ChaoticNeutralCzech

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I forgot to archive my favorite Flash game... I asked the studio behind it and they don't have it anymore :( (There's still the publisher and perhaps people with rare CDs...)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The wavelength has negligible effect on shadow geometry (yes, there is chromatic aberration, refraction, interference but those are very minor in normal lighting, you need special prisms, tiny slits and perhaps lasers to really observe them). What do you even mean?

Also, sunlight (6000K) and daylight (6500K) is pretty much the same color because direct sunlight is >90 % of daylight (the rest is the blue sky and white clouds).

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 22 hours ago

Not a genius. This thing is called a monogram, the most basic logo design. Used mostly by couples, law firms and couples' law firms.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago

It does not help that some people pronounce LED as "led", or "ice" in Slavic languages. And "led lampa" is a homonym of "letlampa" (bunsen torch).

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I have a red bulb too. It's "handmade" by removing thick red rubber from a "golf ball" decorative 7W CFL and stretching it over a similarly-sized 6W 2700K LED that has instant start and higher light output (not to mention, the taut rubber won't send glass ball shards into a mercury-vapor-filled tube if it happens to fall). It is not as monochromatic as pure red LEDs, I think it's close to what the phosphor-based red ones emit but those are marketed as cicardian too. I have to avoid ooking straight into it though: the pupil is wide open because rods don't react strongly to red light so long-wavelength (red) cones get massively overloaded and you see a green spot for a while.

The difference is not as pronounced as in the picture. If you're used to 4000K as neutral white, yellowish white is 3000K, amber-ish white is 2700K. Only below the temperature of fire (cca 1500K) is when blue fully disappears and you get actual orange or red. And pure yellow is not a possible black body (incandescence) spectrum (that is, it does not correspond to any color temperature) so even though you can set an RGB bulb to that, buy monochromatic yellow LEDs or go under a low-pressure sodium vapor lamp, such lighting feels unnatural.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Warm white is usually 1800 K to 3000 K. What you showed is less Kelvin than the color temperature of fire (1500 K). We don't have a color temperature word for that, but "red" works. Of course, such light has no blue component (helps control the cicardian cycle) and is pretty much monochromatic with CRI of <5.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

"You want cold white or warm white?"

"I need a cold light source, like an LED. I'm afraid the fixture would melt if I put incandescent in there." (Yes, some E14 fixtures in cheap plastic bathroom mirrors etc. only take up to 10-20 W and have a warning sticker)


"What, higher temperature is colder?" (It's not their fault though that in nature, white and blue things 🧊 are generally colder than yellow and orange things 🔥)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This scale feels wrong. 4000K is neutral white and should have no hue. Of course, that depends subjectively on what the light around is. 6000K should only be in the center if you're outside a lot. And the difference between 6000K and 10000K is greatly exaggerated. Not even the visible portion of "infinite" Kelvin is that blue if 6000K is calibrated to white.

Planckian Locus

Pride flags and log cabins both usually have horizontal stripes. Easy to combine

 

WebP does everything GIF did, just better. The only problem is adoption. Maybe a similar, single-syllable name could have helped.

  • Ends the pronunciation debate: hard G in the 1987 filetype, soft G in the 2010 one
  • Looping soundless video gets a name that's short and does not refer to a terribly inefficient format (that "gif" sharing sites often no longer use anyway), plus some wrong people have been using it already
  • Software peer-pressured into supporting it (nobody wants to hear "they don't support JIF" about their software)
 

They say lab is short for German Labor, which is short for Romanian laborator, which is short for Latin laboratorium.

 

Today's news told in names of two Czech companies.
Unfortunately, it took backlash from EU to turn the needle but they did it. Now one "only" needs 2 doctors' recommendation, 1 year testing period, and then 2 more notes from doctors.

Transcript
4 panels 2x2:

pride month is over

[picture of entrance to Proficis, a small printer repair company]

but you no longer need to get castrated to change your official gender

[picture of trailer with ☺️Happy Trans CZ s.r.o., a transport company]

 

This lamp by OSRAM uses the LEDVANCE trademark, implying it is an LED replacement for fluorescent tubes. I repair LED bulbs (and tubes but broken ones are still rare) as a hobby, and while going through bins I have to avoid fluorescent ones (even CFLs in fancy globes). Welp, there goes my yet-flawless way to tell: "if it says LED, it's LED". I really need to shine through most of them! Shining a light through this one reveals nothing inside but a heated electrode at either end (aside the phosphor coating, and a gas mixture including a little mercury vapor), the normal components of an FL tube. LED tubes would include a driver and an LED strip (and usually a PTC at the other end). I mainly use the method to reveal the kinky or twisty tube of "sneaky" CFLs with milky balls.

Also, the company took a while to leave Russia but at least they did

 
Acronym Title Language/Country
ОСАД Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор mk Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA Severoatlantická aliance cs Czech 🇨🇿
NATO Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation da Danish 🇩🇰
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon no Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου el Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte es Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord fr Fr*nch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord it Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte pt Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord ro Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon et Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto fi Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASzSz Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete hu Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB Atlantshafsbandalagið is Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija lv Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma me Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma sh Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego pl Polish 🇵🇱
DAB Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu se North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija sl Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü tr Turkish 🇹🇷

Data mostly from Wikipedia. No warranty. For example, Slovak is arguably not an official language in the Czech Republic, just mentioned as “mutually intelligible” in certain laws but I followed Wikipedia and included it. Languages are grouped by the acronyms and sorted by their 2-letter codes. Those are based on their Wikipedia URL or my guess (sucks to be you, Montenegrin speakers, should have made your own Wikipedia). Countless Sámi languages are represented by North Sámi, the only one with a NATO Wikipedia article.

Changelog from v1 I originally posted on Reddit: Hungarian ÉASS → ÉASzSz (the "sz" stays together in acronyms because unlike most letter pairs it makes a single special sound).

 

One of the largest business shipping solutions in our country.

Transcript
Logistics centre of the company TopTrans. A huge number of trucks is parked at the loading depot. The logo is an androgynous antropomorphized lightning.

 

When a little Czech girl becomes best friends with a carp who is destined to be her Christmas dinner, she must choose between tradition and her newfound friendship.

Official Vimeo mirror (somewhat region-locked): https://vimeo.com/channels/animationaub19/341755071

There are references to Cosy Dens, hallmark Czech Christmas movie set during the 1968 Prague Spring and Soviet invasion, as well as graduation films by their classmates. Definitely watch them!

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