MarkusWandel

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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
This used to actually work, at least on some sites. The text would load first, then it would reformat as the fonts and CSS assets are loaded. Ugly and frustrating, which is probably why, now you don't get content until the eye candy
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
But profits!
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
What I don't get about these laser defense systems: Doesn't the attacker just have to attack on a foggy day?
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Resonance! Very minor earthquakes can knock picutures off the walls, items off the shelves etc. if they just happen to hit the right resonant frequency. So if you flood the area with 8Hz-ish acoustic energy, some stuff will start to sha
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
My main computer monitor, ancient now (a Dell U2711), was a calibrated SRGB display when new and still gives very good colour rendition. Are movies produced in this colour space? No idea. But they all look great in SRGB. A work colleagu
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
"Better"...
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
But does applying the same transfer function to each pixel (of a given colour anyway) count as "processing"? What bothers me as an old-school photographer is this. When you really pushed it with film (e.g. overprocess 400ISO B&am
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by MarkusWandel 9mo ago
Works for static images, but if there's motion the "changing the filters" part is never fast enough, there will always be colour fringing somewhere. Edit or maybe it does work? I've watched at least one movie on a DLP
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
This is cool. Clicked on a random one, and cool techno, or whatever you call it, that Shazam doesn't even recognize. https://intertapes.net/ocho/
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
So they're finally nuking rc.local altogether. Probably no biggie to google the necessary copypasta to launch stuff from .service files instead. Which, being custom, won't have their timeout set back to "infinity" with
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
Stuff like this makes me feel so neurotypical. Really. I can have a sprited argument about the benefits of the K&R brace style, for example. But often I see articles about "ugly" vs. "beautiful" fonts and the diff
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
But the happiness at the right end of the graph will never go back to 100 (as in 100% of the pre-smartphone happiness, I think they mean). There are instinctive good feelings about interacting face-to-face with people, especially while doin
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
As an ESL immigrant, as it happens, I agree with this! Agree with sticking to a "Canadian" spelling. You'll prise the "u" in things like "colour" out of my cold, dead fingers, but just as Canada is a cul
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
Who cares if it's AI made or not. It's funny even as it is offensive to many. One thing I've always wondered, with outrage over ads like this, would this (old) ad now be considered funny or offensive? https://you
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
On my car the automatic features - automatic headlight on/off, automatic high beam, automatic lock when you walk away etc. - work well enough to be a plus (except when you switch to the other, older car that doesn't have those fea
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
And maybe restrict them to actual bikes. Not 200lb electro-motorbikes masquerading as a fatbike or narrow delivery vans.
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
There is the small matter of a 3-4dB price difference between this ring gadget and your "Hey Siri" capable watch.
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
My notification volume is relatively low, but there is one kind of notification, involving a certain significant other (we have high-needs kids) that requires action. So if the phone rings or there is a text message, for example, seeing at
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
I'm old enough to remember the SGI tractor-trailer demo wagon where they were demonstrating their latest, $20K+, wares that could do immersive 3D graphics that were... crude compared to this. This was sometime in the 1990s. And by now
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
I'm not a watch person, and the only reason I occasionally wear one is because it's a Garmin and I'm recording an outdoor activity with it. But while cycling, when the phone in my backpack makes a notification noise, it is k
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
Wait.. if you need to push a button and then have to get it somewhat close to your mouth to record an audio clip, why not just have a watch app? Pressing the button is still a two-hand thing. Or did I miss something?
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
The present isn't all that cute either. But if from the view of 100 years in the future, all you saw was the idealized lives of everyone as posted on social media, you'd think it was a lost, happy time too. That's how nosta
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
The brain really is quite a machine. I've personally had a retinal tear lasered. It's well within my peripheral vision, and the lasering of course did more damage (but prevents it from spreading). How much of this can I see ?
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
Whoa, what? If the car loses its cloud connection (in this case almost literally) it bricks itself? And anyone with mechanic level knowledge can unbrick it and detach it from the cloud service? So the average user gets the worst of both w
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
I always say "on a scale from no canoe to a $5K canoe, even the crappiest canoe is 80% of the way there". This camera illustrates that for vision. When you hear about those visual implants that give you, say, 16x16 grayscale you
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
All the categories on the right side look perfectly reasonable. However what fraction of those big categories on the right, Hospitals and Physicians... that make up over half of the total, is siphoned off to pay for administratium or &quot
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by MarkusWandel 10mo ago
Nothing wrong with this. Some applications really are compute bound and don't need much RAM, such as a homemade surveillance camera system I have, presently running on a couple of Raspi 4s. Suppose I wanted to upgrade to Raspi 5, why
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by MarkusWandel 11mo ago
At age 58, going on 59, I'm feeling an alarming decline in physical (luckily not mental at this point) ability. Sure enough, men have relatively abrupt aging events at about 44 and 60. I hope that's what it is and it's not
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by MarkusWandel 11mo ago
"Ever after" with a time limit. If you actually google as someone suggested, the third hit is for the divorce proceedings.
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by MarkusWandel 11mo ago
"Hot desking like it's 2007"... Nowadays instead of carrying a smartcard you carry a slim 13" laptop and plug in a single USB-C cable from the docking station. Much better, yes. But just being able to plug in a smart c

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