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Comment · 25 days ago
how about lossless JPEG XL
Comment · 25 days ago
I don't think you got the right link for UVMC2.
Comment · 1 month ago
Lights don't have to be aimed up into the sky to function. Crime and traffic accidents aren't higher in towns with dark-sky ordnances.
Comment · 1 month ago
Light doesn't need to be aimed up into the sky to function. You need to spend more time in the world.
Comment · 1 month ago
Because the fertile soil comes from the process of reaching the breakthrough. This should be fairly obvious.
Comment · 1 month ago
i think that's just you
Comment · 1 month ago
he's defending it because they pay his salary
Comment · 1 month ago
>the public essentially has little interest in preventing human extinction.

yes, most people don't belong to that cult

Comment · 2 months ago
shouldn't an entity performing science understand what it's doing
Comment · 2 months ago
because we already have actual medication that does that in a controllable and well-characterized way
Comment · 2 months ago
If someone didn't care enough to write it, why should anyone else care enough to read it?
Comment · 2 months ago
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06433

Seems like important knowledge for anyone who enjoys terrestrial astronomy or visiting dark sky areas. Despite what we were told on TV, they can in fact take the sky from you.

Comment · 3 months ago
you can still shoot film

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