DrNosferatu

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Ask HN: How to best use a iPhone6S as a TV box?
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Any list of cool uses for decommissioned iPhones? I would be actually quite interested in using my 6S as a tv box / HDMI dongle for streaming and emulation.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
That’s not true for me at all: AI gives me near-instant distillation of tomes of documentation, that before, I would have to fairly understand to make progress. Now that has become instant and near effortless - if this isn’t a technological
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
My AI accepts the padding criticism, but complains of unfairness about the other: • The earlier suggestion that libx264 might “pad/scale as needed” was wrong; explicit filters are required for odd dimensions, and choosing between pad,
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
It’s Perplexity on GPT5 reasoning - I get the feeling they water it down somehow…
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
I don’t know about the HN crowd, but my AI sure has things to say about your FFmpeg command: << On the ffmpeg command, • It’s conservative but works. The key bits for web playback are: H.264 video, yuv420p, AAC audio, MP4 container wi
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
But synthesizing FFmpeg commands is not the total gain from “AI expenditure”, is it? There are infinite similar use cases. I guess the killer app (for AI coding) will be a framework to successfully structure projects in appropriately size
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
AI has made FFmpeg easily usable to the mere mortal - that alone is a technological revolution.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
That’s 13% per year.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Unfortunately, this is a lot more common than people think… :/
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
It’s actually just 7% improvements year over year!
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Bernie Sanders is right: The state should get equity for the money it spent on bailouts (or other purposes). And this money should be put to work on social programs ;)
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
I certainly will not die on this hill: my comment was motivated by recently comparing single core scores on Geekbench6 from 10 years apart CPUs. Care to provide some data?
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
But single core performance has been stagnant for ages! Considering ‘Geekbench 6’ scores, at least. So if it’s not a task massively benefiting from parallelization, buying used is still the best value for money.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
You can actually do a lot with a non-congested build server. But I would never say no to a faster CPU!
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
It’s a fascinating story: One of their last Symbian phones, the N8 (and if you ask me, one of the most beautiful ever designed), sold very well, some 4 million units! But the ground was shifting so much, that even that couldn’t save them.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
30% on the App Store was an answer to Nokia’s Ovi store some 70%!
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Very seldom a German manager would ever do this.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Unless you ask them for big surprises.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Unless they undercut the Chinese (same class) car prices in Europe, people will run from such products like the plague. And we all know which way this is gonna go ;) PS: Morally worse, only privatized water that used to be public free acces
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Is there an exhaustive list of methods people use in 2025? Stremio, classic torrents? What’s the current state of PopcorTime / successors?
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
And your personal data won’t be sold off! A Netflix presentation to invite advertisers actually boasted how well they could target you for adds.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
This spills to Perplexity! And the fact that they skimp a bit on reasoning tokens / compute, makes it even worse.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
This game and the Summer Olympics had a huge wow factor when arriving to PC gaming - nice memories! Also, it seems the same graphics engine was further used (and refined?) in baseball games - with the Hardball series. These, of course, had
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
My PC joystick had a rapid fire mode, and if I remember correctly, it was possible to achieve huge jumps leveraging this.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Then instruct GPT5 to write more structured and annotated code.
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Too little focus on early F1 evolution!
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
- Why not 12 bits?
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
Selection categories sounds wonderful, but then you realize that if you multiply all those 0.x values you get something that tends to zero. Better leave some space for magic!
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by DrNosferatu 1y ago
My understanding was that Ferrari was in the business of selling a very specific badge, a very specific engine purr, a very specific shade of red and a certain relative level of dynamic performance - the absolute value of this last one ch

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