pixelfarmer

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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Reminds me of an encounter in Nepal, where a Chinese guy with Baidu maps was lost finding his hotel, and Google on my phone wasn't exactly much better. OSM to the rescue (and thanks to everyone who contributed data for that)!
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQYsk-8dWg (The Corporation) I'm soon leaving a company after having seen it grown from a mere startup to what it is today. It had a goal at the beginning, had to fight an entire indust
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
With Linux+glibc, malloc() makes use of different syscalls. Beside mmap(), there is also brk() in use: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sbrk.2.html The big question about all that is when this memory is
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Over time I ended up with 21, 35, and 90mm as my go-to lenses. I used the 35 for many years now, which includes landscape pictures. With that said, I also use 90mm for that, because landscape pretty much covers the whole focal length spectr
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
It is also misused in color printers which leave a repeating pattern of small yellow dots encoding model, serial number, and so on, so your newly printed money will provide a nice paper trail back to you. Also, yes, handling of colors and c
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
What is "traditional reporting"? If you refer to these profit driven attention seeking media outlets which love to label themselves as "traditional media" I'd be careful assuming that their selection of news is any
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I remember articles of the Airbus A350 requiring reboots every N days (150ish or so?). I remember the Patriot missile system required a reboot every 24 hours or so until they fixed the software defect which caused the time counting to drift
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
But the energy market is not natural, it is completely artificial, based on rules which are more befitting to a non-market setup. For example, Europe has the largest (not in size but connected power) synchronized grid in the world. That mea
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Electricity, like an increasing bunch of other things, is part of the infrastructure. The amount and different levels of infrastructure pretty much define "civilization", do away with infrastructure and your civilization is done f
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
This argument sounds like "oh, in the end it doesn't matter, we can just continue on!". But this is completely wrong. You cannot dump 50°C hot water into rivers without consequences, and very far reaching consequences at that
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Car makers are very well aware of the lock-in possibilities and execute them already. They were just very slow to wake up to the fast raise of, how to call it, "software defined car", and start pouring endless money now into this.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
The speedometer is one thing, but even more "mission critical" are the warning/error symbols, which have a low-to-medium level safety rating on them. Speedometer probably would have that, too, but monitoring "fancy"
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
"objective data to judge performance by" ... thanks for the laugh!
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I always enjoy reading comments like that, because I'm using a Sony A7s with manual lenses at underground concerts for 8 years now. I must be doing something really wrong, or maybe it is not me, but the commenter being seriously off ..
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Sorry for the late reply. And I have no idea what other lenses show this effect, but I wouldn't exclude that possibility. From what I gathered you will need a field curvature where towards the edges the focus runs away from the camera.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I don't have pictures online to show around. After using that lens for years now I think there are a number of factors contributing to this 3D effect: * In the center of the image things behind the sujet are strongest out of focus. * W
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Photography is a wide field, and aesthetics is in the eye of the beholder, as usual. For example, if you do photography which goes towards technical fields, architecture, forensics, archaeology, reproduction, documentation in general of wha