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 Discussion on answer by Ray Butterwor…

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Steve Cox
Oct 21, 2022 08:33
@JasonGoemaat Sex is now routinely determined via NIPT as early as 9 weeks, or even with a new OTC test (99.9% reliable) at 6 weeks.
 

 Discussion on answer by bobflux: Did …

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Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 18:23
@OwenReynolds Yes I agree. If you take out the rendering from brave and VLC where the color grading does not match that of the CNN video, and remove the author's editorializing then it's a duplicate of the other answer and of little value
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 13:28
I'm assuming I shouldn't mention any details about video rendering or color formats because there don't seem to be any "experts" who have gone into any actual technical detail on this specific incident. Normally conclusions are left unreferenced because they are logically derived from the other parts of the answer, should that not be the case for this answer or should I leave out any conclusions whatsoever?
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 13:28
@Oddthinking you're being extremely unhelpful and a don't understand why. I'm trying to compose an acceptable replacement to this answer. Would it be fine to use the same methodology (showing screenshots of the video as rendered by various programs) because that's the same methodology in the other answer that hasn't been deleted. Is it okay to say whether or not to my eye the images match or not?
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 12:38
I didn't say you deleted an anti CNN and left a pro CNN. You deleted an answer with some unreferenced assertions, and left an answer with some unreferenced assertions. Can you please detail which parts of the answer you deleted were offending so we can avoid making the same mistakes? Because the only reference I see in the acceptable answer was to the AP news statement from the original question
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 12:24
@Oddthinking well now you deleted an answer that exhibited some anti-cnn bias in it's conclusions, but was fairly nuanced in it's methodology. And you've left untouched an answer that makes the bold and entirely unsubstantiated claim that the comparison video exhibits signs of alterations. I think this question is worse for the intervention
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 10:33
@Oddthinking deleting this answer (which seems to actually resolve where this confusion originally comes from) but leaving the other answer which seems to make no less bold of claims, would appear incredibly biased. I think it's fair to say that this answer could be improved, but a wholesale deletion is unwarranted
Steve Cox
Jan 15, 2022 10:33
@VGR That's because you aren't familiar with Joe Rogan. He is usually a very pink human.
 

 Discussion on answer by Alan Lewis: D…

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Steve Cox
Aug 2, 2020 14:05
@anaximander while I'm sure in most cases you're right, and it is just a scare tactic, stenographically fingerprinting broadcasts would be trivial.
 

 Discussion on question by MortysFrien…

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Steve Cox
Jun 21, 2018 21:12
If that literally was the whole patch, that probably should be a unique_ptr, not a shared_ptr. Also, Morty forgot the template parameter is the type, it should be shared_ptr<SpaceShip> (unless thats not std::shared_ptr, and they've reused the typename locally>. I'd say its fair for Rick to be a little pissy that someone sent him wrong code that doesn't compile as a solution to a problem.
 

 Discussion on answer by ventsyv: Did …

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Steve Cox
Nov 29, 2017 21:54
@Anoplexian the image is just overexposed. This is fairly clear in the original image which includes a bit of the photographer's shadow
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: Has …

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Steve Cox
Nov 27, 2017 19:23
@bta Those are not just de facto monopolies, in many municipalities they are de jure. Many municipalities gave cable providers exclusive rights as utilities.
 

 Discussion on answer by Cort Ammon: W…

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Steve Cox
Oct 12, 2017 12:33
@marstato storage can be abstracted to transmission across a channel with long latency. This is helpful because the wealth of coding theory that was developed for communications can be (and is) used for error correction in storage (e.g. modern hard drives use LDPC codes). The answer should be made more clear that the noisy channel that matters here is actually the storage medium itself, not necessarily the circuitry used to read and write.
Steve Cox
Oct 12, 2017 12:33
I'm not sure where you got the information that ethernet has 4 voltage levels. Ethernet uses a range of modulations depending on which standard is in use. Possible modulations have 2, 3, 5, and 16 voltage levels.
Steve Cox
Oct 12, 2017 12:33
The bandwidth in "shannon's law" is in hertz, not bits. And it doesn't relate the rate of error, to the bandwidth (that depends on the fec). Instead it places a theoretical limit on the capacity (in bits per second) you can send across a band-limited noisy channel.
 

 Discussion on question by Bohemian: W…

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Steve Cox
Feb 8, 2017 18:35
i say it this way: Caramel
 

 Discussion on answer by Ixrec: Why do…

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Steve Cox
Jun 8, 2016 22:39
@8bittree entirely true. And what safety features do those languages have that didn't exist when C was created? lisp-style garbage collection? pascal-style bounds checking?
Steve Cox
Jun 8, 2016 22:39
"1) C predates many of the other languages you're thinking of." C isn't some dinosaur. In no way does it predate the concepts of interpreted, and safe languages. lisp, BASIC, forth and pascal all predate C and had built in safety features that the designers of C specifically chose to avoid when making their language. Most modern safety feature existed when C was created.