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by nayuki 2y ago
Nikon's lens/body compatibility matrix is horrendously complicated. https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm Whereas I think "no metering" is never a problem on Canon. Over the decad
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by nayuki 2y ago
Correct. The AF sensor continually takes more samples even while the motor is moving. You can tell because sometimes the motor overshoots and then you can see it come back.
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Amazing website. If I didn't know better, I thought this content came from Canon itself. A couple of comments from me: > The following comparison chart shows all of the autofocus drive types that have ever been used in Canon's
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by nayuki 2y ago
> On that note, he announced the carbon tax would soon be cancelled. I'm super-disappointed. The carbon tax is the most effective market-based mechanism for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. The majority of economists support it
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by nayuki 2y ago
Here is the non-lite version of the article: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/the-dose-cardiac-arrest-1...
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The web page's stylesheet is broken (returns HTTP 404) but the text is still quite readable. Good job!
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> Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it During my time at IBM and at other companies a decade ago, I can name examples of this: * Lotus Notes instead of Microsof
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by nayuki 2y ago
Actual text: > You're using a suspiciously old browser > You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfort
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by nayuki 2y ago
A highly visual explanation of the same topic: Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky: Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser - Quantum Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzAQ36b9dzs (26m31s) [2015-07-16]
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by nayuki 2y ago
Half as Interesting: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Trash System (5m44s) [2022-12-06]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfM4cjDoo6o
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It reminds me of schemes like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_delta_coding , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_omega_coding
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by nayuki 2y ago
Agreed. I like how most 1D barcodes have human-readable numbers/text printed under the barcode. For example, think of UPC barcodes on retail products. Not many 2D barcodes respect this convention.
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I crashed the Oracle HotSpot Java virtual machine back in 2017 with a totally innocuous program involving nested arrays. After reproducing and minimizing it, I filed a bug report. It got fixed quickly. I'm not sure why the page is no l
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Cars and suburban sprawl
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Oddly enough, BitTorrent's bencode format is a significant subset of JSON but is much easier to parse as a binary format. Bencode only supports integers, byte strings, lists, and dictionaries. I wrote a more detailed comparison on: ht
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by nayuki 2y ago
I implemented the AAN 8-point DCT algorithm some years ago: https://www.nayuki.io/page/fast-discrete-cosine-transform-al...
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by nayuki 2y ago
A QR Code consists of a sequence of segments. Each segment has a mode - numeric, alphanumeric, kanji, or byte. It is possible to shift between encoding regimes by ending a segment and beginning a new segment with a different mode. https:&#
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by nayuki 2y ago
> what is electricity? My favorite answers are: * http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html * https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/the-significance-of-electri...
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> my house in the first world because our telcos are an order of magnitude worse than third world telcos Hello fellow Canadian
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> Parking apps are worse than parking meters. Case in point - Toronto Parking Authority (Green P)'s app forces you to keep a balance and refill in multiples of $20 CAD, whereas street parking meters can charge your credit card in an
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by nayuki 2y ago
I wonder if it was an intentional joke that immediately under the heading "3. User Input", there is a text box to enter your email to subscribe to the newsletter.
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by nayuki 2y ago
> with a 64-bit processor, probably a 32-bit address space is enough for most applications This is related to the Java virtual machine's use of 32-bit "compressed ordinary object pointers (OOPs)" on a 64-bit platform. The
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by nayuki 2y ago
Using an oscilloscope to find a signal, then writing custom DSP code to decode the signal. I'm thinking of stuff like 1 or n-wire binary protocols, NTSC, and such. Or am I supposed to be looking at software-defined radio (SDR) hardware
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Does the software provide a way to export recorded waveforms to allow analysis in other programs? And what is the maximum number of samples it can record?
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> The exhaust used to be really nasty Specifically: Leaded gasoline (with tetraethyllead), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrae
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> Ted hates the new MiB/KiB system of base-2 units, and for whatever reasons like the previous more ambiguous system of confusingly mixed base-10/base-2 units of MB/Mb/mb/KB/Kb/kb Here's my best ar
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Every aspect of owning and driving a car is regressive on the poor. https://cityobservatory.org/ten-things-more-inequitable-that...
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> moved from the Caribbean, where public transportation was nonexistent, and traffic and parking were a constant nightmare Not Just Bikes did a great rant on the carbrain of The Bahamas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd
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by nayuki 2y ago
Thanks for introducing me to Justine Underhill ( https://www.youtube.com/@justine-underhill ). She is a new YouTuber (4 videos so far) with excellent urbanist content! Her well-argued essays remind me of Oh The Urbanity!, N
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by nayuki 2y ago
Agreed that Go is a terrible language name. Just go use Go to make a game of go while riding the GO train. C is pretty terrible too, being a popular and extremely influential language with a one-letter name.

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