2021-04-04

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Mars Helicopter now on Martian soil
- NASA Perseverance rover drops Ingenuity helicopter off on Mars surface
(PDF) Functional Imaging with Multi-Tap CMOS Pixels

Two-tap CMOS pixels have been developed for time-of-flight range image sensors1)-3). Ando and Kimachiproposed a time correlation image sensor in Ref. 4. Intheir experimental demonstration a three-tap pixel isused to implement weighted integration using current-domain modulation. In this paper, applications of multi-tap CMOS pixels with four or more taps are mentionedin terms of time-division-multiplexed imaging (TDMI)and coded exposure (CE).

Overcoming Bias : Meta-Comments On UFO Talk

So I’m forced to choose between my intellectual standards, which say to go where the evidence leads, and my desire for social approval, or at least not extra disapproval. I know which one I’m idealistically supposed to pick, but I also know that I don’t really care as much for picking the things you are supposed to pick as I pretend to myself or others.

We often fantasize about being confronted with a big moral dilemma, so we can prove our morality to ourselves and others. But we should mostly be glad we don’t get what we wish for, as we are often quite wrong about how we would actually act.
(PDF) Screwtape Proposes a Toast
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

The Medium pivot is the message - Medialyte

In shutting down its owned and operated editorial arm yesterday, Medium succumbed to the same market factors that are increasingly guiding the decline of the publishing industry writ large. Namely: That the same amenities that once advantaged publications — newsrooms full of journalists, teams of support staff, august office buildings — are now in many ways liabilities.

The New York Times, no doubt motivated at least in part by the fear of losing all its top talent, sent a memo to its staff yesterday, informing them that all side projects — including newsletters — must undergo a vetting process before they are allowed to continue.
The mess at Teen Vogue, which is a Conde Nast mess

Ubiquiti All but Confirms Breach Response Iniquity
Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users | Hacker News

To put this in perspective, Faceboook just leaked information about, at most, 1 in every 15 people, in the world.
- Some of HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach
Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides - BBC News
Intel forgot to release graphics drivers for their 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs | TechSpot

a clone of old hardware and doesn’t need updated drivers – just certification. But luckily, if you've brought a Rocket Lake processor and don't have a video card to pair with it, you don't need to wait until Monday to play CS: GO at 30 fps. Here's a workaround: (manual driver install instructions)