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by __alexs 7mo ago
Movies are not projected using the scan and hold approach used by typical computer displays. They have a rotating shutter which blinks every frame at you multiple times. This both helps to hide the advance to the next frame but also greatly
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by __alexs 7mo ago
Even a person with below average eye sight can easily see 24 fps judder in fast moving pans. Vision is not nearly as simple as people want it to be.
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by __alexs 7mo ago
> While people have an image frame rate of around 15-20 images per second to make moving pictures appear seamless, This is just...wrong? Human vision is much fast and more sensitive than we give it credit for. e.g. Humans can discern PWM
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by __alexs 7mo ago
I review most of the code I get LLMs to write and actually I think the main challenge is finding the right chunk size for each task you ask it to do. As I use it more I gain more intuition about the kinds of problems it can handle on it&#x2
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by __alexs 7mo ago
In vitro studies are not so great for establishing threshold doses surely?
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by __alexs 7mo ago
The TUI hype seems like nostalgia for COBOL mainframe apps that most people have never even used. A sort of secondhand cyberpunk role play with zero focus on actual UX. Also if TUIs are so great, why isn't this a TUI app?
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by __alexs 7mo ago
JavaScript was not supposed to a lot of things.
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by __alexs 7mo ago
The only interest the Nazi's had in socialism was eliminating it. They invented privatisation and crushed unions.
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by __alexs 7mo ago
The Neo-Victorian perspective of The Diamond Age is not a luxury most of us are going to be able to afford unfortunately.
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by __alexs 7mo ago
I came from a poor background and stole pretty much all the textbooks I used to learn programming as a kid. I also stole all the music I listened to while studying them. Is everything I write slop for the same reason?
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by __alexs 8mo ago
AI written absolutely is copyrightable. There are just some unresolved tensions around where the lines are and how much and what kind of involvement humans need to have in the process.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
I think the problem here is that an AI is not a legal entity. It doesn't matter if you as individual run an AI that takes the source, dumps out a spec that you then feed into another AI. The legal liability lies with the operator of th
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by __alexs 8mo ago
I probably drink more web kool aid than the next guy but this is just not true. Electron apps dealing with more than a small handful of data rapidly start to show poor frame timing and input lag.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
This is such a lazy take. Electron is very easy to deliver a good quality app for everything but absolute power users. Yes it's horribly slow but it enables rapid experimentation and it's easy to deliver the wide range of UI integ
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Iran has never carried out an attack against US military infrastructure that wasn't clearly retaliatory. Look it up. Every case of Iran attacking US infrastructure has been in direct retaliation to the US blowing up some Iranian stuff.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Sure but having a bunch of resources for "defence" is very different from having a bunch of resources for "attack" in most people's mind I imagine.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
> the status quo is that Apple Silicon is the undisputed king of ARM CPU performance If your metric is single thread performance yes but on just about anything else Graviton 4 wins.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
You claim to disagreeing with OP but you seem to be describing basically the same core loop of planning and execution. Doing OODA faster has always been the key thing to creating high quality outcomes.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
I don't understand quite how Anthropic have managed to get so much mind share for Claude Code given the UX is pretty bad compared to something like Cursor.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Da Vinci is maybe only the 5th most interesting thing about the Mona Lisa.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
There is a tremendous amount of "art" that is produced for purely commercial reasons. It employs many thousands of people. These roles are definitely threatened by image generators. Agree that if you are Artist this is not going t
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Farming GDP has grown 2-3x since the 1900s. It's just everything else has grown even more. That doesn't make farming somehow irrelevant work. There's just more stuff to do now. This seems pretty consistent with OPs point.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
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by __alexs 8mo ago
My car probably could be hacked to murder me in secret but frankly I'm not worth expending that kind of access on. The threat model is really very different.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
For me the process which works is the "make a mess, then clean it up" approach. Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process...
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by __alexs 8mo ago
My car can't login to my bank account.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Why not just install it from Steam?
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by __alexs 8mo ago
It is actually one of the most alive and welcoming spaces in London.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
Yeah but I get paid for that.
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by __alexs 8mo ago
I will never contribute to a project that runs on this sort of ridiculous popularity contest system.

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