Fubber Nuckin'

My hiccups always hurt. Why does my body have an internal fist it can use to repeatedly punch me in the stomach?

Sorry, you’re right, i was being too harsh. when i responded i thought you weren’t speaking in good faith, but i must’ve misinterpreted.

It seems like your response was either trying to waste my time by sending me down a rabbit hole to find the information you didn’t provide, or just being lazy and not caring to so much as check what you were posting. In either case i could do without responses like that cluttering my limited time.

Yes.

But that pressure is still there pushing against your eardrum

So what you’re telling me is, i should really be wearing hearing protection when i go underwater? All that pressure must be wreaking havoc on my hearing.

I wish there was no obscenity exception. I think all media deserves to exist regardless of its obscenity as long as it’s not directly harming someone (like certain types of porn for instance)

I don’t think they suck ass as long as you understand their limitations, but everyone seems to expect them to be able to fully replace human thought and uh, yeah they’re pretty bad if that’s your goal.

A friend of mine has thought long and hard about how automation will affect the world long before ai became an obvious threat, and decided to become a butcher.

Sounds like a pretty cool city

This article actually talks about how your eyes adjust during an eclipse, which is a bit different from what i was talking about, but also likely just as important.

I regret to inform you that the moon is not an IR filter.

I’ve never heard of this law. Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

This is not it (edit: “this” referring to atmospheric scattering), because if you look at the range of what is in shadow, it is significantly larger than the portion of the sky that you can see. If you could see that far, people in more of a 50% zone would be able to see the sky darken significantly in one direction and be bright in another. What we saw instead was the entire sky darkening evenly.

The real answer lies mostly in our nonlonear perception of light, meaning that we’re much more sensitive to the absolute change in amount of light when there’s less light than when there’s a lot. So the difference between 100% bright and 50% bright is a lot smaller to us than 50% bright and 0% bright.

try turning on a flashlight during the day and during the night and you can see the difference the same absolute change in brightness makes in different lighting scenarios. Let’s say that some flashlight is 5% the brightness of the sun. Going from 100% to 105% feels like nothing, but going from 0% to 5% is massive.

In fact you can model this difference using existing perceptually accurate color spaces. Let’s take the CIE L*a*b* color space. To find the perceived brightness (L*) you take Y, which is the absolute brightness in the CIE XYZ color space and run it through the following function: 116 f(Y/Yn) - 16 where Yn is the brightness of some predefined white point, and f is effectively the cube root (though it’s linear when lower than (6/29)^3 (less than 1%)).

If you look at the perceived brightness at 20% absolute brightness, you see that it’s not too far from the 75% brightness OP was describing.

I imagine there are other factors at play, but this is probably the biggest one.

Yes. We don’t care. That association is stupid.

wouldn’t i?

Steam also gives you the option to archive your games in a format compatible with dvds.

It’s more like wanting to go back to horses and walking because some cars have started driving themselves to the manufacturer to be scrapped in the middle of the night, but i have to agree with you.

I got stuck in one and couldn’t even search for help because each result where people were complaining about it had a captcha preventing me from entering.

Oh that would be beautiful

Okay, but what are some clever ideas that Sisyphus could use to escape his punishment?