software developer (with a degree in physics – but that was long ago). I publish in English and Italian (currently more in English), + German, French & Spanish occasionally (mainly in answers). I dream of a better world, where we can fight pain, discomfort and poverty, instead of fighting each other.
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Last Notes npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Let me guess: this has been made starting from an almost completely sharp image, right? Otherwise I can't explain the perfectly round out-of-focus patches. I don't know of any lens like that. And maybe the starting image itself was produced by focus stacking? The result is beautiful, but there must have been a lot of manipulation going on (including some AI sharpening, I would say, judging by the mushrooms' lamellae). npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross What happened? npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Heard lately once again the argument "#Russia didn't want #NATO bases close to its borders" as a justification for its invasion of #Ukraine. Have you heard of any Russian uttering after #Finland joined NATO? No? That's because they don't care, they know very well that NATO on their borders is not a threat (the border between 🇫🇮 and 🇷🇺 is 1340 km long). npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross I think it's great as it is npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Sign to ban #Israel from #Eurovision: npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Nello stesso mondo, e io ammetto di avere sbagliato su questo punto. Penso che parte di quanto ho scritto resti valido, però. npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross La Cina dovrebbe probabilmente invadere il Messico, per metterci basi militari. La NATO non ha invaso alcun paese (e mi riferisco unicamente alla NATO, altre alleanze hanno fatto porcate e su questo non ci piove). Gli ex satelliti dell'URSS sono stati ben contenti di potere avere la protezione della NATO, così come anche ultimamente Svezia e Finlandia. La Finlandia ha un lungo confine con la Russia, ma non è che la Russia sia corsa a difenderlo, ovviamente, perché non è la NATO il problema npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross 1) parlavo dell'espansionismo, non della minaccia atomica npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Diplomazia e diritti hanno mai fermato l'espansionismo russo? In passato, diplomazia e diritti hanno mai fermato l'espansionismo nazifascista? npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross I found it by googling "penser les penseurs et rêver les rêveurs" (in double quotes): https://www.hist-math.fr/textes/Lucas1895_ArithmetiqueAmusante.pdf npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Non ho capito chi o cosa avrebbe confutato l'opinione di Burioni che l'OMS abbia approvato il Sinovac con dati insufficienti npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Scaricare le reazioni antiscientifiche sulla comunicazione di Burioni però mi pare riduttivo. Peraltro, gli si può dare del supponente, ma bulletto è solo chi lo accusa di esserlo. npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Wow!! Anyways, I think it's the slight image enhancement that happens inside the camera, sharpening a bit the edges, that makes those #clouds, especially the ones more in the foreground, appear a bit strange to my eyes. npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Thanks. Even though I was a glider pilot when I was young, and often look at the sky, I don't think I've ever seen this kind of cloud edges, so I was wondering whether they could have been produced by AI. npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Did you take this picture? npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Quindi chi usa macOS dovrebbe mettere la spunta ad una delle prime due voci? npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross And also ≈ npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross AFAIK donkeys were used in circuses to teach horses their performance, because donkeys are more intelligent than horses npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross They should fix their translations, though. Can't tell about Dutch, but all other languages except French are wrong ("lot de 6" → "lot of 6" instead of "set of 6", etc.) npub1xuvzpdcjqy2weakneszg7vh26a7adccgpkfh9t0arjdu584vdrlsh0h8pl Walter Tross Not really. Sweden, Norway, Ireland and Spain aren't on the "same map again"
