ChaoticNeutralCzech

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[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Would only work if the numerator was ๐‘› + sin ๐‘ฅ

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 5 points 2 months ago

What's funny is that lots of people outside Prague are racist and most of them make no effort to hide it. Our nation very much prides itself in dark humor and very few topics are taboo, we even have racial and Auschwitz jokes. However, most people are oblivious to what's happening in the area so even if you made a really good point for Palestine and composed it into a joke, it's not going to resonate with any audience. Maybe university students (though a great deal of them are pro-Israel so you might get cringey faces and boos).

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It is possible none of us will live to see Czechia vote against the interest of Israel as all parties support it and there is pretty much no organized pro-Palestine movement. Israel says we're their top partners in the eastern hemisphere, which means a lot because most countries are in the eastern hemisphere, including itself. At least, aid toward them is not nearly as popular among politicians and citizens as for Ukraine (we have a sizable, well-behaved Ukrainian minority already and took the most refugees per capita at the height of the crisis).

As for why pretty much every politician is either oblivious or bootlicking Israel: see my comment under a post about the shredder escapade 4 months ago

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 months ago

With the interlace filter, make sure you get the field order right. I used not to be so familiar with ffmpeg and I ended up using some GUI program I can't remember back in the day. See if the driver has an option for no deinterlacing because that happens at driver level.

There is no difference between 1โ…“:1 and 4:3, they're just different representations of the same thing. Rounding the ratio to 1.33 produces a negligible difference but I would stick with 4:3 for a simpler pixel aspect ratio of 9:8 (1.125} as opposed to 150:133 (1.12782), assuming the capture is 720x480i60.

As for the zoom, TVs will have some overscan because different equipment caused various borders but the capture card should capture all 480 lines. You can check that the output is not vertically scaled by taking a snapshot in a high-movement scene (beware that most image formats are limited to square pixels so better force a PAR of 1:1 for this purpose) and observing if the interlacing indeed causes 1:1 combing as expected. Checking for horizontal crop can be done with another video source (camera, DVD player, STB, game console) generating a test pattern or at least a known image. However, if the vertical scale is correct and the content aspect ratio looks subjectively fine at 4:3 SAR, the crop is most likely OK.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 18 points 2 months ago

Yup. Israel is treating them like land that's free to colonize, when in reality a nation (albeit one with unstable government, and only recently UN-recognized) lives there.
Similarly, Japan can't claim it's "defending itself" if it hypothetically performs violent acts in Lebanon.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's why I didn't specify which kind. I knew some laptops had a DSL or dial-up modem inside for use with any telephone sockets on the go.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is hilarious

Some clients make it worse by not wrapping text in code blocks. Please use > at the start of each line (including blank ones between paragraphs) to make a quote block. If you need a newline (such as in poems), end the line with 2 spaces and just one line break. If you really need to put non-code inside a code block (such as ASCII art or this), the best practice is to use the following syntax:

```text
bla bla bla
```

This specifies text as the syntax-highlighting language (which obviously means no highlighting) rather than whatever the default is (Java?).

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 45 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Two RJ ports on a laptop? Some of us are lucky to get one!

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 126 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Why list a select 15 abstainers in the summary rather than the 14 voting against? Besides the obvious ones (Israel, US, Czechia), there's Hungary, Argentina, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Palau, Nauru, Malawi, Tuvalu, Tonga and Micronesia.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 months ago

Call them Li-Ion batteries to prevent confusion with lithium batteries such as CR-2032, which probably have been used in pagers.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Overloaded Li-Ion batteries don't reliably explode. I would have expected them to place the explosive inside an oversized battery pouch along with a heating element in series with the battery. A microcontroller on the board could go short-circuit upon receiving a certain message, making a large current flow through the heating element and triggering the explosive.

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech 4 points 2 months ago

So you generate pixel art at several times the squares' resolution? Is there no model that trained on native-res images?

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