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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Yea, feels like the swirly bokeh of a photo taken using a lens with mechanical vignetting or sagittal astigmatism (colloquially Petzval, but field curvature is both sagittal and tangential). (like https://commons.wikimedia.org&#x
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
No, I lied! It's not sorted! The observations of the other comments would be strange indeed, if it were. Looking back through old discussions, it turns out I'd misremembered a mix of speculating comments as fact. Most conclusively
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Just last week! Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32002486 (125 comments)
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HN top bar colours by popularity: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
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The Library of Babel site uses an invertible PRNG for mapping position and content to allow searching https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Wikimedia's statistics tools for its wikis includes a bubble chart of number of edits by a user per hour of day per day of week[1] (AFAICT a type of graph called a punchcard chart), used precisely for when you wonder this about a Wikim
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Context that I had to look up: sillysaurusx on HN is theshawwn on Twitter, whose replies to the submitted tweet this is a response to. (What makes that relative clause so hard to parse?) Meta: Is that an apostrophe as a username sigil? Wher
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Interestingly, in this /r/askscience thread:[1] 1) lots of comments are attributing the jerk felt by occupants to the vehicle suspension. But that isn't the case! The occupants visibly move backwards relative to the car body,
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
There's definitely confirmation bias causing me to not notice stops where there isn't a jerk. And perhaps by the Baader-Meinhof effect you'll begin to notice them more frequently, too. But stops without any perceptible jerk a
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I wonder why animation hasn't enabled more experimental cinematography unhampered by physical limitations. So many possibilities: Long takes are exponentially more difficult to film IRL with increasing duration, yet come at no extra co
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
In-camera-phone processing has the advantage of access to depth and accelerometer data recorded during potentially multiple sequential exposures of multiple cameras for stacking and motion blur deconvolution. There's a parallel in the
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The pinnacle of the multiple camera trend: spanning the entire back surface of a phone, a single light field sensor!
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Also seen in the planning of curves in roads (where jerk corresponds to the rate at which a steering wheel must be turned) and railways. And this is also why the passengers jerk of a vehicle jerk backwards after it comes to a complete stop.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Having first read your comment, the photo wasn't as bad as I expected. The supports don't look too unreasonable for a single wooden car with two passengers. Modern trains are an order of magnitude heavier--~20 people and a gross w
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Perhaps someone can make a comparison to lightning or firework shells, which are relatively common detonations of similar loudness. Difficult to characterize in words an explosion, though. In all cases, higher frequencies attenuate faster,
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Since when did news sites retract by memory-holing? Not even a 410... Archive of originally submitted link (archive.org crawler was blocked for 'unusual traffic'): https://archive.today/2022.07.08-043358/https
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
It took less than a week to Baader-Meinhof on this. Dutch has klootviol , "ballsviolin". But why that particular chordophone in both languages? How about our Germanic language? "fiddle" is synonymous and has the proper
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I knew someone from the Netherlands would elaborate! I actually saw the fact pointed out in a comment. It's brought up quite often here—even a fairly narrow query finds many instances: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=neth
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> Didn't IBM golfballs come in a range of colours? The first successful electric typewriters, made by IBM in the 1930s, were matte black, consistent with the glossy black & gold trim standard on typewriters since the very first
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I've only seen the posts about them on HN--see these searches for context.[1] There was a flurry of submissions announcing them around ten years ago that quickly tapered off. The original DC group looks dead, and the much-praised HNLon
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Or use, allintitle: attaching a prehung door But it seems that allintitle can only be used at the beginning of a query, so there's no way to combine it with non-title keywords. Engines supporting parentheses like Reddit's o
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At least the algorithm isn't totally amnesic; no other site remembers that content can have enduring relevance.
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The date range filter of your search engine of choice, combined with 'site:youtube.com'. You also get the other behaviours of that search engine, though Google probably has the most complete index in this case. I've also trie
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Reminds me of this comment hinting at a search technique that the user doesn't want to say publicly lest YouTube remove it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30630286 ( What is it?? :P )
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> Satoshi Kon, the director of Perfect Blue and Paprika (Perhaps these examples were saved for the subscribers-only section) Quite notable is the influence of those two films on later Western films--elements shots in Black Swan and
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
IIRC there was a central registry of religion in the Netherlands that had the same effect. Can't find anything on that now, though (it's mentioned in Wikipedia in an unsourced paragraph; I think I first read about it on HN, actual
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Tbf OP does link to research of its own[3] by a team with "a relationship" to the app. [1] is actually what last year's submission is based on. Following the references, there's quite a number of papers on flicker-induce
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Very similar to last year's post on the hallucination-inducing 15 Hz red/black 'Ganzflicker', https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27669211 Direct link to fullscreen flicker: (warning) kerblooee.github.i
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The HN meetups are still happening, right?
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Looks like a big weakness of DALL-E 2 is mixing up the properties of every object and of the background/setting. https://twitter.com/david_madras/status/1512573390896480267 https://www.lesswrong.co

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