery was abolish; loitering became a crime. See "Vagrancy Act 1824".