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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Ok, fine, 33 bits πŸ˜‚ Wikipedia says the world population is 8 billion, and python tells me that math.log2(8e9) is 32.897.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember, kids, it only takes 32 bits to uniquely identify any person on the planet. That's 32 yes or no questions. Of course, they have to be perfectly crafted questions, but identifying power of fingerprinting must not be underestimated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, it's possible that the software bug happened organically, but certainly at some point in the last decade management must have heard about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

For those with aphantasia, simply open a terminal on your Linux machine and run xeyes while you read this comment thread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm honestly not sure what you're saying. Countries like the US with poor public transit infrastructure think alcoholism is serious solely because of people who drink and drive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Stupid question probably, but what's stopping actual criminals from putting a bright orange tip on their real guns so they won't get shot by cops? Pride?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this'll blow your mind. Digital cameras don't capture the entire image all at once. They typically capture one row of pixels at a time, so each row comes from a different moment in time.

So the point I was alluding to is that two adjacent frames in a video carry slightly more timing information than they might appear to based on timestamps.

Specifically, if you have two frames where a dot appears at the bottom and then a second dot appears at the top, you can't be 100% certain that the first dot to appear actually showed up first, or whether it's an artifact of the rolling shutter effect.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Jeez, I wonder if they accounted for the rolling shutter to get higher time resolution

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If the video was 30 fps, sounds like two frames

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a meme, I'm not writing comprehensive policy here

I'm responding to your comment, not the post. This part:

If a disabled person ... their disability should therefore ....

You really can't make generalizations about disabilities like this.

Lots of people think disabilities are visible and easy to categorize. They're not, and this attitude leads to scenarios like random people harassing actually disabled people for using a handicapped parking spot.

My point is, like, mind your own business and don't make judgy proclamations about what disabled people can do.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't think you know what you're talking about. Disabilities are really diverse and the US at least has shit healthcare. I can totally imagine someone using the last of their strength or energy to get back into their car. I wish everyone returned their carts, too, but I have empathy for people who just hit the end of their rope.

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