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Worth nothing it's less to do with the lens and more about distance to the subject. If you took a wider angle shot and cropped it, it would look the same (albeit lower resolution).
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How did he feel about the recent discovery of the aperiodic monotile?
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This is true in the narrow sense of it not changing the literal meaning of the sentence much. In a broader sense, using "kind of" a lot is part of a sociolect (in this caze zoomers) and you would lose some sense of beloning to tha
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It took me a while to find a through-the-lens view. https://i.imgur.com/7iwNBeP.png
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If you want to see a hardball-by-the-standards-of-the-games-press interview with Molyneux, this one from rockpapershotgun starts with the question "Do you think that you're a pathological liar?" https://www.rockpap
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Ah, good to know. I'm still learning the language and haven't gotten much into detail with talking about time.
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Swedish has two words for day. "Dag", same as the english "day", and "dygn", meaning "24 hour period". I'm not sure if you can use it in the way the author suggests that no human does, but maybe?
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Thanks for the reminder, tomorrow is the last showing where I live and I just bought a ticket!
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The fact that you are reading this text and it feels like something to be doing that.
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Erik Hoel has an excellent reaction to this letter on his substack here https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/ambitious-theories... "...as a fledging science consciousness research should worry about hanging o
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The parent comment mentioned "processed foods", and that's what I was attempting to define, not "ultra processed", which doesn't really seem to mean anything coherent. I think you're right about steaming t
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My working definition, taken from Michael Greger, is "nothing bad added, nothing good taken away".
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> friends (community) will give all sort of cheesy advice like "relax, go out, do sports" I get your point here, it's hard to get going with these things when you're depressed, but physical exercise is one of the only
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Triple-A is a designation usually given to a game, rather than a publisher, as it reflects the amount of resources and polish a specific project received.
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I think it probably depends on how far the writing system is from your own. Imagine you were coming from the English alphabet and learning Japanese. You put in the same number of learning hours, but in one scenario you only learn the writte
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"I have been learning Spanish for over three years now ... However, I really struggle with understanding spoken Spanish." In this person's case, it could be that they've spent three years on duolingo instead of practicin
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From the article Like in other countries, it will be possible to opt out of Street View coverage with the option to pixelate your home or business. Google is starting with a blank slate, so anyone who obfuscated their house a decade ago
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"The more stitches, the less riches."
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The union would kick out members who are strike breaking. It isn't possible to break the strike if you're not part of it. It wouldn't be effective to hold a strike in the first place if it was only a small minority of employe
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Digital work leaves lots of traces. Unions, at least where I live, will kick you out for strike breaking.
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There's an excellent song by the band 22 about this subject called "You Are Creating", which puts the creation of the art in the subjective experience of the listener, rather than in the artist. https://www.youtube
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Or the contemporary version: after enlightenment, the dishes.
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It really gave an insight into the mind of a troll.
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It actually starts with "use near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white". Near black against near white is high contrast.
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"Write drunk, edit sober."
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This is very close to the plot of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Highly recommend it if you'd like to see where this line of thinking could take us.
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Annoyingly, even though tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, the name of the element in Swedish is "volfram".
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Yes. See this video for a detailed explanation. https://youtu.be/_B17CElq6Qc
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Not only do adults in schools ignore it, they may even participate. Anecdotally: I was bullied by my primary school teacher.
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If you want to see lots of freely available scanned artifacts, check out scan the world. https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/full-collection
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