I don’t. I use the timer on my microwave.
I write code and play games and stuff. My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'
My avatar is a quick doodle made in KolourPaint. I might replace it later. Maybe.
日本語が少し分かるけど、下手です。
Alt: e0qdk@reddthat.com
I don’t. I use the timer on my microwave.
I boil water in a sauce pot on the stove. Slosh it into my mug. Plunk in a tea bag and set the timer on my microwave for 3:30 so that I don’t forget and over-steep it. No milk. No sugar.
artificial gestation
The word “matrix” literally means “womb” in its older sense.
I was just thinking about the image resizing thing again when I saw your message notice pop up. Another option for preview is a web browser. A minimal HTML page with some JS to refresh the image would avoid the image resize on reload problem, and gives you some other interesting capabilities. Python ships with a kind of meh (slow and quirky), but probably sufficient HTTP server (python3 -m http.server
) if you’d prefer to load the preview on a different computer on your LAN entirely (e.g. cellphone / tablet / … ) for example.
A simple HTML file for this would be something like:
Regarding input from a gamepad – I’ve had some similar ideas before but haven’t really had much success using a gamepad artistically outside some limited things where I either wrote the entire program or was able to feed data into programs that accepted input over the network (e.g. via HTTP and which I wrote a custom adapter for). It’s been a long time since I’ve tried anything in that space though, and it might be possible to do something interesting by trying to make the system see the combination of a gamepad stick as relative mouse motion and trigger as pen pressure. I’m not quite sure how to go about doing that, but I’ll let you know if I find a way to do it.
The Wikipedia article for hqx points out that an implementation exists as a filter in ffmepg.
You can run a command line conversion of e.g. a PNG -> PNG using hqx upscaling like: ffmpeg -i input.png -filter_complex hqx=4 output.png
The =4
is for 4x upscaling. The implementation in my version of ffmpeg supports 2x, 3x, and 4x upscaling.
As a quick and dirty way to get semi-live preview, you can do the conversion with make
and use watch make
to try to rebuild the conversion periodically. (You can use the -n
flag to increase the retry rate if the default is too long to wait.) make
will exit quickly if the file hasn’t changed. Save the image in your editor and keep an image viewer that supports auto-reload on change open to see “live” preview of the output. (e.g. eog
can do it, although it won’t preserve size of the image – at least not in the copy I have, anyway; mine’s a bit old though.)
Sample Makefile:
output.png : input.png Makefile
ffmpeg -y -i input.png -filter_complex hqx=4 output.png
Note the -y
option to tell ffmpeg to overwrite the file; otherwise it will stop to ask you if you want to overwrite the file every time you save, and in case you’re not familiar with Makefiles, you need a real tab (not spaces) on the line with the command to run.
ffmpeg also appears to support xbr (with =n option as well) and super2xsai if you want to experiment with those too.
I’m not sure if this will actually do what you want artistically, but the existing implementations in ffmpeg makes it easy to experiment with.
What I’d do is set up a simple website that uses a little JavaScript to rewrite the date and time into the page and periodically refresh an image under/next to it. Size the image to fit the remaining free space of however you set up the iPad, and then you can stick anything you want there (pictures/reminder text/whatever) with your favorite image editor. Upload a new image to the server when you want to change the note. The idea with an image is that it’s just really easy to do and keeps the amount of effort to redo layout to a minimum – just drag stuff around in your image editor and you’ll know it’ll all fit as expected as long as you don’t change the resolution (instead of needing to muck around with CSS and maybe breaking something if you can’t see the device to check that it displays correctly).
There’s a couple issues to watch out for – e.g. what happens if the internet connection/server goes down, screen burn-in, keeping the browser from being closed/switched to another page, keeping it powered, etc. that might or might not matter depending on your particular circumstances. If you need to fix all that for your circumstances, it might be more trouble than just buying something purpose built… but getting a first pass DIY version working is trivial if you’re comfortable hosting a website.
Edit: If some sample code that you can use as a starting point would be helpful, let me know.
