tshaddox

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by tshaddox 2mo ago
With these health-tracker watches with weeklong battery life, and people leaving their watch on when they shower??
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
I'm perplexed how anyone would have trouble charging their smart watch 30-45 minutes per day, unless they have an unusual schedule like (near-constant travel). This is something I almost never think about or have issues with.
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
I mean it's just not true at all. We don't want police to torture people for information. We don't want police to detain people for questioning, even briefly, without reasonable suspicion. We don't want police to search
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
Again, it's about degree. And no, there absolutely is not a universal feeling of calm and security in places with conspicuous police presence.
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
The degree is the problem. I’d have similar complaints if each Flock camera were replaced with an around-the-clock staff of police officers recording every license plate.
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
I have family in this area in Valle del Cauca. We've heard from my immediate family and they're okay, but communication is spotty and we don't have a great sense of how bad things are yet. We fly into Matecaña International A
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
> The conclusion that life arose twice requires you to buy that proto-cells that grew on these vents and needed those metallic surfaces to survive didn’t count as “life”. Well, sure. For it to ever be possible to say "life arose mor
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
In this case Meta was found guilty by a jury of knowingly harming children’s mental health and deliberately lying to users about the safety measure they take against sexual exploitation of children. If a movie studio or shipping company doe
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
I don't know much about cocktails, but aren't traditional mixed alcoholic drinks an even more straightforward example? There's very little that goes into an old fashioned, or a Manhattan, or a martini. Just 2-3 ingredients ea
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
Or imagine a club where everyone cooks together and then cleans dishes together. Then one day some people show up at a club meeting with cooking robots that create 10x the amount of dirty dishes and then don’t help clean up at all. I bet th
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
> This is true, but as usual nobody can agree on what "doing it yourself" means. Not everyone has to agree. Just everyone in a particular group at a particular time. Grappling competitions exist and so do MMA competitions, and
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
> Also, many modern historical writings will display both Julian and Gregorian dates, particularly for dates around when the calendars were changing or when context is unclear (e.g. a historical figure who was born in an area with one ca
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
Yeah, and why not? There's nothing special about January 1. It's kinda like the international date line: you have to choose somewhere . Although it does seem quite practical to have the year begin on the first day of a month.
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
The British (including the American colonies) also did an arguably even more confusing calendar change in 1752, by switching the start of the new year from March 25 to January 1.
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
> Who writes computer programs that deal with pre-1582 _dates_ at all? People writing knowledge base software, like Wikidata. It's helpful to be able to display historical dates in any desired calendar, and also to be able to do dat
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
It's typically not used in modern historical writing when referring to events located in areas that used the Julian calendar at that time. But it is typically used when referring to events located in areas with no calendar system famil
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
It’s trivial to sell media or software on a disc such that the disc itself is not equivalent to a license to use the media or software on it. I don’t know of video games do this yet, but this was the case for a prominent PC operating system
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
Competitors have the option of not selling to big tech (and not taking money from VCs who will then pressure you to sell to big tech).
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Once it’s large enough it doesn’t matter what the aspect ratio is. Just make it the exact size of the wall in your TV room. :)
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Jack Valenti wanted to ban VCRs because he didn’t have more advanced DRM technology at that time. Publishers now have HDCP, so they don’t need to lobby the government to ban VCRs. They can just make sure to never license HDCP to any device
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I think that's also wrong. I think that the primary reason media publishers use DRM is not to prevent copyright infringement. It's really to exert power over the entire ecosystem and use that power to implement rules around conten
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
That's true, but for some things I require a bar much higher than "at least as good as I could do."
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Forgive me if my interpretation of this terminology is wrong. My impression is that "conforming" refers to assembling the final edit from the original source material, in this case literally cutting and splicing together film nega
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
As I mentioned, they obvious did a digital intermediary for visual effects shots. For Oppenheimer I don't think they was much CGI, but at the bare minimum I sure they did some digital compositing, so they must have matched their photoc
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
One important difference is that modern movies that shoot in 1:43 IMAX typically shoot everything with other aspect ratios in mind. So a 16:9 home release of The Odyssey is going to be less creatively compromised than an anamorphic film fro
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
It's only $508 per cigarette: https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=1196a&cclcl=e...
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Not every film. It was widely reported that Oppenheimer was color graded photochemically, and the 65mm film physically spliced (the editor of course worked in Avid with digital film scans). This means that 70 mm screenings were projecting a
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I think it's misguided to say things like "IMAX 70 mm has an equivalent of 18k resolution." But have you seen a 70 mm IMAX projection? In my experience, the 70 mm image looks noticeably sharper than an equivalent 4K digital I
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
If the angular image size (which is determined by the aspect ratio, screen size, and viewing distance) increases each time, it's accurate to say "you can now see even more of the movie." And that is typically what happened. T
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Aspect ratio by itself tells you very little about the theatrical viewing experience. What really matters is the "angular image size," i.e. the horizontal and vertical angle that the image fills in your field of view. This is dete

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