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Comment #49213373
cc @burntsushi
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Comment #49213358
>according to that regex this is a valid url >__..__..%%%zz.. Correctly. It is a valid relative URI, whose path is "__..__..%%%zz..".
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Comment #49208539
>The problem comes when you try to break down the authority portion into host and port That's a problem orthogonal to URI parsing. You parse the URI with the RFC 3986 regex, which …
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Comment #49208263
Is that so? RFC 3986 Appendix B [1] "Parsing a URI Reference with a Regular Expression": The following line is the regular expression for breaking-down a well-formed URI reference …
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Comment #49206872
AI-generated image → instant churn
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Comment #49201232
Pretty disgusting tbh.
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Comment #49186535
I smell vapor.
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Comment #49185170
Well, we knew since the "Roko's Basilisk" debacle that they're prone to magical thinking.
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Comment #49146423
How did he predict your comment?
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Comment #49049559
"This is also how I learned one way that Photoshop was for professionals and GIMP & ImageMagick weren’t; At the time (and this was years ago, to be fair), Photoshop dithered by def…
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Comment #49049487
Absolutely! Higher precision is always better. But if you must go as low as 8bits, you should dither.
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Comment #49049390
8 bit per component = 0-255 red, 0-255 green, 0-255 blue Like ~99% of images you encounter on the Web.
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Comment #49047997
Joe Rogan tier pseudoscience.
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Comment #49047965
Yeah. But even if you stay in the digital realm, dithering is necessary at 8bits per component. Consider that a grayscale gradient can only have 256 distinct levels.
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Comment #49047486
Every image should be dithered below 10 bits/component to prevent banding artifacts.
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Comment #49046414
Good!
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Comment #49020926
Stop polluting Wikipedia.
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Comment #49020657
And they will be proven wrong, like with crypto... oh wait.
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Comment #49005570
I think your workplace might have a problem with sexual harassment.
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Comment #49005236
Does this look like a bad place to live? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Round_Houses_in_Moscow Easter European commie blocks usually have strategically placed parks, shopping, k…
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Comment #48978201
The first-order difference of the prime-counting function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function
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Comment #48945467
>Cement/Concrete (based on Portland cement) is water proof That's patently untrue. Otherwise we wouldn't need concrete sealants.
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Comment #48938528
If you have a pretty vanilla taste, sure.
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Comment #48938382
Lost? It's as alive as ever, if you're in the right circles.
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Comment #48904219
>Should we ensure all interactions have at least 100ms of latency Web developers are already hard at work on this.