photojosh

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by photojosh 5y ago
Sounds like it's the Python [0] of 3d tools: the 2nd best 3d tool for everything. (It's cool that it's arguably the best in some areas even if that's a controversial argument, I think the same true of Python.) [0] https
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by photojosh 5y ago
My family genealogy would be utterly boring to 99%+ of people. And this Quake bot genealogy would be utterly boring to 99%+ of people too. I'm obviously the single person alive (except perhaps my brother) who finds all three interestin
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by photojosh 5y ago
> It's needlessly difficult to use anything else (aside from hex or binary in very specific situations) Totally agree. I'm a programmer, so I do need to know those, and as an embedded developer, even more. The average person no
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by photojosh 5y ago
You're right. There was no reply link under your comment... I have no idea what happened or if I'm just an idiot.
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by photojosh 5y ago
>> Let me end with the golden rule of temperature extremes: the bigger the temperature extreme the SMALLER the contribution of global warming. Think about that. This frustrates me because "global warming" refers to the avera
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by photojosh 5y ago
Same with our washing machine. The brushes for the motors had just worn down all the way; it was $30 for the replacement parts. It's a bit undersized for our family, so it does a LOT of loads, and it was 10 years old. So it's hope
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by photojosh 5y ago
Replying to sibling since we've maxxed out comment depth... > It was $62 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday. I can't just go displaying that in a program. Nor is it meaningful to me without a decimal conversion. It's just as mea
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by photojosh 5y ago
I'm not quite there, but close to being bilingual (binumeral?) between decimal and hex, and I think it's all about developing better intuition for each digit and their relationships. For instance, you say 0x9C... that's just
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by photojosh 5y ago
What I get from this whole discussion is that I would love a recipe book with measures in weights, temperatures specified such that you can use an IR thermometer, and a set of questions at the end of the recipe for assessing how I think the
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by photojosh 5y ago
I'd add, the "on this day" photo library feature is amazing as your kids get older and memories fade. Little video snippets (and live photos: priceless) from when your kids were 2, 5, 10 years younger. Searching for keywords
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by photojosh 5y ago
> say in Mechanical or Electrical where the last major development happened in 1845 Uh, what? Apparently computer science gets the credit for, eg, the transistor? Nah.
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by photojosh 5y ago
I was going to mention my waterproof camera (old Nikon Coolpix) which has GPS, but I double-checked first, and you're right... same sensor size as the iPhone. And the software processing in the phone is miles ahead, even in 2017 it was
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by photojosh 5y ago
I'm surprised more people don't know that a very similar test has been done [0] (but not towing the generator, which would probably make it lose). Guess today is your lucky day to learn about it and I'm glad to be the one to
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by photojosh 5y ago
And the way to keep this reasonably neutral (ie not dump a massive tax out of nowhere on people), is that LVT replaces at least a portion of say, income tax. That makes it politically viable as well.
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by photojosh 5y ago
Next step: have a system registry for conversion pipe tools. eg. GPS data. You write a tool that takes in application/gpx+xml, and gpsbabel is registered as a conversion tool so you can just pipe a FIT file in. Of course, there's
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by photojosh 5y ago
This gave me a flashback to pre-web days, when I was in a developing country as a kid, and: - used "FTP via email" - connected via a national call ($$) to a shell account - used pine to copy+paste email text into local files and v
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by photojosh 5y ago
How off-road do you go? I have a gravel bike too, but I much prefer the MTB for rocky descents.
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by photojosh 5y ago
> 3) Ductless mini splits are the preferred way to heat and cool most USA (tight) homes. In Australia, but we just installed these in our house with in-ceiling cassettes and they're incredibly good. Also initially didn't care t
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by photojosh 5y ago
I think of John Carmack as the software equivalent of Roger Bannister, he of the first 4 minute mile. Yes, he is absolutely incredible, but once that magic is revealed to the world, it shows what is achievable and people can follow in his f
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by photojosh 5y ago
> GUIs for complex production tools like ffmpeg, tar, git ... there already are plenty of wonderful and less wonderful frontends that a auto generated GUI could never beat. My 12 year old is doing a fair bit of video work, and I just po
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by photojosh 5y ago
Nice. Do you have any more info online on where you're trying to head with it? My initial reaction is that it's aimed at social interaction first, and modelling the space 2nd, whereas I was thinking of the other way around.
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by photojosh 5y ago
Seems like a good spot to comment that I've been tossing around a similar idea, but related to creating personal spaces instead. Context: we moved into a much smaller house a few years back and I miss having a room dedicated to shelves
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by photojosh 5y ago
I've not had a standalone camera* in years, but contemplating the cheapest way to get back in so I can shoot some of the kids' sports. All I want, like I think you're alluding to here, is a micro 4/3rds interchangeable l
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by photojosh 5y ago
Is this at least a little outside urban areas? The same is true in Australia, mainly with kangaroos.
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by photojosh 5y ago
Pretty sure (can't check rn) Big Sur only bundles Python 3.8 (and earlier OSes may be even older Python versions). Installing 3.9 from python.org might fix this. I can't see which other version they would build against but not inc
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by photojosh 5y ago
>> Partly, I think it's because there are no groups that represent or advocate for men > Let's talk about homelessness, criminality, or suicide rates, and see if you can convince anyone that it's "for good reaso
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by photojosh 5y ago
> ultra-wide distortion > they can't apply simple lens correction You're confusing ultra-wide rectilinear lens distortion with barrel or fisheye distortion due to lens construction limitations. The latter is correctable in s
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by photojosh 5y ago
I have to hold myself back from all the complaints about Apple Lossless not working on AirPods.
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by photojosh 5y ago
For me it’s the door sound from Doom. I noticed this independently many years ago and looked it up, and sure enough: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomDoors
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by photojosh 5y ago
My current Cortex-M4 project is about 40kB of code, and it runs at 48MHz. If I needed more performance, would just get one with a higher clock-rate. 64-bit has zero advantages in this context. Also, worth mentioning that our safety-critical

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