Typo. Good catch.

Headlights are regulated and tested by brightness, not power consumption, so it’s already what you suggest. The problem is brightness is tested using a few very standardized tests.

LED arrays make it easier to engineer uneven brightness throughout the area of the light beam, e.g., dimmer in the middle than the outside, dimmer on the left sides, etc. This means manufacturers can make headlights that are overall brighter than allowed but can still pass tests as the region tested by regulators is designed to be dimmer, so the test results are acceptable.

If the average human hair is about 50 billion femtometers wide, it means it takes about 30 billion photons protons lined up side to side to equal that width. So really fucking small.

Edit: swap an r for an h and the meaning changes significantly!

For anyone else not familiar, here’s the first line of Relooted’s description:

Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game.

The forum is full of exactly what you’d expect.

I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they’d last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.

2025: IBM lays off 16-20k tenured employees.
Early 2026: “IBM emerges as a global leader (in asshole-tier cost savings), championing early career development by tripling their number of hired entry-level employees.”

Fuck you, IBM.

You nailed it. I get the same icky feeling, like I know it won’t immediately kill me, but I’m vaguely doing something wrong and maybe bad or unsafe. It exists on a discomfort/danger continuum somewhere lower than “young me walking in on parents fucking” but higher than “shoplifting lip balm from Krogers”.

Interesting. You’re saying you can tell the difference between 320 kbps and FLAC? How long ago was this?

Punching isn’t usually the best first move, but the normal rules go out the window when you’re dealing with fascists so I support him 100%. Punching is a very mild appropriate response in that context.

Anecdotal, but… I’ve been a musician for 36 years and have fantastic hearing not just for my age but for any age. I know, I have to get it quantitatively tested twice a year!

I can’t tell the difference at all between FLAC and 320 kbps from the same source. I can tell a difference between FLAC and 128 kbps, but it’s not huge. It sounds a bit dull, but I have to be looking for the difference and comparing the two. If you just gave me one or the other with no reference, I might suspect the 128 if it was a simple recording of a single instrument or a song I’m intimately familiar with, and even then I wouldn’t be sure of it. It just sometimes “feels” weird.

So I converted over 4 terabytes of my music stash to 320 kbps and cut the total space into less than 2. Feels good.

I’ll give AI this much credit. I have a rare disease that took me nearly two decades to get diagnosed. I saw over 20 doctors during that time, most of which had no idea while the rest misdiagnosed me.

I had a little intro script I wrote that explained my symptoms to keep it consistent. My roommate is a big AI proponent while I’m AI critical. At his suggestion, I signed up for a free trial for his favorite and gave it my little intro script. It processed for a few seconds, then spit out the correct diagnosis and subtype, then started asking if I had symptoms for a related comorbidity, which I do. That would have saved me 22 years of pain and confusion. WTF.

I’ve had a related chronic injury for this entire time that even my condition-aware doctors have been baffled by. I explained it in detail and AI barfed out its best guess. I worked with it until I had a possible rehab program, which is actually working.

So now I’m AI ambivalent. I strongly believe humans are at best passable doctors, but that the breadth of information for even one discipline is already more than most humans can properly understand and utilize. That’s how you end up with orthopedists that just specialize in one joint or dermatologists who concentrate on just a few conditions - there’s just too much knowledge for one person to handle all of it and that knowledge continues to grow. As medical science becomes even more advanced, I think practitioners will have to lean on technology in some form as the practice of medicine further outstrips human capabilities.

Absolutely. I was raised as a male in the United States, so crying was strongly discouraged.

I recommend “The Tao of Fully Feeling” by Pete Walker. I read it a few times and can cry my eyes out on a regular basis now.

I just looked, it’s fake. I still stand by my song.

Smoke meth in the city where the heat is on
Fight manatees on the beach 'til the break of dawn
Welcome to Miami
Bienvenidos a Miami

I couldn’t agree more. I got interest in higher-end audio equipment when I was younger, so I went to a local audio shop to test out some Grado headphones. They had a display of different headphones all hooked up to the “same” audio source.

60x vs 80x sounded identical. 60x to 125x, the latter had a bit more bass. 125x to 325x, the latter had a lot more bass and the clarity was a bit better. Then I plugged the 60x into the same connection they had the 325x in. Suddenly the 60x sounded damn similar. Not quite as good, but the 60x was 1/3 the cost and the 325x sure as hell didn’t sound 3x better. They just had the EQ set better for it.

I upgraded to 128GB on our server at the point where RAM was the cheapest and oh boy is it tempting to sell half of it.

You’re not an idiot and that story is hilarious. Thanks for sharing it!

If it makes you feel any better, not all Latinos are Mexican, and even Mexicans can’t accurately recognize other Mexicans. I’m descended from Sicilians, so I’m seasonally dark and my dad was dark AF*. When we lived in California, we were regularly spoken to in Spanish by Mexicans and other Latinos who were surprised that we didn’t speak Spanish and in fact were the whitest dark people they had ever met.

*Fun Fact: my paternal grandfather was an asshole and as racist as he was dark (very). Jokes on him - I got my whole genome sequenced and we have a ton of gene variations strongly correlated with African populations. I’m around 25% African by gene frequency distribution, about 10% North and about 15% sub-Saharan African. I’m at least 15% “black”. Hah! Fuck you, Grandpa!

@Windex007@lemmy.world Seconded, we need stories.

It’s so arbitrary. I’m “white” and I’m darker than most of the people there by early June. It’d be year round if not for living so far north.

Plus that was wholesome AF for a halftime show. It preemptively hit on so many potential criticisms that racism or prudishness are about the only two reasons left to criticize it.