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Re:Sizing chaos on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:30AM (#47072294)
During FOSDEM 26 there was a talk about FreeSewing, a site where you can adapt clothing patterns to your specific sizes.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FVQVTA-freesewing/

Re:Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable on Friday March 21, 2025 @12:26PM (#43437616)
I can not stand the DLP projectors, so I got an Epson 3LCD, and have no issues with it, not crazy expensive either.
Re:I Like Makefiles on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:11AM (#41609750)
It is also possible to define `.PHONY` multiple times, so you can simplify this to:

  .PHONY: something
  something:
      ./do-something

  .PHONY: something-else
  something-else: something
      ./do-something-else

  create-file:
      ./generate-some-output > $@
Re:Make Timelapse easily using FFmpeg on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:39AM (#40414084)
ffmpeg works really well for this. I have also been making time-lapse movies for over a decade, starting with using just Quicktime Pro 7 to combine the images into movies. Later using various other tools. Now I also use ffmpeg, and want to keep track of exactly how each movie is put together so looked for a way to script each movie. Now I use ffmpeg-python (not a lot of recent updates, but just works) to steer ffmpeg, with my own time-lapse specific Python package https://pypi.org/project/time-lapse/ to assemble the movies, and for each movie I have a single script which describes which frames are part of it and how they are combined into a movie; https://github.com/153957/time-lapse-scripts I am quite happy with the setup, making it easy to recreate movies in the future from source, but at higher resolutions or different codecs.
Re:iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:12PM (#28867053)
So this is just a digital zoom (crop) with Super Resolution™-like (machine learning) upscaling...
Re:iPhone Macro and Halide: A Big Day for Small Things on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:30AM (#28825026)
Just a digital zoom (crop) with Super Resolution™-like (machine learning) upscaling...
Re:Kite: An interactive visualization tool for graph theory on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:54AM (#28520768)
Click the Force button (Darth Vader icon, bottom right) to make things stop bouncing around.
Re:Linus doesn’t like how GitHub does merge requests on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:20AM (#28441918)
Other discussion for same page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437734
Similarly I recently switched the other way. I recommend Lightroom over Capture One. The subscription is a slight downside, but Capture One is similarly expensive if you want to keep up with the latest version, I know you don't have to, but if you do it is expensive.

Moreover Capture One is missing some features which Lightroom has: The ability to filter collections based on their name. A shortcut for 'increase/decrease rating'. Filter photos for 'x stars and higher'. Show all images in a folder, including those in subalbums/subfolders. Being able to mark photos with a 'Reject' flag/rating (and easily hiding, not removing, those).

Re:Notes on streaming large API responses on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:49AM (#27649505)
For a project where I worked on we offered streaming TSV responses and always finished the response with a last row containing a comment: `# Finished downloading.`. Since we also managed one of the client packages to access the endpoints, we check for that when the download is finished and raise an error if it is not there.
Re:Ask HN: Best Source for Desktop Backgrounds on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:52PM (#26614419)
I get mine from http://louie.world/wallpapers/

A bunch of wallpapers related to specific movies or Disney, with various variations or themes per movie/series.

Re:Pentagon officially releases UFO videos on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:31AM (#23006754)
This comment on ArsTechnica on the same subject links to some videos which have nice explanations for the videos: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/navy-releases-three-...

Basically lens flare, balloon, and a plane.

Re:Django 3.0 alpha 1 released on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:55AM (#20928210)
> drop support for all versions of Django prior to 2.2

Prior to 2.2, so they encourage keeping support for the Django 2.2 LTS.

Re:Tree of Life on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:34AM (#16574199)
Great website which I used many times to check the precise species appearing in photos I made. Unfortunately the project seems to have stopped updating over 9 years ago (if the news page is a good indicator).
Re:Video editing with Python on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:45AM (#16301957)
Recently I discovered ffmpeg-python [1], also a nice Python frontend to FFmpeg. One of its best features is being able to show nice graphs [2] showing where which filters are applied from in to output. And all FFmpeg filters can be used, it is a thin layer over FFmpeg, just much more readable.

[1] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python [2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python#complex-filter-gr...