The last special day 2 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
That all depends on how you define "adult" doesn't it?
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Freedom, but try to consume Vodka before the age of 21 and see how truly free you are 16 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
There's a damned good reason to not drink before 21, or before 25 really. The brain isn't truly finished developing until roughly 25 years of age, and you do NOT want to F that up. That being said, I believe that it is not the job of the government to protect you from yourself.
No new me 5 comments
Police in Iran unable to arrest women breaking hijab dress code 19 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
This is great news! Now if we can just keep the populace itself from killing women for violating the dress code...
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Face ID is visible when you take a picture 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
I think this is actually an artist's impression of the phenomenon. Because, even if you were in a very foggy room I don't think you'd be able to get this sort of picture where you can "see the beam".
Anyhow, when I've used digital cameras to look for near-IR it has always registered as white, or maybe slightly blue-ish on the display. Why? I'm not certain, but I suspect that's just how the computer interprets the particular voltage that IR produces in the tiny CCD capacitor elements.
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Anyhow, when I've used digital cameras to look for near-IR it has always registered as white, or maybe slightly blue-ish on the display. Why? I'm not certain, but I suspect that's just how the computer interprets the particular voltage that IR produces in the tiny CCD capacitor elements.
Face ID is visible when you take a picture 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
The Face ID is an active infrared scan. Most CCDs (digital camera detectors) are sensitive to near-IR, and the IR filters are not perfect so you can see near-IR emitters with most digital cameras.
What's really fun is to take a cheap camera and replace the IR filter with a visible light filter and then the camera ONLY sees in near-IR.
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What's really fun is to take a cheap camera and replace the IR filter with a visible light filter and then the camera ONLY sees in near-IR.
The game changes a man 23 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Communists and socialists don't actually care about the poor, they just hate successful people.
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Locating an alternate dimension 4 comments
Savage chem professor 9 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
I used to TA for Organic Chem. I had a lot of pre-med students, and a lot of their answers made me worry about the future of medicine.
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For every woman 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Mostly from "and things" ie. dead plankton, the chances of it actually containing material originating from dead dinosaur are pretty low.
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Spooky. 4 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Somebody at the Manhattan Project must have needed help from Tesla, and then Tesla found out what for.
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Careful of the Mac 3 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
I had to look it up:
Duloxetine = SNRI (Cymbalta)
Fluoxetine = SSRI (Prozac)
Similar applications, but still majorly unsafe to confuse the two.
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Duloxetine = SNRI (Cymbalta)
Fluoxetine = SSRI (Prozac)
Similar applications, but still majorly unsafe to confuse the two.
Correct choice of words :) 2 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Andy is just the best character ever. He's like, if a dog were in human form.
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Well well well...That's a lot 3 comments
You're living in heaven 22 comments
I like being me 9 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Worry not, it's definitely a programmed response. The Google geeks love to put Easter eggs like that into their code.
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Boy is a hero 5 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
What's this about a clicker? I'm confused, was this a lecture or a test?
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I've just realize that a 9V battery is an arrangement of 6 AAA (1.5V each) batteries 13 comments
jimcrichton
· 6 years ago
Not all 9V batteries are like that. I've taken apart plenty of them and some are a vertical stack of flat cells.
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