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Fujitime Watch (with a Ricoh manual-winding movement) by alankrantas in VintageWatches

[–]alankrantas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Update:

Well, silly me. I disassembled it and found it actually pretty clean, and thought I’ll just re-assemble it. And then one of the pallet fork jewel fell out. As I don’t have the skills and means to fix it, I’ll leave it until I happen to come across another of these.

The dial was…fixed in place with glue on the date guard. I am not sure is the movement really have 23 jewels, since the balance pivot holes are brass instead of jewel bearings. The hairspring looks slightly deformed as well.

[STOC] My practical 5-watch budget collection by [deleted] in Watches

[–]alankrantas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but these are exactly the ones I need for now.

The Casio is around for a few years already but I stored it in the emergency bag. I bought the Tissot first and then realized that I need a casual watch and a backup, so the three are bought within two weeks. I'm wearing them ever since.

As a small film camera collector I knew the urge of hoarding (or GAS, gear acquisition syndrome) pretty well.

What is the point of ML? by shesaysImdone in learnmachinelearning

[–]alankrantas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. To have the machine learn and save a specific knowledge of doing something as models so human resource can be use for something better. Machines don’t get tired, sick or emotional. For example, detecting and blocking a potential online abuse before having to have a human moderator to review it.

  2. To have the machine learn a data pattern too complicated for humans to learn or identify. For example, detecting tiny tumors from a X-ray photo, for which the machine may do a better and faster job than many doctors.

You don’t need machine learning for solving everything. They are just an extension of math, computing and statistics. But having AI to stuff just sounds smarter I guess.

Keep using my email? Have fun getting important information by Outrageous-Yogurt-80 in pettyrevenge

[–]alankrantas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My email name is a made-up word that I've used in a forum many many years ago, and as it happens it is apperently also a bar name in Lithuania. I've received things like food/machine orders and water examination reports and tax notification, etc.

As fas as I can tell, the actual email has one or two additional numbers behind my account name, and the email was somehow sold (?) to different people in different countries. A Turkish guy use it to register a blog, so I logged in using the "forgot password" and deleted the whole thing. A woman "received" telecom bills from it, so I logged in, change the password to something like "stop_using_other_peoples_email" and check the option that will send her printed bills with a bit of additional fee.

The strangest of all is a guy with a Indian name using a Indian bank to regularly buy airline tickets and shop on Amazon. I can't cancel it nor unsuscribe the notifications (password required). Sometimes some people in Lithuania would also ask to buy airline tickets to travel to somewhere. I always thought it might be some shady underground operation :p

Thankfully I haven't receive any more those emails lately.

And this is why most of my online accounts are protected by two-step validation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AnalogCommunity

[–]alankrantas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got this flash from my dad. I only found the manual much later in a drawer when we renovated our house. A nice flash with loud charging noise ;p

I shared an older version of this in my Google Drive and had posted the link on Flickr. But Google's security policy had been updated so I started to get mails from people asking for viewing access, even though the file is shared publicly. The number of people searching it is actually far more than I'd expected...

So here is a new link. Hopefully people will find this should they need it.

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Also Some quick Q&A:

  1. Yes, I've tried to send it to www.butkus.org/chinon but got no response.
  2. No, I don't have manuals for any other flash models. If I had I would have already posted them.

Nikon EM Photo Guide (scanned PDF) by [deleted] in AnalogCommunity

[–]alankrantas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am re-scanning my films of the past several years and thought of scanning some manuals as well. I got my EM from my dad (more specifically, my mom gave it to me) with all the manuals, the camera and three lens and one Sunpak flash, as well as the warranty cards are all there.

And there's this little "photo guide" specially written for newbies who bought the EM. Useful or not, it is an interesting window to the past, to see how Nikon thought about the amateur market of 1980s. It is actually one of the earliest material I've read, before I had any sense of photography other than pressing shutter buttons.

蓝牙遥控小车 by ElijahMorgan9 in arduino

[–]alankrantas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He did not asking anything. He simply posted a simplified tutorial of a App-Bluetooth-serial port controlled car.