Feroz Louis

There's always more than meets the eye...

[Feroz Louis @FerozLouis]

Packt's $5 sale is now on! Grab my @packtpub book Mastering Mobile Test Automation for just $5 at https://t.co/5LLFs6PDAc

[⛧ @oglocc__]

Now I already know which one to use when I go to drink lava.

[Feroz Louis @FerozLouis]

But did you actually took out the ball and put it in their desk drawer to prank your colleagues?

[Jessica @JessicaGenetics]

My experience buying a new duvet cover yesterday:

Go to website
Immediate spin the wheel pop up
Close pop up
Cookies pop up
Close pop up
Maneuver to what I want
Add to cart
Pop up: save $40?
Okay
Put in email
Put in phone number
Welcome email
Discount email
Go to discount email
Save $40 but only through their app
Download app
Must make a username & password
Must verify my email with a code
Get email with the code
Enter code
Now I’m in the app
Cart is empty
Need to go re-add all items to my cart
Turns out there’s an order value threshold for the discount
I’m $6 short of threshold
Have to add $30 more to my cart
Irritated but I’m in this deep
Order complete
Unsubscribe from texts
Unsubscribe from email marketing
Delete 3 pointless emails
Delete app

Why must we live this way.

[Bhoomika @bhoomikacodes]

i'm the API between claude and my manager

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

the Mesopotamian student whose math homework is being clowned 4,000 years later at the UChicago Ancient Cultures Museum is my spirit animal:

[Hongshen Zhu @HongshenZhu]

Impressionism flourished right after humans invented photography, which liberated authenticity from painting. Similarly, perfect CGI becomes aesthetically cheap very quickly with AI, and “hand-made” Niu Lai is the harbinger of this shift. Viewers not only enjoy the fun of participating in the counter-revolution but also realize they love contemplating about the human thinking behind the five years of production and creation.

[Feroz Louis @FerozLouis]

So it's scientifically proven that women see more colors then men..

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

There's a subset of women who have four cones (instead of three) in their eyes, enabling them to distinguish between colors that nobody else can.

Most of these women probably have no idea that their vision is unique.

For context: The human retina (usually) has three cone receptors that, roughly, are tuned to sense short, medium, or long wavelengths. The brain "sees" an image by comparing how activated these three sensors are. It is the ratio of activation that determines the color we see.

Hence, if you were to look at a pure orange light, and then look at a light made by mixing red and green lights, the two would look identical to your brain even though they are made in different ways. This partly explains, for example, why our phone screens only need three kinds of pixels (red, green, blue) to convince the brain that it is seeing every possible color.

Now, the genes for the medium- and long-wavelength cones sit right next to each other on the X chromosome. Sometimes, when eggs or sperm are made, they can "swap over" each other and make a hybrid gene that is tuned to detect light *between* those two wavelengths. A man who inherits a hybrid gene on his X chromosome is called an "anomalous trichromat," and will generally have trouble telling apart reds and greens.

But his mother, carrying an ordinary gene on one X chromosome and a hybrid gene on the other X chromosome, is different!

Early in development, cells in the retina randomly silence one of the X chromosomes, and its descendant cells then inherit that selection. Since there are millions of these cells in the retina, each of those cells will express the gene on either this X chromosome or that X chromosome. This means that, in these rare women, their retina will actually contain *four* types of cones rather than three.

In 2010, researchers tested the vision of women who have sons with red-green colorblindness, and soon found a woman -- who they called cDa29 -- that seemed to possess four cone cells.

They tested her child with an anomaloscope, an instrument that projects a small circle split across the middle. One half is lit by a single pure orange wavelength, and the other is lit by a mixture of red and green light. A knob is used to control the ratio between the colors, and the participant is asked to turn this knob until the two halves look exactly identical. The son was red-green colorblind.

Then they showed the mother color pairs that look identical to most of us, but look different to a person with a fourth cone. She could quickly spot color differences that nobody else could. cDa29 was later sequenced, and researchers found that she had normal cones for long-, medium- and short wavelengths, but also a hybrid gene made by merging the first four exons from the middle-wave cone, and the last two exons from the long-wave cone. She can see (and distinguish colors) between these two wavelengths.

Article snippet from a recent New Yorker article where I first heard about this.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Why are you returning this item?

⚪️ Arrived too late
⚪️ No longer needed
⚪️ Better price avaialble
⚪️ Wrong item was sent
⚪️ Unauthorized purchase
⚪️ Description on website was inaccurate
🔘 Dude, you dropped it in the f*cking pool

[Bees 🐝 @bees_cult]

It’s crazy how every piece of information I come across either confirms my pre-existing beliefs or is wrong

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A domain that looks like https://t.co/ItCL8t345u but isn't https://t.co/ItCL8t345u where the actual characters are different.

Internationalized domain names (IDN) let browsers render non-Latin scripts, Cyrillic, Greek, Cyrillic lookalikes for Latin letters. а Cyrillic "а" (U+0430) looks pixel-identical to a Latin "a" in most fonts. so does Cyrillic "е," "о," "р," "с," "у," "х."

register "аррӏе.com" using Cyrillic characters, and browsers that support IDN will render it as https://t.co/ItCL8t345u in the address bar. underneath, the actual domain is https://t.co/NZco4fd9Qd punycode, the ASCII-safe encoding browsers convert IDNs into. you never see the punycode. you see https://t.co/ItCL8t345u. so does your email client. so does the padlock.

a researcher demonstrated this against Chrome and Firefox in 2017 using exactly that https://t.co/ItCL8t345u spoof, and both browsers rendered it clean.

the fix isn't "look closely." you can't. it's browsers flagging mixed-script domains, and you checking the punycode directly when something feels off.

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

findAndReplaceYourWayToYCombinator

[Joel Selanikio @jselanikio]

I guess it's all relative: at $3500 @Apple Vision Pro is seen as a very expensive consumer toy (and a dud in sales) — but as the primary display in endoscopic lacrimal surgery: it's super cheap!

Less than 1% the cost of standard OR visualization gear, in fact.

Study finds using the Vision Pro led to 19% faster procedures, zero problems, and every surgeon preferred it to what they'd used before.

Did I mention it's cheaper?

Classic sustaining innovation. Healthcare getting better. And the usual incisive analysis by @asymco.

https://t.co/vMKRGgXL3K

#DigitalHealth #SpatialComputing #healthcare #visionpro

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

[Naval @naval]

Don’t send me the report, just send me the prompt.

[Srikanth.CashlessConsumer | ஸ்‌ரீகாந்த் @logic]

#CashlessConsumer #Security Investigation.

@RBI created .bank.in so you could trust your bank's website.

@IDRBT security policy claimed the domain registrar was "audited." Reality: 0 auth on any endpoint, data leaks

Built without tender. Detailed report https://t.co/F0euEH1spb

[James Evans @dazzeloid]

Overheard in SF: "is he old money or new money? like saas rich or AI rich?"