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rasalason iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

Xerox scanners/photocopiers had this problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815

rasalason The Recombobulation Area (2023)

I knew exactly what this meant before reading the article.

I had to pass through a similar screening at the courthouse every morning while I was on a jury. (Unlike airports you don't need to remove your shoes.)

Pro-tip: If you wear a belt, get one with a plastic buckle.

rasalason C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

In my experience it's the "force inline" directives that can make this terrible.

I had a coworker who loved "force inline". A symptom was stupidly long codegen times on MSVC.

rasalason People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings

The full article is linked [1] and I can view it. See Fig. 1 and quoting the actual article:

"Specifically, 28.8% of adolescent men ages 14–17 were categorized in Class 2 (no sexual behaviors) in 2009 compared to 44.2% in 2018. Among adolescent women, 49.5% were categorized in Class 2 in 2009 compared to 74.0% in 2018."

For adults the percentage was much lower -- 3.8% rising to 3.9%.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02125-2

rasalason For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort

"Software toy" is the term most famously associated with Will Wright's products.

rasalason A Day at the Grease Plant

[1] says Eisenhower grease was based on "English asbestos grease" which I assume is "Compound 219" [2]. Arnold J. Morway is credited as the Standard Oil researcher who developed Eisenhower grease. [3]

[1] https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068120040?urlappend=%3B... - Popple, C. Sterling. (1952). Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) in World War II. New York: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). Pages 119-120.

[2] http://www.royalpioneercorps.co.uk/rpc/history_compound.htm -- "Taken from The Royal Pioneer, Issue No 40, September 1954"

[3] http://www.njinvent.org/1996-awardees.html

rasalason Complex systems collapse faster

There was an article related to this idea that received some popular attention last year [1][2] and one of the authors wrote a book on it. [3]

[1] People systematically overlook subtractive changes. Adams, Converse, Hales & Klotz. Nature, 592, 258–261 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03380-y

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26727878

[3] https://www.leidyklotz.com/

rasalason A Genealogy of the Idea of Universal Basic Income

> (also "free money for surfers"? wtf)

I was curious about the surfers as well. It's a reference to something John Rawls wrote in 1988:

"[...] those who surf all day off Malibu must find a way to support themselves and would not be entitled to public funds." [1] provides context.

In 1991, Philippe van Parijs wrote "Why surfers should be fed: The liberal case for an Unconditional Basic Income", which instead supports Rawls's surfers. [2]

[1] https://rawlsbasicincome.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/chapter-tw... [2] https://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/etes/documents/1991l.Su...

rasalason Weekly deaths in the US down by 7-10k for the week ending March 7

Were the high numbers from early 2018 caused by bad winter weather?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_North_American...

edit: Or the flu season.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932018_United_State...

rasalason Cellular Automata: Rule 30 fed as input to Conway’s Game of Life (2019) [video]

Watching this video caused some noticeable motion aftereffects for me.

rasalason French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers

Lombard (the CEO) won't actually be in prison.

"Yet since that term is under two years and as Lombard does not present a danger to society, he will not spend time behind bars under French court rules." [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-justice-orange-sen...

rasalason Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thresh.jpg

John Carmack in 1997 wearing what is presumably the exact shirt.