Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym

electric cowboy

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Richard M. Powers' 1962 cover to Conditionally Human, by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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why do people portion out meat in half-pound measurements in recipes. "1 ½ pounds of ground beef" go fuck yousrelf or mail me a half pound of fucking ground beef. no I am not splitting a package of ground beef in half. how about I split you in half in stead

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some people seem to think that "make your code as short as possible" means literally removing every single space possible and using single-letter variable names. noobish behavior. sad!

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noobs have found this post and are spouting more noobish opinions on it

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Bastion (2011)

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interesting how dexterity between left/right hand is drastic, but between left/right thumb is negligible.

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or is it

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OK I think I found the winner, this is the pipeline:

blur 0x1

quantize as YIQ/YUV

convert down to 32 colors with dither

scale down by 1/8

sharpen 3x3

scale back up to original size

the imagemagick command I used for this was:

magick input.jpg -blur 0x1 -quantize YIQ +dither -colors 32 -filter point -resize 12.5% -sharpen 3x3 -resize 800% output.png

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I think this image works really well because there is a lot of variance in the colors, plus the composition lends itself well to removing detail. the car in the foreground helps indicate some scale as it moves back to the buildings/trees and eventually the sky above. the stuff on the left where the horizon meets the sky is a little muddled but you don't notice that because the focal point really is on the car and the sky. I bet a picture of a bunch of trees in a forest wouldn't translate very well because they would all merge together and you'd loose the fidelity of what you're actually looking at. so if I'm going to be taking pictures and crunching them down, I'd want them all to have a very clear focal point and subject. too much detail in a background will melt away. I'm learnding

[freedomainnames]

gooieranesthesiologist.ca

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OK I think I found the winner, this is the pipeline:

blur 0x1

quantize as YIQ/YUV

convert down to 32 colors with dither

scale down by 1/8

sharpen 3x3

scale back up to original size

the imagemagick command I used for this was:

magick input.jpg -blur 0x1 -quantize YIQ +dither -colors 32 -filter point -resize 12.5% -sharpen 3x3 -resize 800% output.png

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lowres dreaming...

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I tried to use Decker last night with the intent of doing some kind of weird point and click adventure thingy but unfortunately it has an intentional color limitation (8 or 16 colors I think?) and all of the images I uploaded kept getting all messed up and not looking good.

however I did come up with a way to make images look pretty crunchy lowrez, which is kind of the aesthetic I'm going for. take this photo I posted a couple of days ago:

I scaled it down by about 1/8 (12.5%) so it's 256x192, and then scale it back up to the original size:

or, before scaling up, I could open it up in GIMP or libresprite and add some filters. Here are some examples that I did in libresprite. in order: despeckled, "drunk" 3x3 x-pattern ignoring green channel, sharpened 3x3 ignoring red channel.

that's crunky, babey!

I feel like the sky is still a little too detailed for the style that I'm shooting for. I might start experiment with saving as a JPEG with really low quality and then converting back to a PNG to get that compressed crunchy feeling. it's a start!

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that is pretty darn close to what I'm going for. the pipeline looks like this:

convert to JPEG using quality of 10

scale down to 12.5%

apply sharpen filter ignoring the red channel

scale back up to original size

I might have to see if there's a good algorithm for limiting to a specific palette or even just converting to 256 colors. this is pretty awesome.

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I tried to use Decker last night with the intent of doing some kind of weird point and click adventure thingy but unfortunately it has an intentional color limitation (8 or 16 colors I think?) and all of the images I uploaded kept getting all messed up and not looking good.

however I did come up with a way to make images look pretty crunchy lowrez, which is kind of the aesthetic I'm going for. take this photo I posted a couple of days ago:

I scaled it down by about 1/8 (12.5%) so it's 256x192, and then scale it back up to the original size:

or, before scaling up, I could open it up in GIMP or libresprite and add some filters. Here are some examples that I did in libresprite. in order: despeckled, "drunk" 3x3 x-pattern ignoring green channel, sharpened 3x3 ignoring red channel.

that's crunky, babey!

I feel like the sky is still a little too detailed for the style that I'm shooting for. I might start experiment with saving as a JPEG with really low quality and then converting back to a PNG to get that compressed crunchy feeling. it's a start!

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why does caffeine have me sitting at my desk like this

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some people seem to think that "make your code as short as possible" means literally removing every single space possible and using single-letter variable names. noobish behavior. sad!

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‘CLWHNPA’ is pronounceable tho. Also how do you feel about tahini?

tahini like the sauce? I dunno I only ever eat hummus, I imagine it's fine although possibly a bit bland