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up_o commented on Havana Syndrome: Putting the Myth to Rest realclearscience.com/arti... · Posted by u/ggm

greatgib · 2 years ago

I don't know this website but to me there is great chance that it is (Russian?) propaganda spreader.

Opinion is presented as fact that there is nothing to see...

At the opposite, recently there was reports of a strong suspicion of a Russian black ops related to that with a specific set of spies located at a right time in each location where it happened. Around 1000 observation of the Havana syndrome have been reported in different place and time. Even if we can easily assume that a part of the reports are not real Havana syndrome cases.

up_o · 2 years ago

Real clear science is an American media outfit. It's part of the same media group as Real Clear Politics and was founded in Chicago. There's nothing fringe about skepticism of the Havana syndrome story. Despite Congress dumping loads of money to support agents' health issues claimed to have been due to mysterious and unverified sonic weapons, every medical investigation of these reports has failed to offer any support for it. We lack physical evidence, we lack any sensical motive; all we have is foreign paranoia and hearsay.

up_o commented on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? cbc.ca/news/canada/cousin... · Posted by u/thunderbong

toasterlovin · 2 years ago

You have to be religious, right?

This is the dream for us. We reverted to Catholicism after it became apparent that the secular world was incompatible with us, then eventually found our way to a high fertility parish. It’s incredible. Kids everywhere. Average family size is 5-6 kids. Really hoping our kids choose to remain in this lifestyle and we get to enjoy dozens of grandkids.

up_o · 2 years ago

this is a funny question. Avoiding tangents, for all intents and purposes, I'm secular. Though I've only had two children with no intention of having more, I was raised Southern Baptist, the oldest of six. I love our big family. My mother was one of seven, and all her siblings have many children as well. I look back fondly on our holiday gatherings and miss them dearly. my aunts were guardian angels through so many difficult times. But as much as I want those big family gatherings and the overall dynamic, I couldn't imagine going back to Southern Baptism as a means to see them perpetuated. It would be nice if there were a natalist "movement" (for lack of better word) that was more or less secular (without being self-aggrandizing and delusional ala effective altruism).

up_o commented on FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines twitter.com/FFmpeg/status... · Posted by u/raybb

jokoon · 2 years ago

Are there any video editing software that take advantage of ffmpeg? I once thought about making something to draw geometry through SVG and use ffmpeg then, or maybe add some UI or whatever, or just to add text, but I never started.

Avidemux feels like it's a bit that.

Since ffmpeg internals are quite raw and not written to be accessed through a GUI, any video editor based on it would probably be quite clunky and weird and hard to maintain.

Maybe an editor that use modules that just build some kind of preview with an command explainer, or some pipeline viewer.

ffmpeg is quite powerful, but it's a bit stuck because it only works with a command line, which is fine, but I guess it somehow prevents it from being used by some people.

I've already written a python script to take a random amount of clips, and build a mosaic with the xstack filter. It was not easy.

up_o · 2 years ago

KDEnlive. Fantastic foss video editing software.

up_o commented on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i... · Posted by u/softskunk

up_o · 2 years ago

It's good to know there are worse places than mine. some things are reminiscent of what I've seen, but nothing so extreme as even half of what's described.

up_o commented on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories perthirtysix.com/tool/vis... · Posted by u/gmays

unboxingelf · 2 years ago

Imagine you took out a loan for $1000 in 1980. In today’s dollars, the $1000 to repay is much less in relative terms than it was in 1980, because of inflation.

up_o · 2 years ago

I'm aware of the implications of inflation and the passing of time. Let me be more direct. The "correspondence" between federal deficits and inflation Walter implied existed was almost certainly pulled from his cushions. A deficit that _purchases_ an increase in the money supply certainly _can_ lead to inflation, among other deficit sources in varying degrees. But the implication that we pay for deficits specifically with inflation is a gross oversimplification, all in service of being pithy.

up_o commented on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories perthirtysix.com/tool/vis... · Posted by u/gmays

gottorf · 2 years ago

Seems self-evident to me that increasing the supply of dollars does not automatically increase the supply of goods and services that people actually consume.

up_o · 2 years ago

Setting aside your "self-evident" implication that goods and services across the board rise and fall with fluctuations in money supply...

Is running a federal deficit and an increase in the money supply the same thing? Because my contention was with what Walter right actually said.

up_o commented on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories perthirtysix.com/tool/vis... · Posted by u/gmays

WalterBright · 2 years ago

Note the correspondence with federal deficits.

Inflation is how we pay for deficits.

up_o · 2 years ago

Sounds like you're leaning on the arm of that chair a bit heavily. Care to elaborate?

up_o commented on Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message twitter.com/endermanch/st... · Posted by u/the_bookmaker

giggyhack · 2 years ago

Also, YT Premium is free with Google Fi phones and other things

up_o · 2 years ago

is it? I've had fi for years and never noticed. I also don't watch much yt so it's not something I'm apt to notice I suppose.

up_o commented on Vagus nerve active during exercise, research finds medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

Perenti · 2 years ago

Perhaps if I'd put a <sarcasm> tag around that last sentence you would have understood it.

up_o · 2 years ago

Never succumb to the temptation of adding `/s`

Those who depend on it to see sarcasm need to either lighten up or read more novels. Was clearly sarcastic; you're not crazy.

up_o commented on Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/torritest

rmwaite · 2 years ago

I just tried this - even after reading your comment - and my ball was more of an empty space with no color, if that makes sense. So I can see how someone when picturing the scene can still “see” a ball and “see” it rolling, falling, and bouncing but since the prompt never asked about color they simply didn’t choose one and focused on the shape itself.

up_o · 2 years ago

Exactly. I was more focused on visualizing accurate physics about the object. In that sense it was "vivid". Color simply didn't factor in since it wasn't in the prompt. I can, at this moment visualize complex scenes with color without much issue. Especially after looking up aphantasia more closely, I'm highly skeptical of this test. With that said, I do think I tend to think _without_ color for practical purposes--most of the time I'm just interested in the kinetics of things I'm working through. Otherwise I'm very apt to feel like things have colors about them (my daughter, for instance, has a burnt orange personality; "cosmic" is a yellow word; serene is blue; 118 is red)--so it's not simply having a propensity for not thinking or, more importantly, _feeling_ in color.