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by bscphil 4y ago
> It's like one setting in about:config Oh really, which one? > at the end of the day it's still the lesser of two evils Never said it wasn't.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Do Rosetta apps utilize the GPU on M1 (on macOS)?
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by bscphil 4y ago
Ah, so it's a "90% of the iceberg" situation. Great info, thanks!
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yeah, it's because of this statement from an extremely trustworthy source that I'm looking for context here. I suspect most of the big problems haven't been suddenly and magically overcome? E.g. how close are we, given this,
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by bscphil 4y ago
> how you are doing Dolby Vision playback mpv can now decode most of the spec if you want a software player; if you want to passthrough the DV metadata to your TV, still no luck on PC AFAIK. I believe the approach most take is using an A
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by bscphil 4y ago
There are more than 50 million cable TV subscribers alone, though. And just over 10% of television households rely on broadcast TV exclusively. My point wasn't that streaming TV subscribers don't exist, it was just that the OP alm
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by bscphil 4y ago
> For that reason I chose to quit my job as a software team manager in an investment bank and instead went to work as a developer in a startup. > I decided there’s no point in working long hours in a responsible job helping other peop
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by bscphil 4y ago
Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google has never done. You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear, but Mozilla can (and has) introduc
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by bscphil 4y ago
In the US at least (don't know about Italy), TV is very rarely streamed over the Internet. Most people have a cable / set-top box that does the descrambling and then send a (HDCP protected) video stream to the TV. Because commerci
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by bscphil 4y ago
https://httpbin.org/ is really great. Actually you can do curl https://httpbin.org/ip to get your IP address, so no need to remember an additional domain. Although I think everyone knows https:&#x2
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by bscphil 4y ago
> models learning from data does not make the output of the models a derivative work of that data Most of the debate seems to be happening on the question of whether everything produced by models trained on copyrighted work represents
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by bscphil 4y ago
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by bscphil 4y ago
There was some discussion about integrating SponsorBlock into AntennaPod (a popular open source podcast app) a while back, but it didn't go anywhere. Ajay (developer of SB) was very open to the idea, so anyone interested in developing
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by bscphil 4y ago
> gcc-rs splitting the Rust ecosystem into two; the current npm-style crates.io ecosystem and a more destro-centric properly vetted package ecosystem Has there been discussion about this here on HN or an article about it you can point me
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by bscphil 4y ago
A few thoughts that aren't related to each other. 1. This is a brilliant hack. Kudos. 2. It would be great to see the best codecs included in the comparison - AVIF and JPEG XL. Without those it's rather incomplete. No surprise tha
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Indeed, there are many images of Sonic in the training dataset, however the generated images do not verbatim reproduce or otherwise plagiarize results from the training set above (I checked each one). This understanding of plagiarism
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by bscphil 4y ago
> my 2011 plasma TV My experience, having now bought several used plasmas from about that era, is that they tend to have extremely bright black points, comparable to a ~2015 mid-tier LCD screen. Fairly cheap modern LCDs seem to have supe
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by bscphil 4y ago
I watch a lot of things in foreign languages, but still feel that having to use subtitles is a worse experience.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I mean, I do "try" in the sense that about half the movies I watch are foreign, and therefore require subtitles. Despite this, I really do feel that I miss out on a lot of what is happening in terms of cinematography and creative
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I don’t have a particularly abnormal body, which leads me to believe there is a large margin of error when measuring the number of overweight people The NYT looked at this and found that BMI is more likely to under estimate body fat t
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by bscphil 4y ago
> [CC] complements the audio & visual nicely. I don't have any evidence for this but I'd wager that plot synthesis and comprehension of television shows is greatly improved by CC As you say, you don't have any evidence
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by bscphil 4y ago
That does not imply that on the whole Apple phones aren't good phones. Just that it's surprising they haven't implemented this bog standard feature.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think people are simply surprised that Apple is just now getting around to this, given that it's been a common feature in high end Android phones for quite a while now. OP did not say that Apple phones were worse, you inferred that.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I guess that works in theory, but Americans don't generally "forget" to tip. Every time you sign a receipt there's an explicit line for a tip. Apps like Uber have a button you have to press to not leave a tip.
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by bscphil 4y ago
As an American, I would not have tipped in that situation. I wouldn't have even considered it. I don't think that's far out of the norm for a situation involving extremely poor service and abusive behavior. I could be wrong b
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's sort of funny, AFAIK the usual way to effect the merger is to place a symlink from /bin to /usr/bin. This is how e.g. Arch Linux does it. So ironically, the archaic #!/bin/bash continues to work normally o
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by bscphil 4y ago
> someone else saying it is not proof though, > and either way you're still wrong. Ironic. I guess you want me to take your word for it. Unfortunately for you, your mockery doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny. Libsyn, a
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by bscphil 4y ago
> b) very wrong with just a google search, and c) means nothing as it can't be proven You contradicted yourself.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I don't think this response is fair. RSS is dead as a widely used medium for distributing hypertext and media. A tiny number of people continue to use and promote it (myself very much included). Even for podcasts, where RSS represent
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by bscphil 4y ago
> The rest are developer tools and runtime configurations. I wish people understood this, but sadly they seem to be more and more common as primary modes for software distribution.

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