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  1. Re:Because I, and 99% of my brethren on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 1

    That's what these are for.

  2. Re:Different applications on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 2

    I do care, and I look at the numbers, because if any one of them is getting close to the fail line, then chances are it's going to fail the next time around. I'd rather have two years to deal with it than have to do it in a hurry when it does eventually fail a test.

  3. Re:Quote-on-quote on Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? · · Score: 2

    But what we all want to know is, did you still get your French benefits?

  4. You don't need fax machines to receive or send faxes, though. Nor do the documents received ever have to be printed. A fax server on the local network is actually a lot more convenient, both sending and receiving.

  5. Many times, I have called someone to let them know I would be sending a fax. If they ask me to wait ten minutes because they can't hover over the machine right now, then I wait ten minutes.

  6. Would it be so hard though to provide an email address on government servers which people have to log into like any other webmail provider? Then at least you'd know who was holding the data. If people choose to forward the emails on to external addresses, then they did that and it ceases to be a legal problem.

  7. I made chili again. I had to do something with the leftover ground turkey. It was a big hit, but I fear magma shits may just be the start.

  8. Re:Bicycle yes, tricycle no. on UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle's Traffic Doom Looms (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The way such vehicles are defined, human-powered vehicles with three or fewer wheels are treated the same. A trike and a bike are legally identical. Add power assist, and they may or may not be depending on how convoluted the state's law is. Licensing requirements for power assisted cycles also vary from state to state, notably between Kentucky (where 49cc mopeds do not require licensing on either the rider OR the vehicle) and Ohio (where anything with a power assist of any kind needs a driver's license and a DMV tag, and they're not allowed in the bike lane).

  9. Re:Bicycle yes, tricycle no. on UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle's Traffic Doom Looms (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As long as they qualify to use the bicycle lanes -- which I'm pretty sure they do -- they can still pass the stopped traffic that can't use bicycle lanes. It remains to be seen how much motorists are willing to watch non-automotive traffic pass them on the right before driving in that lane themselves.

  10. Re:Neutral Search Engines on Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't delisting anything in the regular search results. They're only removing some listings from the group they promote, because these links seem to have their implicit approval.

  11. I wasn't that deeply entrenched... on Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't that deeply hooked into Tumblr, but today all I did was reblog a post with a screen capture of the ban, and delete everything else.

    Have fun fighting it out with Pinterest and Etsy, that's all the content you're going to have left!

  12. Re:If this isn't bullshit nothing is on Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

    First of all, something comes from nothing all the time. Quantum fluctuaton creates pairs of something from nothing. Most of these disappear extremely quickly, but due to location being a probability, not a fact, a few must by necessity survive. Our whole universe may be no more than the result of a single vacuum fluctuation, see inflationary theory.

    Secondly, "come from" implies time. The concept of time itself breaks down near singularities, making the rule of "something must come from nothing" meaningless in that context. "What was before big bang?" requires a definition of "before" that doesn't imply time ticking or having an arrow.

    Why am I hearing this entire passage in Lawrence Krauss's voice, and imagining him waving his hands around for emphasis? I can see the Converse sneakers, the brown coat, the smarmy look...

    (Mind you, this is not an attempt at an ad hominem attack: he's frequently right, even if I find him annoying after a while.)

  13. Of what use is a newborn baby?

    Just look at this as one of the up sides of Big Data. Someone or something crunched a bunch of numbers together that nobody had crunched together before and came up with an interesting result that might spark further thoughts.

  14. The delayed-choice quantum eraser strongly implies that multiple states at the same time are the only reasonable explanation. It can't just be "shut up and calculate" forever.

  15. So that's where cartoon physics come from: Australia. I shouldn't be surprised.

    The only thing about this that does surprise me is that the opossums caught on to the meaning of the alarm. They're not as dense as koalas, but they're pretty stupid.

  16. Re:Convenience vs necessity on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    There are businesses locked out of the financial service industry, such as marijuana dispensaries, which must operate in cash.

  17. Re:Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    California explicitly forbids such maintenance fees. If you find a twenty year old paper gift certificate, and the business still exists, then it should be valid here.

  18. They're not perfect, though. Engines tear them to pieces. But the human limitations are common to both of them, and they manifest in pretty much the same ways -- namely, they're not thinking "if I take this line, I win a pawn 22 moves out". Well, they are, but unlike a machine, they're also thinking "and I have x% confidence I can pull this off if my opponent goes off script". The machines already know how to handle all the variations before they commit to the line, out to their horizon. Not only is their horizon longer than most human players, it's vastly more inclusive. A human might think "c4 has been refuted, in the 2012 Bilbao" or whatever. A machine doesn't care, it will search there eventually, and there may be some brilliant move five or ten moves down the line that works where absolutely nothing else does. Humans stay out of those minefields, unless they're named Tal (who pulled opponents into them).

  19. I could see this. One shot for every consecutive draw preceding the game scheduled. The morning of the 12th game, they would have been facing 11 shots.

  20. Re:I avoid loud restaurants on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I am reading your

    I don't want to cook (unless I'm eating korean bbq) or want something I can't cook/cook well

    to mean that you can cook Korean BBQ, but sometimes prefer to let someone else do it for you. If this reading is correct, then that means you can actually cook, which gives you more options on a given evening than those who can't or who fear what's good enough for them may not be good enough for others.

  21. If sportsmanship mattered, Bobby Fischer would have been banned far more often than he was. It's not like the Soviets were exactly free of blame on establishing oppressive conditions that bothered outsiders far more than their own side, but Fischer ratcheted up the dickishness to 11 on multiple occasions.

    Sportsmanship has been paid only lip service in chess for at least half a century now.

  22. Since they only played one game a day, a shot after a draw would only help them unwind. Magnus would at least participate, I don't know about Fabiano. (Carlsen's online name is usually "Dr. Drunkenstein".)

  23. I immensely disagree.

    First off, material imbalances insufficient for a forced win (like king-and-bishop versus a naked king) are as much a part of the game as draws themselves. So are stalemate traps.

    Basically, elite-level chess has been headed toward draw death for a long time, but in the era of engines, the pace toward complete draw death has accelerated greatly as players can prepare much more thoroughly than ever before. Magnus is weird and generally prepares less than his opponent, but his instincts are so good that he dominates at shorter time controls (you should see him play Blitz, where he Berserks* almost every single game). This is now the determining factor in these championships, since he can seem to force ties in the classical time controls almost at will.

    *Berserk: your time is cut in half, but if you win, you get an extra point (5 instead of 4, generally).

  24. This is at least in part because most amateur radio users know that it's not a matter of if we'll have another Carrington Event. It's a matter of when.

  25. Re:Amusing thoughts about chess as a kickstarter on In the Age of the Internet, Why Has Interest in Chess Remained So Robust, and Even Risen Sharply? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you learn to play against engines -- so you aren't completely shitting your pants the first time you bump into a player who knows what they're doing. The engines can get you up to a really high level as well, if you want to put in the time. Most people want to play other people, though, even if it means slower progress.