Mechanical CPU doing 862 RPM.

Yes, it’s like making a chain out of padlocks, rather than locking two parallel bars together with each

Adenauer SRP (against the German AfD) (audio, instrumental rendition)

PCBWay actually did a sanity check on my board before production. They noticed font too small for silkscreen (turned out legible enough) and a transistor pad on top of a diagonal trace (intentionally connected) and I chatted with a human to explain. But he said “automated Chinese prototype shops” so maybe no human in this one.

Sometimes when part of a keyframe is missing it’s filled with gray instead of repeating the previous image. That makes sense since it can get lighter or darker with delta, but IDK why out of bounds is green (and yes, the video decoding can overwrite some of the green if an object travels out of frame, for example).

I know a video capture program that used a very dark purple for the card to fill in with HW-accelerated video. In Microsoft Office 2003, Clippy uses a pure magenta and other assistants pure cyan. This fails to turn transparent because of desktop compositing in the Aero theme of Windows Vista and 7. So I think it can be any color but software I know uses those unlikely to appear in real video, but in hardware decoders the background of the video decoding buffer is green.

This happens when I try HW decoding on VLC on an old AMD card, the video has extra letterbox bars of this color (can be cropped manually by pressing C). At first I thought it’s some default in the ITU-R BT.709 (YCbCr) colorspace used in most video codecs but those RGB values map to an uneven 55, 106, 100…

Many streets are not like this, unfortunately. On some sidewalks it’s impossible to pass a person in the other direction just so that cars can drive and park all the way to Prague Castle. At one spot, the sidewalk is completely blocked by a vertical “citylight” billboard, thankfully there’s a dirt path around. And Magistrála (inner city highway) was the biggest planning failure, ruining valuable land around the main train station and dozens of streets. Also, there’s at least two road-legal, almost stock Cybertrucks for some reason. In short, Prague is one of the most car-brained cities despite the very dense tram network. This is unlikely to change in the next 4 years, since the Minister of Transport and Minister of Environment is a Motorist party member now (one person because the party couldn’t produce another that would pass a basic sanity check).

I prefer cables that can be bent

I don’t think German Stichwörter (compound words) count because it’s just switching which is the adjective and noun part of the compound.

As for single-character swaps: Czech has interní (internal; mostly in professional settings) and niterní (core, inner; mostly psychological, spiritual), both of which are synonyms to vnitřní (internal; general use) in their own ways. It’s a coincidence, the etymologies are completely different.

In some languages the base layer of the number row is taken up by weird characters so people prefer the numpad to holding Shift, and laptops without one sell poorly

I don’t see any clear giveaways but the bagel cups’ shadows look very much not parallel. It could be a wide-angle lens doing its thing though.

It’s been covered extensively. Look up “cars rule 34”.

Python needs whitespace tho

Only counting known species, about 200-2000 go extinct each year. But the number could be an order of magnitude higher, according to WWF, the authority on biodiversity preservation. Even for the known species, who checks if every microbe, moss or tropical spider has been seen in the past 50 years?

Also, good luck getting people to care about invertebrates. Even if we identify which species went extinct, people will soon be bored hearing daily to weekly about a Hydroidolina member once seen in a South American bog. They’d change the channel to Fox News where they’ll be told about three animals once falsely declared extinct and how WWF are alarmists. “DoN’t ThEy rEaLiZe aNiMaLs mOvE? DiD ThEy ChEcK eVeRy BoG?” Or if the host is a tech bro: “HoW MuCh DaTa’S ThE DnA? i’LL GiVe YoU a GiGaByTe EvErY DaY iF YoU ShUt Up.”

Yes, the timing and balance does not change whether the source is directly in front of, behind, above or below you, but people still tell these apart somehow. I think it’s the frequency response of sound from different directions reflecting off earlobes.

You are correct. Good that being blinded instantly makes your finger super sensitive to rows of dots and you speak perfect Spanish.

⠝⠕⠞⠕⠉⠁⠞ means “notocat” though. I prefer ⠽⠑⠎⠀⠞⠕⠀⠉⠁⠞ but anyway, “do not touch” would be ⠙⠕⠀⠝⠕⠞⠀⠞⠕⠥⠉⠓

QR codes can have arbitrary looks even without dirty tricks (abusing the error correction to add a logo or taking advantage of central sampling to color all but the middle 3x3 square of each data pixel) but boy, is it hard.

Examples:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31694735/18805217 (strings a long number in Number mode (3 decimal digits per 10 bits) to the URL, and somehow the resulting number turns out to be a small even number times a very high power of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkWjzqMbuA (uses padding bytes plus maybe some of that “intentional damage” in QR codes with logos)