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by camtarn 4y ago
Nitpick: 'collimated' is a technical term for a beam of light where all the rays are exactly parallel. When using 'collimated' in the article, the author means 'focused' or 'narrow' - as in, the foc
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by camtarn 4y ago
Ooh, that's a great app idea! I hate having to do this in my own videos - it takes so long.
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by camtarn 4y ago
> Where the C users are hiding? Is living programming in C even possible About half my work is programming B&R PLCs in C, albeit it's C with a custom IDE and code generation that makes it quite different from a normal embedded e
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by camtarn 4y ago
Probably HDMI-CEC One-Touch Play. CEC stands for Consumer Electronics Control, and it's a suite of control signals that can be used through HDMI. However, support doesn't seem to be universal, and it seems that some TVs implement
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The chemistry of superglue polymerisation [video](youtube.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Similarly! You always wanted to read the comments, because the docs would not necessarily tell you that such-and-such a function had tricky edge cases, or had been replaced by a better version, or was a massive security risk. Of course all
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yeah, it's horrific, and doubly so because they've introduced new ways of doing things over time but a lot of how-to content on the web still tells you to use the old ways. We moved from XWiki to SharePoint, which theoretically sh
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by camtarn 4y ago
...what mirror-universe version of Python are you using? One of my two main languages nowadays is Python, mostly deployed on single cloud instances, and it's still a case of writing a text file, sticking a #!/usr/bin/pyt
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by camtarn 4y ago
For anybody who's as confused as I was: :hover and :focus have been around since CSS2, which was released in 1998 ... but Internet Explorer only supported them on links for a long time, not on arbitrary elements, so that was where jQue
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by camtarn 4y ago
Well, if it's a ten minute program that seems within about one order of magnitude, so fair enough.
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by camtarn 4y ago
The 50cc and 125cc motorcycle classes are defined in the EU as both maximum volume and maximum power output in kW. So it's not too unusual to see '50cc-class' and '125cc-class' as descriptors for electric vehicles -
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by camtarn 4y ago
Ah. Yes, that's fair, grep -c counts matching lines , not matches - which is something I've never actually run into as an issue, so I didn't know about it. On further Googling (about a minute this time, with a few different
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by camtarn 4y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I'm guessing you're being downvoted because the answer is just "grep -c", which counts matches instead of printing them, and I discovered that in about ten seconds by googling "grep c
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by camtarn 4y ago
Sometimes you get a device from a client who got it from another company who got it from etc etc. And it's been configured via internal memory to talk at some baud rate with some parity, and if you're really unlucky, it won&#x
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by camtarn 4y ago
The bit about plants benefitting more from intensity is, as far as I understand it, false - plants are only sensitive to light in fairly narrow wavelengths, which is why grow lights aren't necessarily white. (Source: partner is a profe
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by camtarn 4y ago
Similarly, "Not sure what to do with the button" is clearly a usability issue, not features. And for the second Kindle review, it summarized one point from the actual review, then completely made up two additional points! Really i
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by camtarn 4y ago
Ah, yeah, that's fair. Each individual vintage vehicle is terrible, but there really aren't that many of them, whereas there are millions of large cars/pickups being sold per year. I'd certainly support some sort of meas
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yep. The scooter might output less CO2, but due to the primitive nature of the 2-stroke engine, it's basically chucking a rich aerosol of unburned fuel and lubricating oil out the exhaust. The X5, by comparison, has a catalytic convert
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by camtarn 4y ago
> Probably gonna be replaced by e-bikes. Two stroke scooters have already been replaced by four stroke scooters, which are a lot less dirty. Anybody still riding a two stroke is probably riding a vintage machine. GP refers to the mod sub
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by camtarn 4y ago
Whether or not there's a net social benefit to motorcycles being on the road is a question that could be debated (extra fun for bikers, less space and fuel taken per person travelling, versus extra mortality and costs from crashes) but
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by camtarn 4y ago
Stock motorbikes are actually pretty quiet these days, because there are laws about how loud legal exhausts can be. Even legendarily noisy Harley Davidsons come with quiet-ish exhausts by default. It's just that it's very common f
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by camtarn 4y ago
This keyboard actually uses optical switches and reads them using an ADC. It does do debouncing but with orders of magnitude shorter delay.
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Two minutes of The Simpsons, dissected mercilessly(gralefrit.weebly.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
From experience, if you're a heavy-sleeping teenager like I used to be, the noise is less of an issue ;) I don't think I could cope with the sound of two fans and three HDs spinning nowadays, but back then it was a tiny price to p
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by camtarn 4y ago
If you're in the UK, Beavertown brewery does an amazing 'Lazer Crush' alcohol-free IPA that's the best I've tasted. I'm often driving when I'm out with friends, so I've sampled a lot of alcohol-free b
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by camtarn 4y ago
Literally the first sentence of your first link: "A wah-wah pedal, or simply wah pedal"
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by camtarn 4y ago
This is incorrect. When you move the wah pedal, you're moving the cutoff of the filter, not the Q. The Q is fixed. You're also incorrect about the name. Just 'wah' is perfectly acceptable.
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by camtarn 4y ago
Thanks for explaining - I had no idea there were audio in pins, and was searching the page for how they managed to route audio to the SID without any modification.
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60fps Flipbooks using A.I. [video](youtube.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
> how privileged and detached we are from real labor Speak for yourself. My partner is a horticulturist, a job which involves rather a lot of manual labour, and was one of the union reps for the Botanic Gardens at which he worked for a w

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