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by bscphil 4y ago
Right, but OP said Steam "doesn't enforce DRM". Saying they don't require developers to implement it is different than saying they don't enforce it.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think this is incorrect. I believe most Steam releases do require the Steam runtime to be present. Trying to open the game directly will "work", but that's because it's invoking the Steam runtime - just without showing
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by bscphil 4y ago
I noticed this too! I think their result is a completely valid interpretation of the original prompt.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Right, correcting for survivorship bias is very important. If an object lasts one year, its expected life isn't now $average_use_life - 1; that's too low an estimate. The problem with the "half life" rule is that it corr
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by bscphil 4y ago
Reminds me of a point I made about Pinboard. It's surprising to me that despite the success of open source software we haven't developed good systems for community administration of public services. Web services that aren't o
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by bscphil 4y ago
I was curious how they achieve this. It looks like the underlying file format uses LZMA, or optionally Zstd, compression. Both achieve pretty high compression ratios against plain text and markup. > Its file compression uses LZMA2, as im
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by bscphil 4y ago
> If you follow the logic that anything is at about half its life I don't think that makes any sense. By that logic any currently working device should be assumed to last another $currentlifetime. My 20 year old car is not gonna las
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by bscphil 4y ago
> The number of transferred bytes is important because it affects the latency and hence the user experience. Using this estimate, we calculated that between June 1st and 28th, 2019, the average BPP (weighted by the number of bytes transm
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by bscphil 4y ago
Also, > We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and live images). The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by
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by bscphil 4y ago
You can't trivially shift huge numbers of votes without getting caught. To get away with it, you'd have to shift small numbers of votes in specific locations. But with a popular votes, small numbers of votes don't make a diff
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by bscphil 4y ago
If that was a concern, surely the only reasonable thing to do would be to move to a popular vote as soon as possible. As things stand, an entity that could reliably hack 2 or 3 states would have a better than even chance of controlling the
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by bscphil 4y ago
What? Why would you say that? Much more plausible is the view that if you have high dollar lawyers on both sides crafting an airtight contract, and a jurisdiction that is heavily incentivized to stick to the letter of the law, then you can
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by bscphil 4y ago
> But the single best feature of PS is that you pipe structured objects to the next command, instead of raw text that must be parsed I agree with that, but other advanced shells (xonsh, elvish, or even fish) also have this feature.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Do you have any more information about this? I thought CR2 was floating point. Any details about how they store the mosaiced data in a TIFF would be very interesting, I assume.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Do you have a link for this? I tried searching for it but couldn't find any details. Mostly I'm wondering if those numbers include just JPEG or also include other formats. E.g. including PNG would tend to drag the median /
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by bscphil 4y ago
> In many categories of photos or images, JPEG XL [1] actually does better than AVIF in low bitrate settings. It's not really consistent, but at small sizes JPEG XL sometimes falls apart, especially if the image contains a lot of sm
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by bscphil 4y ago
Even giving an opinion would be something. What's something you like better about PowerShell? I can easily say something I dislike about it: This form `Verb-LongNoun` for function names used in PS is somewhere between alien and madde
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by bscphil 4y ago
PNG is not lossy. However, it doesn't support metadata anywhere nearly as well as TIFF, so I still use that for lossless photography storage.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Accurate. My experience (as someone who has encoded a lot of both AVIF and JPEG XL images) is that JPEG XL tends to have superior detail preservation at medium to high bitrates, as well as preserving grain significantly better at all bitr
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by bscphil 4y ago
Other people have pointed out in this thread that the language of the acceptable use policy is so broad that it arguably violates it to sell a Basic Instinct DVD over the Internet. Given this, PayPal obviously won't actually be pursuin
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by bscphil 4y ago
I wonder how much the US market is limited by safety requirements here. What happens when a giant SUV runs into one of those things on the highway in LA?
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by bscphil 4y ago
In this context, it's sort of interesting to compare Google's approach of trying a million ideas, then killing the ones that don't take off or don't make money. Maybe that's how you stay ahead of the game and don&#x
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by bscphil 4y ago
You're right. To clarify, what I was trying to imply by "automatic" was just that you will presumably be charged that much regardless of what PayPal's actual damages are. As I see it, it's a punitive fine that they
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by bscphil 4y ago
So, it's clear from the text that it needs to be understood in the context of the PayPal User Agreement. I tracked that down assuming that it would limit PayPal's ability to charge you to their actual damages. But no, in fact th
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by bscphil 4y ago
For what it's worth, the app is a different (and closed source) project, even though there is significant developer overlap. I think if you reported this to them, they would probably be responsive, however.
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Stellarium 1.0(stellarium.org)
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by bscphil 4y ago
Or an even better fourth option: the warning message literally says "you cannot access your files". https://i.imgur.com/6jk6imp.png That is apparently false because the user did access their files and dragged th
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by bscphil 4y ago
Exactly - pocket is only one source of ads at this point. They keep adding them from different sources. I've actually compiled Firefox without Pocket for years now, and I still got ads in the browser after an update.
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's sort of interesting, given the undeniable power that these new AI techniques have, just how limited the output is at the moment. Only 512x512 images. I tried a specific query - "man running from a tiger" - and none of
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's true, but in this era of high quality voice and video calls, it's not that uncommon for someone to want to play a song or even a live instrument, so some capability for handling that intelligently seems important.

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