At first I thought, well duh, just use EXR since it can accommodate an arbitrary number of layers. Though they're usually used for matte layers, you could assign a layer per range of wavelength, that sort of thing.

What the article seems to be getting at however, I think, is instead of just doing compression in the X & Y direction, also do compression in, I guess, the Z direction? i.e. across the spectrum of interest?

So while you're off at work, or wherever, you plan on leaving uncooked food sitting in the oven at room temperature?

Enjoy those food born illnesses.

The plaintiff's lawyers work on contingency. If the court rules for the defendants, it's not like all the members of the class now have to pony up for legal fees. It's the same for many personal injury cases; the plaintiff's lawyer only gets paid if they win, so they're motivated to win quickly and not just pad hours forever that their client would then have to pay for.

And, as a previous poster already mentioned, the purpose isn't to get thousands of dollars for each member of the class, it's to punish the defending corporation so that they're less likely to pull similar shit in the future.

American pennies are made from almost entirely zinc, with a thin copper veneer. The zinc industry lobbies (bribes) heavily to ensure that pennies are not discontinued, the cost to manufacturer them be damned.

My first experience with a computer was also by way of an ASR33 teletype. My high school calculus teacher had one installed in her classroom, circa 1974, connected to a mainframe at some university or something. She was a very forward thinking teacher that influenced me greatly. I can still remember the small of the punched paper tape. I think we pretty much only ran BASIC on the thing. We had a few computer programming books from which we would laboriously transcribe code. The machine was available whenever the classroom wasn't in use, or after school hours. I spent many an afternoon in there with three or four other guys and we would wait our turn to be able to sit down at it.

I was diagnose with it when I was in my mid 50s. That being on the young side for prostate cancer, doctors advised me to choose ether surgery or radiation treatment rather than just continued monitoring. I chose surgery; one night's stay in the hospital, no lasting incontinence or problems getting it up, and now ten years later I just do an annual PSA test. In my experience it was never referred to as anything other than what it was; cancer.

Circa 1981, I interviewed for an engineering job in downtown Los Angeles. They hired me to start the next Monday or something. I got cold feet, and the job just didn't feet right, the commute would suck, etc. When the phone rang the next Monday and they asked me why I hadn't shown up I just disguised my voice, pretended I was my roommate, and told them something like "Dave's not here, man".

We don't always need to be grateful for a job offer.

Facebook founder and convicted pedophile Mark Zuckerberg, dead at age 36, says social media sites should not fact-check posts.

Oh, I'm sorry, was that not fact-checked enough?

I once owned a 1972(?) Datsun that had pressure switches under both front seats to make it ding if there was weight on the seat and the seat belt wasn't buckled or something. I only remember because I pulled both switches out to use for some robotics project for a EE course. Why they had a pressure switch under the driver's seat, I don't know. Obviously the car isn't going anywhere if that seat is empty.

You misspelled Stealing.

I wrote my first lines of code a good 50 years ago. I still love thinking through a problem and deciding how to best write code that solves it in an efficient manner, and is easy for me or some other programmer to look at years down the line and understand. AI, I think, will not do that.

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Most of them. Not Everest, et. al, of course, but I guessing that anyone that would buy/rent one of these to climb Everest doesn't belong up there anyway.

Even then, anyone using one of these gizmos to climb a peak within the 48 states is not in a position to brag about accomplishing something.

Sure it's maybe, possibly, a money making idea, but how is it a good idea?

Want to get to the top of the mountain with minimum effort? Hire a helicopter.

And of course it has to include the AI buzzword in the product description.

We had to pay for the copper when we first bought it from these companies, how much will they pay us to get it back? What's that, we're supposed to do it for altruistic reasons like recycling or something? They never do a damn thing for altruistic reasons, so why should we?