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Are they different ε or the same? TBH, if using quarter here is just shorthand for "a decade", so it might be easier just to say plainly "I spent over a decade in each of A, B and …

Yeah, I haven't been involved in film projection since late 1998. Back then, it was at my university student cinema, we had 70mm capability but only showed one or two films a year …

> ... the difference between 70mm and IMAX 70mm. One frame of IMAX is basically 3 frames of normal 70mm. Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It's alluded to in the article, but I had…

> Now we're being told the opposite. The choice of unusual film standards has always been to make the film a bit "special" when viewed in a suitable cinema. The original format 1.3…

I'm not sure they would have pursued it much TBH. It seems an incorrect username match was already a slam-dunk for the jury. Even if the defence had seen that the IP address was in…

Never heard of it, so just googled, but it's not obvious why these would be more preferable to annuities. As you get older above about 75, people tend to spend a lot less in genera…

Residential proxies exist. Even if they had picked up that the IP was from somewhere else, a decent lawyer could probably have been able to convince a jury that just showed intent …

"Open-weights models—it does not matter whether they come from China or anywhere else—do potentially present a higher risk than closed models, because it is very difficult to apply…

A few days late for the discussion, but I just happened to watch an interesting youtube video today [1] which seemed worth sharing. A summary of some of the points early in the vid…

As for the last point, I was contrasting "a painting might have been created 20 years ago but never made public until later in their life" and "from the date something was made ava…

> Everyone else gets paid for their work when they do it. They can even invest the money like everyone else. When you've hit it big with a creative work you are set for life. But w…

This attitude reminds me a lot of Stallman, and honestly, I fundamentally disagree with his absolutism about the ethics of being paid to write closed-source software. Sure, there a…

Reworking that a bit, suppose you work hard in your 20s and have a skill that many others don't have and can command a good wage for your work. You can make plenty from it, so why …

Would be be worse off as a society without Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, the Herbie series, and any of the many more recent films? If anything these film…

Limiting by total income disincentivises companies to spend heavily to produce e.g. films, plays, video games, whatever. At that point, you're effectively saying copyright is only …

It needs some way of clearing all data. I chose "don't know" on calibration because I couldn't be bothered to try to work it out (but my mouse will be on the low end because it's j…

It's even easier to detect from that. From the project writeup Q&As: 'The firmware snoops for the string "password:xyz" and inhibits the write of "xyz". Otherwise, yes this would b…

> Where did you get that the US emits 45x the UK? From the GP [1], US emits 4,632,164,876 and UK emits 292,419,359 tonnes CO2. Which, sorry my bad, is actually only 15x. Looks like…

> But their actions are clearly no the actions of a country who “believes in climate change”. I'd be willing to bet that you've not been to China. Shenzhen is a very green city, I'…

One way to beat this in terms of coding efficiency would be to use something like rANS (explanation [1], code [2]). You would have a more complicated decoder with rANS though, even…

You seem to think China is the evil polluter here. Just sort by per capita, and you'll see it's not even in the top 10% most polluting per capita. There are plenty of large (depend…

"big number bad" isn't a great way of analysing the data, because China has a massively larger population. The US emits 49% more CO2 per capita than China. And even with the much l…

Seems to just be a promotion for the Voronoi app, which it mentions multiple times. The first image contains all the useful content of the entire article, but it's limited to only …

Vogon Poetry [1]? [1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry

First I've heard of ATHD command. Pretty sure my modem would ignore anything after ATH, and if you did ATDT would fail without a dial tone. But obviously, you couldn't send them as…