Archive for the ‘Useless Rants’ Category

#chemicalexperiments — Bread

Saturday, May 9th, 2020

It seems that as a programmer and especially during these days you have an obligation to bake bread (the same way if you belonged to MPlayer community you had to watch anime). So here’s me doing it:

It’s made after a traditional recipe from Norrland: barley flour, wheat flour, milk, yeast, cinnamon, a bit of salt and molasses. IMO it goes fine with some gravad lax or proper cheese.

P.S. And if you think I should have made a sour-dough bread—I can always order some from Sweden instead.

Reviewing AV1 Features

Saturday, March 21st, 2020

Since we have this wonderful situation in Europe and I need to stay at home why not do something useless and comment on the features of AV1 especially since there’s a nice paper from (some of?) the original authors is here. In this post I’ll try to review it and give my comments on various details presented there.

First of all I’d like to note that the paper has 21 author for a review that can be done by a single person. I guess this was done to give academic credit to the people involved and I have no problems with that (also I should note that even if two of fourteen pages are short authors’ biographies they were probably the most interesting part of paper to me).
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Om marsipangrisorna

Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Since I have nothing better to do (obviously) I want to talk about marzipan pig situation in Sweden.
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Railways of Baden and Württemberg

Sunday, November 17th, 2019

First of all, unlike Rheinland Palatine railways I’ve not travelled on all local railways here because of certain geographic peculiarities it takes less time to get to the farthest corners of Rheinland-Pfalz from here than to places around Bodensee. And I can’t visit all historic railways either because one of them is located in the middle of nowhere with the only connection being a bus that comes there maybe twice a day.

Nevertheless, I’ve seen most of them and here I’d like to describe my impressions about them.
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Dingo Pictures: A Book

Saturday, August 24th, 2019

When I think I’ve learned enough about Dingo Pictures there’s something new appears. From Toys review I’ve learned that Roswitha Haas also published a book (or maybe several) that are directly related to the subject at hoof. And of course being curious I’ve decided to buy it.

Amazon mentions two other books—an adaptation of Land Before Time and Jimmy Button but I dared not to buy them (one has definitely nothing to do with Dingo Pictures and I fear to find out that the first one is not about Tio).

Anyway, let’s look at the alternative version of King of the Animals Part 2 (spoiler: it’s still much better than Disney remake).


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Auf der Pälzische Eisenbahne…

Sunday, June 16th, 2019

… gibt’s gar viele Haltstatione,
Kowelenz, Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Lautre und Waldfischbach.

Ehm, sorry, wrong federal land for that song.

I think I can call my hobby project of travelling on all rail lines in Rheinland-Pfalz that are still in service complete.
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NihAV: rust-clippy experience

Saturday, May 18th, 2019

As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, I’ve finally tried rust-clippy to see what issues and suggestions it will have on my code. The results are not disappointing if you take the tool name seriously.
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Zähringerstädte

Monday, May 6th, 2019

Today I want to talk about local dynasty that was rather short-lived but left quite an impressive legacy.
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Dingo Pictures

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

In order to celebrate the fact all important Dingo Pictures works were found (there might be more though) I decided to visit the birthplace of those masterpieces. You can find their address at the website or at Baidu Maps (with some reviews, mostly in English and Swedish).
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Exploring the Solar Systems on Earth

Saturday, January 19th, 2019

So this year for me started in Sweden as usual and since I had nothing better to do on 1st of January I decided to visit Örebro. And there I got reminded that there is such thing as Solar system model on real landscape. So today I want to talk about those a bit.
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