[X] My Assistant

are you going to put a retro sun rise / sunset in the background?

are you going to put a retro sun rise / sunset in the background?

Nope, that'd look like a halo.
I did think about doing it, though.

And the grid is the background from battles in this game. I just animated it (it's static in-game).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 2 2021, 16:59

Swapping the modern/cheap dual band 50W radio in my car for an old 110W VHF Motorola radio. I need a remote head setup, so might as well get the higher power one.
Had to buy a second control head from another vendor to get the buttons I want- it had the exact set I was after, which ends up being cheaper than buying individual buttons from random sellers. The plastic buttons are pretty modular, just take out a few screws and you can swap/mix/match.

how do people even get avatars to update these days I swear it keeps coming up with the same no matter what I upload.

thought/complaint of the day: the guy finally selling me trays/caddies for cheap messaged me back he cant find them anymore, just cant win. might have to live with 5 bux a caddy

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 2 2021, 18:59

Let me know what you find; I also use Pytorch.

It fucking does! Goddammit FF.

Of course I have a GeForce 9500 GT for which nvidia has not updated driver code in at least half a decade on this machine. But Chrome - and now FF - accessing the same memory from multiple threads in parallel and just hoping that the driver will stop the calls and sort things out eventually is plain stupid. Now if i need to run training in the background i need to disable FF hardware acceleration.

Now even my machine with an intel inbuilt GPU (and run by the old and buggy i915 driver) is doing better on the browser front. I guess my intel (GPU) machine now turned into my web tester and the nvidia turned into a headless NN trainer - gotta keep the good side of things.

how do people even get avatars to update these days I swear it keeps coming up with the same no matter what I upload.

You wait 24 hours after uploading, and also shuffle between a .GIF and a .PNG each time you upload if you don't need it to stay animated. Also get on a VPN server and tell it you're from some distant country and then refresh your profile picture. Also refresh it multiple times. I think your old pic gets cached.

thought/complaint of the day: the guy finally selling me trays/caddies for cheap messaged me back he cant find them anymore, just cant win. might have to live with 5 bux a caddy

Argh. How tf do people misplace things they have listed for sale?
Unless he's selling like 800 items that is.

It fucking does! Goddammit FF.
Of course I have a GeForce 9500 GT for which nvidia has not updated driver code in at least half a decade on this machine. But Chrome - and now FF - accessing the same memory from multiple threads in parallel and just hoping that the driver will stop the calls and sort things out eventually is plain stupid. Now if i need to run training in the background i need to disable FF hardware acceleration.
Now even my machine with an intel inbuilt GPU (and run by the old and buggy i915 driver) is doing better on the browser front. I guess my intel (GPU) machine now turned into my web tester and the nvidia turned into a headless NN trainer - gotta keep the good side of things.

Dammit. I have a 750 Ti, which if it had more RAM (it's the 2GB model) would make a good trainer. It sucks that I need CUDA.
I already did most of my browsing on my i915 thinkpad from 2010, though (including this post).

Speaking of "goddammit FF," I spoke too soon; FF 89 is still doing color correction wrong. Seamonkey (based on 60 or so) is doing fine, so Mozilla broke it at some point recently.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 3 2021, 03:15

I think your old pic gets cached.

This is the likely reason. In my case, I cleared the browser cache and the profile picture would immediately update to the new one.

Another "trick" is changing the image's extension. If the previous profile picture is PNG, it would immediately update - usually - if the new one is in a different format, e.g JPEG.

This post has been edited by elda88: Sep 3 2021, 03:49

This is the likely reason. In my case, I cleared the browser cache and the profile picture would immediately update to the new one.

Partially, yeah, but I actually meant on server-side. It appears that requests go to different servers based on your geographic location.

Another "trick" is changing the image's extension. If the previous profile picture is PNG, it would immediately update - usually - if the new one is in a different format, e.g JPEG.

Yeah, that's what I meant to say when I talked about shuffling file types.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 3 2021, 04:52

I think flat-screens are made to last very little, one of mine has already broken down, meanwhile my CRT television continues to collect dust as if nothing else

I think flat-screens are made to last very little, one of mine has already broken down, meanwhile my CRT television continues to collect dust as if nothing else

I feel this specifically with crt scopes

I feel this specifically with crt scopes

I've shown my picture before but my oldest CRT is a scope from the early 70's. Still great.
[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/kZ7lprxg.jpg)

I think flat-screens are made to last very little, one of mine has already broken down, meanwhile my CRT television continues to collect dust as if nothing else

I hate almost all internet connected devices that aren't computers or phones.
Smart TV's are one of the worst offenders, and one of the reasons I like early plasmas despite their faults.
Motion interpolation is a cardinal sin, and I just want to tell whoever thought it was a good idea to turn on by default to get bent.

