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  • I think it is LED technology. LEDs have a very small bandwidth. Even white leds are just three very small small bandwidth emissions.

    The very tight intensity in such a small bandwidth is hard on the eyes. Even when compared with the same power of older lighting technology, which has a comparatively massive bandwidth.

    LEDs could be designed to compensate for this better. They could add more different colours of LEDs to the matrix that makes up white LEDs.

  • I pay $600/month for my "employer provided" health insurance
  • Private health care is very different in the UK. If you’re ever in serious ill health, or need anything remotely risky private healthcare will tell you to go to the NHS. It’s mostly GPs with nicer offices and NHS consultants moonlighting.

  • Blacklight – The Markup
  • I read it as just better than chrome, if you use chrome switching to any other popular browser is better. Not that edge is a particularly good browser.

    Firefox, Brave, Edge, and Safari offer stronger privacy protections by default than you get from Chrome, which is the world’s most popular browser.

    In the rest of the article they seem to suggest Firefox, safari and brave are the better options and point to evidence. And that Microsoft claim edge is a better option. Overall its suggest Firefox it better at evading tracking and safari at evading fingerprinting (largely because all the safari devices are so similar, and apple try to make them look more similar).

  • Vegan Nutella, made with chickpeas and rice syrup, to hit shelves
  • Nutella marketed it as healthy as it contained milk (powder) and hazelnuts. It was never healthy due to the amount of sugar.

    It was originally made with hazelnuts to make a cheaper chocolate alternative. But hazelnuts are still expensive so they bulk it with palm oil. It’s basically chocolate mayo now.

  • Highland Council is a prime example of Scotland’s too big local authorities due to ‘creeping centralisation’
  • This completely ignores why local authorities became more centralised and the Scottish Parliament limited their remit. Corruption.

    Local councils have terrible oversight and accountability. People don’t follow the developments in their local council, so their votes largely don’t reflect them. Larger councils are easier to oversee and more accountable to voters.

    The centralisation efforts has also made services more consistent and more affordable. Most of the UK has seen a reduction in the services delivered by local authorities. This hasn’t been as much of a problem in Scotland because centralisation helps to cap costs. In England local authorities struggle to build as many homes and they have many schools no longer under their control.

    The idea that local people should be involved in local decisions whilst an admirable idea, is practically very difficult with small local authorities. The elected members become less capable, easier to corrupt and less accountable. When only 500 people turn out to vote for you, no one even knows what you stand for or what your previous record has been. They are voting for the rosette. The end result is local affairs are regulated by the parish council tyrant. People with fuck all else to do and fuck all care about their impact on their community. Typically the local nutter that dodging the care home they should be confined to.

  • Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware?
  • Probably not much for people on a self hosting community, but those that want to get away from subscriptions and steal your data as a service cloud providers that might need some reassurance that they’ll have a working system.

  • Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware?
  • Nixos is an os that’s defined by its config stored in .nix files. Everything is defined here all the software and configurations. Two people with the same script will have the exact same os.

    Any changes you make that aren’t in the scripts won’t be present when you reboot.

    You could maintain a very custom linux distribution (kinda) by just maintaining these config scripts.

    So a user wouldn’t need to install all required software and dependencies. They could get a nixos and the self-host config and adjust some settings and have a working system straight after install.

  • Who Stops a "Bad Guy With a Gun"?
  • That is covered in this graphic as subdued by bystander, it’s a small amount and they include cases where people didn’t subdue with gun.

    They don’t stop a shorter before it happens. It’s not a scenario that exists. If you shoot someone before they draw their weapon to shoot, your the active shooter.

  • What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades
  • They charge as much as they can and have for a long time. They would still do it if they made lots of money from albums and streams.

    What’s changed is the secondary market is controlled by the primary ticket sellers and they have better awareness of how much they can charge. People expectation of ticket prices has slowly changed and the prices always push at that.

    Dynamic pricing exists now because it’s easier to implement. Not because the artists don’t have enough money.

