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I've grown rather fond of San Diego.

There's some irony in this comment. It's also a textbook ad hominem.

I love the ad and the stunt. I would have been as giddy as a child if I'd seen it in person.

It's also rings true to me that it's rather wasteful and destructive in service of selling TVs.

Shrug, what's done is done so I'm free to enjoy it guilt-free while also thinking we probably shouldn't do stunts like this anymore.

Besides food preferences, you're being very cavalier here about that extra $5.

I see this sort of remark every time McDonald's comes up and I always wonder why it doesn't prompt people to check their assumptions. Clearly they are doing well enough so you're missing something.

I think the odds of that happening are remote, but there is prior art from other streaming services for only serving reduced quality to clients that don't support DRM, or to clients that they just don't seem to like.

The technical term for the "stickiness" you're referring to, where a system is resistant to change or has a memory, is hysteresis.

They may not want to imply that didder's linearized rabbit is wrong, but I'm comfortable saying so. It's not just a little dark, it's way dark, to the point of hiding detail.

The linearized RGB palette is similarly awful. It clobbers a whole swath of colors, rendering them as nearly black. Purples are particularly brutalized. Yellows disappeared and became white.

On my phone, the middle palette doesn't appear too bright to my eyes, either.

Even the linearized gradient looks worse, .

Maybe linear is not best for perceptual accuracy.

Blender comes with two renderers: Cycles for production rendering, and Eevee for near-real time preview.

This movie was rendered with the latter.

Like any 3D package, you can also install other renderers.

So any perceived deficit in picture quality here is more to do with budget than some limitation of Blender.

It's nearly Apple's 50th anniversary. I've thought for a while now that a limited run of the rainbow logo on their products would be a great (and lucrative) celebration gimmick.

English has borrowed French words a lot. It has often imported the same word multiple times, and they frequently have different meanings.

Including entrée, incidentally, which gave us the entrée and the entry.

Even in France, in the context of elaborate multiple course meals, the entrée eventually stopped being the very first thing that was served. Soup started to take that spot, and gave us what we now call the appetizer, which used to be chiefly soup or salad but now could be almost anything.

For those elaborate meals, the entrée was just the first course of the multiple courses that were the "main" dish.

Separate main courses have largely fallen out of fashion, and they collapsed into one plate with a serving of each. This is still the entrée in the US and Canada, and that makes perfect sense, given the history.

So no, it wasn't just that it sounded fancier.

This example at least sounds perfectly natural to me, in California. I can remember my dad saying it, who was also a born and raised Californian. No German around whatsoever, shrug.

Anecdotally, I grew up playing outdoors on a farm, not much computer time until I was 11 or 12 or so, which is also around the time I had to get glasses with almost the same prescription strength as my father.

Either computers are quick to ruin eyesight or it was genetic.

You don't smell particles, you smell volatile compounds, mostly organic, aka VOCs. These are in their gas phase.

This is true of anything that smells. Food, flowers, the forest, breath, body odor, rain on dry ground, your car...

Many ingredients used in modern perfumery (scenting your detergent is still perfumery) are novel compounds, like galaxolide, but traditionally and still often enough they are naturally-occurring chemicals, although still synthesized in a factory from petrochemicals a lot of the time.

Article seems to be about a chemical reaction of terpenes with ozone, and the result is particles. Terpenes are a specific but large class of aromachemical, both natural and artificial. There are many others.

Even products marketed as unscented tend to be scented, to mask off odors from their functional ingredients.

Just adding some context.

Even if you did, "no strings attached". That's goodwill that's rare to see these days; these offers are usually a trade of a meager (relative to potential damages in a successful lawsuit) but expedient and guaranteed payout in exchange for indemnification and other promises.

I never noticed on my own that the sea level at the coasts is visibly much lower than it should be, because the Combine have been stealing the water.

Such an interesting detail and I totally missed it!

They did say they like it, despite it breaking so many "rules".

The article goes into almost tedious detail about where it came from, and whether it constitutes a "proper" font. I think you may have skimmed too fast.

That's been my impression, interesting to see it confirmed. They are very well represented on the roads here in SoCal.

They manufacture a lot in Canada and Mexico, though. I guess we'll find out what current events have in store for them and others.

To be fair, the biological mechanism for motivating behaviors is usually by making it rewarding.

They both have to and like to!

The iMac turned so many gizmos into various fruity colors that there was just no hope for color coordinating them. Our HP DeskJet with translucent blue accents didn't match the Compaq Presario next to it one bit, nor did it match the graphite gray iMac that did eventually make it into our house. So many minitowers of that period had a half-assed splash of color on an otherwise beige box, too.

Apple did a good job at it, I still like looking at their fruity period all these years later, but man, the imitators were ugly af.

Installing a codec pack was one of my first tasks when setting up a new Windows installation in that era. K-Lite was a popular choice.

Then WMP would play ogg, though you'd probably have switched to MPC and Winamp.

At what point does a public promise carry any legal weight whatsoever? If it carries none, then why not leave it in place and lie? If it carries some, for how long and who has standing to sue?

Genuine questions. Unlike "don't be evil," this promise has a very narrow and clear interpretation.

It would be nice if companies weren't able to just kinda say whatever when it's expedient.

Does it? Monochrome printers exist. It must either be the case that it's not viewed as necessary in this case, or there's some other way of encoding this information in black and white that color printers could use when not printing in color.

I think this rationale is defeated by the existence of monochrome printers.

Anyway, users also report this problem when running out of cyan or magenta. Either rich blacks are enabled or the printer is just a bad product.

I've looked into it before and I didn't find anything suggesting that it's a law. It appears to be willful collaboration with the feds and other nation states, possibly to avoid the attention of regulators, but it's all done in secret so there's not a ton of info.

Along similar lines, scanners and commercial software packages like Photoshop attempt to detect EURion dots and the digital watermarking that replaced it in currency. Obviously open source software has no such thing because it would be pointless, and it's not illegal that it doesn't.

For whatever reason, these antifeatures seem to also be missing from commercial digital cameras.

And yet, it is obviously true.

There is no upper bound here. The eradication of smallpox is money saved and suffering prevented every day for as long as humans are around.

Border screening clearly has a high failure rate, our recent experiences with this should be fresh in your mind. Besides threatening public health domestically, outbreaks in foreign nations are nevertheless a major economic liability. If COVID had never left China, we would still have seen a huge worldwide disruption, for example.

And anyway, screw them, we got ours is a shit perspective. Empathy should be part of the conversation when talking about so much suffering and death.

I don't know why you're asking me to answer questions that are clearly personal to you, and have no objective answer.

All I can say is, probably not none.

And maybe a note on diminishing returns, in that we might want to reflect on the eradication of smallpox and the near total eradication of polio, and what it has meant to you and to your community to not really have to worry about those diseases.

Less disease in the world benefits everyone. Very much a social good.

It makes me a little sad just reading your criticism.

I've got an OXO that has worked great since I bought it in 2014. It's an ugly piece of white plastic, but it's efficient, unfussy, ergonomic, and adjustable.

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