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peto (he/him) @ peto @lemm.ee
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  • Exactly what I am talking about. Plenty of facists in the EU, plenty of non-facists outside the EU. Make your decision based on the politics of the people you are buying from, not what flag they wrap around themselves.

  • I think the buy EU thing (and for that matter, all this trade war bullshit) is one of those things that claims to be apolitical but is inherently nationalistic and so massively popular with/supported by/in support of the authoritarian right.

    One of those salt of saturn political things that lets people pretend they aren't right-wing.

  • Time pressure doesn't mean a scam, but remember the job application process is a chance for you to assess them as well. Some people think everything is a time critical emergency and they really aren't worth working for.

    If you are talking to them directly and they divert you to some application portal. I don't know, doesn't seem like it's that much of a problem. If they need you now, but can't cut through the red tape of a company you own?

  • I think it is more accurate to say that the sensor is always on, there is an inherent activation/purge speed in any semiconductor (though it is fast, especially with modern tech compared to early digital cameras), but it is always on, we just aren't always paying attention to what it is saying. There is an issue that it takes time to convert the information from the sensors into something useful to the device. You can store the time series output of a light sensor but this isn't particularly useful to photography, still or motion, and if you want to transmit it you would need one line for each pixel. Instead we encode it which relies on sampling the sensors.

    There are also considerations on how you want an image to look. Photographers will adjust things like exposure length and sensitivity to get the shot they want. Longer exposures collect more light, but you get more motion-blur. Shorter exposures the opposite. if you want to say, capture an image of a fly, you would go fast so you can get crisp detail before it moves. If you want a star you will go slow and use tracking to prevent too much blur but get loads of light. If you are a film director and want to give an impression of the speed of something, you might want to shoot longer to emphasise the blur.

  • There is part of me that says let them. Of course I'm neither a woman nor a politician but I don't think them whipping it out will have the effect they think it does. They are the ones that finds it sinful, after all.

    And you know at least some are going to set themselves up by asking if we can see it.

  • I know this is the common advice but I started with Consider Phlebas and it is far from unapproachable. There are some benefits of the PoV character being outside The Culture I think. As much as I liked The Player of Games, I much preferred the second half of the book.

  • Fair enough. It's not like I really play those kinds of games much anymore. I do kind of miss the mechanical intricacies though, rather than the middle ground we are in today.

    I might have a go at the problem myself now you have recalled it to mind.

  • For the sake of complexity, any non-1 failures. And ones cancel successes without reducing to zero. I don't need the solution, just if it currently can handle that kind of thing.

    Edit: can it handle if I don't use all those rerolls in the first round of rerolls, but can in subsequent rounds, eg, I only get 3 failures, and I then re-roll a re-roll.

  • I use a few at work, there are a very small number of websites that I want to open in a small window and keep pinned to my taskbar. The main benefit is that it means I see the icon a lot so remember it is there.

    It's also good if you want to run something without all the clutter of a browser interface in a small window (sticky note size) and don't expect to be spawning tabs.