Panasonic definitely wins for video features overall but someone used to shooting on a contemporary hybrid mirrorless camera from another manufacturer will definitely have a "WTF is this?" moment for dealing with its contrast-based autofocus system.

I've never seen a Blackmagic camera in the wild, but I do have a couple Panasonic MFT cameras and every time I use one, I'm reminded that I have to be so much more deliberate in my shooting compared to the "point in vaguely the right direction" of my newer gear.

As I understand it, the best you'll get out of a prosumer body like a Sony a1 or Canon R5 is 14 stops of dynamic range, while the state of the art for cine cameras is more like 18 stops. 14 stops is still pretty insane, but cine cameras have continued to improve as well.

You also have to consider that the big boys use sensors that deliver uncompressed 444 chroma subsampling while consumer mirrorless cameras generally only offer 422.

Even a "crappy" secondhand $10000 Arri Alexa FHD camera is going to have that output advantage in terms of color data, plus all the inputs and outputs for secondary monitoring, timing sync, zoom-by-wire et al that more or less aren't seen on prosumer cameras.

Fuji and Hasselblad have "medium format" sensors that aren't crazy-exotic. You can get a 100MP GFX100 with a 44x33 sensor for about $6500, although it's primarily a still camera.

Beyond that, you really have to look at Arri, Sony and Red cine cameras for large format digital. Even then the digital output will be 4.5k to 8k, something you can also get on pretty mainstream Canon (R5), Sony (a1) and Nikon (z9) cameras.

This got labelled a troll but Nikon buys all its sensors from Sony and has third-rate subject detection compared to Canon and Sony, which trade back and forth for superiority in that area. It's basically a lens company that hasn't given up on camera bodies yet in the way that Sigma has. There is some validity to the idea that it's a very pedestrian company. Maybe buying Red is its trip back to full relevancy, but I know a lot of enthusiasts who migrated to Sony or Canon when they went mirrorless and the only people I know are still on Nikon bodies have done so because Nikon is the system with the best overall selection of long zooms for wildlife photography or are still shooting on older SLR bodies.

Worldcoin is by itself pretty silly as ideas go. It is also pretty silly to tell them to stop doing this when people are giving them the info in a completely consensual way. If people want to give their info for some cryptocurrency, go and let them. (I don't think that Worldcoin is going to be at all successful, but I don't think Spain's choice here is going to impact that either way substantially.)

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Rail travel in the USA is extremely limiting outside the northeastern USA. Boston to Washington DC, OK, fine. Do you want to go west of that? I hope you wanted to go through Chicago or New Orleans.

There are some states in the continental USA that are barely or not served at all by Amtrak (Kentucky, Idaho, Kentucky, (east) Tennessee, South Dakota and Wyoming) and there may not be any rail services that connect to metropolitan local light rail. In some place, such as Las Vegas, the "Amtrak Stop" is a bus depot that takes travelers to a completely different state before they get on a train.

I lbought an ORD to LGA round trip flight for $60, inclusive of fees, yesterday. The flight takes an hour and a half. Amtrak wants ~$170 and needs 19 hours to go one way. If I were to try to take Amtrak from relatively close South Bend, Indiana and Kalamazoo, Michigan, I'd need more than 12 hours for what is at most a 90 minute drive.

The USA screwed up by not prioritizing rail as a way to travel. I'd love to take trains more places. But trains tend not to go places Americans need them or on anything like a desirable schedule.

Man I just don't want people to have my cell number. I registered for Signal on a VOIP line used by my office phone, but I have SMS blocked at the carrier level and only give my personal phone number to people who have a live or die need for it. Signal dropping the phone number visibility requirement is great for me. I can finally tie it to a device I use more than once a week.

The fact that I have relatively anonymous encrypted chats to plan my international terrorism is just a nifty bonus.

I fly Spirit around a dozen times a year. I'm single and it's easy enough for me to get on a train that takes me to O'Hare and just go. Spirit flights are cheap enough that I can spend under $100 to do 36 hours in New Orleans or Tampa on a whim.

Spirit charges for everything, so I've just gotten good at fitting every single thing I need in a carry-on. Since I mostly travel domestically within the USA, there's really no place I could go that I can't buy anything that isn't in my bag or can't have the same day I get to my hotel or aribnb. I've been known to pack for two weeks, including my mirrorless camera and lens and a notebook PC, in just my carry on. I can stop by a UPS location if I need to ship something home. Not a big deal.

I understand that it's a little different for someone whose wardrobe needs involve multiple pairs of shoes or something, but it still stuns me to see people wheeling in multiple bags specifically for a Spirit flight.

I pretty much figured that everyone else would wind up in this same place sooner or later. I have stuck with Spirit because its planes are generally newer and in point of fact I've never been on a flight with a mechanical delay.

I'm... not sure. I don't know how I misread it. You are correct.

You are now doing a weird thing where you are focusing on the word "imply" rather than "show" as if that is some major difference in meaning. The use of "imply" here is simply due to the inherent limitations of any benchmarks. But please note that this is now your third claim you are making. Your first claim was that they "not disclosing what kind of a test, what criteria were benchmarked." That was shown to be wrong. Then you claimed in your second comment that "When in reality, they didn't actually tell you anything about the benchmarks. They merely told you what they called them." That was shown to be wrong, since the benchmarks in questions are not their own and are widely accessible. Now, in response, you've pivoted yet again, to make some massive deal out of the word "imply."

So 1) That's not what you said. 2) In fact, even if you had said that, it would still be wrong. The vast majority of of these benchmarks are benchmarks made by independent organizations where you can find the details of how they work without too much effort. For example, GSM-8k is available here. https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/gsm8k.

Also if one clicks through to the article, they list a whole bunch of other explicit benchmarks including some where they performed less well than the other AIs.

The summary explicitly gives examples. From the summary tests included " GSM-8k for mathematical reasoning and MMLU for expert-level knowledge." Not reading the linked article is one thing, but at least read the summary please.

That's bizarre.

My experience with DDG is that search results are 99% identical to Bing for at least the first couple pages. VERY RARELY I'll see a variance on the second or third result. I would have put money that DDG functionally mirrors Bing results.

No, it really is corporate interests. And it isn't a market failure as much as it is companies lobbying state governments to do things which wreck the free markets. For example, some US states have laws which make it difficult to build transmission lines into that state if one doesn't have generation in that state. That has made it very difficult to make new transmission lines for wind power from the Midwest to states in the Southeast. See for example this Wall Street Journal piece from a few years ago https://www.wsj.com/articles/building-the-wind-turbines-was-easy-the-hard-part-was-plugging-them-in-11561176010. The bottom line is that a lot of this is not market failure at all, but corporations deliberately using government to restrict competition from entering the markets. There are of course other issues, like how the US gives NIMBYs massive power to block things. But these are largely also things where the problem is not market failure except in so far as the governments, federal, state and local are stepping in already to distort the markets.