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by terramex 6y ago
Hard to remember exactly but it was a few minutes per image. I repeated it a couple times over the day because I was fascinated by it. I'd say 30 minutes per image over 12 hours.
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by terramex 6y ago
If you are fine with Facebook then Oculus Quest is the sweet spot at the moment. It does not have photorealistic rendering like PC-based VR but it is self-contained, does not need a PC but can be connected to a PC to play PCVR titles, has s
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by terramex 6y ago
If you have a VR headset, I recommend playing around with showing different colors to either eye. You can get some really nice iridescent effects, very hard to achieve in real life and impossible on flat screen (well, you can cheat a bit by
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by terramex 6y ago
I induced this effect in me on 17th April (just checked my browser history for exact date) using instruction given in this wiki article and I can still clearly see test bars as red and green, over 4.5 months later, it is incredible.
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by terramex 6y ago
do you know how many packages they take? As many as can safely fit into conductor's compartment. They can refuse to take package if it would get train delayed - so better have exact amount of cash because card readers on trains are e
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by terramex 6y ago
10TB, local or Internet: Physical Hard Drive. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes! In Poland there is an option to send package via train for 8$. Just go to station and give package to conductor/
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by terramex 6y ago
It still exists on A7 III: https://blog.kasson.com/a7iii/a7iii-long-exposure-spatial-fi... Those are noise power density graphs that show that signal went through a low-pass filter. On Sony cameras without 'star-e
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by terramex 6y ago
It has not been fixed, only changed to be less destructive on green channel. The article has a second part describing those changes: http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/SonyA7S/sonystareater... Many people do n
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by terramex 6y ago
Sony's crop sensor cameras like a6300 only use this filtering in Bulb Mode.
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by terramex 6y ago
> This is why I take 500+ images and process them. If you do 500 exposures you get 500x read noise of the sensor mixed with signal. Modern CCD and CMOS sensor have low read noise (compared to thermal and shot noise) but not zero. For s
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by terramex 6y ago
If you take long exposure of dim object, bright satellite passing in front of it will saturate signal and there will be nothing to recover. To avoid that you need to track all the satellites and split one long exposure into multiple shorter
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by terramex 6y ago
GIMP is very powerful image manipulation program with tons of features but is has reputation of being very user-unfriendly and arcane. I do not know if it was a meme, but surely is now.
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by terramex 6y ago
Blender skyrocketed in popularity in last 5 years. I just went through local gamedev job openings site (skillshot.pl) and over half of 3D Artist postings mention Blender.
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by terramex 6y ago
No way, in 2 years they will only stop shipping new Intel Macs but will continue supporting existing ones for a few years more. Last PowerPC Macs were released in October 2005 and first Intel-only MacOS X was released in August 2009, almost
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by terramex 6y ago
> SotTR actually did have an Xbox 360 port! It did not, previous game in series (Rise of the Tomb Raider) did have but Shadow(...) was released only on current-gen consoles.
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by terramex 6y ago
They are repeating PowerPC -> Intel transition timeline: https://www.macstories.net/stories/this-is-not-a-product-the...
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by terramex 6y ago
Polish Canal+ used "Syster" encryption scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagravision#Analog_system
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by terramex 6y ago
I'm not German, but as far as I know they have similar system to the one we have in Poland - you can transfer exclusive financial copyrights to another entity but you cannot transfer personal copyrights (so that you can say that you ar
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by terramex 6y ago
I use https://legiblenews.com to keep up with most important things happening in the world.
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by terramex 6y ago
It does not work on Rpi 4 and it is not full Windows environment.
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by terramex 6y ago
It works only on Rpi 2, not on 3 or 4 (There is unofficial version running on 3)
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by terramex 6y ago
In contrast to other commenters, I loved manually curated Apple Music playlists, I found so much great music through them in first 6 months of using their service. You could really feel that they were created by people with real passion fo
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by terramex 6y ago
Proper soft shadows are useful for flat UI multi window applications too, like on macOS: https://i.imgur.com/8k5b4UC.png
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by terramex 6y ago
You could argue that one of the most famous proofs of last 30 years - proof of Fermat's Last Theorem used such approach. Andrew Wiles had proven that if this FLT was false, then certain theorem about elliptical curves (unrelated at fir
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by terramex 6y ago
Obligatory "I'm not a physycist, but...". String theories require extra spatial dimensions (to total of 10, 11 or 26), but those dimension are so small and/or looping so that we cannot detect them. Other approach is to t
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by terramex 6y ago
If you are more of a video person, here is 5 minute video from styropyro of him explaining and building one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1psxE4NlECQ
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by terramex 7y ago
Their effect is minuscule, but measurable: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11234
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by terramex 7y ago
In recent years it is less easy, as content owners are now reporting huge batches of URLs in one complaint, so finding what you are looking for in this mass is much harder. They also often report fake downloads and scam websites in DCMA com
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by terramex 7y ago
Interestingly, you can see increase in searches for "I can't smell" on Google Trends since 8 March. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=i cant smell
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by terramex 7y ago
It is actually a native and fast Swift app and its only feature that can be considered 'bloated' is instant upload to giphy.com (which I have never used).

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