@rey I feel so proud right now :)
Partner: "I helped with an app that's a clone of a 1980s calculator!"
... I went on a date with my girlfriend and got distracted posting calculations about star luminosity online.
That's pretty Me.
Holy SHIT, now I found a paper demonstrating that humans can detect single individual photons shot into our eyes.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
That's beyond ridiculous.
If I did the math right, that means from a star that's near the limit of human perception under ideal conditions, your eye is taking in ~650 photons per second when fully dilated.
@Azure heck maybe i should actually re-read it while i wait to hit top of queue on my library books
@Azure It's been a while for me. I'm really curious what you think of it :)
@Azure Have you read https://qntm.org/ra ?
Goes some strange places.
@lifning@cybre.space @kinsey glad I checked the mentions first!
@lifning@cybre.space @kinsey I was just about to recommend that book :)
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@shoofle oh it'd be 100% opaque to the average fucko. So yeah if you don't want that, then your text here.
@Doephin yeah that's pretty wtf.
@shoofle I'm offering a hard vote for bottom text
Moving to @starkatt
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