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I worked in a grocery store for 5 years in the produce department and we sold a loooot of unpackaged food to customers that came to us in a lot of packaging. From stabilizers to keep produce from jostling and bruising - all the way to the shrinkwrap the pallets came in with...

I dumped a lot of plastic into the trash compactor. I dumped a ton of styrofoam into the trash compactor.

Sure, it might show a desire to the producers of food if we shop better - but I doubt your food is as plastic-free as you imagine. And I tossed more plastic daily than the average household did in months.

The supply chain needs to be plastic free before we stop having a problem.

Every major city I've ridden mass transit in does this. They're not called conductors though, they're called transit cops. They're also still woefully ineffective.

I believe they are making an allusion to Grey Goo [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

> Desired by whom, and for whose benefit?

Desired by the lawmakers who passed the tax. And for the benefit of the larger group. A public health crisis is taking place - and if the sugar tax lowers the amount of resources spent on treating the widespread occurrence of diabetes, it will be a net benefit for society.

Yes, at the cost of your personal freedom to have readily available sugary drinks.

When you have a public health crisis, extreme measures need to be taken.

We can't drive on the wrong side of the street. We can't sell tainted food. We can't lie in order to drum up sales.

Society has restrictions on freedom.

Isn't that the desired outcome? Ideally it seems like coke and pepsi would be extremely expensive and a rare treat. Meanwhile the non-sugary beverages would be the ones most people drink.

But that's not what the license says.. it says:

* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * "This product includes cryptographic software written by * Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)"

I'm not a lawyer, but my interpretation of "this software" is OpenSSL, which wouldn't apply this clause to all advertising of discord features. It would be when they run advertisements that reference discord features that rely specifically on OpenSSL features. Which, isn't going to be that often, right?

> They know that they are violating this license; they don't care. They are free to clean up their act at any time.

Is this a known issue that's been brought up before? I've never heard of it, and would be interested to read up on it! I'm especially curious as to their response.

I mean.. I get your point.. but 9% is still a lot, and even if it's net-zero, the carbon sequestration going into that process can't be negligible.

It may be a click-bait factoid, but it's not like that factoid isn't an important one.

And yet the 20% of the earth's oxygen provided, and the additional CO2 the Amazon absorbs is kind of a big deal for the rest of us.

Camera sensors have a base sensitivity that will capture an image without additional voltage applied to it. Adding voltage allows the sensor to capture more information, at the cost of additional noise. The lower ISO values are also not usually the native, instead they are simulated in camera. The camera algorithms are pretty good these days, but they can still end up with clipping sensor data that you might want.

The native ISO isn't usually published along with typical product specs, but you can usually find it by searching online.

Aperture mode or Shutter mode

Sometimes you want to control for depth of field -A mode-

Sometimes you want to control for motion blur -T/S mode-

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Also, you usually don't want to adjust ISO to fix over/under-exposure. Shoot to your camera's native ISO unless you literally don't have enough light or your exposure is super off. Try to use the lowest or closest to native ISO as you can, and use the cameras built in metering adjustment feature (e.g. if you're under exposed tell it to over-expose by a stop or two...)

Well, historically NIMBY's are only successful when they are affluent.. basically, you have to be rich to have political sway.

If NOMS becomes a thing, it's pretty easy to assume it's only the people with political leverage who are going to get special treatment.

There are games that are focused on being profit-driven to a fault. Pretty much anything from Activision, and most of the stuff produced by EA.

But there's plenty of games that match what you describe. Sony has published a solid lineup for the last few years. The dark souls series is a very solid example of modern skill based progression.

DLC used to exist - we just used to call them expansions.

There's also free to play games that use microtransactions as funding - but they're all either cosmetic or slight quality-of-life boosts that don't have direct gameplay impact (see: warframe and path of exile)

And that's not even talking about indies. There's plenty of indie titles that are pretty much 90s games with modern quality of life upgrades.

Some quality games that meet or exceed the quality of the 90s era from the last few years (in no particular order):

- God of War

- Horizon Zero Dawn

- Dark souls series (including bloodborne)

- Zelda Breath of the Wild

- Hyper light drifter

- Enter the Gungeon

- Spiderman

- Rimworld

- The Witcher Series

There's a ton more.. and there's also a glut of games coming out in the next couple years that also look amazing.

The thing that exists today that didn't in the past, is companies exploiting psychology to produce endorphin rushes tied to microtransactions. Companies tying gambling mechanics to gameplay advantage (FIFA and Madden are egregious examples of this).

> Devil’s advocate here. Who’s to say they won’t use it strictly to deter drug trafficking and terrorism? Couldn’t they take steps to be transparent about what data is collected, and where it goes?

What systems would you put into place to prevent abuse?

What about bad cops who would misappropriate the intel?

What would prevent them from tracking non-terrorist/drug related individuals?

