hazeii

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by hazeii 8y ago
So, if I want to manipulate the market I need to work out (or poison) the hot path and have a system that's tailored to being faster on profitable - if colder - paths?
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by hazeii 8y ago
...for a certain value of 'active' (do they say how it's defined?) My experience of internet companies has generally been that user figures are somewhat exaggerated (to put it politely).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Thanks for thw tip!
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by hazeii 8y ago
Contactless sensing, using retroreflection of a light beam to sense and measure rotation speed. We wanted black so it wouldn't be as visible as the usual silvery-grey, given it was stuck to the sidewall of black tyres. I keep coming ac
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by hazeii 8y ago
Couldn't find your email, but unlikely as I was with the Zoptics unit at Pinewood and we didn't do sound (our gear made a lot of noise!). Spent a lot of my youth around the Chertsey/Staines area though so it's possible.
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by hazeii 8y ago
That looks like interesting stuff; I was working recently with older 'black' retroreflective materials and the performance wasn't great so we ditched it. I'm in the UK, is it on the market yet or do I need to go through
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by hazeii 8y ago
I've been out of SFX for decades so can't speak for current practice; anything really black (classically velvet/black flock) is (was?) useful for hiding all sorts of things from the camera. So I'm just guessing here, but
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by hazeii 8y ago
No need to take my word for it. See "Editing and Special/Visual Effects" by Charlie Keil, Kristen Whissel p. 222: "One of the more ingenious examples is Escape From New York, which features a wire-frame flight approach d
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by hazeii 8y ago
Yes, I just looked it up too because I used to read it when I worked in the SFX business. Pretty sure there's an issue that covers Escape from New York, but couldn't find it in a quick search. http://www.cinefex.com&#x2
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by hazeii 8y ago
The effect was actually done using retroreflective tape; the building were indeed a physical model, with the edges covered in 3M Scotchlite tape. From first-hand experience (on other movies) the camera is placed behind a half-silvered mirro
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by hazeii 8y ago
..and for the titles in Superman (the old movies with Christopher Reeve). I used to work on computerised rostrum cameras and optical rigs, and watching the rigs actually doing slitscan was always fun.
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by hazeii 8y ago
Having worked in SFX, I guess it was probably from a Chapman (a sort of crane balanced seesaw big enough to hang cameramen and cameras from) - at one time (presumably no longer) I believe they used a big reservoir of mercury to achieve fine
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by hazeii 8y ago
Not a new result, but should be more widely known and understood. An argument easily extended to running an adblocker suggests you'd going to be more creative and productive because there are fewer eyes watching you.
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by hazeii 8y ago
I take the point, while noting H-bombs put out more power than is put in. Perhaps "getting more useful power out..."?
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by hazeii 8y ago
The madness is all in the line that defines the pixels[] array (try 'tail' instead).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Change the code from M4 to M3:- >#define C1(x,y) M3(XF(x), YF(y), XF(x), YF(y)), >// ^- change this to 5 or 6 to increase detail
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by hazeii 8y ago
In the embedded world this is very standard; timed wake-up from sleep is driven by the 32.768KHz clock, the code then wakes up faster clocks/peripherals as required by the application.
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by hazeii 8y ago
Hydrogen alone just makes a soft pop; as you say, for a bang it needs to be mixed with oxygen prior to ignition. >you'd be amazed at the bang a litter bag filled with a hyd/ox mixture can produce if set alight. Try a large garb
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by hazeii 8y ago
You'll find some details in 'Camenzind Oral History'[0] around page 4 (seems he got paid and it was a good arrangement, but there was no patent on the 555). *[0] http://www.semiconductormuseum.com/Transistors&
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by hazeii 8y ago
Yes, and Bob Widlar too. That was the early days of integrated circuits though, and in the early days of any field it's often the mavericks and non-conformists who make the most progress.
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by hazeii 8y ago
One error I spotted is that at 4kb each, 1GB only gets you 250,000 goroutines (i.e. article is wrong by an order of magnitude). Easy mistake to make, but bad in a comparison article. FTA: "With 4KB per stack, you can put 2.5 million go
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by hazeii 8y ago
>In order to win in this war, programmers had to be both trained and talented in computer science... Being long enough in the tooth to have been 'hacking' back then, I'd strongly disagree with that since - and rather obvi
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by hazeii 8y ago
I'll bite; the MCU in the cap (let's assume a tricky case, like a decoupling cap) could transmit by briefly shorting the PSU (one bit at a time).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Not just SMD; pretty much any tuned circuit will ring when tapped (esp. if multi-layer caps are involved, whether SMD or not).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Some of us remember the issues with mtv.com ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV#Internet ).
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by hazeii 8y ago
Perhaps this won't be a popular sentiment, but since when did programming languages need brand identity?
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by hazeii 9y ago
Worth pointing out that while learning, failed mounts can result in the unicycle departing the vicinity at some speed (especially with smaller ones, e.g. 20").
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by hazeii 9y ago
I make that about 11 years ago - the page was rather different then.
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The Seismic Signal of Lionel Messi (and Bruce Springsteen)(bbc.co.uk)
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by hazeii 9y ago
Absolutely the way to go. We run loads of Pi's like this; older ones with an RO SD card holding the boot (so never get corrupted), later ones using the built-in PXE loader. Excellent for development as well; never be scared of doing a

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