michrassena

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by michrassena 6y ago
I've really gone down that rabbit hole recently, and I get it, but I don't regret it. There's a whole world of electronics that I've been missing. As wonderful as Linux is, at the end of the day, once you have Linux runn
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by michrassena 6y ago
I'm not doing anyone's vomiting for them. I'm not in the target market here. There's no way I'm dropping $2000 on a camera that shoots only video. As far as marketing goes, 41MP of noisy pixels from a 1/1.2&quo
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by michrassena 6y ago
I'm really curious once this is over what the data for all-cause mortality looks like during the pandemic. I lost two members of my family and another person who was close to the family. I can count several others I know who lost at le
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by michrassena 6y ago
I definitely had this issue with the first generation Raspberry Pi. It wasn't just a corrupted filesystem. The SD card was completely ruined. When I started over, I followed instructions to make the file system readonly, turn off the t
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by michrassena 6y ago
I think the flex here is photographic quality images from a video camera. 6000 pixels across is a higher resolution than the top digital cameras from a few years ago. Combine that with an easy way to extract hundreds of frames which can be
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by michrassena 6y ago
This has to be the method. It makes the most sense given the strengths of a 6K video camera. Record lots of frames and use a dolly to take focus slices of the subject.
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by michrassena 6y ago
Macro photography in my limited experience is as much about technique as equipment. No matter the camera, with that level of magnification you have to stack the images to get that much of the subject in focus. You can increase the depth of
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by michrassena 6y ago
Not difficult at all to get film from Freestyle Photo, or B&H, Adorama or any other company online which sells 120 film. I'm sure there's somewhere near you which will allow you to send the film for development.
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by michrassena 6y ago
The cameras are so-so, but the lenses for the most part have kept up with their reputation of having excellent optics. I don't think I can put them ahead of any contemporary lenses from Japanese top-tier manufacturers, nor would I pay
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by michrassena 6y ago
Yes, definitely as soon as I'm able. I won't be in the first batch since I'm not in the medical field. I think the majority of issues will be worked out by that point. I don't plan to change my behavior much until we rea
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by michrassena 6y ago
This board, along with the SoundBlaster-compatible MCA board I saw on Hackaday recently makes me think there's a sizable community for retro PCs from the 8088-486 era, like there is for the Amiga. A smaller form-factor would be more ap
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by michrassena 6y ago
I recall something like this was done for a presidential portrait a few years ago. https://fstoppers.com/bts/how-smithsonian-created-insanely-a...
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by michrassena 6y ago
The reference to legacy glass isn't to Sony legacy glass, but to the likes of Mamiya, Hasselblad, Pentax, Pentacon and others. A tremendous variety of adapters are available to adapt almost every removable mount lens format to the Sony
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by michrassena 6y ago
I've found it useful to occasionally ssh into my raspberry pi. But I don't think I could use it as a serious work tool unless I had a Bluetooth keyboard connected to my phone.
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by michrassena 6y ago
I have to agree with this. How is this really any different than blocking spam links or links to undesirable websites in direct messages? How does it differ from moderators on a website removing users from a group for valid or for trivial r
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by michrassena 6y ago
I've been surprised at how little I can find about broadcast television cameras on the Internet. Compared to the resources available for cine cameras, there's relatively few forums, details or photos available. I know the cameras
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by michrassena 6y ago
I have a similar feeling with no rational basis. The fact that something so accessible exists and which no one can decode is a bit inspiring. I've certainly enjoyed exploring the world's languages trying to find a match for what I
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by michrassena 6y ago
I sometimes am bothered with how reading, or reading books in particular is used as a proxy for that intellectual life. A significant proportion of anything ever published is absolute drivel and is no better than whatever proxy we wish to c
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by michrassena 6y ago
I've tried to find this paper, but I can't. There's a Paul Thomas Young, who did study rats in that timeframe. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573?seq=1
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by michrassena 7y ago
Predictions are a fun mental exercise, but they read an awful lot like horoscopes. They're just too subjective to be truly interesting. It's not really all that different than predicting the weather ten years out. It'll be ho
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by michrassena 7y ago
Visually, I'm reminded of this project. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/drinking-straw-camera... I know CCDs for astrophotography have large photosites to increase the signal/noise ratio. It seems
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by michrassena 7y ago
I had similar thoughts last night. As a person who's spent almost 25 years in IT, I don't see any compelling reason to make things which "just work" into a personal project. Assuming a person were able to get everything
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by michrassena 7y ago
I had a mild eureka moment when I read your initial comment. In a way it is obvious, how could things work otherwise? But linking reality (as a function of experience) and music is an interesting concept, and one I think has been explored q
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by michrassena 7y ago
"things that look wrong, not like the norm" What do you base your ideas of what is normal and what is not on?
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by michrassena 7y ago
Ironic in light of your username, but what the comment you're responding to is talking about is the experience of reality rather than reality itself. In the context of learning, and of survival, it's counterproductive for the brai
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by michrassena 7y ago
At the gas station I frequent, there are buttons around the periphery of the screen. One of these mutes the audio, making the necessity of refilling gas at least a little less unpleasant.
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by michrassena 7y ago
I was skeptical after hearing the correct answer, and just couldn't wrap my head around it. I'm no developer, but I wrote a simple Python program to simulate multiple plays of the game. It seems to be human nature to argue a probl
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by michrassena 7y ago
I'm not sure you're correct about solarisation. The reversal of tone found in solarisation is due to overexposure, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarization_(photography) Solarisation would be a likely o
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by michrassena 7y ago
Really a polariser only cuts about 2 stops, so in conditions where a Kerr effect shutter makes sense, it likely doesn't matter.
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by michrassena 7y ago
Either the post is intended sarcastically, or there's something to learn from it.

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