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I want you to know that you are making sense, and I appreciate how calmly and constructively you're engaging. :)

She deserved way more than that for the way they tried to smear her afterward!

Seriously, the reporting on that was so terribly biased that many people still think it was a frivolous lawsuit.

It's honestly kind of chilling just how effective smear campaigns can be.

I don't think there's any reasonable person who could read the full medical description of the injuries sustained and think "yeah 2.7 mill was too much".


The result was wrong. And yes, I read the contra arguments put on and they were not convincing.

Your entire opinion is based on an expensive propaganda campaign. Is that who you want to be?

As someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

>I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

That is exactly what an AI Bot would say XDXD


What does "stacked" mean in this context?

You know how some photos have super blurred backgrounds? The same effect occurs undesirably when you’re trying to do extreme macro photography (close-up photos of small things). The effect would be that face might be sharp but the body would get blurrier the farther away from the focus plane.

So a workaround is to take a lot of photos with the focus plane at different depths. You sweep the focus plane through the scene, snapping a lot of photos as you go. This can be automatic with nice gear.

Then you take all of those photos and combined them digitally, with the algorithm selecting pixels from the photo with the best sharpness in that region. So the photo you see is a combination of many photos.


You take multiple pictures at different focal points and combining together computationally because the depth of field at the magnification is very shallow. The resulting image looks somewhat flat, but highly detailed.

> I recognize the photographer

There is curiously nothing on his website about this isopod site.


So.. I don't know, maybe you don't know them as pillbugs (slaters).. but there's a whole gallery from 2023 https://www.nickybay.com/pillbugs-sowbugs-isopoda-checklist/

Honestly, there are so many good reasons to turn off notifications entirely. Sure, maybe leave them on for phone calls from people you know. But past that, I think getting interrupted by your phone is more trouble than it's worth.

I see you all over HN and I appreciate how well you engage!

Maybe. When you sign up for Amazon Prime, you see lower prices on some products when you're logged into that account. Same with Costco, if you have a membership, you see lower prices on some products in their app.

I worry that rather than "fixing a problem" that may not exist, this creates a new problem.


Sometimes I get a flyer in the mail for grocery discounts. That's not the targeted surveillance pricing being discussed.

Look at how PSN is doing dynamic pricing for their games. That's what this is trying to prevent in grocery stores.

It was 2012 when I realized a midrange Macbook (not Pro or Air) was actually cost competitive with my PC laptop, and switched. There have been some configurations since then!

The ram is an Intel chipset limitation, I don't know that they can do anything about it. Even AMD only goes up to 128GB now.

You mean, other than Apple, where it is 99€.

If you want cheaper, iFixit is usually less.


Even if I sent it to Apple, which would mean 1–2 weeks without my phone, it would be 109€ ("estimated costs" per Apple.com).

That's only shipped. In the store it's the price I listed. Unless you have local taxes on services.

The only available stores are the 139€ to 199€ ones, nothing else.

Where are you? In France it is 109€ on <apple.com> (w/o Apple Care).

Finland.

Finland has a VAT of ~25%. The price you are seeing includes that tax. Apple doesn’t control how much a country charges in tax. The price for a new battery is 70.9 up to 109 Euro without VAT

In France the price should include the tax too.

Those satellites KNOW where the freighters are going, and check in every day on progress. They aren't looking for something that's intentionally sailing in an unpredictable direction (with no radio emissions in wartime).

Why not? It's not exactly hard? The exact capabilities aren't public, but there are companies that provide daily synthetic radar captures for the whole globe and similarly companies that do this for imagery. It would take ages but I think you and I could both right an algorithm to classify if an image or high map has an aircraft carrier in it? Even if you can't get data for the whole globe taking a photo of a 10 mile of ocean every 10 minutes and shifting the center based on where a boat isn't hard. There aren't that many aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers and tanks are both capable machines built and designed for a different environment than we have now. They can still be useful. Most countries don't have the ability to image the whole globe or lob weapons across an ocean, but I'm pretty skeptical they'd survive long in a war with say China

I understand you don't think it's hard. It's hard. I'm trying to provide information to help people here understand why. What you're proposing doesn't work. Are you interested in understanding why it doesn't work?

Yes, I am interested in understanding why this is hard

> Aircraft carriers and tanks are both capable machines built and designed for a different environment than we have now.

People have been saying this for approximately the last 50 years. Maybe it's true today, but the odds are against it.


I mean we haven't had major power conflict in 50 years and they haven't seemed very useful in Ukraine

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