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AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers

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  • What does that mean?

    • Scientists Invent World's Fastest Camera That Shoots 156.3 Trillion Frames Per Second

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  • After skimming through the article and at the abstract and introduction of the article in Nature, it seems that unlike those technique you mentioned, this is really a single-shot real time imaging.

    • How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?

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  • Return of The Jedi.

    • Robert Heinlein's form letter response to people who wrote to him

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(×) I don't discuss my colleagues' works or my own. A novelist writes from
many viewpoints; opinions expressed even by a first-person character are not
necessarily those of the author. Fiction is sold as entertainment, not as fact.
(×) Please do not write to me again.
                        Sincerely yours,
                                         Robert A. Heinlein, by ____

    • Calmara suggests it can detect STIs with photos of genitals -- a dangerous idea | TechCrunch

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  • It's a trap!

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  • Laughs in Firefox

    • xkcd #2907: Schwa

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  • As a non-native speaker, I was kinda confused at first by this comic because in my head the vowels definitely didn't sound all the same. But I personally consider pronunciation of vowels in English to be one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, so no wonder.

    • Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

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  • I know they make shoes.

    • 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.

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    • 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.

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  • If they start building vertical cinemas, that's when we lose.

    • If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.

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  • Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

    • The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’

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  • They also should not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

    • Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

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  • Dude, what the hell you're onto?

    1280 x 800 is 16:10

    That's exact.

    1280 x 720 is 16:9

    Also exact.

    1280 x 768 is also 16:10.

    In the link you provided, it literally says it's 5:3. It even has its own line in the infographics. And while the article is titled "List of common resolutions", it looks more like an exhaustive list of almost any resolution that has been ever used in any kind of consumer device. It's definitely not limited just to standard computer monitors so that table isn't really that relevant to the topic of the discussion.

    Also show me a monitor with the 1280 x 768 resolution that's currently available on sale.

    You're picking up some extremely rare cases to make an argument that your initial statement about "usually different aspect ratio" was correct but that's not how it works. That's just moving goalposts.

    • Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another | Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware.

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  • Type without rhythm and it won't attract the worm.

    • Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

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  • Nah there are more

    5:4, 8:5, 21:9, 64:27. And more

    I already mentioned 5:4 and 8:5 equals 16:10.
    21:9 and 64:27 are just ultrawide formats which I also mentioned and you can't really mistake those for 16:9, can you? Same goes for 5:4 and 4:3 which are rather square-ish (4:3 was typical for old CRT monitors and TVs).

    And these aren’t exact. There’s fault tolerance, so to speak.

    I don't think "fault tolerance" means what you think it means.

    You can have slightly different sizes rectangles between several different 16:9 monitors.

    Are you telling me that there are monitors that don't have square pixels? Or that the number of (square) pixels doesn't give an exact 16:9 ratio?

    Anyway, yes, there are more aspect ratios out there but the important thing is how common they are. I just looked at the biggest local e-shop and if I try to filter parameters by resolution, I get this:

    The number in the parenthesis next to the resolution is the number of products. (Note that this is only showing 1609 out of the total 1629 items - if I scroll down, there are 20 other options which all have 1 product each so I took the liberty to ignore those as those are ultra rare items (and some of them aren't even regular monitors but just some specialized displays. Even here, for example the 2200×1024px is an e-ink touch screen)).

    I simplified each ratio to the simplest form, so those are exact ratios (but for some added a ratio with X:9 or X:10 in the denominator in parenthesis for easier comparison to those more standard formats). Turns out that 1379 out of 1609 monitors are exactly 16:9, so that's 85.7%. The biggest variety are among the ultrawides which I colored in purple but again, those are pretty much unmistakable. Just like the 5:4 and 4:3 in blue.
    So realistically you have to watch out for the red ratios where 1379 out of 1426 are 16:9, that's 96.7%.
    So I really wonder how you came to the conclusion that "monitors are usually a different aspect ratio to a TV".
    Now of course one e-shop isn't a completely representative sample but I hope we can agree that the numbers will be in the right ballpark. Feel free to make your own statistics from a different source.

    fault tolerance

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  • monitors are usually a different aspect ratio to a TV

    What? Aren't like 90% of monitors and 99% of TVs 16:9? There are a few monitors that are 16:10, some extremely rare 5:4 and 4:3 and then there are the ultrawide monitors which are obviously a different aspect ratio but saying that monitors are "usually" a different aspect ratio is factually incorrect. If you're deciding between a 4K TV and 4K monitor, then there's no danger of accidentally buying something of different format.

    • Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content

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  • I mean, there's /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 that's been running for years... Although that one was at least hilarious to read because at that stage the AI was in the sweet spot of being simultaneously coherent while making total lapses in logic.

    • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • Then I guess it's only in some countries. I've seen articles saying it wasn't available in Europe as a whole but maybe that's old news.

    • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • I'm just glad Copilot isn't available in Europe.

    • Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

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  • I mean yeah, but on the other hand with hydrogen you have much more control over when and where you use the electricity as you can choose to manufacture most of it during off-peak periods and when renewables create excess energy. Then you can transport it by pipes or by trucks/ships without overwhelming the electric grid.