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https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/map....
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> but you aren't meant to really be able to see those colors Someone needs to tell filmmakers. They shoot dark scenes because they can - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qehsk_-Bjq4 - and it ends up looking like shit
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> I can move a camera through room That's what AV1 calls global motion and warped motion. Motion deltas (translation/rotation/scaling) can be applied to the whole frame, and blocks can be sheared vertically/horizontal
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Hopefully that improves. The guy giving the presentation on AV2 made clear there was "rigorous scrutiny for hardware decoding complexity", and they were advised by Realtek and AMD on this. So it seems like they checked that all th
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File extension shouldn't matter at all, because data should have associated metadata (e.g. HTTP content-type, CSS image-set, HTML <video><source type=""/></video>) > It’d be useful to know if yo
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Yes, and it's allowing the format to change to allow more cleverness or apply more processing power. For example, changes from one frame to the next are encoded in rectangular areas called "superblocks" (similar to a https:&
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> The nuclear block is a big part of how Bluesky works I don't use Bluesky, but it sounds insane. It sounds like the bank robber who openly robbed a bank, made no attempt to disguise himself, and when questioned by the police, said
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I was mostly going down a sciencey path, but "real" is a fairly well understood word (part of reality; not imaginary). In terms of philosophy I'm mostly of an empirical bent. Things which are observable are real, and things w
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Yes, but how will you get the word out? The moderator can delete all your promotion of the breakaway subreddit within their subreddit. How are you going to get eyeballs ? And the truly vindictive moderators will start spamming your new sub
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> What about the particles that randomly pop in and out of existence? I like to imagine they're somehow just an observational error, otherwise the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe is real and
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I'm fairly confident that most mathematics are real, i.e. they have real world analogues. Pi is just an increasingly close look at the ratio between a circle's diameter and circumference. I'm willing to believe elecromagnetic
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> If this was true, it would be the strongest piece of evidence so far. > But it’s not. > I’m sorry to tell you this, but /u/maxwellhill did post after the 2nd of July. Just not in public. He continued to perform moderato
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That's something of a bold assertion repeated as fact. Stallman coined the term "Tivozation". The word was literally created to describe how TiVo acted . Without TiVo doing what TiVo did, and Stallman calling it out, the
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I agree with you that it's vague text... but I don't think this website is alone in having nothing but sizzle on its landing page.
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My understanding - from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkep1vx3mro - is that. 1. Gas-powered electricity generation sets the wholesale rate (for _all_ forms of generation) more often than not, and gas is exp
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Bazzite -> Community & Docs -> FAQ https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/FAQ/#what-is-the-difference-... > Bazzite originally was developed for the Steam Deck targeting users who used their Steam Deck as th
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It's not, the same thing happened even in the 1980s and 1990s. Think of it like "stolen valour". Let's say you enjoy Skyrim. All the people are like "Yay Bethesda!". Bethesda gets the warm fuzzies (and lots of
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It's not rude to the GPL, it's just not collaborative in a way you want them to be? The four freedoms allow you to share your enhancements with the community , they don't say the original author has to accept them. They pu
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grug is grug name grug neighbours ugg, oog, thog, thag, tragg, yog, grr, argh not use computer https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HulkSpeak
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OP's point is it's an affectation, aimed at signalling to an in-group. It's not a common phrase. Like "folx" or "foid", the jargon/cant is there to exclude "normies". Even an appeal for help
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Perhaps they just "didn't feel like being customer-servicey" often enough: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8KoiQKPmXf/
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https://old.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/142etak/heartbroke... > The owners of the Pink Peacock Cafe faced an uphill battle against prejudice, discrimination, and hatred, making it nearly impossible
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Normal convention is that an agency will make no comment about any ongoing investigation, because making public comment prior to bringing charges could be prejudicial to the case. If, for whatever reason, the agency feels like it's n
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No, you would use ncurses, or a library built on it (like Curses Development Kit, CDK)
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> I plan to expand support to additional targets such as Windows, embedded devices, and the web via WASM. Great! iTerm2's embedded web browser ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298793 ) could then run it, and i
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> People are free to reimplement anything if there’s a spec and no law against it. Yeah, but if they rewrite GPL tools to corpo-friendly licenses, I'm going to call them corporate bootlickers. Or useful idiots. Corporations are look
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> If you honestly think all humans are born equal I don't. But in addition to genetics, babies pop out of rich and poor vaginas. Socioeconomic status is a much stronger indicator for being incarcerated than genetics (not countin
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Remember when Pennsylvania judges took kickbacks to send teenagers to for-profit detention centers? They ruined thousands of people's entire lives, but hey they made a quick buck! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids
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Recent metaanalysis of intervention effectiveness (2025, UK) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/680101e3da5bb... In short: humans are not inherently good 'uns or bad 'uns. The social interventions
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Because it's useful. https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#embedding > Embedding types introduces the problem of name conflicts but the rules to resolve them are simple. First, a field or method X hides any other ite
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