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- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 days ago:
It’s also the speed of news now. When you had a edition a day in print there was time to do research.
Now with instant publishing on the web it’s more important to get the basic story out fast. With the hope it’s the one that sites like reddit pickup.
- Comment on is white light "white" because that's what our start emits? 1 week ago:
So white light is when your brain sees a roughly matched signal level on all three color channels. So white would be all of whatever color receptors we evolved for the planet. It’s more of a signal overload than a color.
We actually can’t tell the difference between the mix of primary colors and the actual color. Take Cyan at about 490nm. Looking at it triggers your red, blue, and green receptors in a spefic set of levels your brain reads as Cyan.
However your brain can’t tell the difference between a signal at 490nm and the right combination of 440, 540, and 580 nm. So for example a tv can only show 3 colors but your eyes and brain can’t tell the difference between that and all the natural colors.
We are the most sensitive to green because it’s the wavelength least used by photosynthesis and most plants reflect it. So we evolved to be extra sensitive to it. Camera sensors are usually 50% green, 25% red, 25% blue.
A small number of women have a mutation allowing them to see yellow. So some women can tell the side difference between true yellow and a primary color mix.
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 1 week ago:
It’s got some clunky gameplay but I love the bad or bad choices presented. Three are also a bunch of nice clues. Like checking your amulet regulary can reveal storey stuff.
The true identity of the main villain is great if you figure it out.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 weeks ago:
More people need a transplant than there are donors. A lot of people die waiting for an organ. Some people are willing to skip the wait list and get their organ from non willing donors.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 3 weeks ago:
But you can’t remove pocket from firefox just disable it. Given that it wa also a close source binary blob that made firefox not completely open source I’m glad it’s going.
- Comment on Former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: What does a Gleason score of 9 mean? 3 weeks ago:
A 9/10 for aggressiveness and it’s metastasis to the bone. He’s done for.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 5 weeks ago:
Who could forget truly an inventionbefore it’s time.
- Comment on The Source 5 weeks ago:
Darkness is Void; Juffo-Wup is light.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 5 weeks ago:
Kings Quest? I played them on pc. They had stuff you needed the manual for but that was it. Did they change it for Nintendo?
- Comment on sus 5 weeks ago:
Yeah people not dating their partners partners is much more common than everybody dating everybody.
- Comment on sus 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some bad poly breakups. Once where the three all had a falling out. They jointly ownend the house they lived in together. Three were a few months where they all would just stay in their room as much as possible.
One of them finally managed to get a loan to buy my friend out of her share. Now she refuses to be dependent on a partner for housing.
- Comment on sus 5 weeks ago:
Yeah my fluid bonded girlfriend had a condom break with her other boyfriend. So she just told me and we switched to condoms until she could get retested. No big deal.
If we hadn’t been poly it would either have been a I cheated on you conversation or worse she exposed my to possible STD without my consent.
- Comment on sus 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. My polycule is small but my friend is in a big multinational one. They have a google doc spreadsheet with STD results and sexual relationship tracking (fluid bonded, barriers, etc).
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 month ago:
Standard pcb board is about .15mm .2mm flush mount screws are fairly common.
To be honest you are most likely better getting a new device.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 month ago:
I’d fix the mechanical with epoxy and then use a small conducive screw tapped into the exoxy as a bridge.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 month ago:
Yup the wire is going to be more tolerant of flexing than the glue or a solder joint.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 1 month ago:
Beep
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Gimp doesn’t have UI standards. That’s part of the problem.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
There’s no one like you in my ass.
- Comment on ZeniMax union "overwhelming" votes to authorise strike if Microsoft contract negotiations break down 2 months ago:
Probably their in house sysadmin drew it.
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 2 months ago:
Best president of my life (started with Carter). I’d give him a C- if not grading on a curve.
- Comment on Canadian parliament on lockdown amid large police presence: ‘Lock all doors and hide’ 2 months ago:
Looks like the man has been arrested. I can’t film find any info about why he did it.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 2 months ago:
Yeah I spent a week in south east France. Best trip I have ever been on. People were so nice. Paris was the only unfriendly place and It wasn’t bad.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 2 months ago:
Great expression.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 2 months ago:
To be fair a lot of human translators don’t bother to be accurate or capture wordplay. Some of the translations for netflix are so bad.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
Ah yes. Land Skyranger, open door, sectoid throws grenade into Skyranger. Evac with one survivor. Good times.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
There is a lot of truth to this old commercial. m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5DpaCvoCn0
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
I cut my teeth on Space Quest 1 and Kings Quest 3. Not only was the very spefic vocabulary a pain but so many solutions were a dead end trap.
I remember in Space Quest if you typed use [item] it would give you a message about not being a simple 2 word game and tell you to say use [item] on [thing]. It required that format.
Then halfway through the game the solution to one puzzle is use glass. Not use glass on laser. I has figured out the puzzle right away but it took me days to get the right wording.
Those games have not aged well.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 3 months ago:
So on 9/11 the fighters scrambled to intercept United 91 had no weapons installed. There were no orders but one of the two pilots sad the plan was to ram the cockpit bringing down the both their plane and the passenger plane.
I’ll add that very few fighter pilots will ever scramble a plane. There is a large checklist pilots go through before taking off particularly a fighter. When a fighter is scrambled that’s all skipped.
- Comment on Marco Rubio reveals that what Zelensky did before cameras started rolling is reason why he should apologize 3 months ago:
The Daily Mail song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
