They're implying "An establishment calling itself a 'newspaper of record' can be expected to have high standards, such as correctly reporting dates, and I'll hold them to that"
If you can spot a typo in the first few seconds of reading a piece, so can the editor and sub-editor before it's published.
Myself and most other programmers I know have at least once (more like 100 times) had the experience where you can't figure something out in some code you've been staring at for an hour, then another person comes along and immediately sees an obvious glaring error that you missed.
I can only imagine the same thing happens in newsrooms with text, especially when it is visibly very similar, like "2002" and "2022."
The process these days is more like publish then do editorial review. See it on major outlets all the time - break the story as early as possible, get the eyeballs and ad revenue, then get it cleaned up for posterity.
Sometimes this results in radical changes to a piece within hours of publication - yesterday for instance the BBC ran a piece headlined something like “I watched my father murder my mother”, and six hours later in slides an editorial correction saying “she did not, in fact, see her father murder her mother. She was asleep in another room at the time.”
Maybe someone with some brain on The Guardian realized if you're browsing through Tor, no way you're going to create a login and link your browsing to a name/email address...
That makes it sound like no one of The Guardian has a brain, it's not the intention, it's my most trusted news source, but maybe someone on the IT department thought a little bit further.
More likely Tor was set up years ago and receives no attention unless it horribly breaks; and so nobody notices nor cares that ads aren't working there (and if they were they'd probably not get paid for them anyway).
If you wish to divert from the discussion of whether free and fair elections is still possible in the USA, and would rather enter the meta-discussion, I'll bite, and cite Wikipedia:
> Godwin's law can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, a diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate.
I wonder if Godwins law and such did more harm than good in the end? I mean: yes, Hitler was a terrible person and Holocaust was horrible, but, by putting so much effort into convincing everyone that Hitler and Holocaust were so unique things in the history of mankind you’re basically creating a blind spot, where the resurgence of fascism goes unnoticed because everyone thinks “it can’t as bad as Hitler and the Nazis, right?”
Ahh, so this is how you stifle the warnings and discontent with the fascist capture of the government? The evidence doesn't matter as long as it's possible to derail the discussion?
Let me guess, similarly you apply "conspiracy theory" to anything you want to kneecap, is that right?
The blurred version feels honest -- it's not showing you anything more than what has been encoded.
The sharp image feels confusing -- it's showing you a ton of detail that is totally wrong. "Detail" that wasn't in the original, but is just artifacts.
Why would you prefer distracting artifacts over a blurred version?
The details are quite real, and they make the image far more comprehensible.
Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You might not even be able to tell that it's supposed to be grass. jpeg2png just blurs the hell out of images.
Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green smear. You might not even be able to tell that it's supposed to be grass. jpeg2png just blurs the hell out of images.
Also if your software for whatever reasons is using the original libjpeg in its modern (post classic version 6b) incarnation [1], right from version 7 onwards the new (and still current) maintainer switched the algorithm for chroma up-/downsampling from classic pixel interpolation to DCT-based scaling, claiming it's mathematically more beautiful and (apart from the unavoidable information loss on the first downscaling) perfectly reversible [2].
The problem with that approach however is that DCT-scaling is block-based, so for classic 4:2:0 subsampling, each 16x16 chroma block in the original image is now individually being downscaled to 8x8, and perhaps more importantly, later-on individually being upscaled back to 16x16 on decompression.
Compared to classic image resizing algorithms (bilinear scaling or whatever), this block-based upscaling can and does introduce additional visual artefacts at the block boundaries, which, while somewhat subtle, are still large enough to be actually borderline visible even when not quite pixel-peeping. ([3] notes that the visual differences between libjpeg 6b/turbo and libjpeg 7-9 on image decompression are indeed of a borderline visible magnitude.)
I stumbled across this detail after having finally upgraded my image editing software [4] from the old freebie version I'd been using for years (it was included with a computer magazine at some point) to its current incarnation, which came with a libjpeg version upgrade under the hood. Not long afterwards I noticed that for quite a few images, the new version introduced some additional blockiness when decoding JPEG images (also subsequently exacerbated by some particular post-processing steps I was doing on those images), and then I somehow stumbled across this article [3] which noted the change in chroma subsampling and provided the crucial clue to this riddle.
