Derbasti

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by Derbasti 1y ago
> Keep in mind the cost of a smartphone camera is $0. Many people buy a more expensive smartphone specifically for the better camera module. These are expensive devices! It's good marketing that you perceive that as "free"
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by Derbasti 1y ago
How much is a media service worth? How much does it cost to produce? Can I pay a reasonable fee to the right people? Most websites do not offer reasonable payment options. They'd earn fractions of a cent from the ads they'd show m
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by Derbasti 1y ago
I've done both. Let me tell you, embedding Lua into a C program is magnitudes easier than embedding Python. The main reason is the endless fragility of Python's garbage collector. To be clear, the API is trying to be as helpful as
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by Derbasti 1y ago
Especially at work, I find existing solutions often lacking. We tend to overestimate the complexity of reinventing many things, and underestimate the cost of ill-fitting abstractions. In particular, Google-scale frameworks are usually harmf
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by Derbasti 1y ago
Could you trivially circumvent this by running Teams in the browser?
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by Derbasti 1y ago
I finished my 30 day trial the other week, and went back to DDG. After a few days, I realized I didn't miss anything, so I'll happily stay with DDG. Perhaps I'm not a very discerning searcher. Most of my searches are bang-sea
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by Derbasti 1y ago
> If not, they will have blunders and they will lose Europe since people are willing to look for alternatives as USA gets increasingly unpopular among the Europeans due to politics. But what alternative? There is no European smartphone O
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Anecdotally, it does somewhat fine with C++ and OpenCV. Python is great, though PySide much less so. QML is almost useless. GLSL is OK, but not great. It generally can't reason well across language barriers, although it's great at
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Personally, I've seen junior developers most negatively impacted by AI. It seems to stymie learning and reasoning skills.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
I disagree on all counts. I quit using Amazon a few years ago. For almost all goods, there are other German online retailers that are as convenient, for the same or better prices. Having to sign up for them is a small price to pay for not h
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by Derbasti 2y ago
The commercial license used to be de-facto optional, now it is explicitly so. Good for them to officially acknowledge that reality. I bet they realized that payment was never enforceable, so it just didn't make sense to keep up the fic
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by Derbasti 2y ago
In general, the air moves with the ground, so the earth's rotation does not affect airplanes. However, rotation of the earth imparts a coriolis force on the air, which results in jetstream winds. Aircraft routes are optimized to use&#x
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Both of these are film terms.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Also, thoroughly abandoned for half a decade. No recent camera support whatsoever, no feature updates.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
I edit with Darktable, but organize with DigiKam. Not that Darktable is bad, but I prefer to organize my rendered JPEGs, not my RAWs.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Capture One or DxO. These are the only ones as good as Lightroom in their rendering. I'm afraid they are both much more expensive. ON1, ACDSee, Luminar, Zoner, Silkypix, Radiant, RAW Power, Photomator are other options, but IMO have ra
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Frankly, Ansel is outdated by now. No color equalizer, no camera styles, no Sigmoid. Mainline Darktable has overtaken it.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
If he's so hung up on the open source process of Darktable, I can't wait to hear what he has to say about enterprise software, LOL.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
I always keep very sparse notes with pen and paper. Once the dust settles, I transcribe them in full sentences into my digital journal. This act of reconstructing a coherent narrative from disparate events is an enormously useful part of wr
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by Derbasti 2y ago
That's a good observation. How would you teach an LLM the processes and conduct in your company? I suppose you'd need to replace code reviews and tutoring with prompt engineering. And hope that the next software update to the LLM
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Not to diminish Fairphone's accomplishments here, but beginning in 2025, the EU mandates five years of software updates for all phones sold in the EU.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Awesome! This will finally let me use bluetooth devices behind a KVM!
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by Derbasti 2y ago
That was a delightful blog post, thank you!
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by Derbasti 2y ago
I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm. I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month i
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by Derbasti 2y ago
There's a reason why I took my inverter offline after making sure that it was installed correctly. A cheap power meter now serves to measure my power generation instead.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
It does. The second half is written in C. Java is just used for the simplified first part.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
A thought experiment: A piece of code takes 6h to develop in C++, and 1h to run. The same algorithm takes 3h to code in Python, but 6h to run. If I could thread-spam that Python code on my 24 core machine, going Python would make sense. I&#
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by Derbasti 2y ago
And that's exactly why it's so cool to see this in the Surface tablets. ...he writes, on his Snapdragon Surface tablet. (Also, I find it hella entertaining that a snapdragon is a cute little flower, martial naming notwithstanding)
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by Derbasti 2y ago
On the other hand, the throughput requirements on image processing are often far more stringent than in audio. A full-resolution stereo audio stream is only 200kb/s = 12 Mb/min after all, whereas a video system might have to chew
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by Derbasti 2y ago
This is great fun! But it's much more prevalent in embedded DSP than desktop.

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