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kaffeemitsahne··on Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
Because I vouched for it first (requires some amount of karma I think).
kaffeemitsahne··on Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can
I'm pretty sure I've seen some examples of this but I can't find them now. Besides the better-known pinhole photography, there is also pinspeck photography, and some random object standing in front of the wall could perform the function of the pinspeck.

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

(p.s. you seem to be shadowbanned)

kaffeemitsahne··on Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display
"There’s a lot more to the evolution, enough for a book on the subject, but if you had to create a list of what kinds of technology and methodology went into the Looking Glass (since they do not list it), it might look like this:"

Pure speculation.

kaffeemitsahne··on Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity
Most HN threads are not that big, I think it'd do just fine with (reverse?) chronological ordering.
kaffeemitsahne··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
>Every experiment in UBI says otherwise.

Has even one of these been a permanent (for the recipients) experiment?

kaffeemitsahne··on Reverse engineering the OP-1 drum patch
Ah, but can you power all of those from a battery pack and keep them on your lap on the train after taking them out of your small backpack? And all at the same time!
kaffeemitsahne··on Electrons May Well Be Conscious
Last I heard, integrated information theory is _not_ neutral w.r.t. substrate, i.e. to compute the consciousness of a human being simulated on a computer chip, Tononi wants us to apply the IIT calculations to the computer chip.
kaffeemitsahne··on Electrons May Well Be Conscious
Well, sure, there is something it is like to be that computer, but it is only accessible to the computer, which does not pay a lot of attention to what it's like to be itself generally. When you ask me what it's like I can try to imagine becoming the computer, but in the process I would cease to exist, so for me there is only the objective computer seen from the outside.

The only reason "what it's like" seems to make sense with other humans is because we evolved this nifty faculty of empathy. But if I examine more closely what it's like to be you, I also find that at the point I'm you, and thus have subjective access to your consciousness, I'm not me anymore.

So, it seems that when looking more closely exactly the same problem occurs when asking what it's like to be a computer, or a human, therefore the "what it's like" question is not a valid argument to ascribe consciousness to one but not the other.

kaffeemitsahne··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
>Most studies of voter fraud have shown it's negligible.

Source? If I were going to commit fraud I sure as hell wouldn't do it while taking part in a study. Curious how that is dealt with.

Of course I know about the related talking points of the other side, I just think it's curious that people regard "double spending" votes so casually.

kaffeemitsahne··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
>Voter fraud is negligible

Well, how do you know this if there are no IDs?

kaffeemitsahne··on If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution
Do you think there should be more, or less authors? And more, or less references? I don't get your objection.
kaffeemitsahne··on Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
See also: FF Chartwell.

https://www.scribbletone.com/typefaces/ff-chartwell

kaffeemitsahne··on Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
Funny to browse through their crypto portfolio for a while: https://a16z.com/portfolio/#crypto

For example, they are apperently invested in cryptokitties (the Dapper logo).

kaffeemitsahne··on Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic income
Actually...
kaffeemitsahne··on Zoom Falsely Claims Its Group Video Can Be End-to-End Encrypted
Where did Zoom come from all of a sudden? I had never heard of it before the pandemic but now all my lecturers at two different universities are using it. They must be doing something right at least.

(edit: not to be apologetic for the issue at hand, of course)

kaffeemitsahne··on Belgian biscuits, packaging, and copywriting
How would you compensate less fat with more sugar? They taste totally different.
kaffeemitsahne··on Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets
If there is government intervention every time, naturally there is no reason for anyone to implement robustness measures.
kaffeemitsahne··on How Much Toilet Paper? – The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator
Can't have <1 poop per day, it seems.
kaffeemitsahne··on 2019-nCoV may contain a gain-of-function for efficient spreading
I flagged this because the title was edited w.r.t. the actual article in a way that nobody here seems to understand.
kaffeemitsahne··on People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
Yes, this is the glaring flaw in all of them as far as I've seen.

On the other hand, who knows how long UBI would stay in place in a democratic country? It might get voted out in the next election, too.

kaffeemitsahne··on Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' its version of Stories
Advertising
kaffeemitsahne··on Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound
If you can predict this kind of market event I imagine you've got better things to do.
kaffeemitsahne··on Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
That ship has sailed for just about a century.
kaffeemitsahne··on Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
Which one, muscle or fat burning?
kaffeemitsahne··on IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history
In a bunch of the recent IOTA threads I've seen people shilling Nano. I'm slowly beginning to understand HN's allergy to cryptocurrencies.
kaffeemitsahne··on 36 Days of Type
Same for me with the browser occupying the right half of my screen.
kaffeemitsahne··on IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history
In many cases tokens were distributed on ethereum, which could later be used in the product once it got released.
kaffeemitsahne··on Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
This is amusing to hear in light of all the "saving face" talk about China.
kaffeemitsahne··on Monobloc chair
There's also this one, quite a bit prettier:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panton_Chair

kaffeemitsahne··on Our critique of Behringer's proposed TD-3 variant with Devil Fish functions
If there are, there must be at least equally many who are offended at "devil".
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