Ok @k334nerDass@lemmy.world

https://floor796.com/#t2l2,317,730

https://xkcd.com/84/

C:\WINDOWS\system32>echo $0
$0

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

In Powershell, it exits with no output

Is this a transgender reference?

I know someone with a BCS watch (I prefer to call it 2c60) but they have a PhD in mathematics

“Meow” basically means “I Want” but most cats’ vocabulary does not extend far enough to finish the sentence.

So yeah, this is a “cats can’t talk” joke… Duh.

Are the images AI upscaled or purely AI-generated?

That’s like a subcontractor asking to be chosen because they have AI

Czech: Neapol, Řím, Benátky.

Not all places have cold water during summer (did the greedy water company already run a heat exchange there?)

This would work but don’t use a conventional central heating radiator system: moisture would condense on the radiators and pipes, potentially causing wet floors and walls, and eventually mold. A radiator that deals with moisture well is an indoor AC unit, plus it has a fan, thermostat and remote control, and presumably they’re cheap to get when the more complicated outdoor unit fails. Just pump water through the coolant pipes! The water mains pressure is probably enough. (Don’t get an overly smart one or it will complain about lack of communication with the outdoor unit. Or hack it if you’re good at that.)

Alternatively, an air-to-water heat exchanger (heat pump whose condenser is submerged and evaporator is a conventional indoor AC unit) is way more practical. With cold water, it will use very little electricity and has all the convenience of AC. The output water can be used as preheated feed into your boiler.

Oh, my misunderstanding was because didn’t know active-matrix (TFT) OLED displays existed, where thin-film transistors (TFTs) keep the pixels on between updates. I know those little 128x64 SPI OLEDs that are passive and driven line-by-line, I don’t have a big OLED screen.

I edited it, I thought all OLEDs worked like this little one where the pixels turn off between refreshes (in fact, in this passive matrix, only 1 line is on at a time, even the high-speed camera has an overly long shutter). Turns out there are TFTs that keep them on. Thanks for teaching me this.

Well, on some they aren’t.

But yes, TIL that some OLEDs do in fact work continuously thanks to TFTs

hz of a monitor is not like a car blinker or CRT televisions where it’s off in between the updates. It is on in between the updates

Yes, it is on OLED, unless they’ve added active storage like TFT LCDs. In which case, that’s cool technology they’ve invented.

I know what hertz is, I’m en electrotechnician. The display’s refresh rate is measured in hertz, and has to be at least 40 Hz or you suffer from headaches and some from photosensitive epilepsy. (edit: only applies if the screen goes black between refreshes, which I just learned OLED, unlike CRTs, doesn’t.) Ideally 100 Hz or more. But the image (frames per second) does not have to change that often. For example, movies are 24 fps but 35mm film projectors are 72 Hz: they flash each frame 3x before advancing (using a three-blade shutter) because 24 Hz is seizure-inducing but using a unique picture for each refresh (72 fps) is expensive. Similarly, your OLED TV is 144 Hz when gaming at 144 fps (if you can afford that), when watching a 60fps gaming video or 24fps movie: the screen controller works the same all the time but the picture it’s fed changes more or less frequently.

If an OLED screen refreshed at 1 Hz, you’d see a line going down the display edit: I learned about TFT OLEDs which don’t do that. So it never goes below 60 Hz. However, the phone can reduce animation fps when the CPU can’t keep up or to save battery. 1 fps is extremely choppy though, I don’t know where OP got that. I did once use a phone capped to that framerate (via adbcontrol pre-Lollipop where the screenshot is transmitted over USB) and it was awfully non-responsive.

CASIO gives priority to implicit multiplication (without the × symbol) so it says 1, but TI doesn’t so it says 16. So if you get used to saving keypresses and shoddy notation, you might get surprised when the TI says that 1÷2π is 1.5708 and not 0.1592. Should have used a fraction (if supported) or brackets!

That’s slower than a car blinker. An impractical refresh rate for OLED; did you mean 1 fps?

Edit: turns out OLEDs, like LCDs, use TFT technology to stay on between refreshes so it’s fine.

And yes, smartphones have refrained from redrawing unchanged display areas for years. You can enable “Show surface updates” in Android developer settings (flashing lights warning) to get an idea. Usually, the display gets divided into vertical areas: status bar, main app, keyboard, navbar, and each only updates if there is a change.

You’re from the US, aren’t you?

(Yes, I noticed the “$” sign that makes the list quite narrow but there are many countries where people don’t usually start deep in the red.)

Around 2010 but cheap. I still use it though, the browser built for 2G has very low data usage that goes well with my free 1 MB/day plan (mobile data is expensive in my country). The most annoyingly limiting factor right now is SMS memory (around 50 and just 1 draft that gets lost if it gets full), so I got in the habit of deleting every 2FA code etc. as soon as I use it.

By the way, Nokia 3410 (2001) had like 1 MB of user flash, but still only about 30 events and 100 messages because the “partitions” were fixed, and 20 Java apps (up to 50 kB each) was somehow more important than 10 000 events and 5000 messages. Most users would welcome the latter of course (plus a search feature, it gets tedious with the buttons if you have 100 and only see the sender and ✉️/📂/📨 icon in the list).