there's a lot of assumptions here, but granting it's a difficult question: this is why the legislature holds the responsibility to decide, not the executive.

yeah

yes, i've used vitest browser mode to test canvas operations. it's designed to use 'snapshots' which capture page state, not screenshots, but that can detect visual difference on the canvas.

if you're performing GL operations you'll need to pass options to your browser driver to enable GL (for playwright chromium it's just `--enable-gpu`)

unfortunately, canvas rendering is sensitive enough to platform that you may have trouble matching snapshots between developer machines and/or CI.

in addition to aperture, percieved depth of field greatly depends on:

- focal length (wider is deeper)

- crop factor (higher is deeper)

- subject distance (farther is deeper)

compared to your telescope, any terrestrial photography is likely at the opposite extremes, and at a disadvantage everywhere but subject distance.

but, focus is most mechanically sensitive near infinity. adjustment creates an asymptotically larger change in the focal plane as infinity is approached.

in a point-and-shoot camera with a wide lens at f16, "infinity" basically means across the street.

Please don't comment about downvotes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If the downvotes were inappropriate, other users will usually correct them. In this case the comment ended up being heavily upvoted.

Unfortunately, complaints like the one you added don't get garbage-collected when that happens, so they linger on, adding noise to the thread.

it's called the first law of thermodynamics

The first law involves cwork. The axiom I am thinking of involves information.

>If a person is in jail, they are a ward of the state and have no expenses at all. There is no sense in paying them a "living wage" because they don't have to live off it. In any case, most stereotypical prison jobs would not cover the cost of incarcerating the employee.

only the last sentence here is true.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer...

many prisoners receive a bill for their incarceration and will come out of prison with debt, even if they're working while in prison.

it varies prison to prison, but even basic toiletries may not be provided. the most commonly purchased items at commissary are food.

> The US definitely puts too many people in prison, but that's for cultural reasons and not because of some nefarious plan to get cheap labor.

the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery contains a single exception: prisoners.

the largest maximum security prison in the united states is a slave plantation, operated continuously since the 1830s. they still farm cotton.

They don’t understand that not only tax payer funds go to these systems but the systems turn around and create victims of those in their care.

Paying to stay in jail should be done on an availability of funds, like bonds are (mostly), else it costs the tax payers. The shell companies that operate these prisons shouldn’t be allowed to charge inmates per diems if they are receiving tax payers dollars for them.

People think it’s all murders and rapists when that’s only 5% of the population at most. Most are in there for petty crime, drug charges, 3 strike rules, administrative chains, or mental health issues.

Yet for 27¢/day, will pick cotton for a local textile.

> many prisoners receive a bill for their incarceration and will come out of prison with debt, even if they're working while in prison.

This is true. I 100% agree with you that this is awful and should not be allowed.

> the largest maximum security prison in the united states is a slave plantation, operated continuously since the 1830s. they still farm cotton.

Fair, but only 12% of prisoners are even maximum security to begin with, and you don't end up there for slinging a little bit of pot.

On that note, I also think we send far too many people to jail and should rewrite the laws to fix that.

Yes, this is something people miss about prison. Many criminals are forced to repeat crime because prison is designed to economically ruin people. It's also designed to emotionally, physically, and mentally ruin people.

Point blank, the system is not meant to prevent or discourage crime, it's meant to enact torture for people we feel deserve it. Whether that helps our society does not matter at all - nobody cares if a rapist leaves prison just to rape again, so long as they are sufficiently punished for it. The punishment is more important than real, tangible outcomes, because ultimately we've built it so the punishment is what makes us feel good and safe.

yes. users can disable phone number discovery

can they disable it before or after it tells other people that they joined, if those other people had their number in their synced contacts list?

(I would be thrilled to learn that this changed, but it has been in place for many years and it's kinda hard to personally test)

yes before.

discoverability does default to "on", but there is an opportunity to disable it during registration, which prevents those notifications.

it's removing HDCP protection that's problematic, not adding HDCP protection

looking at the available information on HDCP, it looks like the transmitter does not have to be authenticated - they use the receiver's pubkey, much like a web browser transmits to an HTTPS server

debian and arch package managers ask you to accept EULAs when necessary to install, so the compliance infrastructure exists.

i think they are configured to auto-accept by default but that's been fine so far hasn't it