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by bscphil 5y ago
I just want to point out that this comment is completely irrelevant and ask other users not to be sidetracked by it. The question upthread should be understood as saying "given that it's acceptable for the government to tax people
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by bscphil 5y ago
Those cases are not comparable, because the whole reason they have that impact is that the accusations are usually made publicly (because the whole point is to harm the reputation of one's rapist and warn others, should a conviction pr
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The state is the only authorized monopoly of violence and they should treat unproven and untrue as identical, and the only place where that decision is made is in a courtroom. This is completely wrong. If the state treated all accusati
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by bscphil 5y ago
The screenshots are horrible quality, it's effectively a meaningless comparison. (And even if they weren't, comparing two fonts using Windows' font rendering is an exercise in pointlessness since the heavy hinting destroys sm
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by bscphil 5y ago
As someone accustomed to reading privacy policies, it was immediately obvious to me that this was the case. After the Audacity team got bought out (aquihired?), some lawyers from Muse had a look over the privacy policy and pointed out the o
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by bscphil 5y ago
Thanks for the response! I did find a review of one laptop that used this panel, and it looks like it's a designed-to-standard 8 bit panel with pretty much no coverage beyond sRGB, similar to the panels Apple was putting in MBPs around
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by bscphil 5y ago
> It’s been my experience that when only sRGB is mentioned, only sRGB is supported. I suspect this as well, especially at the price point the Framework laptop is being offered, but that's why I'm asking. I feel that manufacture
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by bscphil 5y ago
From what I can find, the documentation on the screen just says it covers 100% of the sRGB gamut. That's nice, but do you have an example of a calibration profile that shows the full gamut coverage? It would be nice to compare it to Ad
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by bscphil 5y ago
I've read through this thread and I haven't seen a simple summary of the situation as it stands with respect to copying and the GPL violation. Here's what I believe to have happened: 1. ChessBase began selling the Fat Fritz 2
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by bscphil 5y ago
Good explanation - that does seem pretty likely. I hadn't really considered the possibility that it was a phone camera.
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by bscphil 5y ago
What a strange image! I fully expected the black painted portions to just be ... completely black, since after all the whole point is that it reflects nearly zero light. But that's seemingly not the case at all. You can download the im
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, the ability to read a map and navigate for yourself is a crucial skill when hiking, or when driving in remote locations. I'll certainly endorse that.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> US has USGS maps, or national geographic maps, apparently (haven’t hiked in the US). These are (1) Easily available online, and various apps can save offline copies of arbitrary portions of the maps to be used without Internet access.
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The gold standard for any wilderness area is a printed map. When one is available and up to date, yes. That hinges on ... so many things. Your OP is strange because (1) it assumes the absolute superiority of paper maps, without any q
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by bscphil 5y ago
> We know it's not healthy, but we also know that there are no crazy long-term effects if you keep it moderate. I think this claim is unjustified, and that's what your parent comment is trying to point out. Is 14 drinks a week
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The UK has defined its standard drink as 10ml of pure ethanol This is interesting. In the US a standard drink [1] is often considered roughly equivalent to one can of 5% ABV beer, or a 1.5 fl oz shot of 80 proof liquor. That comes out
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, the idea that a printed map is necessarily going to have more accurate routes than something you find online is sort of laughable. In fact the opposite seems sort of likely: if a route changes or goes out of date, you'd expect a
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by bscphil 5y ago
That's not my expectation. As I said, > Even at its best the algorithm seems to come up with something plausible but often wrong (exactly as expected) So the expectation is that the algorithm is only as good, or slightly worse, than
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by bscphil 5y ago
No. Most of the time the small images (64x64 in that video) are deliberately created by downscaling images with the same resolution as the upscale target (here 1024x1024). The source is usually called a reference image. This allows comparin
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by bscphil 5y ago
I see only two examples of reference images on that page, but they have quite a few more examples in the paper itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.07636.pdf The results compared with reference images pretty clearly show
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by bscphil 5y ago
Judging by the screenshot, it is quite literally a text-based (or terminal) user interface.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, it's hard to imagine the pihole approach working for most ads in the long term. Fortunately, the traditional browser addon approach still works great.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Sure, if you're going to insist on an overly literal reading of my words.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Similar to endisneigh I take as many steps as I possibly can to avoid letting advertising influence me. I block ads wherever possible, and anything that slips through goes on a shit-list of companies that I will avoid buying from unless I h
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Imagine all the good pharmaceutical research that could be funded if we just allowed blatant snake oil to be sold for unlimited profit? Head into your nearest pharmacy and check out what they sell. Aisles upon aisles of homeopathic &qu
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by bscphil 5y ago
I generally assume that installing an app to use a website is voluntarily opting in to a worse experience, so you're probably right. Still, though, maybe a PiHole would be effective?
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by bscphil 5y ago
Why can't you block them?
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by bscphil 5y ago
> still assert that they were aware of the ad and not allowing it to influence their decisions. The claim you're responding to is not that they won't allow it to influence their decisions, but that they will actively refuse t
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm not saying this with the intent of harshly criticizing the author, but I admit it's surprising to me that someone (who had other options) would work for 14 years at a company they clearly came to believe was making the world a
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by bscphil 5y ago
Ha, yes, that's what I thought initially as well. I believe the only valid possibility would be that in claiming to apply the license to the work, ST has actually failed to apply the license to the work, so all purported licenses to

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