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cheers 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Rules are rules, Griff... you know that better than most!
modified 1-Jun-21 8:52am.
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Damn!
I meant that to be in, but I was interrupted by Herself to inflate the Paddling Pool From Hell for next door ... and didn't finish and post it until I'd done that.
But as you say, rules are rules - you're up tomorrow, musefan!
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Anyone care to explain what's going on
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It's all in the rules[^] :InnocentWhistleSmiley: 
I was late posting - after the four hours - and musefan noticed. So he's up tomorrow!
I'm sure that nobody changed the rules just to make that happen, of course ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I was late posting - after the four hours - and musefan noticed. So he's up tomorrow!
Oh.... I thought you was joking. I didn't know that rule 
OriginalGriff wrote: I'm sure that nobody changed the rules just to make that happen, of course ...
And here is the part where I make a new life rule to read the full post before clicking on the links contained within! 
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I think it should be up to me to decide who is up tomorrow - I knew you had the answer hours before you actually posted it and you were giving the others a chance to solve it. So as it stands it was unsolved so if we're sticking to the rules I should be up again tomorrow not musefan.
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pkfox wrote: I think it should be up to me to decide who is up tomorrow
That's exactly what somebody who doesn't want to post tomorrow would say!  
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See my reply to OG 
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What is this witchcraft! That wasn't there when I replied! 
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No, I added it to mess with you ... sorry about that, I'll get rid of it later on.
I'll go along with whatever decision the two of you decide on: pkfox, musefan, me, or A.N.Other.
decide between yourselves and let me know, please.
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OriginalGriff wrote: No, I added it to mess with you ... sorry about that,
All good fun
OriginalGriff wrote: decide between yourselves and let me know, please.
It seems pkfox has claimed it. Also, I can say for certain I will not be posting tomorrow.
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@petepjksolutionscom
@musefan
Seems like that's a vague consensus - pkfox it's all yours tomorrow!
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See my reply to musefan!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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In the past, tanks went "Broom-broom-broom"
In the future, they will go "Roomba-roomba-roomba"?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If outsourcing your army was cheap, they'd do it.
AAAS (army as a service)?
Actually...this might already have been done under the name of proxy wars.
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The French have been doing this for a couple of centuries now - the French Foreign Legion is basically an outsourced army.
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These things need to be banned and anyone who deploys them executed for treason against the human race. It's bad enough that we have stand off weapons where the person doesn't see the carnage that results from their actions, but having fully autonomous weapon systems is a nightmare scenario.
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I gave up on the article in the first paragraph as it accused Musk of being a thinker!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Something I run into a lot with IoT is things that seem simple become complicated quickly due to having to run in a constrained environment.
Take running a jpeg slideshow off an SD card on a 320kB system with a 320x240 display.
Wire up the SD and an ST7789 or ILI9341 and bob's your uncle, one might think.
Except for one small wrinkle - a camera produces images in the megapixel range. That display is only .0768 megapixels if my math is right.
That means you have to do some sort of resizing on most images. Well, it's all well and good to do bicubic or bilinear resampling of an image if you can access the entire uncompressed image data in a frame buffer, but again, a 320kB system. Good luck.
Images must be progressively loaded and then blted more or less directly to the display as it loads - since the display hardware has its own 320x240 display memory on the chip. How that happens depends on the underlying image format. For BMP files progressive loading means going from bottom to top, scanline by scanline. For JPEGS it means getting 8x8 squares of the image at a time, left to right, top to bottom, etc.
The issue here is when you're resampling you need to use matrix computations on *overlapping* regions of the image in order to get a proper result, meaning you can't just resize those 8x8 chunks to 6x6 for example and call it good. It would create artifacts every 6 pixels where it wasn't "blended" properly at the edges with the next pixel.
So suddenly you need something like maybe a 12x12 intermediary buffer so you can progressively resample, which makes a simple algorithm suddenly messy.
And this is just an example.
All this for a slideshow.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I see....
Nothing that would stop a code witch extraordinaire though, is it?! 
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*cracks knuckles*
*grabs wand*
Nothing an eye of newt won't solve.
Real programmers use butterflies
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