michrassena

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by michrassena 5mo ago
It's neat that this exists, and I'm happy that people are still funding these kinds of projects. But 6x17 panoramic cameras exist at a price point with money left over for film and processing, a much larger negative, instant shutt
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by michrassena 2y ago
I hope the QNX can fix their antiquated password process on this site. Apparently I still had an account from the last time they opened things up, and I asked for a password reset. I received a six character temporary password by email and
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by michrassena 2y ago
I can connect to wifi on my old Thinkpad running Haiku. There's no reason FreeBSD shouldn't have full support for wifi out of the box. Even OpenBSD has better wifi support. After many years, reasons start to look like excuses. Mak
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by michrassena 2y ago
I'm looking over at my Decstation 5000/260 with the burnt-out power supply. Maybe this is what I need to get that feeling back.
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by michrassena 3y ago
I was pleased to see a page with photos (and PDF documentation) of the Ceres systems which were used to develop the Oberon operating system. http://cpu-ns32k.net/Ceres.html
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by michrassena 3y ago
I'm doing something similar with the VisionFive 2, boot is on the SD card, the NVME does the rest.
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by michrassena 3y ago
I've ordered something now to at least get in the queue for the next time. Hopefully by then, some Zero 2 boards will be available.
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by michrassena 3y ago
It looks like it's not possible to order one unless you've ordered something from Pimoroni before 12 May 2023. The only one in stock currently is the Pi Zero. So unfortunately it's still the same story. Yeah, we had lots of s
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by michrassena 3y ago
I think I've only ever used the row of GPIO pins on the Pi for UART, and for running the dog-slow screens that use up most of them. These days, I'd put Micropython on a Pi Pico or other MCU for GPIO.
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by michrassena 3y ago
I have a small stack of Raspberry Pi boards that I bought one at a time over the last few years. My issue with them is I could never buy three or four at once. I was always hit with the full shipping cost on something that weighs an ounce.
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by michrassena 3y ago
I'm currently trying to do this on my little stack of Pi Zero and Zero 2 boards. I remember at some point this worked great, and then I couldn't get it to work again. So far I'm not having any success. The Pi doesn't sho
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by michrassena 3y ago
I'm disappointed to see that the binaries for the Raspberry Pi aren't available anymore at the bitbucket linked on https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi . I've run Plan9 in the paste on Raspberry Pi and
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by michrassena 4y ago
Is the lack of human authorship the gist of the argument? Can you claim copyright on the output from a compiler? Or is this like work for hire, where you just give instructions to the creative professional?
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by michrassena 4y ago
I've encountered something like this attitude, though it's more a reverence for the newest, flashiest gear in online forums. Certain camera brands bring it out in people, like certain car and computer brands used to. Oddly, photog
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by michrassena 4y ago
I agree, Flickr has lost its spark. It might be dying, it might not. But whatever it had is gone.
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by michrassena 4y ago
It's a perverse incentive for sure.
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by michrassena 4y ago
Thanks, that explains things a bit better. It sounds like it's better to not use the universe repository at all in that case. I don't suppose I can just switch over to Debian for those packages, can I?
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by michrassena 4y ago
So is this in fact a good thing reframed as something negative because Canonical is asking for money?
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by michrassena 4y ago
So if I'm reading sources.list correctly, universe repositories don't receive security updates from the Ubuntu team. Is it now the case that they do, as long as you've enrolled in Ubuntu Pro? That makes it sound as if Canonic
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by michrassena 4y ago
I don't think we're that point yet, but there's some amazing work on deconvolution for seeing around corners.
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by michrassena 4y ago
I haven't finished the article, but it seems like using the flash on the iPhone might have been enough to lower the ISO for the photo. Lower ISO = lower noise. The end results look like a typical noise reduction process. For screen-siz
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by michrassena 5y ago
Where can I read more about the mind's senses?
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by michrassena 5y ago
I sometimes get portions of songs stuck in my head for a day or two, but otherwise no music unless I'm really tired. The depiction of hearing someone else's voice when reading a letter from them always fell flat with me.
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by michrassena 5y ago
That's my experience. Dreams can be vivid, or close enough to real life including color. Occasionally I'll see hypnagogic imagery, but more likely I'll hear music when I'm really tired.
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by michrassena 5y ago
I'm not sure myself. Growing up, I remember being frustrated anytime I was asked to imagine something. I imagined what other people's imaginations were capable of, which seemed like so much more. Where reading a book would lead to
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by michrassena 5y ago
That's interesting. To the degree I can visualize, it's the same for me.
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by michrassena 5y ago
I would describe myself as having aphantasia. Anything I can visualize is basically black on black in the fog. It certainly seems to me that in describing visualizing a helicopter, you're really seeing your mental model of one. And whe
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by michrassena 5y ago
I think you're on to something with how people describe their experience of visualizing. On the one hand, I don't doubt there are artists and architects who can visualization clearly, or musicians who hear music and can transcribe
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by michrassena 5y ago
That's a fair criticism. You could make the case that the film companies didn't care enough to test the film's color reproduction for anything but caucasian skin tones, or didn't put the research dollars into fixing the
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by michrassena 5y ago
I think essentially that's what this boils down to. Color slide film of the time, like Kodachrome, had a narrow range of exposure. I see no reason to believe this was anything but a technical limitation. A slide film with more stops of

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