My guess is that if browsers as we know them weren’t invented, HyperCard would’ve become the first browser eventually. No idea where things would progress from there or if it’d have been better or worse than the current clusterfuck. Maybe we’d all be talking about our “web stacks” instead of websites, and have various punny tools like “pile” and “chimney” and “staplr”. Perhaps PowerPoint would’ve turned into a browser to compete with it.
If browsers were invented but JavaScript specifically was not, we’d probably all be programming sites in some VB variant like VBScript (although it might be called something different).
You can’t really, as others have pointed out, but I like Philip K Dick’s definition of reality: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Didn’t the GDPR have a data portability rule requiring that sites provide users the ability to easily export their own data? Does that not apply to Lemmy for some reason – or, am I misremembering it? (I remember account data download being a big deal a while back on reddit, but it’s been a few years…)
Any ways to get around the download failing
I did this incredibly stupid procedure with Firefox yesterday as a workaround for a failing Google Takeout download:
[1] You can actually replace the new .part file with anything that has the same size in bytes as the old file – I replaced it with a file full of zeros and manually merged the end onto the original .part file with a tiny custom python script since I had already moved the incomplete file to other media before realizing I could try this. (In my case, the incomplete file would still have been useful even with the last ~1MB cut off.)
There are probably better options in most cases – like Thunderbird for mailbox as other people suggested, or rclone for getting stuff from Drive – but if you need to get Takeout to work and the download keeps failing this may be another option to try.
In pop culture and modern fiction it’s used to mean an artificial human – e.g. see the examples in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus#In_popular_culture like Fullmetal Alchemist for an idea of what OP was going for. (In this case, more Frankenstein’s monster though.)
There is also the “little man who makes things work” idea like a golem – which is related, but not the sense used here.
“Homunculus” is an artificially created person.
I wish communities could be grouped in some way.
You can do that on kbin now. We just got “Collections” that allow you to gather posts from multiple communities/magazines sort of like a multi-reddit. You can either publicly list them for others to explore or just keep them to yourself if you want. We’ve also had cross-post grouping for a while which helps reduce the annoyance of “posts four times in a row (or more)” a little bit by collapsing the threads into one block with multiple links and vote counters. It’s really useful though if you want to come back to the discussion later and find the other thread(s) – e.g. check out last week’s regular anime discussion threads which got 17 comments on ani.social and 5 comments on lemmy.ml. Jumping back and forth is easy. Hopefully lemmy gets something like that too eventually!
The attached picture says 133 qubits, so whatever that chip is (edit: Heron) it’s not this thing.
IBM’s post (that the article links) says:
Breaking the 1,000-qubit barrier with Condor
We have introduced IBM Condor, a 1,121 superconducting qubit quantum processor based on our cross-resonance gate technology. Condor pushes the limits of scale and yield in chip design with a 50% increase in qubit density, advances in qubit fabrication and laminate size, and includes over a mile of high-density cryogenic flex IO wiring within a single dilution refigerator.
So, it sounds like this is actually another fridge sized system.
It looks like this is the pre-print of the paper (“The Impact of Imperfect Timekeeping on Quantum Control”) in the journal the article links: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10767
Possibly also relevant from some of the same researchers: Fundamental accuracy-resolution trade-off for timekeeping devices
Interesting. The code format doesn’t work on Kbin.
Indent the lines of the code block with four spaces on each line. The backtick version is for short inline snippets. It’s a Markdown thing that’s not well communicated yet in the editor.
I didn’t. I wrote & because it looks like the text actually says & as far as I can tell – not と.
This story may be amusing, but it’s actually a serious issue if Apple is doing this and people are not aware of it because cellphone imagery is used in things like court cases. Relative positions of people in a scene really fucking matter in those kinds of situations. Someone’s photo of a crime could be dismissed or discredited using this exact news story as an example – or worse, someone could be wrongly convicted because the composite produced a misleading representation of the scene.
Unless I’m missing something it looks like it doesn’t use Denuvo? (Steam lists a custom EULA but I don’t see Denuvo listed.)