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- Comment on CAN SOMEONE MAKE AN APP ALREADY 3 weeks ago:
If you’re talking about your computer and you have access to its keyboard, you can’t beat screenshot keyboard shortcuts!
But if you’re talking about your TV or some screen you’re not in control of, fair enough. For anyone wondering, the reason this is tough to correct with an app is because your little bitty lens is trying to capture a grid of millions of LEDs to your itty bitty camera’s sensor, which has its own pixel grid that almost certainly doesn’t match up with the grid you’re photographing. Also, photographing a colored light source makes white balance tricky for any camera, and this is a bunch of light sources that are kind of in motion, because LEDs give off rapid pulses of light, not a steady light. Modern camera apps are getting better at antialiasing to smooth it all out and using AI models to try to guess what the image was supposed to look like, but you’ll usually still see some Moire effect from those mismatched grids. I wonder if we’ll ever see a solution to this while LED screens continue to exist in their current form.
We’re pretty lucky we can capture a shitty image of what’s onscreen, though. Just ask anybody who’s tried to photograph a CRT.
- Comment on Why are mental health patients strip searched in mental hospitals here in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t doubt that there are lessons to learn from the SPE, but it’s also worth noting that it’s been widely criticized for various biases and influences and lack of controls, and that no other researchers have ever been able to replicate its findings. Some might call it debunked, others perhaps not, but I think it’s fair to say it isn’t generally accepted as gospel.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 3 weeks ago:
This story is inspiring. I feel like there are a lot of people who wouldn’t feel like it’s within reach (no building/renovating skills or experience, or certain neighborhoods that maybe don’t feel safe to a single woman for instance, and yeah schools as you mentioned if you’re a parent or planning to be)—but for the people who can do that, it sounds like an absolutely phenomenal route to take.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 weeks ago:
I was struggling to find the right way to phrase the question, and I failed. I guess what I really wanted to know was: for a typical working class person, is a house at that price within reach? Or if you move there for the cheap houses and get a job, do you end up still barely able to afford the payments?
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 weeks ago:
Leaders will. The poor ignorant voters who thought they were promised positive change will be totally boned.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 weeks ago:
How’s the job market?
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 4 weeks ago:
The phrase came originally from Wayne’s World, which was first an SNL sketch, yeah. Bill & Ted aren’t from SNL, though, and predate Wayne and Garth by a good bit. Bill & Ted said “party on,” among other things, but not “party time, excellent.” That’s specifically the Wayne’s World theme song iirc.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
(as a millennial, I avoid self checkout because massive corporations are eliminating jobs without reducing prices and I think that’s bullshit)
- Comment on How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "? 1 month ago:
Like where? I’m curious to look at the style guides from there.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
It’s a stretch to assume they’ve thought it through to this degree.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
The things you’re saying aren’t necessarily untrue, but through a lot of the 20th century, immigrants and their children accounted for more than half of America’s population growth. A lot of us aren’t descended from the batshit OGs but from people who made perilous journeys in search of a better life, so goes the lore (and of course the people who were kidnapped and brought here in bondage). Your point stands, but there’s a whole lot of different crazy here besides just settler crazy.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
Backtracking five years later isn’t strictly the same thing as lying. Five years is enough time to learn new information, and she’s being upfront about the change. I’d be more concerned if she were saying right up until the election that she’s going to ban fracking, then suddenly refused to do so as president.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 1 month ago:
Who’s = who+is.
Only whose is possessive, always.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 month ago:
I don’t mind this when it’s families that are out trick-or-treating with their own kids. If you’re home and you do it, that’s weird
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 month ago:
Big in PA also
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 1 month ago:
what is happening what is this
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Legally integrated, but I wouldn’t say fully. Source: living in the South.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 1 month ago:
Yeah, he didn’t do that either. I read that they asked him to and he said that his hands were nice and clean already.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 2 months ago:
As someone outside the U.S., what is your default persona for anonymous/pseudonymous users until you know more about them? Just curious. Like, if you don’t have any information about them, do you read the words in the voice of a person just like you?
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 2 months ago:
Not awful. I’ve had only positive experiences. No buyer protections, but it’s hard to get scammed buying something in person from someone local, unless you get it home before realizing it’s fake/broken, or they kidnap you and lock you in their basement. There are pretty simple precautions you can take against either, not that there’s any foolproof solution…but I wouldn’t say awful.
- Comment on Trump rallies plummeting! Sell! Sell! Sell! 2 months ago:
A concept of a plan.
- Comment on louder for those in the back 2 months ago:
Looking at post-industrial wealth distribution, they weren’t entirely wrong.
- Comment on Is it possible to bottle a fart while maintaining its freshness? 3 months ago:
The collection method the way it’s described prevents it from coming into contact with air (just water), but you bring up an excellent point I hadn’t considered, which is that maybe millions of years of farts are to blame for the current state of things
- Comment on I'm just a kid and life is nightmare... I know its not fair 3 months ago:
They said they had to stay behind for 30 minutes, but they didn’t say what they stayed behind from. Lunch, maybe, or study hall? Recess, if they’re at a rare middle school that still offers it? Art? Seems like there’s a way it could work.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 3 months ago:
What have you got to lose?
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 3 months ago:
They’re destructive and difficult to deter. If squirrel hate is more common among Boomers, it’s probably because they’ve lived long enough to find this out firsthand.
- Comment on How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy? 3 months ago:
Any trusted friend who’s been around to witness you meeting new people should be able to tell you.
- Comment on What are some ways to see the back of your head without others' help? 3 months ago:
Just to add on: face away from the bathroom mirror and look into the hand mirror, angling it until you can see the reflection of the reflection of the back of your head.
(Figured if someone out there actually needed this advice, the actual method might not be totally obvious to them without explanation.)
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 4 months ago:
Fair, but that’s pretty much how a lot of people feel about imperial units, too.
- Comment on What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says? 4 months ago:
Those have a 5- to 10-year warranty, depending on which kind. Have you tried reaching out to GE for replacements?