aldto's comments

On: Atkinson Dithering (2021)

[aldto]

I agree that area above the nostrils appears blown-out, but I prefer the eyes more in the Atkinson version. So neither algorithm is superior to me.

On: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s vi...

[aldto]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONTU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright#History

Strange you don't believe Jon Hall, but willing to believe some random stranger on social media.

[skissane → aldto]

> Strange you don't believe Jon Hall, but willing to believe some random stranger on social media.

I'm not aware that Jon Hall would claim any particular expertise or interest in legal history, whereas there may well be "some random strangers on social media" who do.

Also, this is a matter which can be established by citing sources which Jon Hall might be unfamiliar with (for the simple reason that the topic might never have interested him sufficiently for him to research it.)

[aldto → skissane]

Fair enough. My apologies.

[skissane → aldto]

Thank you for your kind reply, apology gladly accepted :)

On: OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with st...

[aldto]

I read it as the 25 is just a simple step. So the first hour in your example would run at 0, 25, and 50. The next hour would run at 15 and 40, etc.

On: “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

[aldto]

If someone buys the Kindle version, can you let us know how the formatting looks with all of its diagrams and code?

To get the PDF version I tried buying the e-book collection from InformIT, but Pearson (that runs the InformIT and Microsoft stores) no longer takes orders from people using a "@fastmail.com" e-mail.

[kryptiskt → aldto]

I bought the Kindle version, it looks good to me, the diagrams and tables are big and clear.