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by falcrist 4y ago
There's actually a parity to the positions of the pieces that most people don't seem to know about. If you flip an edge or twist a corner, the whole cube becomes unsolvable. You can also make it unsolvable by swapping stickers bec
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by falcrist 4y ago
I just lost the game.
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by falcrist 5y ago
There was a particular instance where Thomas Jefferson called John Adams a hermaphrodite (via a supporter with a newspaper) [0]. Adams apparently responded by spreading a rumor that Jefferson was dead. I believe that technique was learned f
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by falcrist 5y ago
I honestly didn't realize Overcooked was a Team17 game. The art style certainly fits, now that I look at it.
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by falcrist 5y ago
The story was featured on the YouTube channel "Computerphile". https://youtu.be/XS3UBuZ7D34
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by falcrist 5y ago
Is this an advertisement? It just links to the bitwarden website. Why is this even here?
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by falcrist 5y ago
We're not coming out of an ice age. Changes in temperature are not only much faster than they have been in the past, they're rapidly accelerating.
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by falcrist 5y ago
As climate undergoes significant shifts and certain regions become more or less habitable, there will be wars over resources. It's essentially inevitable that conflict will arise under such circumstances. "Large refugee streams&qu
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by falcrist 5y ago
You can grab global average temperature data from NOAA[1] or NASA[2] and play with it yourself. Things immediately jump out at me, such as: Of the top 20 hottest years on record, the only one that isn't from the past 20 years is 1998.
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by falcrist 5y ago
That question is answered in the wikipedia link above. > Ignition should not be confused with breakeven, a similar concept that compares the total energy being given off to the energy being used to heat the fuel. The key difference is th
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by falcrist 5y ago
Isn't he also the only American to reach the professional grade of 9-Dan?
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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm tempted to pick one up just because I already use Colemak. I'd be really tempted to try to change the keyboard firmware to behave more like my Pok3r keyboard (particularly replacing capslock with a function key and making fn+I
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by falcrist 5y ago
While I agree with the idea that removing a quick and accessible means of suicide can reduce suicide rates, there's a huge caveat on that article. > we did not have the ability to control for differences between the two countries
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by falcrist 5y ago
> Merriam-Webster Not relevant to the discussion. > I've done several years of work as a photojournalist [1-3] This is an anecdote, and even if accepted it doesn't do anything show uniformity. You have chosen short focal len
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by falcrist 5y ago
> If you can cherrypick to distortion I'm cherrypicking to perspective. Distortion is an additional argument, alongside field of view of the area of focus, etc. > documentary photographers/photojournalists choose 28-35mm for
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by falcrist 5y ago
Except due to distortions and perspective differences, shorter focal lengths are objectively further from matching human vision. Subjects regularly look much further from the camera than they actually are. Objects at the edge of the frame a
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by falcrist 5y ago
I fear you'd be disappointed. The religious leaders in particular are likely to be very gnostic about this topic.
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by falcrist 5y ago
I agree with you. “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” — Banksy That idea has been around a lot longer than Banksy, but I disa
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by falcrist 5y ago
The idea of having some ultimate meaning is (as far as we can tell) an invention of the human mind. Whether life has meaning, whether it needs to have meaning, or even whether the meaning of life is predicated on influencing the universe is
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by falcrist 5y ago
> 28mm is still a compromise between field of view and usability Which is what I'm saying. It's a compromise, rather than trying to match human vision. > "Lately I’ve been struck with how I really love what you can’t se
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by falcrist 5y ago
I'm arguing that wide angles are only more representative if you use fisheye distortion and project the image onto a curved media. If you're using flat media and rectilinear optics, shorter lenses get progressively less and less r
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by falcrist 5y ago
I seem to recall the correct thing to do is to ask for council.
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by falcrist 5y ago
There's quite a bit of nuance in that recommendation. It's also very much about how you invoke your rights.
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by falcrist 5y ago
The content in the book you're talking about is probably better represented by Professor Duane's original viral video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE I think he wrote that book in part be
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by falcrist 5y ago
Again, I disagree with the assertion that wider is any more true to human vision, primarily since distortions are immediately apparent as the focal length gets shorter than 24mm or even 28mm. Using very short focal lengths just compresses w
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by falcrist 5y ago
> Shooting wide-angle in color is aesthetically and objectively closer to what we (typically) see than a black-and-white telephoto picture. I agree about color, but not focal length. Using very short focal lengths introduces highly distr
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by falcrist 5y ago
I know how lens compression works. Though I specifically used the 35mm-50mm range because it depends on whether you take the diagonal directly, the diagonal of a square with edge length equal to the long edge of a 35mm sensor, or the diagon
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by falcrist 5y ago
I wonder how long it'll be before they phase out the old site. For now I still use it because it's significantly faster and easier to use, but I strongly suspect they want me on their new site.
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by falcrist 5y ago
Shorter focal lengths have other purposes in street photography, where composing shots in crowded areas can be difficult or impossible with longer lenses like 85mm. In terms of which focal lengths produce perspectives that make the most sen
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by falcrist 5y ago
It's worth noting that even quite famous photographers from before the digital era would spend a LOT of time doing post-processing in the darkroom. I'm thinking specifically of Ansel Adams, who famously said “You don't take a

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