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by planteen 9y ago
Right, after importing to image editing software.
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by planteen 9y ago
While the color depth of a JPG is 8-bits, it is not a linear 8 bits. The sRGB color space is gamma corrected (non-linear) and is roughly equivalent to taking the square root of a linear pixel value. The same thing holds true for a processed
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by planteen 9y ago
> "Did Bob graduate college?" "His educational background may improve in the future." Your black and white reasoning is not how most humans think. What if the answer is "Bob graduates in a month."?
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by planteen 9y ago
The regime will simply say the rice is a tribute that the enemy is paying. Or that is is poisoned, etc.
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by planteen 9y ago
NOAA 30 minute aurora forecast: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
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by planteen 9y ago
Even in Denver it looked like perpetual sunset on Monday & Tuesday afternoons. Today is slightly better, but I still wonder if it would obscure any potential aurora.
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by planteen 9y ago
Sounds like we could swap stories. :-) Trying to one text messages in and one out was a 20 minute affair in the rainy mountains of Peru with Iridium. Globalstar data service seemed to have random drops and periods where connection was impos
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by planteen 9y ago
There still needs to be a description of the underlying hardware behavior somehow. The hardware engineers often give you a somewhat correct Excel sheet or force you to look at the HDL to figure it out.
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by planteen 9y ago
It doesn't seem that primitive to me. You already have connections for other utilities. Even in my home, I prefer to run Ethernet rather than deal with Wifi issues to various devices.
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by planteen 9y ago
You can get Irudium or Globalstar today in 9600 bps of glory with rain and cloud fade issues.
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by planteen 9y ago
You sure would frown a lot in the embedded world. Rust isn't even a contender for most hard-real time or safety critical projects. Is it even supported by any RTOS today?
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by planteen 9y ago
I like that. So true. It usually seems the conclusion is also decided before much thinking goes on as well.
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by planteen 9y ago
Football can also be played with flags or where players are not tackled by saying the play is over when momentum is stopped. Countless intramural and pickup games are played like this every day. And you still have an offensive line in setup
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by planteen 9y ago
Yeah the specifics I can hand wave about but would like more nice details. You get a "native" window surface from Mesa from DRM (the GBM API is one choice here I believe). You pass these returns to EGL for your display, native win
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by planteen 9y ago
Professional Engineer. There's an Engineer in Training certification first, typically gained by passing a Fundamentals of Engineering exam in college. Then you work for a few years under a PE and take an exam to become a PE yourself.
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by planteen 9y ago
They did this on June 30, 1973. While it stayed in totality 10x longer than would have been possible on the ground, it did not stay for the entire path of totality. Look at the umbral velocity - only the bottom of the parabola is obtainable
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by planteen 9y ago
Is it really worth the waste of time it would be to debate this at the IAU and the confusion it would cause? Dwarf planets don't follow any set mythology (e.g., Makemake follows Easter Island mythology). Most people aren't experts
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by planteen 9y ago
The old edition of the VHDL book had dated coding practices that are no longer necessary like splitting out comb and sequential logic. Is it still like that?
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by planteen 9y ago
Your comment made me laugh. We've all been there. The worst I have ever seen is someone who ran out of paper plates and started using phone book pages.
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by planteen 9y ago
To each their own. Some people want yards, pets, kids, and non-digital hobbies. All of these things lead to an accumulation of stuff and less flexibility in travel. I enjoy my cats, growing some of my own food, and hobbies with bulky items
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes. There is the PREEMPT_RT patchset for sub-millisecond response times. Many of the features for PREEMPT_RT have been merged to mainline, so stock performance is quite good to the millisecond level.
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by planteen 9y ago
10 years isn't true. In the last few years, we have finally seen a successor to the RAD750, the RAD5500. And it's multi core finally. But rad hard technology does move at a glacial pace and is 10-20 years behind commercial. http
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by planteen 9y ago
Because there are two distinct types of radiation effects in space: ionizing and upsets. Multiple computers voting solves the upset problem, but not the ionizing one. Ionizing is a measure in krad of how much radiation a part can be exposed
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by planteen 9y ago
If you are looking at xray penetration in the atmosphere, it is very opaque. Almost no xrays get through hence why space telescopes are needed to do xray astronomy.
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by planteen 9y ago
Transmutating bismuth from gold is not a trivial task, even given unlimited energy. You need a particle accelerator and your customers have to be OK with getting a bunch of radioactive gold along with their stable gold.
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by planteen 9y ago
They do have PINs, just most people don't know what they are. You can use the PIN to withdraw cash from an ATM at a ridiculous interest rate. I recently was using my credit card in Iceland at a gas pump where I was prompted for a PIN.
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by planteen 9y ago
Americans are used to entering PINs on debit cards, but not credit. However, in my recent experience in Iceland & Germany, most POS don't ask for a PIN on credit transactions either. The only time I was asked for a PIN on a credit
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by planteen 9y ago
Going back to what OP said: > In earlier times, farm fields actually were separated by bushes, patches of rocks, tiny rivers, whatever. My point is that the modern prairie is far more divided than it was 200 years ago. And groves of tree
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by planteen 9y ago
Where are you talking about? That isn't true on the plains of North America. The plain was very treeless, save next to water, where there are plenty of trees. Man has created far more barriers - roads, wind breaks around farms, etc. Ea
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by planteen 9y ago
It happens in the space industry too. I've never seen a dedicated career courier, but rather someone who worked on the project handles it. It's useful when the project is late and the person csn head out for the flight immediately

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