blacklion

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by blacklion 7d ago
But third item means that there are two organs almost by definition, so original headline maybe slightly sensationalist, but not technically false.
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by blacklion 10d ago
I don't see LCD layer here. Passive color filters, B/W capsules (which reflects or doesn't reflect incoming light, depends on orientation), TFT (thin layer transistors, not LCD — liquid crystal display!) as control to orient
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by blacklion 11d ago
They are used in book readers. Amazon Kindle Colorsoft, for example. Or I have android phone with such screen (though, not latest generation). Rather opposite: I never seen consumer products with two-layer displays.
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by blacklion 11d ago
Do you use AudioMoth embedded mic?
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by blacklion 12d ago
Fun fact: Constitution of Nepal has chapter about format of The Flag and it reads as geometry textbook problem (starred one, for advanced students).
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by blacklion 12d ago
I'm surprised that all original firmwares were not protected at all. I've tried to fix firmware of some cheap (but with good DAC and analog schematics) Chinese media player based on STM32 and firmware was protected by no-read fuse
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by blacklion 12d ago
I think, whole idea of «web images» is silly now. Browsers are new OSes. There is no any «web» anymore. E-mail clients are web, news readers are web, image galleries are web, heck, even image editing software could be web (google:photopea).
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by blacklion 12d ago
MPEG4 supports interactive 3D scenes (read: games!) via bit-encoded VRML which can include JavaScript. I don't know any software which support this features (even without interactivity), but it is here. I'd wrote reader for this b
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by blacklion 2mo ago
But it is not for prosumer. I don't want my PC to be terminal to 4-5 providers of compute who could ban me or raise prices tenfold overnight. I don't see any advances for me, only for my employer, maybe, but it is not sure thing t
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by blacklion 2mo ago
It is interesting, that changes from 8.0 to 8.1 is more substantial than from 8.1 to 9.0. I don't say it to mean "they did less work," no, what his interesting to me is choice of major version bump instead of minor one.
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by blacklion 2mo ago
In the theory, if you install DLNA renderer/controller (player) on TV you could make appropriate DLNA media source from VLC or, maybe, ffmpeg. Put it on RPi (as it could skip transcodnig and pass media streams as-is) and put into the b
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by blacklion 2mo ago
IPTV from your ISP is typically multicast (even if your connection is point-to-point), and if you have more than one network behind your router (for example, you have separate networks for wire clients, owner's wifi and guests wifi) yo
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by blacklion 2mo ago
This "hopelessly proprietary, and you have to pay to use it." is what scary me most. How often there are stories "Google/Apple/Microsoft [but mostly Google] deactivate my account for some stupid reason and I lost ev
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by blacklion 3mo ago
Rocket-like, yes. Like illustration from old "Amazing Stories" or other "pulp" magazine of golden age of SciFi :)
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by blacklion 3mo ago
Yes, it is why last iteration by Luke Maximo & Father used trimmed-down propellers rotating really fast :-)
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by blacklion 3mo ago
Interesting, that this form-factor was popularized by DIY builders. First one was dutch-built, sponsored by Red Bull after prototyping stage, to film Verstappen's full F1 lap (so semi-DIY, so to say), but then record was taken back and
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by blacklion 3mo ago
> It's okay to receive salary though. Are you sure? I'm paying 48% as income tax, and then 21% as VAT and some additional taxes on gasoline, electricity, LPG, car, motorcycle, house and water. Additionally I'm forced to bu
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by blacklion 3mo ago
Or it is low-grade crystal which cannot run on i5 speeds. Who knows.
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by blacklion 3mo ago
It is how Russia become what it is: we all be said «If you don't like new law/regulation, go to your beloved USA, you are not a patriot and must be punished». I'm sorry, but Germany is democratic country, and citizen of the c
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by blacklion 3mo ago
Same with some old IBM hardware: two CPUs were installed in each box, but if you bought only 1 CPU server other one is disabled via firmware.
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by blacklion 4mo ago
You always could find deep niche where any high-level technology is not suitable. I don't think you will program such device in C, rather in assembly, right? When you have like memory for 500 commands, it is easier to go directly to as
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by blacklion 4mo ago
> Because the last time I looked it appeared to need some godawful slow bytecode interpreter that took up thousands of kilobytes of RAM. Did you looked at java 1.2 at 1998 last time? Because after that there is compiler which produce som
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by blacklion 5mo ago
> Their slicer is open source but it downloads a plugin once you launch it if you choose to which is closed sourced that interacts with their APIs. It is very dubious way to subvert GPL, even GPL2, not to mention [A]GPL3. It was discusse
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by blacklion 5mo ago
I like author's style / voice. Very soothing, very humane. Is it is consistent for old posts too, I hope it is not LLM :)
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by blacklion 5mo ago
This extension piggyback SQLite native transactions. For example, queueing data will be rolled back if transaction is rolled back due to some constrains violations. It is possible to achieve with external IPC, but require a lot of very care
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by blacklion 6mo ago
I wish Thunderbird fix their plain text editor (it is at level of old Notepad, and chrome for it looks ugly, and line wrapping is a mess, especially with in-line quotation), add ability to store Folder properties (including Identity used fo
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by blacklion 6mo ago
I nominate Adobe to the worst corp. in the world of software. Fusion360 at least works on Linux Photoshop/Lightroom don't.
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by blacklion 6mo ago
Yep, you are right, more precise, and precision is very important in this topic. I stand corrected.
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by blacklion 6mo ago
write with release semantic cannot be reordered with any other writes, dependent or not. Relaxed atomic writes can be reordered in any way.
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by blacklion 6mo ago
JVM has almost the same (C++ memory model was modeled after JVM one, with some subtle fixes).

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