I wish they estimated how fucking annoying their interventions were. Like you might be boosting clicks per minute in the short term, but it's going to go down to zero after a week when I get fed up — when Netflix started auto playing videos, I threw my TV out the window.

Ok, fine, 33 bits 😂 Wikipedia says the world population is 8 billion, and python tells me that math.log2(8e9) is 32.897.

Remember, kids, it only takes 32 bits to uniquely identify any person on the planet. That's 32 yes or no questions. Of course, they have to be perfectly crafted questions, but identifying power of fingerprinting must not be underestimated.

I mean, it's possible that the software bug happened organically, but certainly at some point in the last decade management must have heard about it.

Probably not Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste then, if it has to kill you quickly.

For those with aphantasia, simply open a terminal on your Linux machine and run xeyes while you read this comment thread.

I'm honestly not sure what you're saying. Countries like the US with poor public transit infrastructure think alcoholism is serious solely because of people who drink and drive?

Stupid question probably, but what's stopping actual criminals from putting a bright orange tip on their real guns so they won't get shot by cops? Pride?

Oh, this'll blow your mind. Digital cameras don't capture the entire image all at once. They typically capture one row of pixels at a time, so each row comes from a different moment in time.

So the point I was alluding to is that two adjacent frames in a video carry slightly more timing information than they might appear to based on timestamps.

Specifically, if you have two frames where a dot appears at the bottom and then a second dot appears at the top, you can't be 100% certain that the first dot to appear actually showed up first, or whether it's an artifact of the rolling shutter effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

Jeez, I wonder if they accounted for the rolling shutter to get higher time resolution

If the video was 30 fps, sounds like two frames

Thankfully he was born in South Africa.