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by wyager 4y ago
Seriously, comparing my OP-1 ($1400, made in china, buggy, bad QC, small and simple hardware) with my Analog Rytm mkII ($1700, made in sweden, reliable, impeccable QC, larger and much more complex hardware) - the margins on these TE gizmos
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by wyager 4y ago
Also, intelligence maybe lets you pick out a pareto isosurface in job-space, of which money is only one dimension. At higher isosurfaces, the relative value of money shrinks, because material needs are met, because of the sublinearity of ut
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by wyager 4y ago
I can: the destruction of religion as a civic activity in the US. I'm not even religious but that's a huge one. Another is the effort (by HUD and others) to eliminate regions of ethno-cultural homogeneity. Both of these are A) m
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by wyager 4y ago
Worth noting that US homicide is highly localized. Certain cities/regions represent a vastly disproportionate fraction.
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by wyager 4y ago
I can think of a lot of (historically) recent changes in the American environment that are more alienating than cars.
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by wyager 4y ago
America has had a robust car culture for over 80 years. The obsession over safety is more recent. Stop trying to make everything about cars.
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by wyager 4y ago
Apple also uses non-standard HEIF tags to allow for HDR photo display of photos taken by Apple devices. Last time I checked, you couldn't (easily) take a photo from a dedicated camera (which has more than enough dynamic range to justi
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by wyager 4y ago
Sort of - (I assume for PR/marketing reasons) Apple doesn't let apps get access to actual raw sensor data. It may be possible to skip the steps that are causing the most trouble here.
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by wyager 4y ago
I think it could absolutely make images better on average, assuming their prior is at all representative. The question, though, is whether the expected benefit to the photographer in cases where it improves the image (usually somewhat small
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by wyager 4y ago
Yes, I meant to imply that dedicated cameras are committing the same "sin" here. I only meant physical IS is better because you don't need to do things like periodically read out the sensor. You are getting a true full-durati
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by wyager 4y ago
Agreed, Apple is really pushing consumer display technology. It's tough to find FALD 1600 nit displays outside of the XDR or the MBP. Apple has also done a lot for consumer color science. However, as far as the iPhone producing HDR HEI
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by wyager 4y ago
The text looks qualitatively very little like the true text. Almost all details of the text (including shape of strokes!) are hallucinated by the iPhone. I could import the X-T5 photo into lightroom or whatever and crank NR all the way up,
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by wyager 4y ago
OK, how about this - your employer has to pay you for the commute you would have on the closest possible housing option to your employer at the time you sign your contract. You'd probably average a whole extra 3 minutes of pay every da
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by wyager 4y ago
Mandatory commute (e.g. from site entrance to site) is considered work time. Commute you inflict on yourself by choosing to live elsewhere is not.
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by wyager 4y ago
For most of the people on this site that is probably not very significant in percentage terms, and even in absolute terms is probably easily outweighed by the cost savings associated with WFH.
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by wyager 4y ago
I did not know about that! Nice
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by wyager 4y ago
That <|> looks great!
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by wyager 4y ago
That's good too, but you still need one $ for a do block.
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by wyager 4y ago
For chains of function applications, `$` is more readable than like 5 nested parens, especially if the thing at the end of your `f $ g $ ...` is a do-block, which will span multiple lines.
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by wyager 4y ago
As with many sexually dimorphic behaviors in humans (and mammals in general), this flows from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis You can have a stable/growing population with only 1 male per n&gt
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by wyager 4y ago
> Most issues that voters care about are not local issues If this is actually true (which I am not sure about), it is a defect, not something we should entertain. > why do need a system to carve up representation along geographical bo
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by wyager 4y ago
I got to take a tour of SWRI when I was younger, and they have one of these chicken guns in one of their testing facilities. They also have a locker full of machine guns for testing bullet resistance of vehicles etc.
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by wyager 4y ago
Possibly so! However, often people will not only deny being able to see e.g. compression artifacts, but also react negatively to the idea that other people can! Frequently they will draw comparisons to e.g. people who claim to be able to he
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by wyager 4y ago
A lot of recent (high-budget!) shows are very incompetently graded and mastered. The recent game of thrones spinoff had a lot of scenes with terrible grading, where they'd clearly done something wrong in the grading pipeline - maybe
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by wyager 4y ago
Certainly not normal for me! I can now do it if I focus, but prior to learning how to do that, I would never have described my dark-environment vision as "noisy".
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by wyager 4y ago
No, eliminating the photon count filter would just make your vision look noisy/staticky in dark conditions. Most of the effects of LSD (patterns etc) are actually pretty well understood. It's probably caused by a stable geometric
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by wyager 4y ago
NB that CMOS and CCD sensors might have a QE approaching 1, but they cannot (yet) be used to detect a single photon due to internal noise (unless you get a really expensive sensor and make it super cold). For detecting single photons, you n
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by wyager 4y ago
You're not detecting the overwhelming majority of photons - only those few with an energy high enough to cause chemical reactions. If you were constantly bombarded with atoms at the same energy level (1.5-3.5eV), you would notice them
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by wyager 4y ago
16TiB is not a problem. I have admin'd postgres databases larger than that. If you use good hardware (ECC RAM) and an error-correcting filesystem (ZFS) you are generally good to go. Typically for postgres, DB corruption issues are iso
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by wyager 4y ago
Why do you think certified engineering professions make a fraction of the money of computer engineering/software dev?

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