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by astrange 9mo ago
ffmpeg and libavcodec are the same project.
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by astrange 9mo ago
ffmpeg supports every format. ffmpeg wrappers don't need add much value in order to also do this. (Lots of corner cases apply and VLC developers do assist ffmpeg, host a conference, etc.)
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by astrange 9mo ago
No it isn't, VLC plays everything back slightly incorrectly in all sorts of ways, the subtitle rendering and colorspace handling isn't compliant at all.
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by astrange 9mo ago
> - Apple has a lossless codec for wireless, ALAC that can do up to 24bit/192khz Only Vision Pro has wireless lossless audio and it works because it's right next to the AirPods. But your phone can passthrough AAC over Bluetooth
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by astrange 9mo ago
"Sound quality" is a theoretical goal which can't be achieved in practice unless you listen in a perfectly quiet room. Your audiophile open-back headphones can't achieve their rated sound quality if eg there's a CPU
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by astrange 9mo ago
The DAC in Apple's $10 adapter is higher quality than most "audiophile" DACs because Apple has a larger R&D budget and is better at manufacturing than the entire audiophile industry combined. Same for Google's, thoug
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by astrange 9mo ago
Would have to strip a lot more than that, like every printf and function name. https://github.com/mrvacbob/atrace
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by astrange 9mo ago
I didn't say "text and code related to raytracing" though. I (and the parent post) said "raytracers". It's more important whether it knows basic concepts about computer graphics, linear algebra, etc. Reading th
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by astrange 9mo ago
Claude is a better explainer, but yes they're all capable of teaching you to write a raytracer. It has nothing to do with "raytracers are well-represented in the training set" though. I find it so strange when people get over
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by astrange 9mo ago
Claude can do that, yes. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us... Although if you want to test a UI app, it's better to do it through accessibility APIs rather than actually lookin
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by astrange 9mo ago
That's a pretty heavyweight pattern. Wouldn't dynamic scope be better?
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by astrange 9mo ago
I was surprised that ToTK was so focused on the underworld. The sky islands are much nicer. That said, I was also surprised ToTK had the same plot as BotW. Like, Ganon takes over the castle and then they defeat him and then they go into the
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by astrange 9mo ago
I mean, probably not. Nobody really thinks about mayoral inaugurations.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Journal has a lot of extra features where it autogenerates suggestions based on what you've done lately.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Europe has a lot to gain from fighting Russia, because if they conquer Ukraine they're going to invade Poland next.
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by astrange 9mo ago
It's not "indefinite". Most vacant housing units are not vacant for a long time. They might still be under construction or might just be turning over for the next resident in a week. https://darrellowens.substack.c
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by astrange 9mo ago
> The design goal of structured concurrency is to have a safe way of using all available CPU cores on the device/computer. That's parallelism. Concurrency is mostly about hiding latency from I/O operations like network tas
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by astrange 9mo ago
Apparently it's tied to the Sharpness setting in an obscure way such that it depends on the setting for that.
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by astrange 9mo ago
The Farallones always make me think of the Farallon brand of modems.
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by astrange 9mo ago
> noo motion smoothing is terrible unless you like soap operas and not cinema That's what's so good about it. They say turning it off respects the artists or something, but when I read that I think "so I'm supposed to
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by astrange 9mo ago
It's not really something to be suspicious of. Cameras just don't know what colors things "actually" are, mostly because they don't know what color the lighting is. Auto exposure/auto white balance erases color
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by astrange 9mo ago
Google's training runs aren't funded by VC. The Chinese models probably aren't either.
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by astrange 9mo ago
That doesn't necessarily mean it looks good or is tuned well, just that it has lower latency.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Dynamic Contrast = Low is needed on LG TVs to actually enable HDR scene metadata or something weird like that. 60->120hz motion smoothing is also useful on OLEDs to prevent visual judder; you want either that or black frame insertion. I
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by astrange 9mo ago
I went to a retrocomputing exhibition (I think at CHM) and there was a 6502-based Russian all in one computer with the nicest keyboard I've ever used. I still wonder which model it was…
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by astrange 9mo ago
I was surprised moving from Atlanta to San Jose that they have very similar area codes (404 408). I was extra surprised that there's a chain of crepe places called "Atlanta Crazy Crepes" which as far as I can tell are located
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by astrange 9mo ago
More important one in the US is that unemployment insurance, which is designed to help workers at the expense of companies, is badly designed and a large disincentive to hire people. https://www.niskanencenter.org/creating-a
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by astrange 9mo ago
iOS added a camera mode for medical photos that extra doesn't do that. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10162/
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by astrange 9mo ago
Mag glycinate helps with face clenching, but I also couldn't go above 20mg Vyvanse without feeling uncomfortable.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Trying to force companies to keep people longer than they want is how the social safety net works in some places (like Japan) and it's how the US healthcare system works, but both of those are, like, bad. It's better to make it ea

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