For those that don’t know, well, I like to learn things. I like knowledge, and I spend almost all of my free time learning more, absorbing facts, and gaining new insights. The pursuit of knowledge is a noble one indeed, and one that, in my opinion, benefits everyone.
Continue readingIt’s safe to say that I’ve seen my fair share of T440 ThinkPads in my time, and there’s one common element on all of them that just downright bugs me.
If you ever take the back off one (and not snap it off somehow), and decide to unscrew the heatsink, you’ll see two dies: a larger one on the right (CPU) and a smaller one on the left (GPU). Those little shiny blocks are the heart of that machine… and they’re so tiny too!
Now if you look closer, you’ll see that the GPU die is bare. Oops.
Continue readingOne of the many things that make Python such a popular and powerful language is that you can easily divide your code into multiple concurrent threads rather easily, take this for example:
from threading import Thread
def thread_func(n):
print(f"I'm thread number {n}!")
for t in range(4):
t = Thread(target=thread_func, args=[t])
t.start()
4 threads! Easy, right?
Well, not exactly.
Continue readingSo I know I’ve already covered the basics of raw photos, but there’s a few things worth elaborating on that I think deserve a separate post, so here we are.
There’s three things that can be easily solved with raw photos, two of which are obnoxious and annoying and the other is.. less so. These are dead pixels, noise, and lens vignetting, solved by dark frames, and flat fields.
Continue readingMany good-quality DSLR cameras I’ve seen will have the ability to save your photos in a few different formats, JPEG, TIFF, or some form of raw format.
If you’ve every tried to use one, you’ll quickly realize they’re not like normal photos and don’t quite work the same. So what exactly is this, and what is it used for?
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…and what happens if you do. If I can’t have my data, then nobody can.
Continue readingI just finished a collaboration with Jacob Stopak of initialcommit.com, and author of the Baby Git book, about the internal workings of some of the key VCSes throughout history. There’s more to come, so stay tuned!
If you know Elite Dangerous, that picture and title tells you everything you probably need to know. If not, well, let me put it this way: Even found yourself in a game where it puts you in a literally impossible and unwinnable situation? Well that’s what happened.
For those who don’t know Elite: Dangerous, I’ll explain. For those that do, just skip the sections.
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