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superjan

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Pictures of Distant Worlds [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by superjan·vor 4 Monaten·1 comments

Moon Tree

en.wikipedia.org
4 points·by superjan·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

The Discovery of Lin Yutang's MingKwai Chinese Typewriter

typewriterrevolution.com
3 points·by superjan·vor 6 Monaten·1 comments

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superjan
·vor 6 Minuten·discuss
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superjan
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
I can imagine it is not the same everywhere. I guess I have an active local chapter of editors. Given that I have 2 comments disagreeing and none concurring I guess this is an exception.
superjan
·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
They can’t do so automatically. Osm Editors must approve. Apparantly OSM fears legislation when people copy info from google maps. They like to see evidence, like street sign photos. In my limited experience anyway.
superjan
·vor 16 Tagen·discuss
You can’t make smaller chips features with photonics. Visible light photons have a wavelength between 400 and 800 nm, much larger than current chip features. When you go to higher frequencies they get smaller, but they are really difficult to produce and control.
superjan
·vor 16 Tagen·discuss
Do we known what ink is used?
superjan
·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
Is the camera roll excluded? I bet I am not the only one who has a passport picture in there. I don’t know about other people’s camera rolls, but I bet it is occasionally more saucy than mine.

(Sorry for not testing. Chrome-hater)
superjan
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
I’m not sure we are talking about the same virus, but for the version prevalent in northern europe, there’s a vaccine.
superjan
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
That is effectively what Uber did. Internet and GPS make taxi companies and “Knowledge” unneeded for taxi drivers. This destroyed local (badly run) monopolies, but also job security for taxi drivers.
superjan
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
What I also noticed: when there are two contradictory definitions to choose from, it is usually one of those two.

For all its shortcomings, this was part of the fun, deducing the likely correct answer when you see a word for the first time.
superjan
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
It did not work that way for me. My music interest has been rekindled since Spotify.

You can also hunt via Spotify. Songs and artists can help you find curated playlists (by other artists or fans) where you discover new artists.

Everynoise.com is also a great start, but these playlists are no longer maintained.

There is also a huge audience of people who want to hear “elevator music” tuned to their activity at hand and do not care about who or what made it. Spotify obviously wants those customers. I don’t mind these people subsidising my hobby, but I hope Spotify will continue to cater to my interest too.
superjan
·vor 26 Tagen·discuss
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superjan
·letzten Monat·discuss
Not neccesarily: https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
superjan
·letzten Monat·discuss
When telling a story through film, changing what depth is in focus is a great way to move the viewer’s attention, without the need for cutting to a different angle or camera movement.
superjan
·letzten Monat·discuss
A nice (short!) video on this topic is this one from Chalk Talk: https://youtu.be/QDdOoYdb748?is=vCFGroHUPwZP7Dqm
superjan
·letzten Monat·discuss
Off topic: The very first assignment in this game is called “oil tank holiday”: fly the chopper to unguarded oil tanks, shoot and watch them burn, and then fly home. No enemies. Just learn to fly and shoot.

I apply this in testing code. After you write some code, try to think of the absolute minimal test to prove that your code does anything at all without crashing. These are my “oil tank holiday” tests. It is always humbling to see those fail.
superjan
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
How about the infamous iOS hack with a VM implemented in a JBIG2 PDF? https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero...
superjan
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
You know, if can change code without overhead to ends of the pipeline, using the language & library of my choice, I’d do this too. For many of us this isn’t always the case.
superjan
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
It’s faster for 3 digits and more. 3 digits is not galactic scale. Otoh, if over half of your numbers are single digits, it will lose to other implementations. I think that is more often the case that we’d like it to be.
superjan
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
What you can do in C# today is convert any unsafe pointer to Span whenever you get your hands on it, and pass around slices. You can still drop down to ‘fixed’ when it turns out you need it for performance.
superjan
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
The way I understood the 80% is that is the margin on the actual product. 36% is what remains after the “investments” in moonshot projects nobody asked for.