StellarExtract

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gozz is correct. You’re misunderstanding the nature of a digital signal. What the author did was convert a digital signal to an analog signal, store that analog signal on a bird, then record that analog signal. Whether it was redigitized after the fact is irrelevant. It is not a digital process end-to-end. This is the same as if I were to download a YouTube video, record that video on a VHS tape, then redigitize that video. Not only would the end result not be a bit for bit match, it wouldn’t be a match at all despite containing some of the same visual information, because it would be the product of a digital-analog-digital conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a shitposting community, it’s amazing how many people here don’t understand shitposts at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro wake up it's 1997.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only videogame my dad has ever gotten into (other than Pong) was NFS II SE. He wouldn’t race, he just liked driving around at 35 MPH and looking at the scenery. He enjoyed this so much he bought a wheel and pedals for it. I loved this game as a kid, and the fact that I could play it with a wheel. The song “Headless Horse” off the soundtrack is pure 90s cool as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Feces from a hiney, assuredly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That kaleidoscope is awesome! I kinda want to make one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the unseen worlds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically no, this photographer is putting flowers under a blacklight and photographing them, resulting in a picture of basically what a human would see IRL in that scenario (aside from things like contrast/exposure variances, etc). It’s not really the same as what UV sensing animals would see. These photos are of regions of the flower converting UV light into human-visible visible light (via fluorescence, same thing as a blacklight poster). UV sensing animals are seeing actual ultraviolet being reflected by the flower as well as visible light, so it’s not the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financially rewarding and you will always have a job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That same house in my area costs at least 10 times that amount. I was lucky in that I had “only” $80,000 of debt from my bachelor’s, a housing situation via marriage, and a career path with solid pay (after going back for an associate’s while working in a low-paying job post-graduation for 7 years). I only finally paid off that debt 2 years ago and I graduated in 2008. I don’t know how a lot of people manage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financially rewarding and you will always have a job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  College graduates (PhD or otherwise) drowning in debt and not being financially able to pay it off is common enough here in the US that it’s a trope, and likely the basis for this “joke”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our dancers have infinite curves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that’s poetry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The soil, I crave it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩: