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  • The town name and state is also very easy to figure out, and you can easily verify it by checking where Musk will be holding a town hall today. For each of the most violently crossed-out words, D███ and C███████, there is just one first name matching whatever is visible. Yes, I copied and pasted letters from elsewhere and the width is correct.

  • The number vs. arrow direction on this sticker...
  • https://www.xkcd.com/1889/

    If 2K referred to the number of pixels, it would look like this: Bliss 50×40=2000 This post 62×33=2046

    FullHD is actually a little over 2M pixels.

    takes the aspect ratio from 3:4 to 16:9. so pixel density is barely better

    What? Screen aspect ratio and pixel density are quite different things. Most FullHD TVs are widescreen and have pixel density below 36 ppi, and while high-DPI 4:3 screens are rare, they are not impossible in any way.

  • The number vs. arrow direction on this sticker...
  • The terms "2K" and "4K" were totally commonplace since about 2010, although not as prevalent as 1080p. I hate how the video industry switched to marketing horizontal resolution (and rounding it up) just to make the number look big.

  • The number vs. arrow direction on this sticker...
  • I know the difference but there are lots of people who aren't really savvy with video technology. I wouldn't blame them for thinking that [🢐 1080 🢒] is just barely better than 1024x768.

    2k and 4k does not refer to horizontal resolution but the number of pixels

    Nope. 1920×1080 is 2 073 600 pixels, which would be 2M. "2K" is the horizontal resolution (1920) rounded up. A screen with literally 2K pixels would be around 50×40, lower than the crappiest handheld consoles.

  • The number vs. arrow direction on this sticker...

    There is enough confusion between horizontal resolutions (2K, 4K etc.) and vertical ones (1080p, 2160p etc.). This is not helping; why even print a promotional sticker with a number of pixels smaller than what it should be?

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  • I have compiled all the "iota" Unicode search results so you can stop this thread.

    U+0196 Ɩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+0269 ɩ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+027F ɿ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
    U+0345 ͅ COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
    U+037A ͺ GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
    U+038A Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
    U+0390 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
    U+0399 Ι GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+03AA Ϊ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
    U+03AF ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
    U+03B9 ι GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+03CA ϊ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
    U+1D7C ᵼ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH STROKE
    U+1DA5 ᶥ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL IOTA
    U+1F30 ἰ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
    U+1F31 ἱ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
    U+1F32 ἲ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
    U+1F33 ἳ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
    U+1F34 ἴ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
    U+1F35 ἵ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
    U+1F36 ἶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F37 ἷ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F38 Ἰ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
    U+1F39 Ἱ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
    U+1F3A Ἲ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
    U+1F3B Ἳ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
    U+1F3C Ἴ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
    U+1F3D Ἵ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
    U+1F3E Ἶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F3F Ἷ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F76 ὶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
    U+1F77 ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
    U+1FD0 ῐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
    U+1FD1 ῑ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
    U+1FD2 ῒ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND VARIA
    U+1FD3 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND OXIA
    U+1FD6 ῖ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI
    U+1FD7 ῗ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1FD8 Ῐ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
    U+1FD9 Ῑ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
    U+1FDA Ὶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
    U+1FDB Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
    U+2129 ℩ TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+2373 ⍳ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA
    U+2378 ⍸ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA UNDERBAR
    U+2C27 Ⱗ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+2C29 Ⱙ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
    U+2C57 ⱗ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+2C59 ⱙ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
    U+A646 Ꙇ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+A647 ꙇ CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+1D6B0 𝚰 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D6CA 𝛊 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL IOTA
    U+1D6EA 𝛪 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D704 𝜄 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1D724 𝜤 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D73E 𝜾 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1D75E 𝝞 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D778 𝝸 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL IOTA
    U+1D798 𝞘 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D7B2 𝞲 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1E027 𞀧 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+1E029 𞀩 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS

  • When a real user uses the app
  • Yes, get yourself eclipse glasses, a pinhole projector, a floppy disk, digital camera or whatever allows you to observe the eclipse safely – no phenomenon is worth risking your eyesight over. However, the consensus is that you can watch the sun flares without protection during totality. The totality lasted 0 to 4 minutes depending on your location.

