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by mrob 3y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Rice bioaccumulates arsenic, and arsenic is a IARC Group 1 carcinogen with no known safe dose. Increased cancer risk has been observed even at very low doses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&
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by mrob 3y ago
I think it's worse than bad CGI. With bad CGI, you can use your imagination and interpret as what it would have looked like if they had unlimited time and budget. You can't do that with bad AI "enhancement", because it&#
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by mrob 3y ago
I draw the line at edits that consider semiotic meaning. Edits are acceptable if they apply globally (e.g. color correction to compensate for faded negatives), or if they apply locally based on purely geometric considerations (e.g. sharpeni
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by mrob 3y ago
>pixel-perfect sprite collision detection This is something that sounds like a good idea when you first hear it, but feels unpleasant when you actually play it. Most 2D games use rectangular collision hitboxes for good reason: it's
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by mrob 3y ago
It's mobile devices, not electronics in general. Social networking was around before widespread mobile computing, e.g. MySpace, but it was a supplement to offline social interaction, not a replacement. Back then, you had to make a cons
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by mrob 3y ago
Although they're not common nowadays, the 7400 series includes some more highly integrated parts, including a complete ALU. There's no exact criteria for what "discrete logic" means, but I don't think anybody would
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by mrob 3y ago
Pipe organs can have hundreds of milliseconds of latency, and it's different with every organ. Organists learn to compensate for it.
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by mrob 3y ago
The OS needs to track whether shift is pressed anyway, because shift is also used as a modifier key for mouse inputs (e.g. selecting text with shift+drag). If the keyboard also keeps track of it, it's duplicating work and introducing t
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by mrob 3y ago
Maybe your screen and/or keyboard is adding enough latency that you'll never get good results no matter what software you use. The difference between bad latency and very bad latency isn't so obvious. Have you tried gaming ha
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by mrob 3y ago
Oily fish have very short shelf life if they're not cooked or otherwise preserved. You do sometimes see them sold raw in the UK, but chances are they'll already be past their best by the time you buy them.
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by mrob 3y ago
It's easier to exploit somebody's computer using a USB drive, because it can do things like pretend to be a keyboard and spoof your inputs, and because the attack surface is "every USB driver", but we have to assume a sk
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by mrob 3y ago
Do we know if this exploit only did something if a SSH connection was made? There's a list of strings from it on Github that includes "DISPLAY" and "WAYLAND_DISPLAY": https://gist.github.com/q3k&#x2F
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by mrob 3y ago
Was there ever a public release of Twitter with no support for following specific users?
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by mrob 3y ago
IMO, it's not social media unless there's a social graph. HN has no way to follow or otherwise establish some relationship with specific users, so it's just a forum, not social media.
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by mrob 3y ago
Just intonation tuning of chords (but not melodies) is the ideal in barbershop music. Barbershop music also uses harmonic sevenths, which are not found in standard 12EDO equal temperament. I've never heard of anybody calling barbershop
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by mrob 3y ago
Pythagoras' ideas about tuning only make sense with instruments that have harmonic or almost harmonic timbres, which is true for most instruments. However, tuned percussion is typically inharmonic. It's long been known that inharm
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by mrob 3y ago
Correct. There's a reason every wireless gaming mouse uses a custom protocol + dongle.
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by mrob 3y ago
The latency penalty for wireless instead of wired in modern gaming mice is <1ms now. The inaccuracy caused by cable drag will hurt your performance more.
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by mrob 3y ago
The "loudness" button on old equipment is actually a combined bass and treble boost, designed to the make the music sound louder at low listening levels by compensating for the effects of the equal loudness contour. It's a gr
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by mrob 3y ago
Sadly, loudness war mastering is still common. People still listen to music in cars and on phone speakers. Low dynamic range sounds better with noisy listening environments and bad playback equipment.
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by mrob 3y ago
Looking at waveforms can be misleading because of the frequency-dependent sensitivity of the human ear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour It's possible the vinyl version just has less bass, and
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by mrob 3y ago
Where is that log file supposed to be stored? It can't be on the same filesystem it was created for or it negates the purpose of its creation.
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by mrob 3y ago
It's because blood bags are typically pre-filled with a measured dose of an anticoagulant to increase how long the blood can be stored. If they're only partially filled there will be too much anticoagulant for the volume of blood.
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by mrob 3y ago
The Wind in the Willows. As a child, I read it purely as an adventure story. Re-reading it as an adult, I realized it's actually two stories: one a eulogy to the British countryside, and the other a comedy about the self-inflicted trou
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by mrob 3y ago
>masked with N95s I see this as an example of confusion between population-level and individual protection. Widespread use of N95s is great at keeping the hospitals from overcrowding, but if somebody is serious about personally avoiding
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by mrob 3y ago
Products are already allowed to contain slightly more or less than is stated on the packaging so long as the average is high enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_sign By tightening the required tolerances, l
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by mrob 3y ago
We need virtual memory to avoid the consequences of memory fragmentation. If every process shares the same address space, you might be unable to start a process despite having plenty of free ram, because that ram is scattered all over the a
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by mrob 3y ago
I cook legumes in bulk and freeze them in individual portions. My usual breakfast is oatmeal and water in a pasta bowl, with the frozen food on top, all microwaved together. It all defrosts and rehydrates (rolled oats are sold already cooke
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by mrob 3y ago
That's a very small change that's a lot harder to see.
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by mrob 3y ago
Blender uses an entirely different paradigm: vertex modelling. The only true geometric primitives in Blender are vertices, edges, and faces. When you insert a "sphere", you're actually running code to automatically generate v

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