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		thaumasiotes on July 31, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lumen: Auto brightness based on screen contents In the wise words of Strong Bad... "The word 'technology' means 'magic'! It's basically anything that's really cool that you don't know how it works."

supercoder on July 31, 2016 [–]

We know how it works, it changes the brightness based on screen contents.

coldnebo on July 31, 2016 | [–]

That's what it does, not how it works.

I.e., 'What' is just the top-level abstraction. 'How' is the functional composition underneath.

xbmcuser on July 31, 2016 | | [–]

No the guy released the source code so you do know how it works as well

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