slippyferret
@slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits. 1 day ago:
It’s super important in Japan where jam packed trains are common during rush hours. They typically announce in Japanese and English, and may even have a visual displayed.
- Comment on If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database. 4 days ago:
Great. Now I’m unsure of how to pronounce database as well.
- Comment on (゜O゜; 1 week ago:
Somethin’ like a fish.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Maybe this only works on certain fish, but if you stop the first long cut just short of the tail you can flip the fillet over and it stays connected to the body, making it easier to hold while you cut the fillet away from the skin.
- Comment on New Game Concept: JuryNow – Get a Verdict from 12 Real People in 3 Minutes 2 weeks ago:
I was really intrigued by the idea of short “jury duty” sessions with 12 random strangers in which you have to debate and try to come to a consensus on an issue. Disappointed to see it’s just a one-click opinion poll instead.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 3 weeks ago:
“TREE(3)” likes got me.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This was the first digital camera I ever owned! I used it the last couple years of high school and during a short homestay in Japan. You could pick up a giant box of 3 1/4 floppies for cheap, and as long as you fed it a stead supply of batteries it worked pretty well.
Here are some photos I took that are at, I believe, the highest quality setting (1024 x 768 and about 170kb each).
Zoomed in.
And a closeup.
The 14x optical zoom was pretty amazing back then.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 5 weeks ago:
I’m really bad at arithmetic so it took me two years to do the calculations, but the math does check out.
- Comment on YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems 1 month ago:
Can they add a little speaker and have it play some smooth jazz when unzipping?
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
Am I a psychopath for preferring to use a pen, even if it means ai have to cross things out every now and then?
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 3 months ago:
If this was filmed in the late sixties using an older orthicon camera it might be an artifact of the way that the image is produced.
I’m just going from memory, but I believe the tubes used a brightness-amplifying screen kept charged with electrons that, when struck by light, would result in a brighter image that could be scanned by a beam. The downside of this technique is that a very bright area would suck up electrons from around it resulting in a dark halo.
I think I remember some of the oldest classic Doctor Who episodes has this visual artifact, as well as some old Beatles TV recordings.
