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by kunai 5y ago
Nicotine and caffeine are both mild stimulants and have nootropic effects. Weed hasn't done anything for me besides give me bad panic attacks and making me feel like I'm detached from reality. It does not have the same kind of noo
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by kunai 5y ago
They do smoke like chimneys though, which makes for some pretty surprising stats vis-a-vis lung cancer (lower rates than the US) and life expectancy (significantly higher).
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by kunai 5y ago
It always amuses me to see futurists with no experience in biology or life sciences and a master's in CS try to extrapolate the future of humanity and society. Some of the worst trends in modernity are based around unqualified individu
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by kunai 5y ago
Using flash on color negative film is a very different experience from digital. Xenon flashes do really well with film, and don't blow out highlights like digital, giving a smooth rolloff that's very pleasing to the eye. > mode
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by kunai 5y ago
You're correct in that the demosaicing algorithms have a huge impact on image quality as well, I'm just comparing the finished result of whatever Lightroom spits out at me. It's entirely possible the camera profiles are affec
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by kunai 5y ago
Polaroid has always been worse than Fuji from a technical aspect, but that's always been part of the draw, I feel. It's why Instagram got popular in the first place as the filters mimicked the colors of a washed-out Polaroid still
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by kunai 5y ago
There's definitely a difference in the way CMOS and CCD sensors render colors. CMOS does not do well with highlights. C-41 process negative film is still the gold standard as far as dynamic range goes, but CCDs and non-Bayer CMOS senso
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by kunai 5y ago
It is pretty mind-boggling. Makes the average turbofan's turbine assembly look like child's play, and those are also pretty ridiculous in terms of power-to-weight ratio.
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by kunai 5y ago
Right, but what I'm saying is that that still wouldn't paint the entire picture, there's too many overlapping variables and too few Tesla vehicles relative to market share of other brands to make any sort of sound or critical
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by kunai 5y ago
Absolute data points like this are pretty much useless, what would be more helpful is a percentage of deaths compared to Teslas out on the road vs. other automakers' cars. Still though, there's so many confounders (weather, types&
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by kunai 5y ago
> So the "direct control" you're describing isn't actually direct; it's mediated by the avionics, just like Dragon. Very true, but I'm more describing the difference in the UX of how pilots access the avioni
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by kunai 5y ago
I suppose if I had to pick between having a flight control stick or a bathroom, I'd probably pick the bathroom as well. Good point.
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by kunai 5y ago
> Hell, they shot 35mm film for SD for decades I'm not sure this is the case. Low-ISO cinema 35mm film (like Kodak VisionT 50D/250D) far exceeds SD resolution. How do you think Star Wars was ever scanned into 4k? Or 2001: A Spa
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by kunai 5y ago
God bless GM for still using tactile buttons and knobs in the (very sharp-looking) interior. The proliferation of touch controls for something as simple as turning on the hazard lights or lowering the sunroof is a travesty.
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by kunai 5y ago
That's fair, but traditionally the rule of thumb in aerospace and avionics is to compensate for every single possible edge case into consideration. (Obviously there are diminishing returns past a certain point, but assuming modified an
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by kunai 5y ago
One of the weirdest aspects of Crew Dragon is the total lack of precision controls for manual docking. There's a reason that most aircraft, even the most computerized and automated ones like the F-35 and Airbus A350 still rely on a joy
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by kunai 5y ago
Voting with your wallet doesn't work. There is no ethical consumption under our current economic system. The only way to end this is to end the global neoliberal anti-protectionist social and economic order which permits serfdom in thi
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by kunai 5y ago
While humans driving is ludicrous and it's insane how little we train drivers for it, one thing it does make easy is assigning accountability to the liable party in the case of an accident or some other catastrophic failure. Tesla&#x27
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by kunai 5y ago
I remember back in 2015-2016 when everyone was heralding USB-C as the one port to rule them all. Turns out, it's more like 17 ports in a trench coat to rule them none. It's been five years since USB-C became standard on MacBooks a
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by kunai 5y ago
That's a good point. Regardless of how it shakes out, I'm really excited to see the first images from Webb. The implications this spacecraft could have for understanding the question of where we came from are immense.
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by kunai 5y ago
I am fully aware that both you and I are in the minority on this website, but I agree. The promotion of SpaceX at the expense of other organizations that have been doing work besides LV development for decades is very disappointing, and it&
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by kunai 5y ago
One of NASA's biggest mistakes wrt the demise of the STS/Shuttle program was not leaving some way lined up to service Hubble in orbit. The current crop of launch vehicles isn't suited to this task, despite us being ten years
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by kunai 6y ago
With how much they've been struggling with 7nm, doesn't look positive. Zen 3 is already 7nm, a significant leap forward and TSMC and Samsung are already messing around with 3nm. I mean, 2022 for their first 7nm chips to hit market
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by kunai 6y ago
Is this really the end of the road for Intel? If you're a PC gamer who uses Windows or a Linux enthusiast, you're probably running Ryzen which blows Intel out of the water in terms of value and cores (and recently IPC as well), an
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by kunai 6y ago
IIRC this is also exactly what happened with IBM and original PowerPC Macs way back in 2005 that prompted the switch to Intel and x86. Funny how 15 years out it's the exact opposite now.
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by kunai 6y ago
Bingo. Wonder how all the Apple defenders like John Gruber are gonna spin this one. App Stores were always a mistake. Walled gardens were always a mistake. The people arguing that they were good because of security or whatever were arguing
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by kunai 6y ago
I'm always in awe of how out of touch a lot of SV people are. The Rust Belt has cities. They have people. The rest of the country has people. The San Francisco-San Jose axis and NYC/LA are not the only parts of the country that ma
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by kunai 6y ago
Why? It's pretty evident at this point that the whole Labour anti-Semitism thing was a cheap way to generate clicks and tank Corbyn-led Labour. Criticism of Israel's genuinely awful human rights record is not anti-Semitic.
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by kunai 6y ago
While I would love HSR in the US (and there is definitely a pitch to be made for it in the Eastern US where population density is similar to Western Europe) there are negative externalities incurred with high speed rail as well. Metal-on-me
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by kunai 6y ago
Not really sure why you're being downvoted, engine braking is a perfectly fine way to slow your car as long as it's done in a safe manner.

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