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811.
by timonoko 4y ago
Had to correct numbers: Super-good BW-TV was 625 x 625 x 25 = 10 Mhz. The color-carrier was 4.3 Mhz. So if you did not want to see the color-shit on your BW-TV, you had adjust the focus so that less than 625 x (4.3e6/(625 x 625 x 25))
812.
by timonoko 4y ago
> None of this supports the parent's claim that TV went "from black&white 625x625 to color 300x300", which is just wrong on several levels. Obviously no one here has experienced pure crystal-clear BW-tv and what happen
813.
by timonoko 4y ago
> But in no way did color decrease the number of lines in the image. But it did. If you did not want to see the annoying 3Mhz color-carrier on your BW-TV, you had adjust the focus to 300 horizontal lines, which affected the vertical focu
814.
by timonoko 4y ago
Black&White-tv was almost HD, 625x625. Then they added 3Mhz color-carrier in 1966 and it was 300x300 with this color-furze on top. This sucked so much. There was nothing I wanted see in living color. Especially winter-sports were mostly
815.
by timonoko 4y ago
May have been also that when you connected Pi to a power source it powered the phone too. I was using this system 10 years go with very cheap phone without OTG, so Pi was solution to this and other problems.
816.
by timonoko 4y ago
You can strap Raspberry to your phone via USB and you have 100% Linux phone without restrictions. Communication happens via Phone's USB-tethering and Raspberry's Internet-via-USB (and bVNC). OTG-phone can also power the Raspberry.
817.
by timonoko 4y ago
Luckily there is totally useless "§ ½"-key on Scandinavian keyboard. So I always do this: cat .inputrc "§": "{" "½": "}" Also "å"-key is useless in Finland. So I h
818.
by timonoko 4y ago
Safe beyond measure. Avoiding nuclear aka "Energiewende" has caused 100,000 deaths already.
819.
by timonoko 4y ago
Achually there was one successful tick-bite. It was July 1957. It managed to suck some blood, but removed itself rightaway when mother Noko burned it with cigarette.
820.
by timonoko 4y ago
This condition been the same for 50 years. I am worried when it changes. I am pretty sure this is somekind of hereditary trait for Tundra dwellers. If I dont sweat, mosquitoes do not bother me. Also all ticks drop off or just die.
821.
by timonoko 4y ago
Finns truly have lower body temperatures. 35.3°C right now. According to american internets I am suffering from constant "hypothermia". Also I am obviously sufferring from "bradycardia", it is not normal that 70-year old
822.
by timonoko 4y ago
My 18.04 is already beyond broken. "You have held packages" whatever it is supposed to mean. But alas, there are now Snaps and Flatpaks, which always work. :-)
823.
by timonoko 4y ago
Never update never upgrade, if everything works. There is never-ever some groundbreaking performance improvement, like in 1994.
824.
by timonoko 4y ago
Unfortunately all problemos were solved already in 1977. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24662735
825.
by timonoko 4y ago
As you can see from the video, they have some $50 industrial washing machine motor and chain drive, instead of fancy hub motor. Rest is just manual labor, which is cheap in Zanzibar.
826.
by timonoko 4y ago
This solves the missing mouse panning button. You can zoom-in, move mouse somewhere else, zoom-out and voilà, panning happened.
827.
by timonoko 4y ago
"Zoom to mouse position" seems to only improvement I can find. -- Why would anybody zoom elsewhere than to the mouse position?
828.
by timonoko 4y ago
Can I somehow change the mouse panning/zoomin/rotating to be the same as in Openscad. I do not need the action menus in mouse-buttons. Not much action happening here, just viewing.
829.
by timonoko 4y ago
Smooth Screen Scrolling was indeed the greatest computing problem of previous millennium. But CarMack totally forgot to mention that scrolling must be in sync with display refresh rate. Many American Made games were glitchy because builtin
830.
by timonoko 4y ago
In which way Newton-meter is interesting parameter in these. Torque but where? At motor? At wheel? Torque is only interesting at wheel, if you have slow tractor dragging heavy objects. Must come from petrol engines, where torque is mentione
831.
by timonoko 4y ago
You are supposed to make a cell phone, now that you can make metals. Next steps are 1) battery 2) light bulb 3) transistor. I forgot 0) glass. You need it to make a microscope for integrated circuits. Siege weapons are particularly not peri
832.
by timonoko 4y ago
What is the "value" they are talkin about. I can understand when 50-kilo Eddy Merckx wants 9 kilo bike, so he can win some other skinny dude with shitty 10 kilo bike. But in which way the 120-kilo american fatty in spandex feels b
833.
by timonoko 4y ago
Except those special watch interfaces and apps have nothing to offer, that is why I do not use them. I decided now that I want truly generic VNC-watch, which can view any screen anywhere. You could show the corner of your laptop or smart-TV
834.
by timonoko 4y ago
I could use VNC-watch. Which does nothing but shows a copy your phone screen. Or some part of it. Or even better -- you could have full access of your phone, you could start apps and zoom in. And some apps could have special corner for VNC-
835.
by timonoko 4y ago
Not much need for that. But I would now change the rule so that the number-list must have 34 at both ends. It is little illogical and ugly that there is only one 34 but two quotation marks is prettyprinted. > '(34 72 101 108 1
836.
by timonoko 4y ago
I played with python-lisp for some time and decided that python-array is not a LIST but CONS. And if the python-array has more than two pieces, it can be pretty-printed as an ARRAY. Haters will hate, but this is the Ultimate Solution .
837.
by timonoko 4y ago
On this level of cyclomania, ankles need to be quite mobile, so regular rubber boots do not work. OTH. Fatties in spandex do not even need clips, because they exactly always ride with floppy ankles. One in 1000 can actually ride that fancy
838.
by timonoko 4y ago
In 1988 I had also rubber galoshes (used with toe-straps). But sadly nobody makes good galoshes anymores. https://youtu.be/8D-S8nYCwjA?t=281
839.
by timonoko 4y ago
Pretty Clueless. Only important issue is to prevent the wind chill. I have two novel ideas: Skirt and Sleeves . Skirt is meter long canvas tube with 20cm slit and elastic band on top. When fully extended it protects your chest, stomac
840.
by timonoko 4y ago
Lex-Elon test is more concise & conclusive: https://photos.app.goo.gl/REgX6k49ZH8a8av26

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