ChaoticNeutralCzech

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I wish I had your research skills. Where does it even say that?

The letters may have been chosen for early, limited 7-segment display drivers, such as a hex-to-7seg decoder. However, these fell out of use when transistors were no longer expensive in the 1990s and it made more sense to minimize the number of chips rather than each chip's complexity, so the main microcontroller used 14 GPIO pins or a single external LED driver to multiplex all 6 digits. Before the 1990s, it probably did not make sense to make this device digital at all, I think gyms would just use analog clocks with marked dials.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Areas with loam touch all three sides. So... Some kind of loam exists without sand, some without clay and some without silt. I am not a soil scientist but I'd guess that any substance that contains neither is a kind of loam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

First sentence of my post, for this very reason – they own the franchise, after all. The law may also change the other way but that's very unlikely to happen in the US within 50 years.

I wonder if they could develop a system of draconian DRM (only their own theatres with metal detectors, personalized online streams...) and mildly edit movies every few decades so that they can destroy the original and effectively renew copyright. The gaming industry’s always-online DRM makes nuking a release possible but copyright lasts for about 20 console generations (we’ve only had 8 so far!) so they don't even have to do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think that at least the sub-title "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added in that DVD release... Anyway, a "4K77" scan of a 1977 film reel distributed directly by the studio exists, it's just noisy and needed color correction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

find an original film print and have it scanned

The 4K77 project did just that, scan and color correction to reverse fading, and effectively no other processing so they cannot claim copyright. Arguably, Harmy's Despecialized Edition cannot either, even if the original becomes public domain, as it could be argued that their effort only served a technical purpose. I don't think you can scan, upscale and denoise Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928) and claim copyright on that even if you do it by hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting... Too bad a right-holder can do minor edits to their work and effectively extend copyright (which is already very long in my opinion) if they nuke the previous version. Lucas was surprisingly successful at that, and I think game studios or other creators could do that today too with their aggressive DRM tactics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you, great point!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Knowing the perils of wireless energy transfer, I’m glad this didn't go through. Imagine having 2000 W ready to be delivered from anywhere in the walls to a nearby hairdryer, or the metal springs in an unfortunately-placed old-fashioned armchair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ZJh (base64) in binary is 011001 001001 100001

 

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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