Thankfully, the developers of that image editor were (still are) very friendly and responsive and actually agreed to switch out the jpeg library to libjpeg-turbo, thereby resolving that issue. Likewise, luckily few other programs and operating systems seem to actually use modern libjpeg, usually preferring libjpeg-turbo or something else that continues using regular image scaling algorithms for chroma subsampling.
[1] Instead of libjpeg-turbo or whatever else is around these days.
[2] Which might be true in theory, but I tried de- and recompressing images in a loop with both libjpeg 6b and 9e, and didn't find a significant difference in the number of iterations required until the image converged to a stable compression result.
Oh no, those poor people who are happy to get paid making products and services to exploit our basest emotions, amp them for "engagement", subverting civility and democracy in the meanwhile, are going to be laid off?!
Hah, you made me think of the future with regards to this fool. Why do I see a future where amongst all the chaos and destruction of a big climate-induced disaster, the headline "Mark Zuckerberg and his family have reportedly retreated into his doomsday bunker" will appear...
I thought the bunker is only a rumor, but DDGing it, it's "rumor" that's been covered in many news outlets, so, I'm guessing it's real although the news outlets might have some details wrong.
Man, talk about unnecessary graphs... ok graph 2 is maybe tolerable, although it's showing the popularity of the projects, not a metric of how many errors/vulnerabilities found in those projects.
I'm not a newspaper editor, but I think if this was an article for one, they'd also say the graphs are unnecessary. It smells of "I need some visual stuff to make this text interesting"...
Dude there’s only three graphs in there. Do they really bother you that much? The third may be a bit unnecessary but I think the visuals add to the post.
If you’re “helping a kid” then I guess I can help you. Help is criticism delivered with a constructive tone. Criticism can be helpful if you look past the tone.
Fully agreed; this is something that always baffles me when it's misunderstood so often. Regardless of whether it's logical or not, tone and attitude in practice does influence whether people are convinced by something, so if your goal is to actually change how someone else acts, you will not be as effective if you don't care about how you come across. Being right is not always enough, so even if the style of communicating doesn't seem like it "should" matter, in practice it genuinely does if success is measured by whether the change happens or not.
Of course, if the goal is just to be right rather than to convince someone else about what's right, how you're saying something doesn't matter, but at that point you've already reached the goal before you started talking to them, so it's worth reexamining what you're actually looking to get out of a conversation at that point.
I liked the graphs. When skimming posts i often stop on graphical elements and decide if I want to understand the context or continue skimming. In this context, all three graphs were useful for me.
Posts with just text are sense and just not nice to read. That's why even text-only blog posts have a tendency to include loosely-related image at the top, to catch reader's eye.
It's Friday night / Saturday morning. Who wants to be reading text?
Especially on night mode themes.
Besides, can we read anymore? In the age of 'GPT summarise it me' attention spans and glib commentary not about the content of the article being all many people have to add, perhaps liberal application of visualisations adds digestive value.
People routinely - well, at least every few months - shoot up US schools. They are radicalized online. There is a common pattern to the radicalization. However, it's ""forbidden"" to point that out or suggest restricting the supply of firearms to internal enemies of the US in any way.
Americans don't need any encouragement from foreign powers to do that. Congress has seen fit to keep letting it happen by pointing to ancient scripture about the right to develop one's own organized militia....
Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference.
We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.
Someone commented, and I paraphrase poorly, "Imagine if Russia didn't influence the voters in 2016; all the racism and bigotry in the USA would disappear!"...
That reminds me of an interaction I had with a foreign exchange intern at my uni. I was working in an organization that organized these exchanges and I was giving him the orientation on his first day, including introducing him to his employer. The employer wanted him to write an email to some other person in the company, and he 1st wrote it with no caps n txtspeak, and when he was done he went back through it so it would have proper sentences...
If you want something to be clear you need to take time to re-read and revise it. If you really want to be sure there needs to be a full day between writing and revision (otherwise you will read what you meant to write, not what you actually wrote). For a presumably non-native speaker I expect he needed that extra effort.
Technically I should wait a day to hey the reply button here. I don't see anything wrong with this post now, but it is a reasonable bet that there is something that someone else sees.
Haha, yeah. I was face palming some obvious typos in an important email earlier. Even after reading it four times. I find this helps in writing music as well. I come back a day later and so many things stick out that my brain would just gloss over.
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