Wolf314159

joined 7 months ago
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

This video says it both ways I've heard. The white people around me pronounce it like the one with the union jack (heavy emphasis on the B), the Spanish speakers pronounce it more like the version with the American flag background (ironic). Most of the other pronunciation videos I could find seem to be made by AI voices and mangle the pronunciation in a myriad of ways. This other video has an actual person speaking well (I can't speak to the rest of the content of the video).

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been mocked and had some people outright pretend they don't understand what I'm saying when I pronounce guanábana correctly.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is a fun experiment, but it's not precisely the peaks and troughs of the actual waves themselves that you're seeing, it's the maximums and minimums of the amplitude from those waves interfering with their reflections. You see the interference pattern, not the waves.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

They shouldn't be separate in the first place. It's just bad design that's prone to failure. And in this case that failure mode is VERY far from failsafe, it's potentially deadly.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Too bad those "easily accessible manual releases" aren't the actual door handle and are hidden so well you'd never find them if you were unfamiliar with the vehicle.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

They've used the exact same reasoning to excuse running down actual pedestrians on crosswalks.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago

3 days for Apple to gather as many marketing targets and telemetry as possible.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 weeks ago

Dark table corrects lens distortion based on the design of the actual lens, not the image itself. The grid it just to check in after the fact. I'm not aware of similar tools in GIMP. It's trivial in Darktable though, as long as your lens is in the database.

Don't use a fish-eye lens, it's lense distortion will be the worst and most difficult to correct. Use a lens with a longer focal length, ideally a prime lens with a fixed focal length. If you maximize focal length and distance to your object as much as is feasible, you will have already flattened the image (minimized lens distortion) a lot. If you use a prime (fixed focal length) lens from a popular brand, Darktable can remove the remaining lens distortion.

You can remove all lens distortion by using a pinhole camera, which has no lens. But that's probably going to be a tricky setup without an expert.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago

Almost as bad as once every 3 days!

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I also have strong opinions about Christmas lights.

Unfortunately, they do not perfectly align with Technology Connections. We agree is almost all respects: flickering is bad, purple is not a valid Christmas color, white lights should be warm and not bluish. I just can't agree about this one thing though, I LOVE the super saturated colors of LEDs for the red, blue, and green lights. I care much less about the saturation of the yellow and/or orange lights.

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