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The most expensive cameras and lenses are the ones used in TV broadcast, like the ones used for sporting events. Those giant long box shaped high luminosity 20x zoom lenses cost $250k+. https://ymcinema.com/2021/08&#x2F
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by 323 5y ago
Like how Windows slowly removed colors from it's icons, until they almost became black and white, only to reintroduce color back in Windows 11. And how Windows 11 lists rounded windows and corners as a "signature feature"! h
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> It has less to do with the ability of a camera shooting at night. We have these things called lights that helps things. Did you watch the video? It's shot in total darkness, with zero lights. As in night vision. It's not ab
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> take normal footage and make it look like it was shot at night You can do that in reverse too, shoot at night with a super sensitive camera and make it look like day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPcinUz-L0
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Just another fad. Visual artists are very fashion driven. As technology creates new possibilities, they get abused. In the 80/90s music videos had fade/dissolve effects. Then in early 2000s a lot of them played with the aspect rat
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I've done extensive research on this subject, for coronavirus purposes N95 is equivalent to FFP3. The most important aspect is having head bands (as opposed to ear loops) to secure a tight fit. N95 typically have head bands. FFP2/
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by 323 5y ago
The problem with RStudio is that it uses R, which while excellent at numerical calculations, is terrible at everything else - data parsing, string munging, file processing, ... As the joke goes: The best thing about R is that it's desi
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> Upgrading face masks to filtering face piece (FFP3) respirators for healthcare workers on covid-19 wards produced a dramatic reduction in hospital acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections, according to research carried out at Addenbrooke’s Hospi
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While I don't know about their numbers, having a "grid level battery" is definitely something people (or gov subsidies) will pay for.
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Randomized Control Trials are not the one and only way to prove something. > Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. H
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> If we wear them improperly they loose their ability to do their jobs That's not true. They will just have lower efficiency. This study itself tested the effect of not fitting the mask (not even adjusting the metal nose bridge),
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> No actual controlled evaluation that measured protection against the actual infection has ever found effect remotely as strong Such a study does exist: > Upgrading face masks to filtering face piece (FFP3) respirators for health
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Not just Germany, a lot of very respectable publications are worried about Telegram: > White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/26/tech&
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> These emails were originally produced redacted via the Freedom of Information Act and subsequently to Committee Republicans. At the request of Committee Republicans and pursuant to the Seven Member Rule, the Department of Health and H
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New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered(technofog.substack.com)
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This article reminds me of when assembly programmers were ranting how stupid it is to use the bloated C language to create apps when assembly is perfectly fine for that, and how it's all driven by lazy programmers who don't want t
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You want to look as "boring and regular app" as possible, to avoid detection based on heuristics. So that means using no "malware techniques" like DLL injection, process scanning, fancy persistence, ...
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> her mind being fully indoctrinated by FOX news As opposed to her mind being liberated and enlightened if she would watch CNN instead.
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Righteousness caused 1000 years of war in Europe - our religion is right, no, our religion is right. This was ended by the Peace of Westphalia, when nations decided that there is no right religion, and that everybody loses if they fight rig
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You could say the same about WebKit, that it's just a small part of a browser - Chrome/Safari/Edge/Brave/...
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> Designed by Intel in California™ Soon even that will be outsourced to China. It will be replaced by: Financed by Intel in California™ or Marketed by Intel in California™
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> Twitter mobs could be used for good once. But you need your iPhone 13 Max (I know, Apple, not Intel) to virtue signal on Twitter though. It's much easier to just complain about Western colonialism or something.
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The main financial contributor to Mozilla is Google. So in a way, Firefox is run by Google. Some say it's convenient for Firefox to exist to avoid anti-trust lawsuits.
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Does this criticism also apply to the Linux kernel? Which is as widely used as Chrome on servers?
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No, it's caused by modern desktops being composited. Changing a single pixel in a window requires a full surface flush of that window to the GPU. There are ways around it, but it requires direct interaction with the compositor, which w
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> I would think Apple has some leverage to force it if they really wanted. No, because then people will ask why they also don't use the leverage to enable this feature in China/Russia/...
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An organic heart can self-repair itself, unlike the mechanical one. It's also "proven" to potentially last 100 years with no maintenance required.
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Just removing some sugars can't possibly work, since the pig heart will lack correct MHC class I molecules, which will make it a target. So the patient will need permanent immune-suppression.
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If true that would be terrible. Because higher wavelength UV is very dangerous. And are you sure about this? When visible light gets reflected by a wall it doesn't seem to change wavelength significantly (color basically remains the sa
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An amount of light will be reflected by the walls. So it will get to most shadowed places too. Of course, a much larger exposure time will be needed to be effective there. You can easily check that there is no true pitch black shadow open p

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