EmilioMartinez

Notably, pixel similarity along a particular order. If I understood correctly something like a vertical rainbow would compress significantly different than the same picture rotated.

This is patently so. Taken to absurd proportions, you can compress a specific rendition of the Mona Lisa with just one bit. 1 means Mona, and 0 is undefined behaviour.

Waiting for the Black Mirror ripoff of the movie

My favorite one was a site that capped the password length in the creation form in a way you couldn't tell it was being truncated, but then let you enter any length when you logged in. And being a finance thing, it blocked your password after three attempts.

A hard-to-cancel suscription is basically automatic theft, and should be treated as such

Agreed, and then there are titles like the article's with a similar over-assuming sentiment. I always read them like eg "Spiders are much smarter than the writer of this piece thought"

Most people don't want that though, and that is why VR was a bust (compared to last century's dreams I mean).

"Welcome to our walled garden, please don't eat from the tree of knowledge"

Perhaps FB made it too late

I meant specifically in the context of a pandemic when working from home is state mandated in many parts of the world. Arguably even constitutions have been bent.

This is just a framing issue and I don't get the hate here. It would make sense that ISP's openly decide to charge flat rates to users while charging special fees to really large content providers. What's ridiculous is that this is being settled in courts of law, as if someone did something wrong, instead of being just business deals.

Internet infrastructure and usage is relatively recent and quickly shifting, so the social/political/economic aspects are always trying to fit into legacy arrangements. In this case it was easier to preserve the ISP-user agreement of how content is served and billed, while using pre-existing infrastructures (courts of law) to settle who actually pays the extra bills. It feels out of place, but if you strip the legal content out it's just business deals about services.

The lawsuit and court rule are not really about "siding" morally speaking. It's about deciding what money collection scheme to use. You can either charge user for the internet they use, or simply target the really large content providers and split the bill with them leaving the user with fixed charges to worry only about connection stability when choosing an ISP. I'm guessing it was mostly contingency that created a culture where the latter became the status quo, and everyone is rolling with that. This is a long shot from a mom-and-pop website like you describe.

He meant the volume is arguably similar to torrent leeching, although that comparison is a bit outdated; Today it's easy to get high quality torrents that are orders of magnitude more network-intense than Netflix streaming, while in turn today's Netflix is orders of magnitude more intense that old torrenting

It really sounds like a waste of time and money though. What judge would ever side with them? I would fire a lawyer that even proposes that seriously

Any source, extra info or further insight on that last bit?

Comes to mind: "Be the change you want to see in the world, and get paid for it"

The theory sounds simple, but my (barely) educated guess is that an "evenly lit grey card" is an understimated endeavor.

There is a reason why 3D rendering is difficult; light bounces an awful lot. Objects slightly tint the whole room even if unperceptibly. Lamps vary in intensity, and their shape affect the outcome. So how do you even set the scene up? With a small card the phone being so close can affect lighting. A distant large surface requires more distant lights for uniformity, o simply more lights. Getting the camera out of focus might be useful, but can't correct large scale phenomena properly. Getting the watermark is the difficult part imo.

After all that, once you substract it from every picture you take, every subtle mistake you made in the watermark generation phase will become your new watermark. You bet your privacy on your error being very close to the zero function across the whole grey card. As mentioned in every other comment, astronomers do these calibrations often... for a living. I'm simply not that invested beyond removing EXIF data.

>post-truth age

This sad term makes me feel like there are adults out there still grappling with the fact that lies and uncertainty exist

JPEG compression is calculated locally in small segments, so variations across the whole surface can still survive, each segment being independent. JPEG is not "meant" to remove detail, more like prioritize large-scale phenomena, which in this case would preserve imbalances between segments.

>It completely destroyed the anglo-centric epochism I was taught in school.

Could you elaborate on the worldview you were taught?

Dabrowski's overexcitabilities and his theory of positive desintegration is a deep rabbit hole. Simply put, he argued that gifted people transcended levels of humanity through their emotional intensity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration

http://positivedisintegration.com/

>It allows the seller to have a huge markup on buyers who have little experience or time

Honestly, that sounds like ripping people off to me. An important part of social mobility is being able to venture into different businesses. Experience in a subject is an advantage in many dimentions, but having to learn new things while having your suppliers exploit your inexperience sounds like an unjust burden.

They figured out how to market genocide to western audiences

You might enjoy this take on the matter:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YtRfmao1vvs

>Worse, the ferrous rocks make compass needles whirl erratically

ok, now that's a bit over the top, but that cape being impassible helps make sense of world history a bit

>at first glance like it belongs as a basic homework problem

The culprit is that (most) education involves churning through problems and their often formulaic solutions, merely with increasing levels of difficult. You get used to simple problems having simple solutions by exposure. It would have been nice to understand as a child that there's so much simple stuff not figured out, in many areas.

But presenting open-ended problems in children textbooks sounds like a quick way to confuse and anger parents.

And that's where apathy plays in.

Could you share what your political activism consists on, for context?

It's just as often that one optimizes for minima than for maxima (eg. latency or revenue). When there isn't a natural orden it's a coin flip (eg compounding latency and revenue in a single function). And anyways both are functionally equivalent by means of order invertion.

Personally, when speaking in abstract I stick to saying "local extremum" just to avoid this nagging question.

>sines and cosines are polynomials evaluated on the complex unit circle

Could you explain further?