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New comment by teovall in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

teovall — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:19:59 +0000

Does the integration of Krokodove into Resolve 21 close that gap at all?

New comment by teovall in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

teovall — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:15:41 +0000

Yes, it works with JPEG, HEIF, PNG, TIFF, AF, PSD, and several other still image formats.

New comment by teovall in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

teovall — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:36 +0000

Resolve is only officially supported on Rocky Linux which is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat, Debian, and Arch based distributions do things a lot differently than each other. Rocky/RHEL are pretty much de facto standards for Linux in the high-end video production and VFX market so it doesn't make much sense for Blackmagic to spend development resources supporting other Linux distributions.

New comment by teovall in "First and Lego Education Partnership Update"

teovall — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:26:41 +0000

LEGO is releasing a new robot kit, Computer Science and AI, later this year. It isn't able to run autonomously so it is essentially incompatible with the way FIRST LEGO League has worked for the last 28 years.

Earlier this year, FIRST and LEGO announced that FIRST LEGO League would split into two editions--Founders Edition and Future Edition. Both editions would run concurrently for the next two seasons. Founders Edition would continue the current autonomous format and teams could use any of the previous robot kits (RCX, NXT, EV3, SPIKE). Future Edition would be a new remote control format using the new robot kit. After the two transition seasons, Founders Edition would be discontinued and Future Edition would become the one and only format and ending the use of all previous robot kits.

Now that LEGO has announced they are ending their relationship with FIRST after next season, a lot of that is up in the air. Next season will proceed as previously announced, with both Founders Edition and Future Edition. After that, both FIRST and LEGO are each continuing on with their own, separate K-8 robotics programs.

Future Edition requires teams have two of the $530 Computer Science and AI kits. One for their robot and one for the interactive mission models. That's a huge investment for a lot of teams.

LEGO has said they will support SPIKE through the next three seasons but they have not said how that will work or if older robot kits (RCX, NTX, EV3) will also be supported.

FIRST has not announced anything about how their program will work after next season.

New comment by teovall in "First and Lego Education Partnership Update"

teovall — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:57:09 +0000

The robot kit can be kept and used again each season. Only the challenge kit (mat and mission models) change each season. The current robot kit is $540 vs just $95 for the challenge kit.

New comment by teovall in "First and Lego Education Partnership Update"

teovall — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:50:21 +0000

The LEGO Education version of MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor, SPIKE Prime, is still available and a new robot kit, Computer Science and AI, is being released this year. After next season, LEGO will be continuing on with their own K-8 robotics program (as will FIRST).

New comment by teovall in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

teovall — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:51:48 +0000

That wasn't in the e-mail I received. Perhaps it's only for customers in certain locations in order to comply with local laws.

New comment by teovall in "Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups inventor says Hershey is cutting corners"

teovall — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:17:21 +0000

Compare Reese's peanut butter cups to peanut butter cups from Trader Joe's or Aldi and you'll taste just how bad Reese's have gotten. You'll never go back.

New comment by teovall in "Ask HN: What are the best things to do for high schoolers in summer?"

teovall — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:08:39 +0000

Go to summer camp. A traditional, out in nature, canoes, archery, and tie dye, sleep-away summer camp. At least three weeks. Preferably, they would have started going much younger than high school, but it's never too late.

They will meet lifelong friends, have real, in-person experiences, and unplug from technology. They will come back energized, de-stressed, more confident, and with memories that will last a lifetime.

New comment by teovall in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

teovall — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:51:53 +0000

Wordpress.com offers 100-year plans. Hosting + domain is $38,000 or domain only is $2,000.

https://wordpress.com/100-year/

New comment by teovall in "The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world"

teovall — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:13:29 +0000

This is the Department of Homeland Security, a United States federal government department, publicly advocating for deporting nearly a third of the entire population of the country. Only around 7% of the population are non-citizens. That means they would need to deport around 75 million American citizens. Let that sink in.

New comment by teovall in "What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)"

teovall — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:44:36 +0000

Such an experiment couldn't be run these days. It would never get past the research ethics board.

New comment by teovall in "Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'"

teovall — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:30:50 +0000

Apple TV+ needed to be renamed but they went with the absolute worst option.

There's already an Apple TV device and an Apple TV app. Neither of which are required for using Apple TV+ and both of which have functionality other than using Apple TV+.

Some people think that Apple TV+ requires an Apple device to use it and just dismiss it as an option. Apple should have come up with a new brand without Apple in the name. That would broaden their potential market and get their foot in the door with people who don't own any Apple products.

New comment by teovall in "A Common Pill May Shorten Life Expectancy by Nearly 6 Years"

teovall — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:46:11 +0000

Some informative expert reactions to this study are here:

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-observ...

New comment by teovall in "Why Haven't We Adopted a Unified Time System Like Global Pulse Time Yet?"

teovall — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:47:24 +0000

I think Swatch Internet Time is more practical in day-to-day use. Swatch Internet Time divides the day into 1,000 units instead of 100,000 so is much more succinct. People rarely need <1 sec precision when communicating with each other, and when they do, they can just use decimals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

New comment by teovall in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

teovall — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:29:47 +0000

If you really want to onshore production, you don't increase taxes on the import of raw materials, parts, and components, you only do so for finished goods. That isn't what this administration has done though. They say they want to increase domestic manufacturing, but their actions clearly prove that that is not their goal.

New comment by teovall in "An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox"

teovall — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:50:57 +0000

Both of your examples are cloud services, not software run locally on users' own hardware. If they intend the license to be limited to cloud services like Firefox Sync, then they should say so.

New comment by teovall in "Ask HN: Why is air traffic control radio comms so poor?"

teovall — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:11:12 +0000

Aviation still uses AM radio which is more susceptible to noise than FM or digital modes but it does so for two very important reasons.

The first is that, with AM, if two or more people are transmitting on the same frequency at the same time, they can all still be heard. With FM, the strongest signal will suppress any weaker signals and only one signal will be heard.

The second is that even very weak AM signals have the chance to be received and understood. The human ear is very good at picking out human voices from noise. Weak FM signals just drop out completely.

New comment by teovall in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

teovall — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:21:27 +0000

Is there any reason other than debugging purposes that the cf-cache-status and cf-ray headers are included in every response? Why don't they remove those unless a debugging setting is enabled in the CloudFlare dashboard?

New comment by teovall in "Tell HN: Covidtests.gov shipping old, expired tests"

teovall — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 02:29:38 +0000

Rapid tests do not need to be updated for new variants because the proteins that they detect do not change quickly. This has been verified by several studies and continues to be monitored for emerging variants.

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-rapid-tests-still-work-...