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Unfortunately, CRI or Ra, agreed upon in 1974, is more of a "how well do eight pastels look when illuminated by this light spectrum?"

CIE's R96a (1999) remains stuck in a disagreement between scientists and manufacturers. This means that lights currently specified with a CRI value are advertising an inaccurate measure of their ability to reveal the color of objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:51AM (#50290071)
You couldn't play anything on a VT100 except "please mainframe run this program"

That's like saying you played games on your dad's Philips G8.

yes, it's measured roughly with "financial wealth". Finer details like "number of baby momma's" and "number of dollars donated to political groups" can be used to break ties.
it works now
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:21PM (#49794255)
They have suppressed reporting of the deaths and missing from Kyirong Valley and Gyirong Port landslide. Surviving relatives living outside the area would appreciate information but the Chinese Government would prefer that everyone just move along.
Re:Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:35PM (#48777595)
You don't use an LLM to create images, that requires (today) transformer model.

I assume that "AI can write binary" means "AI can use a toolset that results in a binary" because we've already seen GPTs use a combination of LLM and specialized math tools to do the things the original GPTs did.

Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:28PM (#48638524)
We could also slow down the motor vehicles to the speeds where drivers can react to pedestrians and cyclists.

And improve education all around for road users, including pedestrians, to widen the understanding of how individual decisions affect the community. For example, starting to cross the road at the end of the crosswalk signal leads to fewer cars able to turn right, which leads to more congestion, etc. Trying to make it across the intersection when traffic is moving slowly and blocking crosswalks and cross traffic. Opening the driver's side door with your opposite hand to look in the side view mirror or blind spot for cyclists.

What is RAVED?
We call it "dark" because we are sloppy.

The same side of the moon always faces the Earth. If the same side of the Earth always faced the moon, then only one hemisphere would be able to see the moon. Since you can see the moon from everywhere on Earth (not at the same time...), we know that the same side of the Earth does not always face the moon.

Unless you're thinking of the "outside" of the Earth. /s

"far-side of the moon"

There is no dark side.

"far side of the moon"
and murdered a bunch of Venezuelans, a bunch of non-citizens in the USA, collected from American companies and residents billions in tariffs... How about those Epstein files?
Re: on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:40PM (#46799736)
A reading group is one approach. Regular reading of software development blogs, even older ones, will teach you a lot.

Expand your professional network by using local meetups or other professional events to find a mentor.

Re:I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:37PM (#46799688)
It would be nice if the link to the 2027 calendar included the weekday alignment.
Re:Indifference is a power on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#46602009)
Key phrase "captures some of the sentiment of Stoicism". Her book could be cut down to about ten pages.

If Books Could Kill reviewed her book in April 2025:

"Peter and Michael discuss The Let Them Theory, a self-help guide to seeking bliss through unmitigated complacency."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RupLQH4eBnUX4mo1zAAFz?si=h...

Re:Workday project at Washington University hits $266M on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:02PM (#46260442)
We call those "change requests"
Re:Workday project at Washington University hits $266M on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:01PM (#46260432)
Its page load time is as if it's running to the first clouds...
Re:Workday project at Washington University hits $266M on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:59PM (#46260425)
I, too, made this assumption. Then I learned it was an actual product my ex-employer had selected and kept using.

It still didn't make sense why an enhancement request and a fix request couldn't be moved between queues. Or why I received three (at least) emails when an issue was closed.

Jesus saves but John makes backups and Moses takes them offsite.
"But the crane wasn't there yesterday!"
And that crane cable was much thicker! And it was two drones in a short period of time!
Yes but tradeoffs with delivery speed, and thin wires are still hard to detect with limits on vision processing.
it's an approximation of dangerous areas, catenary curves are more accurate than straight lines but you don't know the length of the cable so you don't know the droop height.
A cage around the drone, there are kids toys like this, and also commercial products for inspection. Prevents contact with other objects, contact can be sensed and reacted to. https://www.flyability.com/elios-3

Doesn't protect against everything, like Spanish Moss which dangles from trees, but that is a lot bigger than a long thin wire.

And google now says it has been removed.
I tried googling parts of that and could not find it. Is it online?
Re:DIY NAS: 2026 Edition on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:35PM (#46071442)
One problem I've had running a NAS at home is dust. My usual installation location is my pantry, which is where the network enters my apartment. Unfortunately, it is also the same room as my heat pump, so dust can accumulate.

Integrating a dust filter (not necessarily HEPA, but MERV 11) and the required fan upgrades would be wonderful.

Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:31PM (#45750220)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.695693...

This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

xAI, the company that developed Grok, responds to CBC: 'Legacy Media Lies'

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:32PM (#45686710)
So much of what DJT is doing should be disallowed but isn't. So we can disallow them and then add an amendment to reverse all DJT executive orders and pardons.

I'm joking! Everything will be broken by then.

Re:Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023) on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:52PM (#45609230)
My experience with dry needling was just in and out, no movement laterally or in depth after insertion. I'm sorry you experienced this.

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