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Re:The Color of the Night Sky on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:44AM (#34896315)
The individual images are processed to calibrated radiance distributions of the sky in dsu units. Then the images were stitched to each other to generate hemispheric images in spherical projection. All of the image processing besides the stitching of the images was performed by our DiCaLum library written in GNU Octave.
Re:Fastbook: Listen to Audiobooks Faster on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:43AM (#34896308)
Researchers in Germany recently discovered that blind people can easily comprehend speech that is sped up well beyond the maximum rate that sighted people could comprehend — up to 2.5x higher. Faster than human vocal cords can even output.
Re:Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:43AM (#34896297)
Chrome scrolls the permission warning message container, so more than half of the warning messages don’t even show up. I’d bet most users wouldn’t think twice about installing an extension that appears to ask for just 5 permissions.