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e0on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats

In his 60 Minutes profile, Nolan shows how The Odyssey was color corrected optically

    https://youtu.be/1GEqDZ3hQSo?si=8AP4TI9iY9otLrjM&t=271

I had the same question. I wondered why seeing a 70mm print was supposed to matter if it was going to get digitally edited and color graded anyhow. The answer turned out to be that neither of my speculations were true.

e0on The Bad Politics of Bad Posture

"There’s little evidence slouching is unhealthy. So why do Americans believe so firmly in sitting up straight?"

e0on Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer

Perhaps sqlite-vss? It adds vector searches to sqlite.

https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss

e0on Receive push notifications from your rice cooker

Convenience. Rice cookers are very much fire-and-forget systems.

e0on Japan’s silent movie culture is still going

Huh! Coincidentally YouTube suggested this older video about _benshi_ to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWc__spYakA

e0on The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy

Things have changed. EPUB works now, and MOBI is no longer supported.

  https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G5WYD9SAF7PGXRNA

e0on Indigitalization: Indigenous Computing Theory – Jon Corbett

This presentation explores how Indigenous cultural knowledge can be used as a framework for computing science and computer programming. First, this conversation introduces decolonial computing and some of the problems with “culture-agnostic” or “culture-neutral” computing initiatives. It then proposes an Indigenization of computer science to disrupt established western design principles in computing by focusing on culturally-specific interfacing in digital technologies and computer programming.

e0on How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)

Regional variation? When I was growing up (in California, in the 1970s and 80s), we called them chalkboards because, you know, you used chalk to write on them. Also, they were often green.

Do you call it 'soda' or 'pop'?

e0on The Third Web

One can also pay through ACH, so it's not like they're completely cut off from the traditional financial systems.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of their users use each payment method.

e0on Beverly Cleary has died

It is, indeed, a valid an interesting opinion; but, given the situation, this might not be the exact time and place to feel the need to express it.

e0on Tony Hsieh has died

I did not find it hard to not make assumptions. Perhaps it's your approach to life that needs examining?

e0on How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation. He’s not alone

> Stuff like this is part of the price we pay for freedom I suppose.

That's really easy to say when you (and, honestly, I) are not the ones paying that price.

e0on Cyclists should buy a camera to capture accident evidence

What camera do you use?

e0on Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

That's awesome, but once you find an itinerary you want, how do you book the flight? Do you usually go to the individual airlines' websites and rebuild the itinerary by hand? Or do you send the 'fare construction' string over to a travel agent?

e0on A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits?

They did! For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonGoSnap/top/?sort=top&t=all

e0on 999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number

This is also the subject of the latest "Seriously..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05711xn

e0on Replacing Disqus with Inline Comments

404. Perhaps it was moved to https://txtpen.com/blog/2017/05/01/replacing-disqus-with-txt... ?

e0on Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy

Who said anything about taking out a fraudulent loan?

e0on British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane

Until the airline crew conclude that hiding the title of the book one is reading is equally suspicious. After all, innocent people have nothing to hide, right?

e0on [dead]

Discussion of this article is happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366265

e0on Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley

Here's a direct link to the Andy Grove's opinion piece referenced in the article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grove...

e0on The Rise of Renting in the U.S

Fear of violent crime. I'm not saying it's reasonable (statistically speaking), just that it's there.

e0on How a Legal Journalist Got Fired for a Non-Compete

Trade secrets are already specifically protected, even without non-compete clauses (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trade_secret). A former employee that divulges trade secrets will get into trouble for violating that.

e0on The best icon is a text label

"Streaming is available in Safari, and through the WWDC app."

It's 2015! I didn't think 'Best Viewed with Internet Explorer' was a thing anymore.

e0on Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

And to pile on, whose bright idea was it to add items that aren't even available? Cinder, Eight, and Nebia look cool and all, but summer 2016 is a little too late for a holiday gift, n'est-ce pas?

e0on Jury Duty

Haha. And did she vote to convict or aquit?

e0on The problem of sleeping without sleeping

Barbara Oakley talks about this in her talk at Google, "Learning How to Learn".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd2dtkMINIw&feature=youtu.be...

She says Edison did the same thing too, but had a handful of ball bearings instead of a key.

e0on Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals

Ok, thanks. I read that, but I thought there might be some other, more dire reports of its use. I guess we just differ on what it means to destroy a book. When I read Jason's comment, it sounded like he was saying that the linear book scanner rendered the book unusable after scanning.

e0on Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals

Why does he say the Linear Book Scanner (https://code.google.com/p/linear-book-scanner/) destroys books? I thought the idea of the Linear Book Scanner was to automatically scan books without cutting the binding.

Anyhow, cool project.