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The Even-more Complete List of Hex Words

December 24th, 2009
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I realized that I was being insufficiently lee7, so I added S, T, and Z, converting into 5, 7, and 2. This produced a much longer list, of course.

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Computers, Software

The Complete List of Hex Words

December 18th, 2009
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While converting some code to 64-bit on Snow Leopard, I discovered that character literals are ints, so I couldn’t use them for 8-byte longs. The alternative is readable hex constants.

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Computers, Software

What is a sampling test image?

September 8th, 2008
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I was asked what the purpose is of the test image in my previous post, and why the alpha was set to 0.01 rather than 0 in alternating pixels.
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Computer Graphics, Computers, Software