Pup Biru

at its core you’re still recording a number from 0% to 100% brightness in the image… if an image is more yellow, you’re adding some extra brightness to those channels, which potentially loses you information. it might not be noticeable most of the time, but especially around clipping there’s going to be information lost

all that said, i’m not a professional - i’m just an amateur with a blackmagic camera and a decent understanding of the data format it uses filling in some blanks

about 30% of eligible american voters voted against it

to a degree, but it’s much better to get it right when you’re shooting… you lose dynamic range if it’s off

if you do it often, i have a great little pack of credit card sized white and grey cards… they are an absolute life saver for fixing white balance in post

i’d say microsoft is the biggest threat because they hold a lot of critical data… if oracle snuffs out of existence, companies can probably migrate reasonably easily (don’t get me wrong there would be gnashing of teeth but alternatives exist), CRM there are EU alternatives (ERP, whilst different, is i think a superset of this and yall have SAP which is german) which tend to throw money at companies wanting to switch, adobe… i mean, they don’t really hold business critical data - it’d be disruptive, but not catastrophic if they disappeared

microsoft however hosts huge amounts of business critical data - email, one drive, sharepoint, office, and of course windows: it’s easy to say that email migration is easy, foss alternatives exist for all of this, but the data is particularly problematic and getting users to embrace a whole suite of new systems is pretty difficult

slightly more info: when people say “dark web” they probably mean TOR. TOR has more users (privacy advocates, investigative journalists, whistle blowers, etc) outside of just “the dark web”, but this is the most prominent pop culture representation of it

this also means that some .onion URLs may be very nefarious… be careful with logins, payments, etc

people are very bad at weighing risks on an individual basis… “personal risk” in medicine would lead to a lot of harm - perhaps more than whats being prevented

Is my only option an AI-tested drug? Yes? Then I will not get any drug.

thankfully there are many medical bodies throughout the globe who run their own trials… EU does their own, and even australia/nz have a medical body that runs their own trials before approving new medication

the FDA approving arbitrary shit is upsetting AF and detrimental, but you as an individual still have information available to you provided by other bodies that is based in science

it’s more work, but use that information and you’ll be fine

here’s some resources for australia:

search for clinical trials: https://australianclinicaltrials.gov.au/about/find

general information about drugs: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/ (though i’m not sure how drugs that have failed testing show up here, if at all)

as an outsider, i literally don’t care about the countries involved… the EU is a model that works quite well (it has its flaws, but most other things have much bigger flaws)… if it’s all german, i mean, and…? if it works it works… i don’t know which parts are german and which are… french i guess? vs everything else… it’s a good model, and if countries willingly want to join in on a fun little cultural moment thennnnn where’s the harm in that?

because they’re part of the EBU… but also we aussies are part of it… eurovision isn’t about geographic area. it seems most “euro” things are kinda more “with ties to europe” these days. i think arguing on the basis of geography is a losing strategy in a heavily globalised world

i absolutely agree and considered using a different phrase but it’s been the phrase to use for fossil fuel powered cars for so long i decided they don’t get to exclusively steal it

1. EVs will never be the mainstream without federal and state project support

in not sure about that… imo EVs would be relatively comparable if ICE vehicles and oil didn’t have massive subsidies at every stage from governments… more if negative externalities were properly accounted for

or maybe not: in australia we have a fuel excise and EV credit and they’re still pretty expensive relative to ICE

honestly with online only games i’d be “okay” (not that it’d be great but okay) with them just releasing a bunch of internal docs around the spec. you’re right that open sourcing commercial code is actually non-trivial (though perhaps if they went in knowing this would have to be the outcome then maybe they’d plan better for it), but giving the community the resources to recreate the experience i think is a valid direction

and what’s even more ridiculous than that (imo) is that if every tesla mapped the area, you’d get it from loads of different angles: no more “oops 1 off computer vision edge case”

hey i’d prefer the flip flopping than just cutting support to ukraine

you can’t sign away consumer rights in a EULA… they might try and out them in there, but if it were law then they wouldn’t be able to enforce it

I really don’t understand the issue people have with individuals who are in safe red or blue states voting in protest

safe is not safe… in australia this most recent election we had a lot of “safe” conservative seats switch (🥳)

absolutely! it’s the “need” that i have issue with. we need to protect the environment from plastic. they don’t need to reduce their burden by washing a few dishes the next day

if god is real, i truly believe people like this will not “pass” whatever test life is… if you think “god” is rules lawyering you’re a complete idiot… what you’re gonna sovcit an all seeing, all powerful entity? either strictly follow all the rules or make the choices based on the intent of the rule or the origin (ie someone saying people always get sick from eating X so god must not like it is, imo, not valid when we find out about allergies and food poisoning but was probably a good general rule before then!)

need these things to adhere to their religious and cultural prohibitions

i guess orthodox jews didn’t exist until the ~60s if the tools to practice their religion weren’t available before then… i always assumed they were around much longer than that! /s

also, thanks for the explanation!