In some ways phone cameras are very impressive, since CCDs are now cheap and good enough that they’re no longer the bottleneck. All the computational photography stuff they do boosts their capabilities even more.

The thing that really limits them is the size and optical quality of their lenses.

Someone should post a Chinese cabbage or Jerusalem artichoke as well.

Reminds me a lot of this image:

I’m not trying to be mean when I say this, but to me your comment sounds a little bit like “I know you guys are starving but if you ever solve that issue make sure you don’t go too far in the other direction. I sometimes buy food that I don’t end up using, which is fairly pointless.”

I wish the biggest grievance I had with my country’s politics was that some of the parties are redundant. I think I’d be willing to give up a limb or two for that actually.

That’s a veritasium clickbait video.

While it’s true that no voting system is completely perfect that’s a little bit like saying that no one’s body is completely perfect, so trying to be healthy is pointless. The efficacy of voting systems can in fact be quantified and compared based on baysian regret, and some are better than others.

That’s for single winner elections. Almost any proportional system is going to be better than any single winner system, with the added benefit of eliminating gerrymandering. Presumably the best proportional system available is proportional score voting, but I don’t know if there’s been rigorous mathematical analysis of that yet.

Most diagrams don’t include the mesentery, so people just think their intestines are sitting there like a pile of rope inside their torso.

Solar panels aren’t worth it for a normal EV, but supposedly the Aptera is so small, lightweight, and aerodynamic (with that teardrop shape) that they actually add a significant amount of range.

Remember back when the progress bar on the nyancat video was a nyancat?

That sounds really interesting. I never thought about it that way before but I guess (dry) snow isn’t very conductive.

Are there any articles about or pictures of this project out there anywhere?

Humans need to move around to be healthy regardless, so any energy consumed to pedal a bike is immaterial.

Though I guess if the person in question just died that would be even more pollution free.

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Back then adding a word to a search query also made it more specific. You could easily narrow a search down to just a few results, or no result at all if that specific combination of words had never been written. Now adding another search term just makes the search less specific.

You can try to approximate the old behavior by wrapping every single word in quote marks but it’s not the same.

It’s the combination of FPTP voting and the presidential government structure.

In a parliamentary system third parties are more viable because they can act as “king maker” to one of the two larger parties.

Of course a proportional voting system like STV is even better for party diversity.

They’ve done that periodically for years.

I don’t dual boot anymore but when I did I kept each installation on a separate hard drive for that reason.

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My condolences.

The sculptor must’ve looked at all those statues that have cloth draped over bodies and said “I can do you one better”.

Where do I sign up for my “doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can control the path of hurricanes with a weather machine” award?

Imagine existing.

Couldn’t be me.

Interesting to note that although HAARP was originally a joint project between the US Air Force, US Navy, DARPA, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, since 2015 control was transferred exclusively to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.