Today’s style is a callback to the 60s, and we’re people making the same complaints then?
We are?
Autocorrect changed “were” to “we’re” and I didn’t catch it
Modern decor may be straining people's brains
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#262I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines, open skies. These environments share a specific mathematical pattern: their visual complexity decreases predictably as you zoom in on finer and finer details" - What, isn't it just the opposite? Coast…
This article is an LLM-generated summary and it got a bunch of stuff wrong. Very frustrating. Here's the actual paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/10/2/34
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not like people don’t know the references, they just don’t want to engage in a public argument with you. Old Testament: Lev 18:22, Gen 19:1-7, Judges 19:22-23, Jude 7:7 New Testament: 1 Cor 6:9, Romans 1:26-27 And your accusation about Hypocrisy in eating pork etc: Laws of Moses superseded: Gal 3:23-25, Romans 10:4, Col 2:14, Col 2:16-17, Romans 6:14-15 by New Testament principles: Acts 15:28,29 and Acts 10:9-16
And what about this? Luke 6:34–35 - And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. I hear a lot of…
If you lend without expecting repayment, it’s charity. Here he encourages people to lend money to people who cannot pay them back (ie to poor people to clear their debt) and he will personally pay you back. Luke 14:12-14, Matt 25:34-46; the latter explains someone’s obligation to help someone in dire need.
The law against charging interest was under Moses’ law so it was abolished along with the rest when Jesus died. Useful principles added, covering not interest specifically, but condemning greed (which is foundational to late stage capitalism…); 1 Tim 6:10, Matt 6:24
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#264> Many LED systems use a dimming technique that rapidly switches the light on and off (sometimes hundreds of times per second). While this is invisible as flicker to the naked eye under normal conditions, eye movements can expose it This is what I've always felt too, but if you talk to any lighting "expert", they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ...". Highly s…
> This is what I've always felt too, but if you talk to any lighting "expert", they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ...". Highly suspect. Way before the Internet I had games running at 50 Hz (PAL). And we fully knew the difference between, say, a 2D game scrolling at full-frame rate and a game running a 25 fps: we could tell immediately. Same for intros and d…
Phillips “Ultra Definition” LEDs have less flicker than incandescent bulbs, so might work without needed to add an incandescent to the room. Here’s a review of several LEDs with measurements of various things including flicker.
https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/25-soft-white-led-light-b...
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Cluttered old homes with lots of things all over the place make it a bit less jarring when there's a stack of work left out on a table. that's wrong: my minimalist (in looks, not in equipment) all white kitchen looks completely fine even after a dinner party, because even then it doesn't look full, dirty or cluttered. The old one (and it wasn't that old, only there were more and darker colors and lines and objects)…
Rich is a mindset. My kitchen has three spatulas. One i bought when i moved out, mom’s and grandma’s. I don’t NEED three but can’t afford to throw two away. Rich see two extra and toss two because it’s just a damn spatula and they KNOW that if they ever need two, they can afford to run out and buy one. Now expand that thought process to everything you own. Declutter becomes easier.
I don't get it. Why did you buy a third spatula, if you consider it a significant expense (i.e you can't replace ones you have if they break), and you already have two.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is what I've always felt too, but if you talk to any lighting "expert", they'll say "no that's simply not the case with LED lighting since the year... 2009 or whatever ...". Highly suspect. Way before the Internet I had games running at 50 Hz (PAL). And we fully knew the difference between, say, a 2D game scrolling at full-frame rate and a game running a 25 fps: we could tell immediately. Same for intros and d…
> ...there's IMO a simple trick to make the lighting much warmer... Gross. That orange light is nasty . Light that's the color of the noontime sun during a clear day is far superior. People say "Oh, it looks so sterile and clinical !". I say "Jeeze... just give it a week or two. You'll wonder how you ever dealt with having every white thing look like UV-damaged formerly-white plastic.". I do agree that headache/disor…
It gets more complicated:
There's color temperature: warm white (~2800K), neutral white (~4000K), or cool white (~5000K and up). This is a matter of personal taste and what you're used to. Perception/preference may vary depending on lighting level: one may prefer ~4500K in a bright room, but prefer warm(er) white if same room is dimly lit.
Then there's the quality of the spectrum a LED outputs, usually denoted by color rendering index (CRI). 70 or lower is poor (cheap), 80+ is good enough for most uses, 90+ is high quality. Pro photographers may seek out specialty 95CRI LED lighting, or go for halogen lamps.
Parents' problem has nothing to do with the above! Flicker is caused by non-constant current put through the LED(s). Usually caused by cheap/crappy driver electronics integrated in a LED bulb.
There's ways around this. So you can have LED lighting that's nice to look at, flicker-free & efficient. No need to bring in incandescents. But it takes effort to find a fixture with a high-CRI powerLED of your chosen color, and combine that with driver electronics which puts a constant current through the LED (as opposed to varying current whose average is constant).
Search term: "Chip-on-board" (CoB LED).
Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains
#267I do not like much of the modern decor either, but there are some additional issues.
I think that they should not need to put all of the lights inside and outside even in the day time; the window should be enough light from the sun light (so, they should ensure to have enough window to do that). (You should turn off the light in the night time too so that it is dark in the night time (especially outside).)
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not sure what you are asking for.
My wife is working in preschool and wanted to have some examples to discuss with her. I know plenty of those for overrepresentation of AuDHD spectrum in IT (especially males), but don't know any for schools. Especially since women are often not that obvious.
I don't have statistics. My wife works in elementary special education. Previously to her current assignment to a classroom with assigned students she worked across the entirely of a large school system as adviser.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to be conflating Abrahamic religions.
I’m curious what you mean by this. Leviticus is specifically included in the Christian Bible.
Yes, the Jewish Bible is included in the Christian Bible, to use common parlance. Have you asked Christian scholars why, or have you perhaps just insisted on some naive explanation of your own?
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m curious what you mean by this. Leviticus is specifically included in the Christian Bible.
Yes, the Jewish Bible is included in the Christian Bible, to use common parlance. Have you asked Christian scholars why, or have you perhaps just insisted on some naive explanation of your own?
Two of these snarky, hand-wavey responses in a row is sufficient to establish that you have nothing valuable to add here. Take care