[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 25 points 1 week ago

So what? You're awfully proud of your hangups. Everybody's grandmother had a lover or lovers. Everybody's grandmother FUCKED. Stop making totally normal life experiences weird and shameful.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.

EDIT: Of course you can't resolve an image through diffraction. That's not how pinholes cameras work. Diffraction negatively impacts image resolution, but it absolutely happens when light passes through them. But, although lens do use refraction to resolve an image, that same process also has unintended negative effects on image resolution (spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, etc.). I didn't bring up any of that because it was ultimately a distraction from the important part: narrow gaps diffract light, lens refract light, and pinhole cameras do not work like lens.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago

This looks like the AI slop youtube is always trying to sell me. It used to be impossibly chunky sweaters or Viking like tunics, now it's this I guess. It's always a similar kind of model, without a full face or hands, in the same pose in front of a nondescript background. I doubt this will turn out to be an actual photo of an actual product that isn't just a pattern cheaply silkscreened on to a similarly cheap linen. Fashion so fast it's marketed and sold before it actually exists.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 23 points 6 months ago

Because vector graphics take up much less space. That's the joke.

Now I'm going to put the joke out of it's misery.

Most of the illustrations, formula, tables etc. in a math book could be vector graphics, most of them were in 90% of the upper level math text books I've ever had, usually in only 2 colors. Many math formulas can be represented and formatted directly using only Tex or LaTex. Mostly physics and math involving more than two dimensions would have more raster images, even color. But it's not like the publishers are going to be handing out PDFs with original vector graphics embedded. That would make high quality knockoffs trivial.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 22 points 8 months ago

No, that's economics not politics.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago

35 minutes doesn't seem very long for an interview. Is expecting the presidential candidate to remain lucid and coherent for slightly more than a half hour too much to ask?

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago

You're conflating peer review and studies that verify results. The problem is that verifying someone else's results isn't sexy, doesn't get you grant money, and doesn't further your career. Redoing the work and verifying the results of other "pioneers" is important, but thankless work. Until we insensitivise doing the boring science by funding all fundamental science research more, this kind of problem will only get worse.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

Explosive decompression in space. It seems to always last forever, suck EVERYTHING out, even if it's a tiny hole through which a giant xenomorph is liquified. The delta P is like one atmosphere, pathetic really.

Then there's noise in space.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago

The real subversive move is to email the authors and ask for a copy of their paper directly from them. Science needs peer review, but it does not need publishers hording knowledge like dragons.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago

I've never really understood why golf courses always needs to look the same. Wouldn't they be more exciting if they reflected the local ecology. I'd think it would be more interesting to play a desert course, a swamp course, beach course, forest course, bog course, etc. Then again, golf isn't exactly known for being an adventurous sport.

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