ChaoticNeutralCzech

joined 2 years ago

Why photograph with a polarizing lens for a catalog? It reveals impurities.

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

I have an HP iPAQ PDA that also has dome buttons and can emulate the Game Boy or NES, as well as play native games (Chuzzle, Bejeweled, Solitaire, Freecell, Kevtris, SimCity 2000). Mine just barely lacks the RAM to allocate a 4MB block for a WAD (supplying a smaller WAD doesn't help) so I can't play Chocolate DOOM. Maybe a repartitioning hack (allowing installation to SD) or one that deletes system programs (such as Calculator, Pocket Word or IE) could help? (The "storage" is a flexible RAMdisk, and running the battery down or just unplugging the charger when a key is pressed down erases everything in it, the system then reinstalls from ROM and all but the SD contents is lost. At least with a third-party registry editor, I can restore settings in minutes. So yeah, freeing some of the 16MB storage could yield enough RAM.)

Anyways, as LGR says about his (pretty much the same as mine but with built-in Wi-Fi that doesn't need an SDIO card), the buttons just suck. But it's mostly due to poor layout (thumbs too close, OK key protruding from the D-pad) and lack of rollover (only pressing the leftmost and rightmost keys has an action: on battery power, it clears RAM and disables all functionality until the charger is connected: does it short the battery??), I suppose the N-Gage solved both issues and dome buttons aren't inherently bad.

Oh! I thought the ⑤ and ⑦ keys were so that the user puts their index and middle fingers there to recreate the gesture in OP's image but now I see the key rows themselves resembling the fingers.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

In the 90s, March did start with a Monday in '93 and '99. But it's unlikely you'd see TV static (with a decently emulated camera shutter effect) behind an error dialog window - is it the desktop background?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

West Bank, Gaza Strip, Terra nullius?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So much "nerd" paraphernalia is BS... This one is ridiculous (one doesn't get to "be a programmer" by sorting and collecting 10 personality traits as if they're goals or achievements) but at least it shows varied syntax in the C language: the number of unique keywords is very high.

To show you're a nerd, don't go with obvious "look, this is what I am" but use dogwhistles (Conway's Game of Life or fractals can look like knitting patterns) or to be obvious, some things you personally like or made. Badge with your distro's logo or mascot, code you actually wrote or its output, wearable blinkenlights project... Just be more focused on your interests than yourself.

#define unlocked endl

Yeah, nobody writes that except to make a single joke

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You are correct, that is simplified. The whole line is

int personality = sizeof(goals) / sizeof(goals[0]);

To get the length of an array in C, it's necessary to divide its memory footprint by the size of a single element!

BTW you can see what appears to be ASCII in the background of that image. You can decode it if you're bored.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 35 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Here are some of the missing pixels:
code poetry dress

Yes! The picture is inaccurate, people who need to learn ffmpeg rarely know they do.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Depends on what the angel would say in his schizophrenia-induced converstions. Either they'd refuse it outright or insist on a custom-trained model on public domain religious texts (and there's not enough of those to make a model with unique, coherent output, so not much better than the random word generator).

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next stop: Don the pink dress (only in solidarity ofc ofc)

 

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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