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by zh3 5y ago
Wow, that's annoying. There's a bunch of old code we have that'll need updating (written that way to keep the line lengths down).
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by zh3 5y ago
That's pretty much exactly what we do, we get the cameras into sync using the network then fire a precisely synchronised (us accuracy in our case, so 1000 times worse than yours :) ) a 10 to 150us IR flash to capture the specific detai
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by zh3 5y ago
It's actually very possible to synchronise any number of Pi cameras, to sub-millisecond precision if required. We do this for a machine vision task, measuring the angle of rotating disks at a very precise time (and use an IR flash whic
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by zh3 5y ago
Local approach is a personal wiki; just drag the page to be 'bookmarked' into a relevant page on the wiki (or just a '/tmp' page for later sorting). I generally add the page title as the link name, makes for easy
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by zh3 5y ago
BodyRocket | Brighton, England | Remote OK We're bringing windtunnel tech out of the windtunnel and onto the road, and if that's not hard enough we're starting with cycling. It's all serious mech engineering, loadcells,
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by zh3 5y ago
He's from Bangladesh, and he didn't say anything to me about emergency services (not sure where you got his statement from, possibly some news story I'm not aware of?).
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by zh3 5y ago
Owner of a local (UK) Indian restaurant recently went home for a holiday. Came back in a neck brace with terrible bruising, so of course I asked him what happened, he said his car came off the road and rolled into a ditch. He was trapped an
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by zh3 5y ago
Really common to do it in spare time as an intro to doing it as a consultant. Esp. if you have electronics skills it's not hard to find work. As a "side hustle" though, it's generally about selling a hardware product, a
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by zh3 5y ago
Yeah - the timelapse of the terminator showing darkness descending suggests it's was a rough night.
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by zh3 5y ago
That sounds like a different experience to what we get in the UK - one cookie prompt and you're good to go for many months (at least). Could be the BBC's fault, possibly due to in-country legalese though?
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by zh3 5y ago
> ...that seemingly simple programs need to pull a mind boggling amount of dependencies you really start to question the state of the software world Recent jawdrop: 'apt-get install asciidoc' on a pi needs to pull 189 packages,
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by zh3 5y ago
Yes, I too have switched to Energizer - zero problems to date (switched from Duracell some years ago).
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by zh3 5y ago
Let me leap in here to ding Duracell. They used to be my goto battery, but over the past few years (there was a hedge fund takeover, which IME rarely results in improvements to long-standing quality products) they've turned into liabil
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by zh3 5y ago
It's not as bad as at first feared. Views here are along the usual lines; for many when there's an issue either it's something that's fixable inhouse (init scripts) or needs a support contract. Having said that, personal
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by zh3 5y ago
The twist in that film is the guy who designs the escape plane turns out to be a model plane designer. Ok, but all the people on the wing are going to have a hard time (quite apart from messing up the aerodynamics). Movie stuntmen getting h
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by zh3 5y ago
I'm guessing Eurocoin [0] [0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/eurocoin/
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by zh3 5y ago
It's less artisanal than also doing it for the common good. We do not want an email monoculture (consisting of 2 megacorps ostensibly in competition). We want a free, fair, and open internet.
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by zh3 5y ago
Party hard!
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by zh3 5y ago
Fortran had a 72-column limit on punch cards (the last 8 columns were used to number the cards in the deck). Even when we got VT100's there was some caution about going past column 72 (ISTR some of the VDU's would have a marker at
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by zh3 5y ago
That's interesting, mine definitely only has plain text (no text/html, checked via view source etc). Maybe it's a preference I ticked somewhere back in the mists of time.
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by zh3 5y ago
FWIW, as a UK Amazon buyer with a Visa Credit card, I received an email this morning with Subject line "Visa credit cards will not be accepted, starting 19 Jan, 2022" and nothing but my name in the body. A very, very basic email -
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by zh3 5y ago
I recall waiting for Shoemaker-Levy 9 [0] back in 1992; it was not expected to go off with such a bang, when it did it put the spotlight on Jupiter's protective effect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoem
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by zh3 5y ago
The PDP-11 bus is really simple, it's easy to whip up custom cards with a handful of TTL chips. Also DEC used to sell all the parts separately, including backplanes which had a wirewrap pin on every contact. As a result, integrating a
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by zh3 5y ago
PDP-11's (LSI-11's) were originally limited to 32k 16-bit words (64kb) but were exanded to 18bit addressing allowing up to 256Kb. The PC is only 16 bit though so 64k of code directly addressable at any one time (ignoring the reser
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by zh3 5y ago
What's omitted is the monks had taken a vow not to touch a woman. [0] https://www.kindspring.org/story/view.php?sid=63753
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by zh3 5y ago
...in which case they shouldn't give misleading replies like "192.168.l.l", n'est ce pas?
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by zh3 5y ago
Ever tried to google 192.168.1.1? Here at least it gives lots of bogosity (all in the name of keeping us safe from what we actually wanted to get to).
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by zh3 5y ago
This is sort of a tragedy-of-the-commons situation. Very few people want to stand up and be counted (Sparkfun aside), yet it's the few who do who keep the bottom feeders[0] in check. [0] I've been advised by lawyers to just pay th
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by zh3 5y ago
AKA Don't sweat the small stuff.
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by zh3 5y ago
Meetup events (at least the ones I've been to) seems to be coming back online (UK Brighton area). Shameless plug for Flock #10 for anyone around Shoreham - one of the reasons to like it is the "No Selling!" rule. [0] https:

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