dave @ dave @feddit.uk

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You’re welcome?

I appreciate your use of the, often abused, parenthetical comma.

It’s in the article:

This swapping is powered by an OpenType feature called “contextual alternates,” which is widely supported by both operating systems and browser engines.

It’s very interesting but the article is a rehash of some 2-year-old work by others, and doesn’t really update anything, apart from saying that “apparently, Apple addressed this problem.” with no further clarification. Pretty low effort tbh.

Light vs dark adapted. In bright light, the best wavelength is longer.

From that source:

At threshold sensitivity, the human eye can detect the presence of about 100-150 photons of blue-green light (500 nanometers) entering the pupil.

So I guess either blue or green leds are good for this application, and green much cheaper…

What’s the difference between a duck?

One of its legs are both the same.

Only one of them is mutually exclusive. Reminds me of the joke about the duck…

It’s a great analysis, and I don’t disagree with anything you said (mostly because you’re better informed than I am). But you nailed it with “Why would I need this? I don’t know yet.” It should all be driven by need—the fact their are more options is great, but doesn’t mean they should be used just because they’re there… For many hobbyists, ease of access and speed to get started is the main driver, and for those cases, pre-built boards are the answer.

I remember talking to a car manufacturer in the early 2000s who said it would be relatively easy to make cars to a custom length / load space. But they tend to make specific models because if you give people too much choice, they get paralysed and don’t choose anything.

I suspect it’s not quite that simple but the principle seems sound.

“Almost at the deadline” and starting to collect data. Sounds familiar.

What’s your research question? Your list of questions seem quite unfocused and broad.

How much is nixty?

PSP is travelling at 394,736mph. Voyager 1 is about 15 billion miles away and travelling at about 35,000mph.

Time taken to catch up t is roughly 394736t = 15000000000 +35000t or about 4.75 years.

Free minor updates. And if you buy it a month before a major version update, you get nothing. Ask me how I know :/.

big of

It’s a big of a problem.

But why on earth would you elect to name this contraption of yours the giant death—oh I see.

Just going for cigarettes…

I’m going to get back to watching that later.

It’s a tale as old as time.

https://visual.ly/node/image/21773

4-hour shoot, but how many hours editing?

If money isn’t your main concern, explain to them what you’re worried about, and see if they’ll agree to pay on delivery rather than you guarantee a result. That way you both share the risk a little.