That being said, analogue black and white television signals are actually really easy to understand, but you just need to see it on an oscilloscope before you'll really get it. Much easier to explain to someone in person, but here goes.
This is a graph of what signal is sent every time a tube TV draws a single horizontal line of a picture the screen. The bright green line is what happens to that waveform when the frame is completely drawn.
(IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/dWMqhTT.png)

Even colour TV isn't that bad, although for colour you need to understand how phase shifts can be mapped to angles on a unit circle.(IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/ZW86eLL.jpg)

Basically, from white, you subtract the X component and Y component of the graph to get the green signal. Blue is just the intensity minus the X component, and red is intensity minus the Y component.

Color is represented by mapping hues over an X/Y plane, and using phase shifts from a reference signal frequency along with voltage for the distance from the circle's center to map an exact colour.


In this pic, voltage is the radius of a given circle with in the circle, and phase shift from the reference frequency ("color burst") is what determines the angle. Together they can be used to pinpoint any given color on the graph.

I used to have a proper NTSC TV vectorscope/test pattern generator that could illustrate this. It was really cool.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 3 2021, 21:55

That being said, analogue black and white television signals are actually really easy to understand, but you just need to see it on an oscilloscope before you'll really get it. Much easier to explain to someone in person, but here goes.

that reminds me I really need to get around to hooking up my scope to one to find out what all these tv specific coupling options amount to.

that reminds me I really need to get around to hooking up my scope to one to find out what all these tv specific coupling options amount to.

VSync and HSync are at different voltages; VSync is a far lower voltage than HSync is. I think this determines where you want the "neutral" point to be relative to (pretty much DC offset control).

I'd need to see it in action to know for sure, but you can just hook a composite video source to it and find out.

I don't think it's a phase locked triggering loop just because it's talking about coupling though. Otherwise I'd expect it makes it synchronize to frame draws (which each contain a couple hundred lines) versus line draws.

Also in true US System M, the "black" level isn't at 0 IRE; it's at 7.5 IRE. Japan has it at 0, though. Might be irrelevant here. My drawing shows something closer to the Japanese version of System M, which basically is identical except for the black level.

Game Genies on the NES could sometimes cause problems on American sets because they used a color that is "blacker-than-black" on US TV's and some would interpret the black as a synchronization pulse.

Also I just had another lesson on computer colours. [legacy.imagemagick.org] https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize...size_colorspace

I've been resampling images wrong my entire life. GIMP 2.10 does it right now by default, though.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 3 2021, 23:13

Tried to tamper with Firefox options to prevent autoplay of videos on imgur, but without success.
They must have a "Nah, it's not autoplay, the user really asked the videos to play, ALL HUNDREDS OF THEM ALL AT THE SAME FREAKING TIME!!!!" system. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

media.autoplay.enabled=false

Also add the cookies:
postpagebeta=0
postpagebetalogged=0
frontpagebetav2=0

This is the only way to make imgur at all usable on my powerbook g4.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 5 2021, 06:06

I just realized the Famicom will be 40 years old in two years.

It still feels ~20 years old to me. I mean, mine's still pearly white.

[i.imgur.com] (IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/G5CthErg.jpg)

1983 was 18 years ago and I refuse to believe otherwise.

Also, I feel like tech companies today are only slightly less invasive than this


Also also hollywood had RGB first

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 5 2021, 06:27

Also, I feel like tech companies today are only slightly less invasive than this


Also also hollywood had RGB first

Its pretty much modern tech companies in a nutshell. Except they gather all your data as well.

Are 2d-market works sold encrypted/locked, or do they give you an un-encumbered PDF/an image set?

Are 2d-market works sold encrypted/locked, or do they give you an un-encumbered PDF/an image set?

Yes

Well I don't really know much about it, but it probably works with encryption, since it's data

I have already investigated similar pages, and they all have encryption and paywalls, it is not worth having things like e-hentai itself or others like nhentai and kemono that filter a lot of content, only if you are looking for something specific and knowing that you can receive a lawsuit (like me)

Are 2d-market works sold encrypted/locked, or do they give you an un-encumbered PDF/an image set?

Yes

That wasn't really phrased in such a way that I think yes/no on its own makes sense as an answer. Assuming you mean that they are encrypted/obfuscated though.

Thought:
I have an NEC V20 CPU in my IC collection. Might be fun to figure out how to use its 8080 compatibility mode and maybe get something running CP/M. Not sure if I have the determination to create all the support circuitry for it and an S-100 bus though.