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91aintprime··on Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
Some blurring is like pixelization
91aintprime··on Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
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"?

91aintprime··on Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
I appreciate you asking this question, as it wasn't obvious to me either
91aintprime··on Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them

    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
91aintprime··on Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them
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

91aintprime··on Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them
> 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.

91aintprime··on Orbit Tessellation developer diary for Kerbal Space Program 2

    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
91aintprime··on Idempotence now prevents pain later
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

91aintprime··on Download the Entire Wikimedia Database
It would be interesting intermittent releases supplemented with diffs
91aintprime··on FFMPEG from Zero to Hero
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.
91aintprime··on Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
thanks, I hate it so much
91aintprime··on Landmark computer science proof cascades through physics and math
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

91aintprime··on Adult site leaks data of cam models
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
91aintprime··on Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
funny enough, a hash code defines an order on a set
91aintprime··on Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network
Your graph would be more legible as a matrix of (day of week) × (time of day).
91aintprime··on Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor
This is a very good comment
91aintprime··on Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
> I think
91aintprime··on Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
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.