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Re:The Color of the Night Sky
on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:10AM (#34896751)
A model spectrum can be calculated based on the spectral components that are provided in Table 1 and in Figure 1 and Figure 2, with any relative ratio of the different components. Subsequently, we followed a standard procedure to calculate the CIE xy colours for a given spectral distribution
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Re:Fastbook: Listen to Audiobooks Faster
on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:10AM (#34896749)
It’s interesting to learn how fast you can go to keep your comprehension levels high. The Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research conducted a study where they found that an average sighted person can understand up to six syllables per second of any given speech. Blind people, however, can understand up to 25 syllables per second.
Re:Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything
on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:10AM (#34896746)
When it spots a user visiting an ecommerce platform where the attacker has an affiliate account, it replaces or changes the cookie to make it look like the users are visiting on affiliate links. Apparently, whenever the user buys anything from these alleged affiliate sites, the attacker gets paid as a commission and that’s pretty much how it works.