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Re: One Million Checkboxes

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This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x…

How long did you spend crafting this comment? Be honest. I could imagine doing that with Vim, but I don’t think I could do it in less than ten minutes. And then I’d get sidetracked about whether to represent empty checkboxes with _ or - or a Unicode box.

Thank you so much for this. I wonder, at a global level, how many potentially productive man-minutes will be wasted thanks to your comment.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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(developer here) this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while

i spun up 5 more servers and pushed some optimizations and i think it's gonna be ok for a bit.

hn hug of death in full action. currently unable to visit. all the best working it out tho!

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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HN usernames are not that hard to get

i am pretty sure cursing is against the site rules, so i object ;-)

The fuck it is, shit, what kinda cunt makes a rule like that!?

(With apologies should anyone be offended).

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Virtually all monitors are rectangular grids

You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels. [1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...

Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago.

W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (RGB for QD-OLED, RGBW for W-OLED) so it looks more like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Just mentioning as while AMOLED phones being the majority of OLED displays seems plausible to me, it's likely not what people in this thread are picturing when they see OLED.

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