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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:43PM (#27107968)
Some blurring is like pixelization
Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:41PM (#27107948)
The same effect can be great for sports, animal videos, and documentaries.

I would describe the effect of HFR as pushing immersion past suspension of disbelief into reality. You can no longer see them as characters, you see them as you would as if it wasn't through a screen - as you said, like watching actors on a stage.

Fortunately(?), humans may get used to HFR as we have with previous advancements in video technology. Remember when people were freaking out about 4K, 3D, HD, Color, "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station"?

Re:Where did the other dollar go, Jeff? on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:12PM (#27016408)
I appreciate you asking this question, as it wasn't obvious to me either

    clearance=17; // [50]
    height=150; // [300]
    r1=25-17/2; r2=25+17/2;
    for(xy = [[269,73],[85,170],[237,228],[475,280],[263,487]]){
        translate([xy[0],-xy[1],0]) difference(){
            cylinder(r=r2, h=clearance*2, center=true);
            cylinder(r=r1, h=clearance*2+.1, center=true);
        }
        hull(){
            translate([xy[0],-xy[1],0]) cylinder(r=r2, h=clearance);
            translate([237,-228,0])
            cylinder(r=r2, h=height-clearance);
        }
    }
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4841547
That is very funny. You could call it double irony: what you expected to happen is exactly what happened, but not in the way you expected it to happen.

I guess it's time for some old school analog printing. I'll see if I can whip up a 3d printable stamp

> You will make the technology more expensive and harder to use by majority of bad actors.

I mean, we do have encryption, which is cheap for users and expensive for bad actors. The question is whether an analogue exists for AI.

In a sense, there's three types of security: exponential, proportional, and logarithmic. Encryption strength is exponential, number of pins in a lock is proportional, and bug fixing may be logarithmic.

    Some napkin/WolframAlpha math:
    if you wanted to use simple x,y,z coordinates,
    with the sun at the center
    and be able to represent locations at 30 AU (Neptune)
    with an accuracy of 1mm, e.g. 30AU vs 30.000...0001AU
    you'd need ~16 decimal digits of precision
    which is the same number of bits as a double (FP64)
    of course there's better ways to do this,
    in the surrounding smarter comments
Re:Idempotence now prevents pain later on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:08AM (#26759090)
suppose you serve clients who want their reports to be generated at 02:30 local time. you could try to run a cron container for every time zone :bleh:, but with daylight savings, the 2:30 event can fire twice, or not at all!

instead you simply see if there's a report for yesterday, and if there isn't make one.

the edge cases are still there, see replies

Re:Download the Entire Wikimedia Database on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:03PM (#26377506)
It would be interesting intermittent releases supplemented with diffs
Re:FFMPEG from Zero to Hero on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:28PM (#26372865)
I feel like it's better to embed the tool in a language, or many community supported languages than embed a programming language in the tool.
Re:Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:07PM (#26297074)
thanks, I hate it so much
Hilbert's curve: Is infinite math useful? by 3blue1brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7h2MHQtxc

or skip directly to the conclusion;

https://youtu.be/3s7h2MHQtxc?t=978

Re:Adult site leaks data of cam models on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:05PM (#22067132)
I would love to implement an extreme version of this, where each night a cron job runs that prints directly into a slot of a locked box
funny enough, a hash code defines an order on a set
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:45AM (#21525376)
Your graph would be more legible as a matrix of (day of week) × (time of day).
This is a very good comment
Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:27AM (#20768410)
> I think
Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:22AM (#20768360)
That's a very good point, and the converse as well: Jet/Turbo is good when maxima and minima are nonadjacent, such as in continuous functions.