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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why restrict to 54-bit signed integers? Is there some common language I'm not thinking of that has this as its limit?

Edit: Found it myself, it's the range where you can store an integer in a double precision float without error. I suppose that makes sense for maximum compatibility, but feels gross if we're already identifying value types. I don't come from a web-dev/js background, though, so maybe it makes more sense there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there a particular draw for foobar2000? I remember a while back I was looking for a music player and that kept coming up, but I found it underwhelming when trying it. I've been using MusicBee for a long while now, and have found it excellent, so I don't plan on switching, just curious if there's something I'm missing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

JPEGView It's a simple but powerful image viewer (don't be misled by the name, it can view most any standard image formats).

It feels weird to even have an opinion on such a simple piece of software, but this is the type of tool that reminds you of what software could be like. When you open an image, you see the image. No loading time. No unnecessary toolbars. No fucking pop-ups to update the software to get the latest AI tools.

Don't get me wrong, it's plenty powerful. It's got all the tools you'd expect: viewing EXIF data, cropping, rotating, brightness/color correction. It even has some more advanced tools: navigating collections of photos (including nested folders), viewing a collection as a slideshow or movie, perspective correction, batch-renaming... The impressive part is that it does all this without getting in the way of it's job: viewing images.

Unfortunately, the project has been abandoned, though it appears to have been forked here (I haven't actually used this version, but hopefully they haven't changed too much).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That doesn't look very realistic. I bet they just punched Godzilla for the take and then reversed the footage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Beyond enjoying this channel, I've recently been thinking more and more about the value of older books. The trend of the modern internet seems to be leaning towards highly accessible but low quality information, and the amazing density of well-researched information in some older books astounds me.

That's not to say that we haven't made advancements (the volume of information I could find about Newport on, say, Tripadvisor vastly exceeds single-source publications like that in the video), but the combined influences of advertising, SEO, fake reviews, data collection, etc. has taken something away from this type of resource.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I've used this for a while now, and it's an excellent app. It's genuinely refreshing to have apps that just do their job without fuss or feature creep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's pretty rough in a lot of ways, but man would that make ASCII box-drawing easier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't see the content of the post, but the modlog lists the following:

Removed Post "Unpopular opinion: Wesley Crusher is not the worst TNG character... Alexander is." reason: Rule 1 + No be cares about your “unpopular opinion” luke warm takes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Loved the Clint Howard cameo! Pretty amazing to still have actors all the way from TOS appearing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Strange, might be that app, but that seems odd. Here's what it looks like on my end (on desktop): https://i.imgur.com/9PU9A19.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Off-topic question, why does your username have a "bot" tag? Are you commenting through a different API or something?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember seeing a few in an auction a while back. Two things I recall:

  1. Very few of them are full rectangular pieces; they have cutouts for filming which detract from them being pieces to hang (though that's a matter of preference)
  2. Holy hell they were expensive
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