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Another example of how optimization for human perception can be extremely effective even if it's not the most accurate.
See also photographic image compression (e.g., JPEG), video compression (e.g., MPEG 4), audio compression (MPEG Layer 3).
Commented Dec 8, 2011 on Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA) at Coding Horror
Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)
Anti-aliasing has an intimidating name, but what it does for our computer displays is rather fundamental. Think of it this way -- a line has infinite resolution, but our digital displays do not. So when we "snap" a line to the pixel grid on our display, we can compensate by imagineering partial ...
"Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse"
I think that's what it said on my headstone the last time I played Nethack.
Commented Jan 31, 2011 on Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse at Coding Horror
Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse
It's easy to forget just how crazy things got during the Web 1.0 bubble in 2000. That was over ten years ago. For context, Mark Zuckerberg was all of sixteen when the original web bubble popped. There's plenty of evidence that we're entering another tech bubble. It's just less visible to pe...
500 yen? You got jipped. Should be no more than 250 yen. I've seen them for 100 even.
Cheap, clear, plastic. Like a plastic bag with a wire skeleton and a button.
Commented Dec 2, 2010 on Posters reminding you not to forget your umbrella at TOKYOMANGO
Posters reminding you not to forget your umbrella
When it rains, people in Tokyo buy plastic 500 yen umbrellas, purchasable at any train station, convenience store, or pharmacy. When it stops raining, they forget them somewhere. A series of wonderfully creative and sometimes sacrilegious posters remind you to please remember to take your umbr...
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