Dragonfly hung out with me at the lake
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Went to the lake when spring weather started to set in. There were four of these guys hanging around me keeping the mosquitos at bay. They sat with me the entire time I was there occasionally flying over to the water to drink and coming back.
Most camera sensors can only be read one line at a time. This means that the second line isn't captured until the first line is completed. This goes for all of the remaining lines on the sensor of which there are thousands. For example a 24 megapixel camera might have around 4000 lines of pixels to capture.
The image processor captures the state of the top line and moves on to the next. By the time it's captured the 2nd line, if the subject has moved, that line is no longer aligned with what was captured in the first line. Continue this 3998 more times and you have a frame of a video where the bottom of the frame is further ahead than the top of the frame.
To slow this down to a human understandable scale, while watching a video close one eye, then open it and close the other. By the time you've opened the second eye and closed the first things have moved. Just don't do it while driving.
Las Vegas, early June in the early 2000s they used to hold "JuneFest". $10 to get in for the day, all day outdoor event with everyone from REO Speedwagon, Joan Jett and Jethro Tull to Kansas, Jefferson Starship and Bad Company and more. It was a who's who and who's still alive of the classic rock genre in 2003. But it was one hell of an event. I think it got killed due to lax id checks at the vendors and some violence and heat related injuries.
I think it's only fair that from now on every interviewer of Sen. Kennedy ask him how long he's secretly been a Marxist.
Can't boil the frog unless you turn up the heat.
Netflix already costs over $185 a year. For that price I can rent 6 5k UHD movies a month at redbox and get much higher quality viewing. I can't find 6 good things to watch any given month on Netflix. I might turn my membership back on for the final season of Cobra Kai or Stranger Things, but there's just not much else that's compelling me to spend that money.
to be powered by the megawatt hour battery that charges in 30 seconds.
ran chown -R www-data: ./ from /var instead of /var/www.
Pigs can't fly unless you add an eon of evolution. And if you keep reading you'll see that the eon has already been added making it pigeon.
Usually I just share them with a few teachers in a discord I'm on. Basically I wrote the software a while back when a teacher friend of mind mentioned wanting to make some. I always enjoyed doing the puzzles and figured why not write a program to generate them. I've shared the program with a few friends as well so others have been posted around.
I've been posting some pretty regularly in this community though.
As someone who makes these puzzles, I'm interested in the thoughts on this. I personally like creating red herrings or garden path entries and have done it on plenty in the past. It didn't even occur to me that someone might consider it a cheap trick or disingenuous until I saw this post. That's why the ones I've posted on Lemmy haven't had those intentionally.
That being said, if some users like the extra challenge I'm happy to add a few red herrings into my puzzles in the future.
damn I didn't catch those. I'll have to fix it and repost. Thanks for catching those.
Fixed and updated - note that the fixes completely regenerate the puzzle so the old solutions no longer work.
Don't take it too personally, there's no particular metric to these. I just pulled from a list of cities and by the time I got to the "S"s I was getting close to 100 and didn't want to push it much further
100 Famous Cities
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Hope you all enjoy. I love creating these. I have a solutions file if anyone needs it, but I'll refrain from posting it right away - unless the community would rather have it available.
Enjoy, and happy new year!
FYI, it's kind of a baby picture. I'll take some current pictures and post them soon.
I use Debian for both servers and linux desktops.
This bird was photographed in Las Vegas, NV in June of 2019.
Well now I have to post my photo of an adult mourning dove.
I'm curious how my attempt at pooping in one while simultaneously peeing in the other would work out.
This is exactly why I didn't use the new reddit. What is the point of downloading every video at every resolution just because you scrolled past it?
Thank you. There's a few things I'd do different if I had the chance to retake it, but I still consider it one of the best shots I've ever taken.
A shot of stars over Mount Hood Oregon
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One of my favorite photos.. I took this photo with a Pentax K-70 and the kit 18-135mm lens at 18mm f3.5 and a 30 second exposure.