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  • A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.

    EDIT: Of course you can't resolve an image through diffraction. That's not how pinholes cameras work. Diffraction negatively impacts image resolution, but it absolutely happens when light passes through them. But, although lens do use refraction to resolve an image, that same process also has unintended negative effects on image resolution (spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, etc.). I didn't bring up any of that because it was ultimately a distraction from the important part: narrow gaps diffract light, lens refract light, and pinhole cameras do not work like lens.

  • I think our brains are pretty good at ignoring or abstracting/simplifying things we see that we don't understand, almost too good. That's just magic, optical illusion, or hallucination. Getting high is like chemical circuit bending. I feel staring into the void alone won't be enough drive one mad, it's when the void stares back and forces awareness, or knowing, that one has to worry. The non-euclidian architecture of R'leyh is just unsettling, but the stare of a multidimensional being can't help but bend your circuits beyond their limits.

    There was that one short story though about FTL travel, wherein the conscious passengers must be asleep for the journey through hyperspace (or whatever that story called it). Some people stated awake through the trip and came out the other side mad. The hyperspace itself wasn't enough to break their brains though, it was just that an instantaneous trip from the sleepers' perspective, became an infinitely long (in time) trip from the waking conscious perspective. At that point, what they saw didn't really matter, it was a forced perception or awareness without the solice of "not knowing" that broke their brains.

    None of this is science, just rambling nonsense.

  • Can this keep num lock engaged? I swear my biggest frustration with windows lately is it's habit of randomly and arbitrarily turning off numlock after I've turned it on. I never turn off numlock while working. I never use the number pad arrows. I prefer the number pad numbers and use them practically all day. And yet, several times a day I find my cursor moving around the screen instead of typing a number because windows decided that it got to control the numlock function instead of me and the dedicated light up key designed for that function that has worked fine for me for decades before.

  • Yeah, King's endings tend to be a little messy and narratively unsatisfying sometimes. Gunslinger is easily my favorite of the series and just about every other thing he's written. On my last read through the story, I started with my original copy of The Gunslinger, then read through the rest of the series (reading the disconnected but related stories just before the final book), and finished with the revised edition of The Gunslinger.

  • No metal + oxygen = rust and sometimes that reaction is encouraged by a catalyst that remains in contact with both. You think they're going to go to all that trouble and not going to rinse and dry the tank when they're done?

  • You are already capable of communicating to your cat that you are in pain. Be honest. Make sounds of pain when they hurt you, the same way you would train a kitten not to bite or claw with malice. Your cat will understand. Just don't get angry. It's easy for cats to forget about empathy in the face of anger.

  • I see you prefer women that lack confidence and don't know their own worth, or at least won't advocate for their worth. If a man wrote similar lyrics, would you have the same issue with her song? After reviewing the lyrics, they don't seem all that different than 90% of the hip-hop and pop boasting that comes from men.

  • Agreed. 90 minutes to go 2.3 miles sounds like a snails pace. That works out to just under 40 minutes to walk a mile. Most healthy adults should be able to jog or fast walk a mile in under 15 minutes. A 5k is about 3.1 miles and most of the slow runners finish in 30-40 minutes. I would consider 25 minutes per mile a leisurely pace. 40 minutes per mile must mean a lot of signalized intersections. I've found a mile or two is the perfect distance to walk home from the bar after a night out (weather dependent obviously). Maybe Google thinks they'll be walking drunk?

  • There is a reason that I have fallen asleep during the extended 3rd act fight scene in every single god damn marvel movie since Mark Ruffalo became the Hulk.

    They all turn into the same movie, with the same fight. And these super long fights all seem to be surprisingly light on showing any of the actual real world impacts of such violence. Nobody ever gets seriously hurt unless the plot needs more sacrifice. But even when they do, the injuries mostly happen off camera and the blood never flows or spurts, it just instantly appears as makeup. It's really giving people a deep rooted and totally unfounded sense that violence both solves every problem (it doesn't) and does so bloodlessly (it doesn't). At least Batman knows he's not a hero.

    But really, the DC universe isn't much better. Think about how shocking a little bit of blood at the beginning of the new Superman movie was, before they basically destroy metropolis (which was rather expected and mundane). And then they only show the tiny fraction of people personally saved by Superman, not the countless mangled corpses buried under rubble. This may be why the public has trouble confronting the realities of war and violence.

  • Fake and real photograph used to have a very different meaning indeed.

    This is a "real" photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker:

    This is a "fake" photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker (in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex):

  • Don't sleep on that toothache if it is due to an infection. Tooth infections can kind of fast track to the sinuses and then the brain and go real bad real quick. Also there's the pain. I don't know how you can survive with that pain AND a tiny human. Probably best not to die on them because of a dumb thing like a toothache.