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Comment Re:Easy fix (Score 2) 89

Invading your kid's privacy by needing to know their precise gps coordinates 24/7 should be discouraged because that's sick fucking behavior

Up to what age? In my view, tracking kids under your care up until they're at least 10 is a reasonable use case for AirTags. I'm not saying AirTag the kids 24/7 and let them go where they want, I'm saying that putting one on their person so you can find them in an emergency could be useful, especially for shopping trips, amusement parks, etc.

Comment Re:This begs the question, (Score 1) 42

Effectively you need to tell the AI model how good the source material is. Motion pictures use a shallow depth of field to have the subject in sharp focus and to blur the background. You don't want the AI sharpening the background so it needs to know what counts as sharp (where it should try to increase detail) and what counts as blurry (which should be left blurry).

Comment Re:“Could only happen on Reddit” (Score 1) 113

all third-party apps, including those that provide key accessibility options for people with disabilities

Reddit has now said that “we’ve connected with select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs and offered them exemptions from our large-scale pricing terms.”

Comment Re: Trademarked apostrophe's: "â(TM)" (Score 1) 52

But the apostrophe is right there in the ASCII standard. The problem is that the character appears in almost all fonts as a single straight quote because the character has also been used for so long as both an opening and closing single quote.

Straight apostrophes are typographically ugly so some software actually changes all apostrophes to opening or closing single quotes (which are Unicode characters that are mangled on Slashdot). This sometimes looks better but it's really a nasty work-around; the proper fix is to have fonts where the apostrophe looks the same as a single closing quote.

Comment Re:Pixels per degree. (Score 2) 37

A key specification of this type of display is pixels per degree. The models designed for immersive experiences typically have wide fields of view but not many pixels per degree. In this case the field of view seems to be around 50 degrees, relatively narrow, so the pixels per degree spec is higher, but still worse than 20:20 vision resolution. It's only a 1920x1080 display. There's a separate display for each eye but the images will mostly overlap so it's not like the resolutions add.

Comment Re:No Film in DSLR (Score 4, Insightful) 92

With digital cameras, there is no advantage to use a mirror to direct the image to a second viewing sensor and then move the mirror out of the way to allow the main sensor to capture the image.

What do you mean by "second viewing sensor"? My DSLR's mirror directs the incoming image through some optics into my eye. The speed of light is high and my eye's dynamic range is better than most/all camera displays. EVIL cameras will have a lag as the electronics transfers the image from the sensor to the display. Certainly modern EVIL designs are good but saying there's "no advantage" for DSLRs is going too far.

Comment What about HDDs for backup and archive? (Score 1) 154

Where I worked we used HDDs for backup and archive because they were less than double the price of tapes (per TB) and you didn't need expensive tape drives and robots and software to use them, just lots of SATA ports which are cheap, and rsync which is free. While I guess HDDs might not be as long-lasting as tapes for archiving, I'd trust SSDs even less offline after a few years. Power consumption isn't an issue for archive because all the old drives were offline in storage. Even the online drives were spun down most of the time. And cheap, shingled drives still slaughter tapes for access times.

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