July
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v0.5.30 of Roc Camera is out
The camera should have improved:
- Turns out every "tuning" knob on our Camera ISP — color matrix, gamma, denoise, sharpening, lens shading
- We first fixed the ioctl layout. then the dominoes:
- Indoor shots stop coming out green (calibrated AWB prior)
- Skies stop blowing out (sane AE ...
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I've been thinking about the kind of things I want to make
I want to make things that are tactile but evokes memory. What does that mean? What I mean by that is that you can touch it and you can feel it and remember touching it somewhere at sometime. What we can touch, what we do, for me it often evokes= memories. We...
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This is an absolute top tier love language
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Rhetoric is just marketing done correctly prove me wrong
I’ve been reading Aristotle’s Rhetoric from cover to cover for the first time. It’s been fascinating.
Rhetoric is the art of persuading people through speech.
But Aristotle is clear about this: when you teach someone, you don’t need to “persuade” them. You have given them the truth itself.
So why would Aristotle,
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So much of what you deem to be the case is pretty malleable. For example, trees planted on the side of the road feel pretty set in the sense that they won't change; they're probably not going to move. No, the city government is not going to bother to change them; it's not really going to change, with a little effort in...
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李商隐 无题 (Li Shangyin - Untitled)
飒飒东风细雨来，芙蓉塘外有轻雷。
金蟾啮销烧香入，玉虎牵丝汲井回。
贾氏窥帘韩掾少，宓妃留枕魏王才。
春心莫共花争发，一寸相思一寸灰。
Sa! Sa! The West Wind brings a scattering rain, a rattling thunder
Beyond the hibiscus on the bank’s far side.
The stove’s golden frog fails to lock out the scent of incense,
While my jade tiger gently draws water from...
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Jim Lovell was the Mission Commander for Apollo 8 and Apollo 13
This warms my heart
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