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Highly recommend this CaptainDisillusion video that covers this topic of how cameras process colors in a very entertaining way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3JgPUJ6iQ

Great tool, good job to the author. I am looking for something almost exactly like this. Lightweight GUI app for viewing tabular data. There's only one critical thing missing for t…

Everyone does thing is stupidly inefficient ways. For example, we need technical drawings of parts, the only way is through a web interface that fetches from some remote server and…

I'm a 22 years old hobbyist software developer and sysadmin enthusiast. I've been using linux in all my computers since I was 15 and I mainly program in Go, shell script, and Javas…

You are in charge of what runs on your computer, nobody is forcing you to use Discord. There's no jerk dictating what is allowed to run on your computer, there's someone offering a…

E-ink display though >You could also do this easily on that $60 laptop or any chromebook You couldn't because these devices don't have an e-ink screen. This would be the entire poi…

If two parties are in disagreement, it's useless if they just keep yelling at each other forever and get nowhere. In any debate, people should at the very least be talking about th…

Ocaml, Standard ML, F# or maybe some lesser known one? Right now I'm mainly using Go because of its simplicity, rich ecosystem (many libs), great docs, great tooling etc. Which ML …

At some point you have to stop to reflect: "Wait, Am I really against the idea of people choosing what to see on the Internet" In a world progressively more controlled by proprieta…

"Sussman and Wisdom make a bold experiment in communicating mathematical physics: they say exactly what they mean. Even a computer can follow their equations. By using this textboo…

I mean in the sense of being a classic, highly praised and known as a book that can change someone's life forever

>Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages! Despite your snarkiness, this is a perfectly valid point. If i'm not gonna use certain features in…

One would think that after going through this you would become more empathetic and understanding of the ordinary citizens side. But no, somehow the takeaway was that discrimination…

Average Americans most definitely benefited from US military shenanigans but that kinda besides the point here I think. The main point is that "just overthrow your government, bro"…

I'm currently studying and trying to learn the russian language and I think this argument is a bit of a straw man. I don't think people in general would suggest you're evil for lea…

The Gemini guys actually think about this a lot so they're working to make the protocol the least extensible as possible or not extensible at all. They plan to freeze the spec fore…

>>...it is how Russia calls Ukraine But the russian language doesn't have definite articles, right? So is that how Russia calls Ukraine in international announcements and such? Do …

For someone savvy enough it may as well be

I think Firefox is done. Not even the people who are the most enthusiastic about open web, software freedom etc. can be bothered to use Firefox. I still use it but I have a strong …

>There is a huge intersection between people who are often saying they know how to fix Mozilla and those using non-Firefox browsers. If people here who cares about Mozilla would vo…

If your business model is no longer profitable then you should go do something else. I'm not obligated to pay for cable when Netflix is cheaper and better. If your family depends o…

No need to twist and turn anything. No contract, no obligations whatsoever. It's literally as simple as that. The content provider is free to stop providing the content at any time…

I think that the idea that "people would largely stop making content for the web if that weren't ads" is a myth. Sure, the money seeking people wouldn't do it anymore and a lot les…

If any regulation about ads ever comes into existence it will be against adblockers, making them illegal or something. Or do you happen to have billions and power and influence to …