How do you prevent citizens from being followed and tracked without a warrant?

And if misuse or abuse does happen, how is that transparently shared with the victim?

This is a weak place to argue that slippery slope doesn't apply, since the government has already had a lot of incidents in the recent past where they said they weren't doing certain surveillance - and then it was leaked that they actually were...

If you could say 100% that these balloons will only ever capture data based on legal warrants - we might have something to discuss. However, I can't think of a system that would guarantee that.

Sound waves are physical. You cannot change the empirical outcome by doing the math differently.

Sound waves are indeed cancelled out by their inverse.

And in restrooms like that, I rarely poop. Only if necessary.

I'm pretty sure the lack of privacy in US public restrooms stems from illicit use and loss prevention. Not a cultural norm of acceptance of pooping.

My biggest question would be how many security vulnerabilities Google uncovered and disclosed on their own platform. If they are being good and helping other companies - great! But if they're also profiting by FUD'ing them - then we should call them something other than white hats.. grey hats maybe?

It's especially funny to me, since I apparently have exceeded my monthly premium medium article limit - and would need to pay to actually read this.

Apple has a lot of inconveniences that pile up. I want to like their ecosystem to the point where I dropped thousands of dollars to be here - but there's SO many day to day issues that I can't stay. My next laptop will most likely be a linux laptop and leaving my production workflows on windows on my desktops.

If they would pay attention to the usability of their machines they'd be amazing. But I can't afford pay thousands of dollars to work slower.

For some simple photo manipulation Gimp works - but it seems a lot harder to use. Plus it's missing non-destructive adjustment layers, and the brush engine is nowhere near as advanced as photoshop.

Inkscape is similar - everything is a little harder to do - and there's some basic things that don't seem to be in the application at all. Does Inkscape support multiple artboards yet? What about exporting multiple resolutions without duplicating the assets? The symbol support also was very lackluster when I used it last.

Krita lags horribly every time I've tried to use it.

I like the notion that there are open source replacements for these systems.. and I'd love to drop my $50+ per month subscription - but the alternatives aren't yet equivalents.

Nope, I've never had that problem with any of the Logitech mice I've owned. Which model has that issue?

I got the Razer Core X.

There is an issue where I have to plug it in right after windows starts to boot because the mac tries to disable the integrated graphics if it's plugged in when the laptop boots (which causes windows to not boot). But if you don't plug it in while windows is in the early boot stages then windows doesn't seem to want to identify it. Apparently this is solvable with a custom efi module but I haven't explored that yet.

Otherwise it works solid in windows. Pretty much the same performance as when the card was in my desktop.

I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices.

Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card)

Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to mention the charging port location. I actually replaced it with a logitech because it's pretty much unusable for any precision work.

Heck, I bought an eGPU enclosure recently because I had a set of nvidia cards lying around.. I can only use it in bootcamp though, because of course macs only support AMD cards...

Microsoft may be an abusive ex, but apple is pretty much the same melody with different lyrics.

A wall charger is exceedingly unlikely to electrocute you.

Far more likely to burn your house to the ground. Which will still get lawyers and executives to pay attention.

I just bought a brand new (released 2019) wireless Logitech mouse. Wireless dongle and charging cable are USB-A

I just bought a brand new (released 2019) audio interface, connects with USB-A

In fact, besides my recent 2018 external SSD which came with an interchangeable USB-A/C port, none of my newer devices are USB-C

So, this is more like... I've got my VCR and a DVD player, and all the new movies are only coming out on VHS

Edit: I'll add to this - it's also frustrating not having any other ports on the MBP as well. I recently had surgery and was bedridden for a while, and the nest of cables I needed for ethernet, HDMI, mouse, etc.. was insane. Normally it's not a huge deal, but there's a lot of factors that have been making me regret not getting a Razer Blade when I was deciding between the two.

I probably won't be buying another Apple laptop.

I mean.. if I were him I'd be doing my best to not let the CIA and NSA know where my Moscow apartment was located...

Feeling better and taking care of yourself is, of course, really important.

However, measles outbreaks and hate-crimes aren't going to stop because one does not pay attention to the news.

> Wrong answers on a math test are wrong. Software projects that don't compile should fail.

As a former grader and TA for both math and physics, I can tell you this is not the case. I've had students get the right answer the wrong way, stumbling into the correct numeric answer with invalid or incorrect math. I've also had students get 90% of the way through a large problem only to make a simple arithmetic error that lead to the wrong numeric answer.

Which student deserves more partial credit? Or should I pass the student who made math errors but got the right answer, and fail the student who grasped the concepts but made a trivial calculation mistake?

I bet the cop didn't give her a ticket though. He was able to assess the situation and recognize your wife was not in violation of the law.

If this system were backed by some sort of flag-and-review system, then this man wouldn't have received a ticket for scratching his face.

Which is proving to be much lower than that of AI.