SamBam

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by SamBam 2y ago
Huh? I'm talking about being able to "dial in the effect." I read that as "dialing in the darkness" (as it relates to motion blur). That's what I'm talking about. Obviously the sunglasses alone make the sc
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'm confused by the apparent contradiction being suggested between "old" and "can do ecology with plants." GP didn't say it was a bad school.
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by SamBam 2y ago
> Bonus points if your sunglasses are polarized. You can rotate your sunglasses to "dial" in the effect similar to a circular polarizer. Surely that would only affect polarized light, like glare from reflections, no? Possibly t
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by SamBam 2y ago
I was agreeing with you, but then I watched the video of Stephen Fry and I felt that they just looked like beats earbuds, which people have normalized wearing.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Yes, but I read that as a "high level" relatively, compared to other solutions, not "more transparent than glass."
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by SamBam 2y ago
Greenhouses frequently get so hot they need to open their windows. I imagine that there is a sweet spot where a little less heating is worth it for the additional light hitting the leaves. It may be climate and season dependent.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Having read that, I think the linked article is using "transparent" in a way that the original article never did, which is the cause of so many commenters' confusion. The article never says the film is more transparent than g
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by SamBam 2y ago
Agreed. I don't get from the explanation how March is 3 and May is 1, as they are both 31 days and neither begins nor end with a vowel. I assumed there was some missing text about what to do if the month doesn't begin or end wit
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by SamBam 2y ago
I know. I really miss my old iTunes library. I had the genres and other metadata just the way I liked them. In my quest to find an offline MP3 player for my kid, I spent a bunch of time looking at models, but none of them give you the abili
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by SamBam 2y ago
> Also, there is no reason an epaper phone can't take photos. I would love that, but really doubt any company is going to put out a phone with a great camera and an epaper screen.
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by SamBam 2y ago
So Lewis Carroll's method for today (May 24 2024): The Century-Item: The year is 2024. The century is 20. 20/4 = 5, with no remainder. Overplus is 0. 3-0 = 3. 3x2 = 6. The Year-Item: The year part is 24. Number of dozens: 2 24&#x
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by SamBam 2y ago
What would lock you in? It's Android, most of your data on apps is going to be saved to the cloud on individual accounts, and pdfs are going to be yours. I'm not sure what would lock you in.
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by SamBam 2y ago
That's pretty misleading and borderline deceptive. They should release a real-time video.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Off-topic, but anyone know if Google Fi would make it easy to switch between two phones without too much hassle? I'd love to have a second phone that I could take around when I'm not expecting to do any photography or anything. (I
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by SamBam 2y ago
> I don't like being linked directly to the PDF Not only that, but the button isn't even a link, so you don't know where it's going to. Is this only going to be for Arxiv?
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by SamBam 2y ago
That's probably the reason for eliminating the written word. Saying "width and heighth" still sounds pretty reasonable (I have to stop myself from saying it), and I hear it all the time.
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by SamBam 2y ago
> heighth I've heard this said, and seen this in plenty of codebases. `let width = 10, heighth = 10` Its intuitive match to "width" makes me wonder why it ever became "incorrect."
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by SamBam 2y ago
I mean, that's not surprising at all that they would want to own the image. It would be ridiculous if that was also being used to advertise vaping or Bitcoin or something.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Indeed. It reminds me of Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind (or one of his other books), where a large chunk of his argument that human consciousness and understanding can't be fully explained by computational processes, because
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by SamBam 2y ago
Except it's not at all. The FDA regulates plenty of live organisms as drugs if they're claimed to be used to treat diseases. For example, fecal transplants are regulated by the FDA. Rebiotix Inc is developing a bacterial fecal tra
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by SamBam 2y ago
It does. A perfect gyro will remain on a single axis relative to the rest of the universe while the Earth goes around the sun, and while the galaxies swirl around. I'll leave it to you to figure out how "perfect" it would nee
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by SamBam 2y ago
I believe that fancy astrophotography tripods already do that rotation for you, right? I think that for astrophotography, the shutter times are so long that you have to build it into the tripod, instead of relying on the tiny amount of st
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by SamBam 2y ago
Imagine the camera were floating just above the surface of the Earth, and also that it had perfect image stabilization. This image stabilization would keep the camera always oriented in the same direction. Same direction relative to what?
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by SamBam 2y ago
Err, they're mostly used on leaves. At least in my state.
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by SamBam 2y ago
The vast majority of changes made by humans to food plants, mostly through selective breeding, but also through gene editing, do not infer a selective advantage (except toward more human breeding). Big red fat juicy tomatoes are a disadvant
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by SamBam 2y ago
I simply can't trigger a downward diagonal swipe on my phone. It starts immediately as a horizontal swipe, and then the downward component scrolls the whole game area downward, while not affecting the swipe angle. Even if I start with
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by SamBam 2y ago
Did you stop reading halfway through?
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by SamBam 2y ago
The tomatoes will only breed true so long as they are hand-bred or kept in an environment where no other types of tomatoes are around. And even then mutations will eventually creep in. Same goes with the bacteria, except you may be talking
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by SamBam 2y ago
But how do your re-inoculations colonize the teeth that have been fully colonized by your now-mutated old strains? Is the plan to require a full antibiotic mouthwash every few days, and then fresh inoculation? Ugh.
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by SamBam 2y ago
What's the point in reading Shakespeare, or recognizing a Monet painting, or knowing Ancient Greek history or Norse mythology?

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