  • On HIIT timers, why does "F" stand for "work" and "C" for "rest"?
  • I asked ChatGPT and it said it stood for Custom (set your own timing program) and Free (workout as you wish and press a button to record the times for later use). Not a bad idea but I had told it F is for the active period and C is for the resting period, so it is obviously wrong. Another wording gave me Focus / EFfort and Cool-down / Catch your breath.

    I tried the Ecosia AI chat too, pasting the post title and it replied with Focus and Catch your breath.

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    Are custom video IDs possible? Look at the URL!

    We've always thought that YouTube assigns a 11-character base64 video ID randomly to each upload. However, the video The ATM Glitch That Made a Millionaire by Joeseppi has the ID m4Fi_a9QATM that ends with ATM, which is a 1 in 262 144 chance . The first 6 characters are also kinda sus.

    Do you think joeseppi write a script to repeatedly start uploading the video, check the URL and abort if it didn't contain the three letters? Or found a glitch similar to the one used by bad apple but it's a QR code that links to this video? Or is it pure luck?

    I could not find an official statement on that, and was unable to contact him.

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    When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain?

    Assuming copyright laws don't change by then, otherwise there is no way to know.

    A plausible answer is 1977 (when the film was released as Star Wars) + 95 years (for pre-1978 works) = after 2072. However, the film had been edited by George Lucas for the 1997 "Special Edition" release. Does this mean that I cannot publicly play the Special Edition VHS tape I have at home in 2073 and have to wait until 2093, or perhaps 70 years after GL's death?

    George Lucas has been infamously attempting to erase copies of the original movie. Therefore, no HD home video release for the 1977 film exists, however, a fan effort known as the "Despecialized Edition" compiled different versions of the movie from various sources, patching the Special Edition 4K Blu-ray rip to try to replicate the original 1977 experience. Does this legally questionable version enter public domain in 2072, or does this only apply to official (SD) releases?

    Anyway, the Despecialized Edition project as well as George Lucas's treatment of the originals is an interesting rabbit hole to delve into for any movie nerd.

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    TI Beats CASIO in Graphing Calculator Market (2004)

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/2907077

    I'm pretty sure you know what follows...

    Image transcript

    A recreation of the Piper Perri Surrounded meme. A white CASIO CFX-9850GB PLUS calculator is laid on its side on a cushion while three TI-83 Plus and two TI-84 Plus calculators, all black, are standing behind the cushion. The faces of corresponding actors are shown in 4-tone pixelated pictures on each calculator's respective screens, grayscale on the TIs and sepia-toned on the CASIO thanks to its (limited) color graphics. Words of the text "Original meme by Chaotic Neutral Czech" are used in place of the SHIFT functions on a row of keys on the Casio as a mild watermark.

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    Linguistics @lemmy.ml ChaoticNeutralCzech @lemmy.ml
    [Question] „She knows her semantics“: Excessive use of posessive pronouns in English

    Phrases like know one's \[general subject of interest\] are very annoying to me because they seem rather self-centered. I am obviously fine with knows his way around or Know Your Customer because the use of possesive pronouns is appropriate. On the other hand, now I know my ABCs is atrocious because the modern Latin alphabet obviously does not and never did belong to a single person, and has been used by billions of people in the last few centuries.

    Do you know other English phrases with unnecessary posessive or personal pronouns? Do they exist in other languages? Is there a name for this linguistic phenomenon? Where do I complain? /s

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    Please help us link to Lemmy!

    r/ich_iel has partially moved to c/ich_iel. Please update the link before the German Reddit wakes up! (it's 5:50 AM in Germany)

    Edit: Thanks but use this template, keep it 5 pixels tall!

    How to use templates

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    Lemmy banner on r/place

    Edit: We've lost to South Africa. Please help with overwriting this r/ to c/ instead!

    Top left corner of the green rectangle: (85, 228) Template: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/placeLemmyTemplate.json

    The previous one by The Black Company was too wide to defend against Italy. Let's make this one! I know LEMMY.ML is not the full Lemmyverse but we don't have space for JOIN-LEMMY.ORG now.

    To use its template, install the r/place userscript (guide) and go to https://new.reddit.com/r/place/?jsontemplate=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FChaoticNeutralCzech%2FmyRandomImages%2Fmain%2FplaceLemmyTemplate.json&screenmode=fullscreen or if you already have it, import one of these (either the URLencoded one in URL, or the raw one in plugin settings)

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