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nimbleal commented on How far back in time can you understand English?   deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/spzb
JasonADrury · 23 days ago
I live in London, I can drive a little over an hour from where I live and hardly understand the people working at the petrol station. A few more hours and they start to speak French.
nimbleal · 21 days ago
Hmmmm. Which direction are you driving in where you can hardly understand them? I don’t think there’s a regional accent in the whole of the UK that’s “hardly understandable” spoken by anyone under 80 years old, let alone an hour from London. Especially where the conversation isn’t “in group”
nimbleal commented on A definition of AGI   arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212... · Posted by u/pegasus
lijok · 5 months ago
A promise wont do it. You’ll have to substantiate it without resorting to argument from authority.
nimbleal · 5 months ago
I don’t think that’s an argument from authority. “Experts have been discussing X without reaching a conclusion for a long time” is a premise from which a reasonable argument can be made for the unlikelihood that an off-hand comment on HN has solved X. Argument from authority doesn't take that form though the two do have invoking authorities in common.
nimbleal commented on Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines   hh409.user.srcf.net/blog/... · Posted by u/hugohadfield
skhr0680 · 2 years ago
I know very few 35mm format lenses with NO distortion.

The two I know of with the least distortion are actually primes from the 1980s. Nikon began allowing a small amount of distortion in their new prime designs circa 2010, choosing to correct it with an in-camera profile.

It's not as bad as it sounds. Getting rid of that last bit of distortion may require relatively major tradeoffs in other areas like brightness.

nimbleal · 2 years ago
Zeiss cinema lenses (in particular master primes) have the least distortion I’ve come across
nimbleal commented on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website   naya.lol... · Posted by u/fintler
mondrian · 2 years ago
Do you still have the animation?
nimbleal · 2 years ago
It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash:

  #!/bin/bash

  legs_out=(
  "                     "
  "        .'''.        "
  "       -     -       " 
  "       |  C  ^       "
  "        \    7       "
  "          | |        "
  "        /     \\     "
  "        |  \\ \\     "
  "        |   \\ \\    " 
  "      / |    \\ \\   "
  "     /  |     \\ \\  "
  "    /   |      \\ \\ "
  "   /    |      |\\  \\     "
  "        \\    \\          "
  "               \\         "
  "       /        \\        "
  "      /          \\       "
  "     /    / \\    \\      "
  "    /    /   \\    \\     "
  "   /    /     \\    \\    "
  "  /    \       \\    \\   "
  "   \\   \\       \\    \\...  "
  "     ____]         [    ]"
  )

  legs_cross=(
  "        .'''.        "
  "       -     -       "
  "       |  C  ^       "
  "        \    7       "
  "          | |        "
  "        /     \\     "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |       "
  "      ( |  |  |       "
  "        |  |   )    "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |  |      "
  "        |  |   )      "
  "        |  |  |       "
  "        |  |  |       "
  "        |  |  |       "
  "        /  |          "
  "       /   |  |       "
  "      \\..]  /    /    " 
  )

  print_man() {
    local spaces=$1
    local man=("${!2}")
    for line in "${man[@]}"; do
      printf "%*s%s\n" $spaces "" "$line"
    done
  }

  spaces=0
  state=0

  while true; do
    clear
  
    if (( state % 4 < 2 )); then
      print_man $spaces legs_out[@]
    else
      print_man $spaces legs_cross[@]
    fi
  
    ((spaces++))
    ((state++))
  
    if (( spaces > $(tput cols) )); then
      spaces=0
    fi
   
    sleep 0.1
  done

nimbleal commented on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website   naya.lol... · Posted by u/fintler
mondrian · 2 years ago
Do you still have the animation?
nimbleal · 2 years ago
I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.
nimbleal commented on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website   naya.lol... · Posted by u/fintler
nimbleal · 2 years ago
I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how the wonder I felt at that in many ways led me to where I am today, so many years later. These things matter.
nimbleal commented on Photo appears to capture path of bullet used in assassination attempt   archive.is/2024.07.14-064... · Posted by u/geox
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK · 2 years ago
Or maybe it's just a snapshot from a video? I noticed younger people no longer capture single photos, but short videos.
nimbleal · 2 years ago
A video camera shooting at standard shutter speeds (ie if being used by a professional) would likely not show the bullet. If shooting 60fps for eg so 1/120 id guess the bullet wouldn’t show up. Quick Google suggests typical 3000km/h out the muzzle which would have a 7m motion blur trail? Not sure how fast and to what speed a bullet slows in air
nimbleal commented on They make USB-C cables with displays now   ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/... · Posted by u/transpute
ruph123 · 2 years ago
What I like for USB-C cables is not only a tester that tests how much power it can transmit but also what data rates. I wish I could get a device where I could plug in all my cables and it would rate them for me. Such a device probably exists and it probably costs thousands of dollars.
nimbleal · 2 years ago
Would plugging in your fastest external SSD and then using a hard drive read/write tester achieve some of the same ends? I've done that before with Blackmagic's disk speed test app and found it useful
nimbleal commented on Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)   thecentercolumn.com/2020/... · Posted by u/pwnna
kqr · 2 years ago
6.3 stops is a lot, though. That's basically the fully usable aperture range of a kit zoom lens.
nimbleal · 2 years ago
Yes, or considered another way 1/25th shutter vs almost 1/2000th, ie a lot of motion blur vs. virtually nothing will be able to provoke blurring

u/nimbleal

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