tl;dr:

The research was initiated after scientists on the research team reported seeing occasional flashes of green light while working with an infrared laser. Unlike the laser pointers used in lecture halls or as toys, the powerful infrared laser the scientists worked with emits light waves thought to be invisible to the human eye.

But packing a lot of photons in a short pulse of the rapidly pulsing laser light makes it possible for two photons to be absorbed at one time by a single photopigment, and the combined energy of the two light particles is enough to activate the pigment and allow the eye to see what normally is invisible.

“The visible spectrum includes waves of light that are 400-720 nanometers long,” explained Kefalov, an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences. “But if a pigment molecule in the retina is hit in rapid succession by a pair of photons that are 1,000 nanometers long, those light particles will deliver the same amount of energy as a single hit from a 500-nanometer photon, which is well within the visible spectrum. That’s how we are able to see it.”

Neat! But please don’t shine lasers into your eyes even if it’s supposed to be invisible.

Usually the first thing I put on a new phone is a case.

Evolution doesn’t select for positive traits, just not-negative. If a trait doesn’t strongly reduce the chance of reproducing, it can get passed down.

For example, humans have plenty of neutral traits (hair color, eye color), and even plenty of negative ones (Alzheimer’s, arthritis, baldness, cancer, sickle-cell disease). But they’re not so fatal that they don’t get passed down.

Similarly, if neutral traits like cannabis including whatever chemical causes the munchies doesn’t reduce that plant’s ability to reproduce, it’ll get passed down.

A lot of those people need to get a hobby. Arguing over definitions in someone else’s projects doesn’t count as a hobby.

In a way, we have. There is already ML-generated music. It doesn’t sound bad, just boring and all the tracks sound the same.

I assume there was, as modern freezers have built-in alarms, but I don’t see any mention in the article.

Alcohol is banned as a performance-enhancing drug for some things like shooting.

In the store if you’re getting the phone from a store, or somewhere with wifi (home, a friend’s, a cafe) if you’ve gotten it some other way.

If you don’t have any of those, you probably live way out in the jungle, and I’d be surprised if you had service even if you got the eSIM. But in the edge case that you somehow got home delivery postal service in the jungle, you’d probably be able to survive just fine without it until your next trip into town.

In the extreme edge case that you are in the jungle, get service, and your need is critical, I would have an activated backup phone tested periodically and ready to go.

No, they issue it virtually. Then you download it via their app or via regular cell network provisioning.

You call support and have them issue a new one.

Oracle?

The Xbox consoles are not and never were advertised or sold as a subsidised device, but the ads are sure making it feel like one.

Yeah, because they are subsidized. Microsoft loses money on every Xbox, expecting to make it up in game and subscription sales.

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-loses-between-100-and-200-on-every-xbox-sold

Try the tunnels in Boston some time. They have highway exits in the tunnels. And my favorite part is after that there’s a fork with not much distance to figure out which one sends you the right direction on the interstate. Also the only signage is painted on the road, which has cars on it.

My last few phones have been Pixels and the only issue was my Pixel 6 having a greenish screen, but I was able to fix that with an app that altered the color temperature I think.

But a few updates later I hadn’t reenabled that app and the green was gone anyway. Google fixed it in a software update.

tl;dr: practice provides an 18-26% improvement, and the rest I guess is just natural talent?