If probability engines* aren’t allowed to offer faster rides by exceeding the speed limit, how are the companies meant to stay competitive and innovate? The state’s whole thing is “move fast and break things”. /s
* and the occasional intervention from an underpaid remote worker in Bangladesh with 720p video at a 100ms ping and the cheapest video game controller
I wonder if random events get skipped every day as a result of him dozing off
There won’t be a date number 2, she will propose on date number 1
wheel spinning
That’s the point, innit?
Or you can do this and find out how squeaky the house frame is!
Yup. I don’t like the original T-shirt’s custom, green Tux. And WSL (even with its oddly reverse name) is better than the other penguin vector graphics that ship with Windows…
I’m pretty sure the designer was told “Nothing like Tux”. The first emoji shows a corporate, decidedly uncute emperor penguin, the other one is reminiscent of Club Penguin and screams “how do you do, fellow kids”. Still, it could - and has been - made worse with the pivot to AI and gradients.
That’s the WSL penguin…
NSFW by 1949 standards, perhaps
Edit: OK
Recovered image, attempt 1:
I used exact 7x7 box blur to remove high-frequency contents, then median blur and contrast increase… Very basic but pretty good for a FOSS Android app.
Now that I’m on my computer and got GIMP, a single filter can almost recover the original image from behind the 90%-opacity checkerboard, which turns out is actually 1bpp (unfortunately, the JPEG noise, especially around tile edges, remains). The filter in question is a basic lightness curve, with steps at 13 (5%), 128 (50%) and 243 (95%):
_|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|_________|¯
The result is:
Here’s the original dithered image BTW, and the source photograph:
Here’s a comparison of my recovery, limited by JPEG noise, as opposed to what could be recovered if the author used a PNG (could have reached <100 kB losslessly, as opposed to lossy >200 kB!):
🟪 = false white; 🟨 = false black; as a result, the original image is in the green channel and the noisy one in the blue channel, and reddish tint highlights error
Edit: text below is from before I knew there is detail within the squares, I’d thought they were flat color, the space saving is not that substantial with that in mind (a 16x16 lossless as 4-color indexed PNG saves only cca 67 % (shown below), or about 50 % as a reasonably lossy JPEG):
There’s so much JPEG artifacting in the original. All of it, and I mean all of it, could have been avoided, at much smaller file size, by using tile size of 16 instead of 15 (ImageMagick’s default pattern:checkerboard).
(Yes, the sides are off but that’s because I’m on the phone and don’t have my usual software. Still, the tiles align with JPEG’s 8x8 blocks (usually 16x16 for chroma but that’s blank here) so they’re all clean, at ⅛ the file size.)
How does that help? There is definitely a tiny cat but can you see a big one after Gaussian blur?
There are other ways, for example Ximik_Boda designed T2, a “pro” input method for T9 keyboards. Pressing a key, such as 8/TUV, brings up a popup that shows the mapping of characters to the second key, here 1=t, 2=u, 3=v, 0=8. Every lowercase letter, number and symbol can be typed with exactly 2 key presses, and there is no annoying wait when typing words like “nonmonogamous” with 7 waits for the 6/MNO key multi-click to time out.
Unfortunately, the order is important, for example 62 is n and 26 is . Unordered pairs (9 keys and 2 legs) only allow for 36 combinations, which is not enough. 7² for 49 combinations plus two special keys, a modifier and a mode switch (lowercase/uppercase/navigation) seems to be optimal.
Reminds me of this Bugemos strip.
So, my most silent PC is complete. A fanless power supply, SSD array…
A passive processor heatsink with inherent 0.01 °C/W thermal resistance
And to replace that pesky clicky keyboard, I combined a webcam and semaphore code
I really should stop procrastinating and translate their whole backlog, I have it downloaded already…
The text in the last panel does not seem like native English. The original German version is more like “I code [while] dancing! I dance [while] coding!”
A megaphone contains 10¹² (a trillion) microphones. A total surveillance state does not sound that impossible now, right?
By leveraging teamwork and unparalleled knowledge of the local ecosystem, we saved $1.2 million and cut through 7+ years’ worth of red tape
Perhaps a stock dove, it’s the second most common Columbidae member in town
but leading the pack is common wood pigeon.
Dreamstime search results seem to agree - juveniles are all-gray except for the short tail and have longer visible beaks.
I’ve seen Eurasian collared doves but not in this town, although adult ones are mostly gray like this.
I have a sticker that says “Would you love me if I was a robot?”
Well, it appears to not be short-sighted. Its problem with windows could be far-sightedness or incompetence (pigeons are not very big-brained so it might take several crashes to get the lesson across).
Some things are better with cheese.
IMDB: Goat Story (2008; user rating 33%, or 39% at ČSFD, see also popular YouTube review)
IMDB: Goat Story 2: with Cheese (2012; user rating 36%, or or 45% at ČSFD, see also popular YouTube review)
No, “goat” does not stand for “greatest of all time” (as you might have guessed) but it’s the name (and species) of the main supporting character. In fact, “goats” (kozy in Czech) means “boobs”, which is where a major part of the first film’s humor comes from and probably why the Shrek donkey ripoff is specifically a goat.