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by busyant 4y ago
> Darktable tames noise at around ISO 3200, a lot of resolution and color is lost. Could you elaborate on what this means? I tried Darktable a few months ago, and no matter how hard I tried, my images just looked "washed out".
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by busyant 4y ago
whoever is funding this, i would say their approach is ineffective at best and almost certainly counterproductive to their cause.
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by busyant 4y ago
agree. materials science in general is far more interesting than i would have guessed when i was a student.
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by busyant 4y ago
> At a disadvantage for what? I'm sure you enjoy being contrarian, but I also suspect you know precisely what I meant. In the short-term, yeah, what's the big deal? But in the long-term, this devalues the courses and the degree
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by busyant 4y ago
> many of the exams are oral. I agree. But there is a "gold rush" out there in the academic world where the idea is to offload more and more work to "on-line." My son just started school at a respectable US university
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by busyant 4y ago
> Because of this accusation, his career is pretty much over. That was the conventional wisdom 3 weeks ago, when chess.com unleashed their report and things looked pretty bad for Hans. But he performed respectably at the US championship
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by busyant 4y ago
> If I ever need brain surgery, I guess they'll probably have me try to respond to JIRA tickets and troubleshoot npm dependency for me they will ask me to play chess. and they will stop cutting when i start making good moves.
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by busyant 4y ago
You might find these videos interesting. Pattern formation by motile E. coli. http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/labs/bacteria/movies/showmovi... edit: here's a reference https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.n
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by busyant 4y ago
About 10 years ago, we had a freak snow storm in early October in the northeast us. The trees that normally shed their leaves had not done so yet and huge numbers of them suffered serious breaks from the weight of the snow clinging to the l
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by busyant 4y ago
The Daguerrotype Prototype (alpha release): Will it obviate the services provided by dear chaps like John Singer Sargent?
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by busyant 4y ago
i live in ct. 3 years ago, a little cup of greek yogurt was $1. then it went to $1.19. then $1.39. today it's $1.79. that's above avg, but grocery inflation has been brutal, imo
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by busyant 4y ago
i thought the "reveal" was going to be dall-e or google images or something along those lines.
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by busyant 4y ago
This makes me think that even though Michael Mann is only 79 years old, he probably has the telomeres of a centenarian. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/film.2015.0003
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by busyant 4y ago
I think, like you said, the comment needs refinement, but I get the point. Basically, if you lean against regulation, clever/imaginative/quality building will flourish, but the price you have to pay is that cheap/shoddy build
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by busyant 4y ago
I can't tell you precisely what I was thinking 5 years ago, but your explanation (joy of opening something that clearly has not been opened) is probably closest to my motivations.
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by busyant 4y ago
About 5 years ago, one of my sons wanted a drone for xmas. In mid-November, Walmart.com warned me to "Order soon to guarantee that you'll get <x> for Christmas." So, I did the "responsible" thing and ordered t
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by busyant 4y ago
> It seems that you're not managing your customers well. If, in any other business, you needed to adjust the behaviour of some customers to keep other customers happy you would provide incentives, like a price discount Spoken like s
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by busyant 4y ago
> I find it curious that the customer using the product in an unintended way would be upsetting to the vendor. What drives such emotions? In my businesses, I couldn't care less how the customer uses my product. If they're happy
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by busyant 4y ago
I know a lot of what I teach is not really relevant to students who aren't chemistry majors--I even say this UP FRONT at the beginning of the course. I tell the students that they should think of the course as a way of assessing whethe
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by busyant 4y ago
> The most effective policy might not be to try and mechanically prevent cheating, but to explain that, this is information that you're going to need if you actually want to go into the field and if you're using copilot here yo
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by busyant 4y ago
i hope you're correct, but i suspect that swiss bank accounts, shell corporations, clever accountants and "gifting" money to friends and family will say otherwise.
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by busyant 4y ago
> my father was so concerned about test sharing that he kept a file of every test I finished 2nd in my high school class (humble brag) because my best friend cheated (and got a zero) for an important biology term paper. Story: - My frien
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by busyant 4y ago
Well, then I'm impressed with GPT-3's ability to generate those titles! The combination of photo/title feels like they come from the more absurd articles published by theonion. If we aren't living in a simulation, it&#x2
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by busyant 4y ago
This is clever. Does GPT-3 come up with the title of the article, too? That's the funniest part.
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by busyant 4y ago
> Many modern political problems stem from people needing something to struggle for and other people fighting against it. Reminds me of the lines in Fight Club: "We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spir
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by busyant 4y ago
> Meanwhile I'm there wondering who is this [Robert Smith] of the [communications department]? What is the [transformation strategy] and why does it need a [quarterly review]? IMO, whoever is running the meeting isn't doing a g
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by busyant 4y ago
I did something analogous ?/similar-ish recently. I tried to pay my parents' credit card balance (let's say it was $1000). I went through the process and received an automated email saying, "Thank you for paying $1000 o
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by busyant 5y ago
He's correct. So is regulated social media. Damned if you do...
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by busyant 5y ago
I have taught a chemistry class where we use those disks. They have a stamp on them that say something like "NRC exempt quantity." So, apparently, the disks have enough radioactive material to detect, but not enough to cause anyon
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by busyant 5y ago
> What he did to those people is absolutely unconscionable. Yep. There should be a special place in hell reserved for that man. Capitalizing on the murder of children is incomprehensible to me.

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