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I think the problem is ultimately that LED retrofit bulbs are a fundamentally terrible idea. They offer terrible thermal performance, require the power supply to be in a tiny case …

Sure politicians should also be held accountable for policy failures but I don't think it absolves the people enacting an injustice from responsibility. "just following orders" is …

These are not comparable situations. Ideally everyone should do a good job, sure, but cops are in an entirely different position in terms of power and responsibility. as part of th…

except the study does not test for that. it somewhat interestingly shows that distinct vocabulary gets used for reds and whites once that context is established by a visual cue. th…

Wine is interesting because, while there is definitely some pretentious nonsense going on, the other extreme is hilarious as well. There are people out there insisting that it's im…

This doesn't seem to work very well at all. I frequently search for a particular vendor of something by name only to be served another similar vendor as the top result. It feels li…

Because film has a color grade built in to some extent ewhile digital does not. The "look" people built into the film back in the day because they couldn't just do it in post can s…

I don't think taken to this extreme this is true either. Sure for a given film setup you could come up with a better digital setup but that doesn't mean every digital setup is stri…

I'm pretty sure at this point high end digital cinema cameras can straight up outperform film in all but the most extreme cases (like giant IMAX negatives maybe) but that's also a …

I find all the arguments about why it's bad to anthropomorphize here a bit tiresome. It seems clear as day anthropomorphization is more appropriate to this subject matter than to a…

I'm a bit worried about this kinda stuff being passed of as "AI safety". no, making your LLM actively more deceitful and less aligned with user intent is not the way to make AI saf…

The paper makes a valid point in general but I feel it makes unjustifiably definitive and general statements and puts up odd goalposts. The section on emergence makes a very convin…

I see a lot of people being surprised at the risk benefit calculus leading to this decision but not many recognizing that the threat of people getting sick isnt the only issue. hav…

it's the missing word "study" In the title on here that makes it so confusing to parse at a glance

It's acceptable and can do a lot for sure but I was getting the vibe a lot of people consider more basically pointless which it IMO isn't. I think with a little bit of multitasking…

arguably the problem is the excessive use of the resource but that's kinda just the reality of it. I'm not saying it's impossible to deal with it but it's no where near the point w…

I'm amazed by the number of people here that think 16 or even 8 gigs are "enough" for everyday use. Sure you CAN live like that but it's noticably painful with even the most pedest…

ah yes sorry got mixed up a bit there. a doubling in linear size leads to a quadrupling in surface area and an 8 fold increase in volume and then I somehow got confused from there …

The thing is that the vehicles really aren't interesting at all unless you already have an energy surplus that makes the fuel cheap. unless you have that all you have is a vehicle …

It's just a matter of scale. make your tank 4 times as big and the surface area for leakage only grows by a factor of 2. also there is already a natural gas grid that can take a lo…

Hydrogen tech is a bit of an odd one to me since people rarely talk about the one good thing about it that might offset the otherwise just straight bad performance, you can store i…

yes the fact that it CAN be fixed is a huge plus but I think for most people the frustration of having to fix unpleasant UX decisions, clearly just made to get people to use their …

going from one to the other will always be confusing but as a long time android user I have to say UX has really been going downhill quite a bit. the same could be true for ios but…

Android is more customizable for sure but the default behavior does matter and the default state of android devices almost invariably feels advesarial and cheap. Bloat wear, ugly l…

I think a lot of it is the UX and design feeling so advesarial and frankly cheap. I'm a long time android user but lately I've been wondering if it's still a reasonable choice. I'm…