I’m Spanish and I don’t fight bulls. I’m from Poland. Also you shouldn’t call Europeans Spanish, it’s considered offensive. And maybe stop saying Europeans eat pasta, we don’t eat pasta.

IBM standard cards are one 48th of a barleycorn thick. I believe IBM measured from the 1932 Iowa Reference Barleycorn, now kept in the vault inside Mt Rushmore.

it’s bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony’s headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.

nor decoding 264 :(

a rather annoying regression from the 4 to the 5, especially when the 5 now supports more MIPI cameras where live encoding is crucial.

at least on a 4, this command will misleadingly return “disabled” even though your programs are able to use hwdec, because the h.265 decoder isn’t part of the Pi 4’s GPU, it’s elsewhere.

This one probably was a Ukrainian (pre-war stock) S-200 SAM - it was wayyy beyond Patriot range this time.

being “science” doesn’t make make it harmless.

good meteorology supports military operations.

if it hurts russia’s accuracy in predicting weather, it helps Ukraine’s chance for surviving this war.

nobody says this particular action was a top priority, but every little resistance against the russian genocide helps.

using the browser isn’t necessary to keep your watch history up to date.

yt-dlp can log in as you by reading your cookies from your browser, and, with the optional --mark-watched flag, mark your downloaded videos as watched in your YT account.

A lot of words to to express “I’m an American who doesn’t even have a passport.”

Can’t even imagine a walkable city, and talking about it like it’s a far-off sci-fi concept, rather than a lot of peoples’ actual everyday life. Yikes.

dude, you are a rabid nationalist, and it’s affecting your perception of reality.

you’re posting the same comment again and again, which doesn’t even support your case, and totally missing the points that everyone else is talking about.

go for a long walk in fresh air, and maybe consider that your hurt feelings about what flags fly where don’t outweigh the virtually unanimous decision of the people who have actually lived on the islands for generations.

is Bogdan another cognate, then? from the same root?

“indentation is indentation!” (mr_incredible_cereal.jpg)

it may look messy, but would you actually rather Python didn’t support some inconsistency when the intent is clear?

being exact just for the sake of being pedantic isn’t useful.

“the punchline is clearly trivial, the set-up is left as an exercise for the reader”

what do you reckon about spotting-scopes with camera-mounts?

i can’t quite figure out why “camera” lenses suitable for wildlife are so much more expensive than spotting scopes.

i use my astronomical telescope with my full-frame digital camera. it is a 450mm f/5 prime lens, but it was a fraction of the price of any similar “camera” lens, even including the substantial tripod (which cost about as much as the tube). it actually can focus on things not too far away. no good for indoor use, sure, but fine in a park.

what’s the advantage?

the Sony Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, (that one with the concave front element), is my one desert-island lens, for sure. Me developing my own style went hand-in-hand with getting to know it better for a few years.

I used to love using “weird” and specialist lenses, but it’s so versatile, it killed my trying all kinds of cheap/vintage glass- since getting the Zeiss, everything else just stays in the bag.