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by jetrink 3y ago
I wonder if small planes aren't actually far more dangerous than motorcycles. A significant minority of motorcycles are operated by thrill-seeking people who routinely drive recklessly and avoid wearing safety equipment. They tend to b
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A hybrid approach would work well too in some situations. When I worked in wetland restoration, one thing we did to reduce the ecological impact of herbicides was to cut the weeds a few inches above the water or soil, and then to paint herb
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The first software I made that had users other than myself was a Lemonade Stand clone for the TI-83 Plus. I shared it with people at my school using a link cable and, as there wasn't much competition in the calculator game market, it w
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I have a story from my high school physics teacher as well. Before he was a teacher, he worked at Kodak on digital imaging. His group had made a discovery, and after clearing it with management, they submitted a paper to a scientific journa
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The Library of Congress has an archive of every tweet from 2006 to 2017. In 2018, they began selectively archiving tweets. I can't find how selective they are exactly, but as far as I can tell, the project is still ongoing. 1. https:&
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Chromatic aberration is a type of optical distortion and is a separate issue to color rendition. Color rendition refers to the lens's ability to transmit light equally across the color spectrum. If the lens is more transparent to red w
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> Color rendition is also impacted by the sensor, assuming digital cameras. Particularly since the old lens was designed for film, perhaps even black and white film. The choice of film has a much larger impact on color rendition than the
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Nick Carver, a photographer, had a really interesting video recently where he explained the progression of light at sunset. Prior to watching the video, I understood the primary phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering, so I didn't really exp
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The site is working, just very, very slowly, which seems fitting.
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I've heard this called the curb cut effect. (It's a subject right in 99% Invisible's wheelhouse and there is a good episode about it that mostly focuses on the history of literal curb cuts.) 1. https://en.wikipedia
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Spotify is the largest music streamer by far, being over twice as large as its next biggest competitor, Apple Music. It's natural that the company would be the biggest target for criticism, both for Spotify-specific problems and as a s
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One thing that jumps out to me is that the white fur on the animals has a strong green tint due to the reflected light from the green surfaces. I wonder if the model learned this effect from behind the scenes photos of green screen film set
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It is a challenge for these models to generate images of counterintuitive or unusual situations that aren't depicted in the training set. For example, if you ask for a small cube sitting on top of a large cube, you'll likely get t
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I think that's 99% true right now, but it's not something that will be true forever. Almost all AI images that you see today are the result of a person typing a description into a prompt and getting an image back. If you're l
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I see a lot of negativity, but this is actually one of the first things I tried to do with ChatGPT when it got Bing integration. I was in an unfamiliar town for a wedding and I had forgotten my tie. I asked ChatGPT where I could buy one dow
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The numerical and word versions are equal, but they're both wrong. 15 billion inches is to the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
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My proposed regulation is to introduce a hazardous vehicle license for large trucks and SUVs. Everyone is automatically granted one alongside their normal drivers license, but if you're caught driving recklessly (weaving through traffi
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> Thinking about it, I wonder if both people picking multiple numbers and adding them all up mod N would improve things. I bet that our bias against clustering and repetition when creating a pseudo-random list of numbers would mean that
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> I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds. Tik Tok directly influences the charts as well as video views are counted as streams. As a result, songs that are fun or funny to dance to for 20 seconds can quickly e
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Some additional context: the editor of the manual was Sam Leffler, who was a coworker of Lasseter at Lucasfilm at the time. > The later, more popular versions of the BSD Daemon were drawn by animation director John Lasseter beginning wit
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I would think that car rentals would be one of the slowest areas for electric adoption. You're immediately limited to people only intending to drive short distances, which is less common for car rentals than day-to-day car ownership. O
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I wish this would be addressed at the OS level. If a target popped into existence less than ~0.25 seconds before it was touched, a touch event shouldn't be generated. Humans reaction times aren't fast enough to hit a button that q
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To borrow a phrase from Microsoft's history, "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." AI proves to be incredibly useful and we welcome it like we welcomed the internet. It becomes deeply embedded in our lives and eventually in our bodi
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The Babylonians had similar ideas. Code of Hammurabi, Law 229: If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
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What separates a $300 button from say a $60 button? Is it like an airplane part where has a special rating or is it actually that much more reliable?
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They are more cone-shaped than cylindrical. 1. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Illustration-of-the-rein...
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Since they've gone to the trouble of protecting it with an insecure hash, couldn't they also have designed this hardware feature so that it could be completely disabled until the device is rebooted? This vulnerability doesn't
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For 35mm, flatbeds just do not have comparable resolution to a digital camera with a good macro lens. The most you'll get out of the best flatbed is about 2300dpi (measured from resolved detail, not pixels). Generally, you end up with
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Something to consider is if you might have children and grandchildren who will stumble on them someday. One of my favorite things to do when I visited my grandparents was to go down into their basement and flip through their collections of
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> We’ve indexed over 100 million pages > [W]e’re crawling up to a million pages a day, as you can see on our stats page. > Given that Mwmbl is still relatively unknown, it seems plausible that we can reach our target of crawling th

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