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I don't know, the one with the simple minds song was pretty good.

It's the vinyl of computing.


Left handed mode, nice!


Maybe it's incentive is to 'close the ticket' as fast as possible.


He is referencing the book Stranger in a Strange Land, written in 1961.


Very cool, was there a conversion or look up table to convert db to gamma for more accurate human visualization?


I'm not sure what you mean


The db scale is logarithmic but doesn't match how our eyes sense light. So small changes in db may result in large visible light changes, or vise versa. Have you ever looked at a raw image, it doesn't look correct untill a gamma is applied, even though roughly the same information exists in both raw and gamma images. This is a similar concept. To do do this: db > linear > gamma This can be precomputed into a lookup table with the number of entries being the number of current steps, 8-bit 256 entries.


I wish there was an app for the other annoyances of the 'Bombay' airport. Like the get your ass in line app, or I don't need you to carry my luggage 5ft and demand a tip app.


Also Greg Egan's Permutation City covers these topics in a different way.


It's using Apple's SHARP method, which is monocular. https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/


Yes, not to long ago I was looking into the Easter egg in Windowlicker, amazing. https://eeggs.com/items/34824.html


Wow, eeggs.com. Haven't thought about that site in years (maybe even decades).


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