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Symmetries Reveal Clues About the Holographic Universe(quantamagazine.org)
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Cooking of any kind will cause all sorts of pollutants to spike, including PM2.5 and finer particles. Does elevated NO2 from gas stoves warrant banning them from buildings? They are great for certain methods of cooking, and can be used spar
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> It still seems we're talking about completely different things, or maybe you're trying to derail the conversation... I am making literally the same point I made when replying to jhoechtl: phones and cameras are different beas
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Sure, some of the black box processing that phone camera does relies on known algorithms. The difference is that it also makes use of ML, which IMO either plays a significant role or will do so in near term. > auto white balance, tonem
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We seem to mostly agree. Here’s the line—on one side of it are phones, able to produce decent images despite hardware limitations by applying black-box magic when interpreting raw captures (but not faring that well when used to shoot raw);
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Didn’t know this was debunked, my faith in iphoneography was restored a little! Still, I occasionally notice artifacts of computational processing—most recently, wrong color of a building (it somehow decided it’s yellow, instead of reddish
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I don’t know what are things you reference in (1), some apps? In (2), either you are speaking about consumer point-and-shoots, or you are speaking of features that can be turned off, or more typically have to be turned on. (Have you ever tr
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Different purposes of computational capabilities in modern cameras vs. phones place them reliably in different categories. The former aim to computationally adjust settings and make it easier to capture raw scene data the way you intend. Th
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A classless CSS framework is a good fit if you’re looking for a simple and lightweight solution that doesn’t require dipping into Node ecosystem or learning an idiomatic class name system. Why not just use Tailwind? It, for example, essenti
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Not to argue against HTTPS, but it is not foolproof in case of a MITM on ISP level. I’m willing to be corrected here, but even if you (as a developer) use HTTPS, unless you are big enough that major browsers pin your certificates, initial c
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> So what did you mean by the 'just' there? It would be quite normal to read this as agreement with me up to this point, but no further, and I am pointing out some of the implications and consequences of adopting that position.
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> ...but if the evidence stands in contradiction to someone else's opinion, one is not to mention this inconvenient circumstance? That's no way to develop an informed policy on anything, or to become informed in the first place
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> what is wrong with pointing out that good empirical evidence exists, where it does? I think it’s OK to just point out that empirical evidence exists, although it’s better to reference an exact source. The strength of evidence hinges on
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> We apparently do live in somewhat different worlds, as I do not spend much time with the media you are complaining about, or their counterparts on the other side of the political spectrum What mass media do you watch, then? > I ag
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We must live in different worlds. I’ve watched US left-wing mass media a lot in the past year or so (news media like CNN and late night infotainment comedy), and saw this happening with some frequency. Hosts rarely claimed outright that sci
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> All over? I'm not seeing it. One example was given by TFA, if you read it: the vax/anti-vax argument. From my limited exposure to this (I am vaccinated but increasingly not into arguing whether either choice is right or wrong
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I believe part of it comes from disenchantment with religion, then subconsciously seeking for science to replace it: fit the same mindways and fill the same existential hole that previously caused religion to arise. Our minds demand an exp
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Favoring science myself in such debates, I do think often it becomes too similar to a religious belief, uncritically consumed and needlessly polarizing—even as itself it’s relatively narrow in its scope, building different models of reali
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It’s unclear whether without strong worldwide recognition and condemnation it will ever be out of the system, and I’m afraid what made Holocaust to be recognized and condemned is that those who did it started and lost a violent war against
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If slavery, segregation, religious prosecution, mass killings and forced sterilizations took place in the West at some point, does it make those things OK for the remainder of humanity’s history? No one was perfect at all times from day 1,
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“Doomestic cozy”
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It’s even more worrying once you consider that both NPM and GitHub are owned by the same company.
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I believe I should be able to do this with my GitHub repo. (Obviously, anyone is free to fork and I don’t expect to be able to do anything about that.)
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Regarding the Faker.js incident, I’m torn between two positions, however unpopular they might be: 1. If I publish a library somewhere, I expect to have control over its future versions, even if I want to effectively break it. If you have no
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The “unit” in “unit testing” is unambiguous across the industry, referring to a function or a class that you want to verify the implementation of. Trying to impose another meaning onto the word is a sure way to complicate knowledge exchange
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Just because you didn’t expect to encounter a word, why would you assume the author dwelled on the choice and consulted thesaurus specifically to impress you, and it didn’t come as the most appropriate word for the occasion like your choice
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> what is the difference between a token in a piece of code on the desktop and code on a server to third-party attackers, other than the server is a much more attractive central location to attack so that you compromise everyone at once?
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> If they mirror your interest, you two can take it up to the next level. If there’s someone you want to become friends with: > 1. follow them > 2. reply to and interact with their tweets …and, based on first-hand experience, get b
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In server-to-server, the client is considered trustworthy—no third party is supposed to be able to get the source or inspect memory, and OAuth secret can be a thing. But if you are, say, GitHub, how can you prove that GitHub Desktop instanc
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Somehow OAuth for native apps is never covered in “complete” guides, and yet it is among the most challenging (how do you verify an inherently untrustworthy client?) and quite frequently used ways of integrating OAuth. There is an RFC for t

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