  • Missouri reports human H5-type bird flu case with no link to animals
  • I think they are suggesting this man developed bird flu with no evidence of interaction between animals. Suggesting a person with bird flu gave him this strain of bird flu.

    The big concern with bird flu is that transmission between humans becomes viable. Then it can spread. When it’s confined to birds, only humans that work in chicken farms are going to catch it. When it can spread between humans then we are at risk of a pandemic.

    This just raises the alarm that human transmission of bird flu could be happening. Because they haven’t ruled it out yet.

  • Zelenskyy presses US military leaders to let Ukraine strike deeper in Russia
  • The risk reward of doing that isn’t great. Ukraine is unlikely to end the war sooner using the current western weapons against long range targets in Russia. They will need a recurring supply. If they blatantly ignore the terms of the weapons they have already received then they won’t get anymore.

    Best case scenario, Ukraine gets the go ahead and we hear about it after they start using them. But Ukraine won’t use them without permission, it’s too risky. If (hopefully when) they get permission it will be alongside a large delivery of these weapons.

  • Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
  • When you automate these processes you lose the experience. I wouldn’t be surprised if you couldn’t parse information as well as you can now, if you had access to chat GPT.

    It’s had to get better at solving your problems if something else does it for you.

    Also the reliability of these systems is poor, and they’re specifically trained to produce output that appears correct. Not actually is correct.

  • Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
  • You need software support to use them. But, it’s already common to support this. But it does take time to develop test and deploy this software.

    The software will exist in kernels, drivers and libraries. Intel already supports things like this.

    You may need to wait or use a bleeding edge version of your os to support these extra features.

  • Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
  • Yeah. I think they will struggle to match apple. By the time they do apple will have progressed further.

    Another big issue, is these features need deep and well implemented software. This is really easy for apple, they control all the hardware and software. They write all the drivers and can modify their kernel to their hearts content. A better processor is still unlikely to match apples overall performance. Intel have to support more operating systems and interface with more hardware of which they have little control over. It won’t be until years after release that these processors even realistically reach their potential. By which time intel and apple with both have newer releasesed chips with more features, that intel users won’t be able to use for a while.

    This strategy has intel on the back foot and they will remain their indefinitely. They really need a bolder strategy if they want to reclaim best desktop processors. It’s pretty embarrassing apple laptop and integrated GPU completely wipe the floor of intel desktop cpus with dedicated gpus in certain workflows, it can often be the cheaper option to buy the apple device if your in a creative profession.

    Qualcomm will have similar issues, but they won’t be limited to inferior x86 architecture. x86 only serves backwards compatibility and intel/amd. Arm is used on phones because with the same fab and power restrictions it makes better processors. This has been know for a long time, but consumers would accept this till apple proved it.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if these intel chips flop initially, intel cuts their losses and stops developing new ones. Then we will see lots of articles saying intel should never have stopped developing these, there really competitive relativel to their contemporaries, not realising the software took that much time to effectively utilise them.

  • Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
  • Extra components mean more specific hardware to complete each task. This more specific hardware can process the same data often faster and with less power consumption. The drawback is cost, complexity and these compose are only good for that one task.

    CPUs are great because they are multipurpose and can do anything, given infinite time and storage. This flexibility means it isn’t as optimised.

    People are not creating custom code to solve their own problems. They are running very common applications, using very common libraries for similar functions. So for the general user specific hardware for encryption, video codecs, networking etc will reduce power consumption and increase processing speed in a practical way.

  • Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media. The harm is more than skin deep
  • No, the people targeting children in the adverts and entertainment should face criminal prosecution.

    They know they’re targeting children, they want to target children and they already use methods to attempt to get over what protections are in place.

    Google have expressly told advertiser, that they can target children is they go after unknown users.

    The only people watching most of the content are children and the mentally handicapped. Most adults would find it too annoying. The people creating it know this. Prime drinks are an example of this, the groups associated with it regularly discuss topic and use humour that inappropriate for children and often plays with sexist, racist and intolerant themes. They wanted to sell alcoholic drinks with their branding, but realised there was no market for it because most of their viewers are under 12.

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