pixelfarmer

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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Both the framing and the colors were the first two things that immediately struck me. The colors reminded me a bit of Leica glass that I use on my A7s, and on his site he mentions Leica Q2, so bingo. Leica glass is generally on the "co
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
In terms of quality, hardware suffers also problems due to increasing complexity. Errata sheets of highend SoCs can be rather intimidating on their own already. And it is this complexity which drags down performance as well. If a smartphone
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Question is then, why do you have both? Where does this implicit "hierarchy" come from? It is simple: As soon as you have multiple people working on a problem there are communication requirements. You can organize things in a way
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
There is systemic fault. It starts with hierarchical structuring. It doesn't mean that hierarchies are inherently bad, but there are consequences from that and the additional things that people usually imply that come with it. This can
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
The Bronze Age. I think the best entry for that is via the "Late Bronze Age collapse" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse ), which gives you an indication of how networked things were back
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Just that wood is organic material and suffers faster degradation vs. rocks when exposed to weather, which is implied in "if you can just find it". Mind you, they were digging up material in the old times already to find the best
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Depending on the soil (they seem to have rather colorful soil there), you will see disturbances of any kind because refilling a hole will show different colors. The newer the dig is, the clearer the line between undisturbed and disturbed pa
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
This looks like some regulatory induced certification bureaucraziness stunt that creates all sorts of funky stuff already within such megacorpos. Because time is money, the solution is usually the one they can take with the least resistance
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
"The Happy Worker" is a documentary that mentions exactly this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzzYGRXfAaI (trailer)
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia00335-full-disk-color-ima...
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
What? Meditate on? What are you smoking? Anyone remembers the Boeing MAX 8 issues? Safety procedures / processes had been disabled on purpose for greed and people eventually died as a result. History has a truckload of examples in that
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
The Linux kernel contains a lot of C OOP, similar to GTK and other such frameworks. As soon as you need bindings done during runtime, you will end up with structs containing function pointers as some sort of interface descriptor, and potent
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Well, this obviously has nothing to do with boot-up of a CPU anymore, either, so I'm out now.
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
https://www.ti.com/product/SN7400 is also "4-ch, 2-input, 4.75-V to 5.25-V bipolar NAND gates". I mentioned BJT and FET, for the latter there is https://www.ti.com/product/SN74AHCT00 Mig
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
https://www.ti.com/product/SN74LS00 Datasheet for a 7400 type chip (or actually multiple). Go check it out.
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Have a look at http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/ That aside, I'm still wondering what you are on about. The "internal logic" of something like a 7400 is fully defined by the transistors, so to understand
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
If I remember correctly there are actual simulations of a 6502 (the CPU used in C64 and other machines of that time) around, e.g. there was one done in Javascript even. Simulation as in simulating all the gates of the actual chip, and you c
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Yes, because these chips follow certain design goals the simple examples don't care about. For example, assume you start scaling things up, there is the problem of "load" (aka current). If you look at the chip manuals you wil
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Something like that? https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/electronics/circu... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTu3LwpF6XI and there are truckloads more of these. There used to be el
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Sorry for the late reply! What you see on these dies can also be recreated manually with transistors, diodes, resistors, and maybe the odd capacitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400-series_integrated_circuit... show
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Instruction fetcher + address lines and how these things are wired together. If you are really interested, there are various people having big sets of videos about creating an 8 bit CPU from scratch with TTL logic chips. Alternatively, or o
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3KE_H27bs (Nick Hanauer TED talk) Ask an economist about WHY economy exists in the first place and you can put a bet on the fact that many of them get it wrong. How can anything building on
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
I will translate: People are mostly incapable of splitting work and do proper communication in environments with high(er) latency. The idea of just throwing stuff "over the fence" so to speak is going to bite you in the rear end i
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
I find it difficult to compare Oblivion or Skyrim to CP2077. I mean look even at the cities in Skyrim: It is a couple houses, maybe a palace, sewers and you are done. A single megabuilding in CP2077 houses more people than either game has i
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
I played it from day one on hardware which was barely matching the minimum specs. Never had any game breaking bugs and it usually only crashed during long sessions, if at all. Software stacks nowadays are such massive pieces of garbage that
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
It has to do with offloading computation to an external entity. For example, lets take a simple example: CPU + DSP. I have an Atari Falcon here which sports something like that, but quite a few modern SoCs also have DSPs included (QCOM, TI,
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by pixelfarmer 3y ago
Knuth has an entire chapter dedicated to floats, error ranges and such, which includes pretty much that (a+b)+c != a+(b+c) for floats, which in turn breaks tons of things on the math side already. That is such a large issue that it has some
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Well, color theory is a vast topic, especially when it comes to color reproduction and so on, but for UI design this is of lesser concern. However, basic stuff like the color wheel, complementary colors, perception of colors in terms of per
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
This is also in part because of human perception, i.e. it wouldn't be as bad if the rest of the page had the same level of gray for the text. Because it is not the case the darker parts suck your focus in. If you want people to actuall
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
It is an A7s. Released in mid 2014, 12MPix resolution at FullFrame (36x24mm), FSI (front side illuminated), so large and very sensitive pixels. ISOs can be ramped up to 400k, but from my experience ISO 50k is about the limit if you want to

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