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by spuz 8y ago
The point is illustration of a photographic technique. If you simply say "The camera has a background blur feature" that doesn't mean much to most ordinary consumers or help them understand why they might want that feature. I
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by spuz 8y ago
Your quotes from the article don't support your original claim that she claimed that Samsung did not pay her for her photo. Just the opposite. I think you are reading the text incorrectly. To paraphrase what I think she is saying: &quo
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by spuz 8y ago
Someone else replied to another comment here the most plausible explanation which is that it's much cheaper and quicker to simply photoshop a couple of different stock photos. To go out in the field even with a phone camera requires fi
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by spuz 8y ago
I understand that the disclaimer would be missed be most people but I don't see the background blur photo as communicating "this is what our camera can do". To me it says "Our camera can do background blur and this is an
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by spuz 8y ago
There is a small disclaimer on Samsung's site: > The contents within the screen and images are simulated for illustrative purposes only. I don't really have a problem with Samsung using a higher res DSLR photo for the purposes
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by spuz 8y ago
How is the /e/ Foundation and the /e/ OS different from Mozilla and the Firefox phone?
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by spuz 8y ago
What is the purpose of doing this though? Why would you want to find the original parameters of a scene that was ray traced? Wouldn't those parameters already be available?
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by spuz 8y ago
> No it is not. What claim are you responding to here? Simonh said: > He says general AI is on the same spectrum as the AI technologies we have now, but is qualitatively different. I'm sorry but that's a contradiction. Which
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by spuz 8y ago
> Yes, but some (e.g. ripgrep) don't actually do the same thing as the programs they are supposed to "re-implement". Most Rust "re-implementations" don't actually re-implement programs, they are new programs
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by spuz 8y ago
> it will be a hybrid kernel effectively. What do you mean by this exactly?
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by spuz 8y ago
I'm not sure how you can like this interview. It's extremely combative and the questions from the interviewer seem childish like she is deliberately not listening to Elon's answers. I'm no Elon fan but this is impossible
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by spuz 8y ago
I agree.
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For the majority, perhaps. Try telling that to the Uighurs of Xinjiang.
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by spuz 8y ago
> We already have solved the issue. We know how to produce massive amount of energy, all day long. We just don't want to implement it That means we haven't solved the issue. The solution might require as much of a change in hum
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by spuz 8y ago
Presumably if LIGO fell victim to a statistical fluke of noise in the data because they underestimated the likelihood of such a fluke then those flukes should have happened during the decades when they were running multiple detectors at low
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by spuz 8y ago
By far my favourite thing about Monzo is that the Android app is FAST. My old fashioned bank's mobile app is so slow and difficult use that I do almost everything with Monzo instead. If their app becomes bloated and slow, I'll be
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by spuz 8y ago
I think this is a cultural thing. In the UK, I would say more people automatically wear a seatbelt than for example Italy. I had an Italian friend who was in a crash where the car flipped but luckily his time in the UK ingrained in him that
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by spuz 8y ago
I guess I'm as much of a sucker for believing KitSplit's statement as the guy who lost his gear was.
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by spuz 8y ago
It's too much to expect users to read all the agreements they sign with a fine tooth comb. If we were to do that then we would also expect business transactions to slow down considerably. That is why there are laws against egregious hi
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by spuz 8y ago
That's because it's not true. KitSplit blocked the their from thief website according to their response.
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by spuz 8y ago
It's not clear which of the authors' claims you are reacting to here.
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by spuz 8y ago
As soon as renewables become more profitable than fossil fuels any (personal) economic incentive politicians have to subsidise the fossil fuel industry will switch to the renewable industry. Even the most corrupt politicians you could imagi
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by spuz 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. I've believed for a long time that tech addiction is a solvable problem and technology itself can be part of that solution. I have lots of ideas about how this would work, if only I could break my own addiction
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by spuz 8y ago
The article was posted one day after Unilad (the 4th most popular publisher according to this article) went into administration: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45744028
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by spuz 8y ago
As a piece of performance art, the stunt wouldn't have as much impact if it was shredded during the auction. The idea of establishing a classical 'value' of an object by process of auction only for that object to be classical
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by spuz 8y ago
Yes, in this case Banksy is clearly trying sell his name and idea, I can't dispute that. But the comment I replied to implied it was done in partnership with Sothebys in order to increase the value of his art and therefore make more mo
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by spuz 8y ago
Please tell me which other ingenious and clever marketing stunts Banksy, the anti-capitalist artist who refuses to allow his work or even prints (with rare exceptions) to be sold is known for?
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by spuz 8y ago
It's unlikely this was planned in 2006. That's a pretty big assumption to make.
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by spuz 8y ago
I agree choosing your own ending would be a big mistake for most shows including Black Mirror. Like I said, I can't remember where I heard this but I was hoping the kind of 'interaction' that Charlie Brooker would introduce w

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