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Who's saying they don't? One good thing doesn't negate another

Driver assistance and self-driving cars are probably one of the cheapest and low-effort band-aids to the infrastructure mistakes made in the US.

They are, of course, not as good as more enlightened city planning, but they’d be an improvement to the status quo I expect, especially the way the quality has made some serious strides lately.

I get a sense that traditional automakers are done chasing Tesla on the technology and that’s unfortunate. Those traditional automakers figured out that their buyers don’t care that much about it, and the ones that do care already left for Tesla. Plus, the self-driving that really works best relies heavily on serious AI technology.


There is a nuance missed in the discussion so far - Starlink is creating a new product level, differentiating service between continental and intercontinental aviation connectivity. Previously these were a single category.

If you are operating in North America for example, your service is going from $10k to $12.5k. Still a 25% increase, which is not fun, but I think a lot of the customers affected by this will fit into this category. You only need the $20k plan if your aircraft travels between their roughly-continental regions.

Nicholas Air, quoted in the article, appears to have no need for the $20k plan and should not use it.


It may be that the ideal number of ransomware operators is non-zero


What's the physical basis for this effect? Does it happen in reality or is it a style choice?


Simple answer: There is no physical basis, it's style

Pedantic answer: Unless the light source has different colors on different sides

Complex answer: Kind of. Even a linear color fade (from reality) can turn non-linear (and therefore induce color effects) when pushed through a color grading pipeline. So if you count e.g. film emulation as a "physical effect", then yes.


> when pushed through a color grading pipeline. So if you count e.g. film emulation as a "physical effect", then yes.

I've seen some footage from a particular Red camera body that introduced some very interesting effects. This particular camera had an issue with the Green channel. The camera was used in a commercial shoot for some fast food chain's shakes. The whip cream would turn magenta when the exposure was pushed because the green channel just wouldn't get there as fast as the red and blue channels. The secondaries had to go dig out extra green channel data plus other tricks to get the whip cream to end up white. After pushing other footage, the magenta tint could be seen else where as well.

TL;DR it's not just film emulsion issues where weird edge case things like this happen.


wasnt that magenta highlights thing a pretty well known deficiency of the reds for a long time? (unsure if they resolved it in recent ones)


Not sure. I never had to work with Red footage to that extent. I just remember the colorist showing it to me. Maybe he knew about it and just pointed it out to me because it was such an extreme example. I wasn't a colorist, just someone that worked with a colorist. An assistant would even be glorifying it.


The post links another that goes into the theory a little: https://shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/in-the-valley-of-gods-s...

Apparently a combination of Mie and Rayleigh scattering.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie_scattering

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering


I think the effect the author is talking about is definitely caused by atmospheric scattering, but the painted effects are different. Those are more likely inspired by overexposure, aberration, HDR, etc. Makoto Shinkai specifically is a filmmaker and often emulates camera effects like lens flare.


It happens in reality, though I've only noticed it with desert sunlight. It's caused by light cast into the penumbra from scattering and diffuse reflection. You can't see this in the lit area because your photoreceptors saturate, which looks white.


This seems more like a chromatic aberration "hack" for HDR landscapes (intensely-lit portions of the scene would have color fringing apparent at the boundaries of light/dark due to dispersion in the observer's lens).

(And it's def a style choice, looks cool when done right! :))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration


Not sure it happens with the sun, but if you have differently located light sources of different colors you can get shadows of different colors (because the shadow area is one source being blocked but it is still illuminated by the other sources)


I had a phone that produced this effect with its torch: https://twitter.com/rmbalt/status/1200397150003302403?s=20


Came to ask this. I suppose if the edge of the sun glows in a different color than the rest, it would tint the edge of the shadow too? So maybe appropriate for sunsets, where the sky near the sun is red but the sun itself still glows bright white. Honestly just guessing.


I wonder if consumer routers will end up being built in a trivially-not-a-router configuration - something akin to a pull-tab or turn of the screw that closes a circuit, transforming the device from legally something else into a router after it's purchased.

What a dumb timeline.


"this here is a virtual network appliance, so called because it doesn't have any ports on it - wait, why are you taking off that blanking panel? That's illegal!"


I would love to see this integrated into Flighty.


It would probably be locked behind a paid upgrade. Shame that so many features are locked behind a subscription model, and super annoying that they try to force the subscription every single time you open the app, sometimes more than once.


Genuinely curious how a date in the subheader of a changelog could have broken the CLI

edit: it seems changelog.md is assumed to be structured data and parsed at startup, and there are no tests to enforce the changelog structure: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16671


This is the kind of choice an LLM would make...


You might be surprised (or not, depending on how long you’ve been doing this).


You're absolutely right! ;)


Ah yes, markdown, the ultimate structure for machine-readable data


They're using Markdown for everything in LLM-land.


Someone had to come up with something even more annoying than yaml for machine-readable data. :)


its vibe coded to its teets and gets reviewed by AI


Why anyone would allow their TV to connect to the internet is beyond me.


Even the title "Orbital House of Cards" is unnecessarily editorializing.


  >we introduce the Collision Realization And Substantial Harm (CRASH) Clock
The needless forced backronym is another clue. It's Cargo Cult technical writing.

Why did this need to be a (badly done) acronym at all? It's a countdown to a collision, a collision clock, but of course "crash" (in all caps no less) sounds worse, and science writing needs sciencey acronyms don't ya know...


I have to agree. I tried using it for a few months and it left me convinced I'll be paying for iCloud photos for the rest of my life.


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