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by altarius 4y ago
It's natural once you've learnt it -- throroughfare doesn't really matter, the street you're on is signed as having right of way or you have yield signs, otherwise always yield to the car from the right. No signage =>
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by altarius 5y ago
> My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. V
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by altarius 5y ago
I bought a carbon fiber framed Trek Remedy enduro/all mountain bike and repaired a fist size hole/delamination in the downtube at home for about $50 in materials [1]. Five years later it's also fine. And I've taken the b
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by altarius 5y ago
My guess is where it's been going for a while, in line with the signals sent by hiring their new CFO - juicing shareholder value by cost-cutting now that the easy gains have been had and "natural growth" is slowing.
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by altarius 5y ago
I think you are talking past each other, depth-of-field is dependent on the physical aperture not "F-Stops", which are often also called "aperture". Yes, afaik it's derived from single-element lenses but so are most
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by altarius 5y ago
IBM/Lenovo and Apple are the manufacturers I've had the best luck with -- despite the crappy keyboard on my 2015 15-MBP was failing and replaced and issues on my 2019 MBA. They are the only laptops that still feel mechanically goo
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by altarius 6y ago
It stems from the mechanical shutter not being completely "flush" with the sensor and some oblique rays illuminating "under" the shutter near the edges, this is supposed to even out with two curtain shutters, but no ligh
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by altarius 6y ago
The prices are sort of set at the margins. There was a study a while ago that a relatively minor amount of actual cash can move the btc price (a couple million, despite market cap then in the billions) by carefully driving it up. I don&#x27
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by altarius 6y ago
Agreed, what I see in that chart are mostly those US industries that managed to co-opt government policies for subsidies (college loans, mortgage deductions) or regulations (healthcare). Why is the opposite of "bad government" alw
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by altarius 6y ago
It reads like the immune isn't forgetting anything, they just "flood" the system with the proteins that the antibodies would normally attack in nerve cells or brain, thus giving the antibodies another target to "keep the
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by altarius 6y ago
One of my problems with this line of argument is that it provides a sort relativism of opinion, every opinion is just as valid as any other. And then you're at post-truth and post-fact sadly... If Carlsen is a fake, so is every chess p
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by altarius 6y ago
How is Tesla's gross margin different from e.g. BMW or Daimler? A quick googling showed gross profit margins around 20% around 2015-2017, it was even around 24% in 2007 for Daimler. Maybe there's some accounting subtlety I am miss
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by altarius 6y ago
Thanks, I just did! Looks like a ZWO ASI294 MC could be interesting. It's "only" Micro 4/3 and $700 in the cheapest config but having USB-3 and drivers may be what I was looking for. Full-frame astro cameras are unfortun
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by altarius 6y ago
Nothing like diversionary foreign policy :/ The EU has really been quite a convenient scapegoat, not just in the UK. I wonder if politicians on all sides will/can continue to blame the EU now that the UK has "full control&quo
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by altarius 6y ago
Looking at the report, most of the likelihood is from a single "prior". The whole likelihood basically hinges on the fact that the outbreak occurred in Wuhan and that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been working for decades on
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by altarius 6y ago
Yea, I would love a high quality sensor that's "programmer accessible". Too bad that nobody besides raspberry pi foundation even attempts that.
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by altarius 6y ago
You may underestimate how expensive imaging sensors are in low quantities, a sensor available in single quantities at mouser is the cmosis cmv1200 apsc sensor for $1600-1800 a piece, full frame cmv5000 is $5000+ afair. A whole ecosystem pro
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by altarius 6y ago
From what I've read so far, the structure of spike proteins seems to not have change, the virus just expresses many more spike proteins on its viral shell requiring more antibodies to neutralize and possibly allowing easier ACE2 dockin
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by altarius 6y ago
I loved your Leica Q writeup and have been contemplating one ever since.
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by altarius 6y ago
I don't know, Austin Mann took some amazing photos in his previous camera reviews, but this time I'm not so impressed. The saturation in the fall tree and water shots is just somehow weirdly off the charts and the night photos loo
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by altarius 6y ago
They don't even need to go full smartphone processor and OS, adding something GPGPU-esque to offload the computations to would work. Deep Neural Nets brought us many "edge TPUs", I don't see why they wouldn't equall
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by altarius 6y ago
Ohh, I just remembered the long-delayed Zeiss ZX1 ($6000 fixed-lens 35mm f/2.0 camera) that has Adobe Lightroom built in. I like the concept, I bet the implementation is quite flawed though. If I were spending that money on a fixed-len
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by altarius 6y ago
RAW is supposed to be the data that the sensor captures (well, today that's more or less true). The actual images saved on phone/SD (JPEG or HEIC or whatever) are just processed RAWs with some destructive presets (WB, contrast cur
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by altarius 6y ago
AFAIK a good chunk of digital camera processing is still done in ASIC/hardware and mindshift to GPU/CPU SIMD/software will take time, so it will probably be a while until camera manufacturers even begin to catch up. That said
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by altarius 6y ago
You're right, my point was a little lost in my long-winded answer. RAW files just give you more latitude after the fact, and editing can either really eek out the last 20% or allow the photographer to better express their "artisti
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by altarius 6y ago
Honestly, I went out to Marin Headlands this morning to photograph the sunrise, brought my 60mpix fullframe camera and some amazing lenses. But while waiting for the best light or long exposures I snap off a couple pictures on the phone. An
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by altarius 6y ago
The same mentality is widespread in photography, heavier metal construction (even though often just exterior shell and interior is polycarbonate) and weight are associated with quality and longevity. But it's starting to change as more
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by altarius 6y ago
Agree on the high prices, don't agree that "Energiewende" was necessarily bad for the poorest Germans, exactly because it's a "comfy welfare state". Society decided it was worth the cost and they're paying
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by altarius 6y ago
I don't think the output of the conversion is guaranteed to be equivalent to a hyperplane learned by an SVM. I didn't have time to read the paper, but reading the abstract I don't see a claim that the gradient descent model a
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by altarius 6y ago
"Yes, many are. And then there are those, that are a bit more cash strapped (like the 300k households cut off from electricity each year) or work in energy intensive industries fearing for their jobs." I don't think the US

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