Clamchop

16 ms·

181.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Not lasers, but something even better. Randall Munroe once described CRTs as "desktop particle accelerators".
182.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Good point. More recent mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras can disable the physical shutter and use only the electronic shutter, which would relieve this problem.
183.
by Clamchop 2y ago
And in part because of the diversity of landscapes to film in. Westerns and such were never going to be filmed in the east.
184.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Effective luminosity isn't just a function of how much light the device can output at a given setting but also how much light is being blocked or is otherwise not emitted by the image being displayed. By making the background dark and
185.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Flashes on first scroll for me as well, Firefox on Android here.
186.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Fortunately for perfumery, ambergris' distinctive odor is principally owed to just two chemicals, ambroxan and ambrinol, both of which are now synthesized.
187.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but giant tortoises are thought to have floated (they can't really swim) a thousand kilometers to the Galapagos from the coast of South America, where they later went extinct. I imagine most of the tortoises
188.
by Clamchop 2y ago
What an annoying polemic. Sure, Soylent is at once both the plaything of diet-hacking tech bros and the subsistence food we'll shovel to the poor in the coming dystopian nightmare. They present no fundamental issue with the notion of a
189.
by Clamchop 2y ago
An Hermes Birkin bag isn't fungible with other bags of equivalent design or quality. That it is that bag by that brand is essential. Most of the price and scarcity isn't for its qualitative or quantitative attributes but rather to
190.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Not everyone experiences motion sickness, or to the same degree. I don't think there's much you can do if you're one of the unlucky ones. On the bright side, you're less likely to die of poisoning!
191.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Not being completely "comfortable" (I'd say satisfied) is a given for any software choice. Nothing is perfect and everything is a tradeoff. Linux presents no shortage of compromises itself. You could just as well say that if
192.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Trinitrons and workalikes were very good, but the shadow mask displays that this video focuses on to my memory didn't have the excellent contrast and black levels cited. I remember most of them looking pretty dull, and downright silver
193.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Not saying air travel is bad but to play devil's advocate, 1. OP didn't give a reason for why we should slow down, but 2. if we presume environmental, then equating it to something else widely criticized for being wasteful and env
194.
by Clamchop 2y ago
I can both see the sense in what you wrote and am icked out by it. And yet I'm not conflicted; ruthless objectivity in pursuit of productive output isn't always the best thing, and sometimes it's unethical outright. So I beli
195.
by Clamchop 2y ago
How else would you make or reaffirm a first-hand impression? Also, while I'm not OP, I gave up on Airbnbs a long time ago for the same reasons, and that impression is occasionally refreshed when I stay in an Airbnb that _someone else_
196.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Neither of your examples distinguish 8 and 17, and a few things highlighted in the article that do can only be said to make things simpler and easier, like records and text blocks.
197.
by Clamchop 2y ago
The legacies of systems are a practical reality, not a "core principle" of computer science, that's the issue with the claim. Computer science barely even concerns itself with the limitations of real hardware, much less givin
198.
by Clamchop 2y ago
I've read accounts from people who were around when glass was widely used, particularly for beverages, who report that broken glass was everywhere, much worse than today. Just to add to downsides besides energy spent for transportation
199.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Going off reporting, it's not as far-fetched as you're suggesting.
200.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Don't disagree with that, but I disagree that the conclusion to be made from it is that there's no significant competition. Put another way, if Nintendo had a Sega-like market failure, then Sony and Microsoft would be the heirs ap
201.
by Clamchop 2y ago
I don't disagree that Nintendo appeals to a market that the others don't, and vice versa, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a significant number of people who will reliably buy a game console, but won't buy two c
202.
by Clamchop 2y ago
And then the fines will be 20 percent of the new value. It's leaving a lot of money on the table no matter how you slice it and your competitors can easily undercut you by a lot on price by playing fair and not getting fined. And regul
203.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Last I heard, all the third-party browsers just wrap Apple's bundled webkit. No other browser engines allowed.
204.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Antitrust stuff isn't as simple as finding a monopoly. In fact, monopolies aren't intrinsically illegal in the first place. If all the players present the same problem (in this case, giving in-house software an unfair advantage) t
205.
by Clamchop 2y ago
A convenient invention you've got there to dismiss criticism.
206.
by Clamchop 2y ago
In the book The Sixth Extinction, the author posited that you really don't need very sophisticated or systematic hunting to bring megafauna to extinction. Their strategy for survival is to be large, but at the cost of very long reprodu
207.
by Clamchop 2y ago
Simple is appealing but don't let it carry you away!
208.
by Clamchop 2y ago
> If you still have lorries and vans and buses then it feels like a lot of the safety and emission arguments fall apart really. Disagree strongly. Special access sharply reduces the number of vehicles, of course, but it also changes the
209.
by Clamchop 2y ago
I'd say that's part of the calculus for comparison. Comparing apples and oranges isn't nonsensical if what you need is a fruit. XML and JSON are alternatives for many use cases, so you can evaluate if markup and schemas are v
210.
by Clamchop 2y ago
"Entitled" seems like an inappropriate word here. OP isn't entitled to the software, and the publisher isn't entitled to repeat customers or the perception of being a good value.

More ›