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I have family in this area in Valle del Cauca. We've heard from my immediate family and they're okay, but communication is spotty and we don't have a great sense of how bad things …

> The conclusion that life arose twice requires you to buy that proto-cells that grew on these vents and needed those metallic surfaces to survive didn’t count as “life”. Well, sur…

In this case Meta was found guilty by a jury of knowingly harming children’s mental health and deliberately lying to users about the safety measure they take against sexual exploit…

I don't know much about cocktails, but aren't traditional mixed alcoholic drinks an even more straightforward example? There's very little that goes into an old fashioned, or a Man…

Or imagine a club where everyone cooks together and then cleans dishes together. Then one day some people show up at a club meeting with cooking robots that create 10x the amount o…

> This is true, but as usual nobody can agree on what "doing it yourself" means. Not everyone has to agree. Just everyone in a particular group at a particular time. Grappling comp…

> Also, many modern historical writings will display both Julian and Gregorian dates, particularly for dates around when the calendars were changing or when context is unclear (e.g…

Yeah, and why not? There's nothing special about January 1. It's kinda like the international date line: you have to choose somewhere . Although it does seem quite practical to hav…

The British (including the American colonies) also did an arguably even more confusing calendar change in 1752, by switching the start of the new year from March 25 to January 1.

> Who writes computer programs that deal with pre-1582 _dates_ at all? People writing knowledge base software, like Wikidata. It's helpful to be able to display historical dates in…

It's typically not used in modern historical writing when referring to events located in areas that used the Julian calendar at that time. But it is typically used when referring t…

It’s trivial to sell media or software on a disc such that the disc itself is not equivalent to a license to use the media or software on it. I don’t know of video games do this ye…

Competitors have the option of not selling to big tech (and not taking money from VCs who will then pressure you to sell to big tech).

Once it’s large enough it doesn’t matter what the aspect ratio is. Just make it the exact size of the wall in your TV room. :)

Jack Valenti wanted to ban VCRs because he didn’t have more advanced DRM technology at that time. Publishers now have HDCP, so they don’t need to lobby the government to ban VCRs. …

I think that's also wrong. I think that the primary reason media publishers use DRM is not to prevent copyright infringement. It's really to exert power over the entire ecosystem a…

That's true, but for some things I require a bar much higher than "at least as good as I could do."

Forgive me if my interpretation of this terminology is wrong. My impression is that "conforming" refers to assembling the final edit from the original source material, in this case…

As I mentioned, they obvious did a digital intermediary for visual effects shots. For Oppenheimer I don't think they was much CGI, but at the bare minimum I sure they did some digi…

One important difference is that modern movies that shoot in 1:43 IMAX typically shoot everything with other aspect ratios in mind. So a 16:9 home release of The Odyssey is going t…

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Not every film. It was widely reported that Oppenheimer was color graded photochemically, and the 65mm film physically spliced (the editor of course worked in Avid with digital fil…

I think it's misguided to say things like "IMAX 70 mm has an equivalent of 18k resolution." But have you seen a 70 mm IMAX projection? In my experience, the 70 mm image looks notic…

If the angular image size (which is determined by the aspect ratio, screen size, and viewing distance) increases each time, it's accurate to say "you can now see even more of the m…

Aspect ratio by itself tells you very little about the theatrical viewing experience. What really matters is the "angular image size," i.e. the horizontal and vertical angle that t…