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From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
"William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:55:55 -0000, Rod Speed
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message
>> news:op.zueh1ynoo5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
>>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:07:42 -0000, Rod Speed
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message
>>>> news:op.zud6dhovo5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:25:49 -0000, Rod Speed
>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in
>>>>>> message
>>>>>> news:op.zubpuunso5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
>>>>>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 04:27:41 -0000, Clare Snyder
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:39:50 -0000, "William Gothberg" <"William
>>>>>>>> Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:34:11 -0000, whisky-dave
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:21:43 UTC, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 12/19/18 6:01 AM, William Gothberg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> > They probably are fairly crude. I know they flicker, for
>>>>>>>>>>> > example
>>>>>>>>>>> > if
>>>>>>>>>>> > I
>>>>>>>>>>> > use my cordless drill, the chuck appears to spin the wrong way
>>>>>>>>>>> > under
>>>>>>>>>>> > the
>>>>>>>>>>> > LED lighting.
>>>>>>>>>>> I remember seeing that with a washing machine (under fluorescent
>>>>>>>>>>> lights). As the tub was slowing down, the row of holes around
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> tub
>>>>>>>>>>> would appear to reverse direction. Same thing with (spoked)
>>>>>>>>>>> wagon
>>>>>>>>>>> wheels
>>>>>>>>>>> in movies.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You can also observe such things using a smartphone that has a
>>>>>>>>>> high
>>>>>>>>>> FPS
>>>>>>>>>> rate for recodring movie.
>>>>>>>>>> I can see the labs lights flicker when I film at 240FPS standard
>>>>>>>>>> 60
>>>>>>>>>> and everything seems fine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Everybody seems to constantly cut corners. Lights should just be
>>>>>>>>> on,
>>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>>> flicker at all. Fucking annoying if you have decent eyesight, I
>>>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>>>> the flicker from almost everyone's LED tail lights.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is sounding more and more like our "engineer friend" who
>>>>>>>> needs
>>>>>>>> to do his own tire repairs and alignments and clutch repairs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don't know who you're referring to, but what's wrong with striving
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> perfection?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It increases costs for everyone who isnt a freak.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's perfection and there's perfection. You for example like LEDs
>>>>> you
>>>>> can control the colour of, nothing wrong with that. But OCD folk take
>>>>> things too far, like washing their car every day because of two specks
>>>>> of
>>>>> dust.
>>>>
>>>> All irrelevant to whether it makes any sense to design
>>>> all car lights so that no freak ever sees any flicker at all.
>>>
>>> When "freak" is half the population,
>>
>> Half the population don't see car lights flicker.
>
> Agreed, and the other half do.
Bullshit they do.
>>> you need to account for them.
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>> If you think they're a minority,
>>
>> I know there are.
>>
>>> why does google have 4.5 million results for the car light flicker?
>>
>> Just a few mindlessly ranting freaks, like you.
>
> I must have asked about 30 people I know about it, and about half agreed
> it was irritating.
The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample'
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