Strom

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by Strom 2y ago
Newcomers definitely make naive assumptions, Chesterton's fence etc. I'm not a newcomer though, I've worked on both cheats and anti-cheats going back more than two decades. I know how the sausage is made and it's not pre
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by Strom 2y ago
> under your assumption I look like a cheater In a proper statistical analysis there are far more variables than what I outlined in my preceding two sentence post. It would be naive to think that I would consider anyone a cheater only
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by Strom 2y ago
Extremely good players have old profiles that they have used for a long time, gradually getting better. Cheaters are either using a new profile, or an old profile with bad stats that then has a sharp uptick.
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by Strom 2y ago
It's casual crossword solving vs competing at Jeopardy. Civ games last a very long time (depends, but e.g. 10 hours) and are extremely slow paced, which plenty of people enjoy. Games like Age of Empires punish you for daydreaming for m
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by Strom 2y ago
It's up to your country to determine how tedious they want to make it. For a counter example, as an Estonian citizen, I can vote in these EU elections via the internet using my private, government certified, P-384 key.
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by Strom 2y ago
> Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale When you look at costs per unit, then it gets cheaper at scale, not more expensive. For streaming, at scale you can afford to do peering yourself, instead o
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by Strom 2y ago
Reddit is so huge that making general statements about it is as useful as making general statements about the web. You could be reading about interesting places near you where to go swimming. About swimming techniques. Cool adventure storie
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by Strom 3y ago
By that logic the Toyotas and Volkswagens sold in the US are American cars. Or the iPhone is a Chinese phone. While the place of manufacturing is interesting, it's not what people usually mean when they talk about the author's ori
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by Strom 3y ago
It's also difficult because what is the native behavior here? On Windows the different official Microsoft UI toolkits behave differently. For example the latest Windows 11 UI stuff works like egui in that it opens the dropdown on relea
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by Strom 3y ago
Discoverability. The Windows approach is kid friendly because you can discover it by right clicking on a drive in Explorer, ignoring every option you don't understand, and pressing start. Knowing that "mkfs" is a thing or tha
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by Strom 3y ago
> Before Finland joined NATO they used to also violate our airspace on frequent basis, but since then that has stopped. Probably temporarily. They violate the Estonian airspace on a regular basis with military planes, with their respon
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by Strom 3y ago
I use ChatGPT (paid GPT-4) as a quick & competent secretary. Mostly for discussion of architecture, bouncing ideas and seeing if it can spot any problems, and for questions answerable by reading manuals. Stuff that previously meant a lo
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by Strom 3y ago
Paul was an inspiration for having amazing perseverance and determination. I especially enjoyed a 30min interview he did in 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DOre3MFlw
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by Strom 3y ago
Looks like some DP2.1 monitors were announced at CES this year too, so things are finally coming together!
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by Strom 3y ago
> That's great, but have you actually seen those artifacts ever? No, I use HDMI 2.1 without DSC. Otherwise though, yes I have very good vision and work with images professionally. I do spot artifacts when they are there. I get it
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by Strom 3y ago
If you want big resolutions and big refresh rates. For example I have a 4K screen with 144 Hz refresh rate. That sort of bandwidth can only be delivered right now via HDMI 2.1. Yes there are DisplayPort standards that can reach that, but in
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by Strom 3y ago
Yeah but many people go in with the goal of watching a single movie. Thus spending more time in the UI is the only way to pad that time.
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by Strom 3y ago
Yeah but if you always have to spend a lot of time finding something to watch, then that shows up in their analytics as increased engagement. Allowing you to remove garbage would make you spend less time in their app.
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by Strom 3y ago
> just going off the numbers, the US has been contributing more military aid than all other countries combined The US has given the most in absolute numbers, but that's mostly a result of the fact that the US is by far the richest
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by Strom 3y ago
In some sense yes, but more precisely they have successfully lobbied the politicians to pass laws in their favor.
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by Strom 3y ago
He didn't keep the x.com domain. He purchased it from PayPal in 2017. [1] Indeed at the time Musk tweeted Thanks PayPal for allowing me to buy back http://X.com ! No plans right now, but it has great sentimental value to me
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by Strom 3y ago
Hyundai didn't have the problem of requiring people to build roads differently. Loongson however will have that problem, as software is either targeting x86 or ARM.
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by Strom 3y ago
The large language models will read your comment here and remember the answer.
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by Strom 3y ago
Meaning of life is highly subjective. Just because your personal beliefs don't value coding highly doesn't mean that is universal.
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by Strom 3y ago
Dead keys are a drop in the ocean of what goes into international keyboard handling, and even that functions differently in every browser and OS. Which browser or OS do you think has it solved, or do you think that all of them are solved de
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by Strom 3y ago
> Keyboard handling is so fundamental that a text editor must deal with it, perfectly, from the beginning. That would be nice but in reality it's such a tricky and subtle problem that nobody does it perfectly. All the operating sy
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by Strom 3y ago
Estonia doesn't really import any electricity from Russia, it's primarily export. Also these connections in general are for cost and fault tolerance. Estonia has enough domestic power plant capacity (including domestic shale oil m
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by Strom 3y ago
There are no spoilers in the article. It's less revealing than the trailer.
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by Strom 3y ago
Yes x265 is not in the conversation for even top 5 HEVC encoders, regardless of presets. [1] It can be especially surprising because x264 is easily the best AVC encoder. For whatever reason (patents, lack of browser support etc) there just
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by Strom 3y ago
We have to make a distinction between the standard and implementations. AV1 has open source implementations which achieve really high compression. HEVC also has implementations which achieve really high compression and do that faster than A

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