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by cbolton 5d ago
This video has 30 examples: https://youtu.be/nw2QfPREu-Q Not saying you're wrong on the main message (and those examples are with filters rather than true CRT) but it's still impressive how it can make the pixel a
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by cbolton 5d ago
Not so clear in the article is that also with consoles the game pixel grid didn't match the CRT grid (e.g. horizontally the number of "pixels" is similar but not 1:1) so just by geometry you have blending of one pixel data in
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RISC-V: What next after RVA23?(ubuntu.com)
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by cbolton 10d ago
> Over 10% of the country will be in the top 1% of earners at some point in their life Though most of them only for one year due to temporary revenue, so it's not that rational.
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by cbolton 10d ago
The republican program was in large part vetoed by Clinton though and the spending cuts that passed were largely offset by the tax cuts. From what I read the reduction in deficit is mostly due to the dot-com boom, helped with the "defi
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by cbolton 10d ago
I completely agree.
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by cbolton 10d ago
Why the aggressive tone and the strawman rhetoric? I never said there was a consensus. Yes I'm talking more about the "optimistic" commenters and pointing out that this chess thing is a good datum to temper their enthusiasm.
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by cbolton 10d ago
Neither. As I said I want to measure cognitive abilities. Your "ability of the box" is like "economic potential" in my previous comment. If that's what you want to measure, fine. But I want a deeper understanding:
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by cbolton 10d ago
Well it's not a perfect test so you need a bit of care in how you use it. If you have no idea what the subject is doing, then you don't know if you're measuring cognitive ability or something else (like cheating ability, or a
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by cbolton 10d ago
It's a great test of cognitive abilities. There are many claims that current LLMs surpass humans in cognitive abilities so it's noteworthy that they underperform on that test. Letting the model execute a chess program (that it wro
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by cbolton 13d ago
Sorry if that was confusing, I have edited my post to clarify a bit: That sentence was about a feature specific to JPEG XL, which is that if you have JPEG files you can re-encode then as JPEG XL to save space without any loss of quality.
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by cbolton 13d ago
The article makes a good point: JPEG XL is amazing but not specifically for the typical Web use cases, compared to AVIF. But the conclusion doesn't follow. Having an excellent and versatile format supported by browsers is very useful!
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by cbolton 15d ago
Looking it up I was actually remembering from Feynman's QED book (path integral approach). I don't have it at hand but I think it's a description based on photon particles. Anyway I agree my description with photon travel &qu
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by cbolton 16d ago
Yeah I didn't find that helpful. What I remember from Feynman's lectures is that photons still travel at "full speed" c between atoms, but if you look at the global progression of light as photons get absorbed then emitt
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by cbolton 17d ago
Maybe it's projecting but what I see is kids ganging up to break a target that is often human/animal-shaped, and that feels different to me.
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by cbolton 17d ago
Yeah I'm not saying it's bad for the children, but it's unpleasant for me. It seems violence is a concept that gets deeper and uglier as you grow. For young children it's often abstract and maybe harmless. I just read a
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by cbolton 17d ago
It never occurred to me to consider efficiency in piñata, but I dislike them because it's making a game out of violence.
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by cbolton 24d ago
What did you do to get the money?
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by cbolton 1mo ago
Isn't it a bit arrogant to pass judgement with such confidence based on a three word sentence? Anyway maybe this will convince you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948632 https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by cbolton 1mo ago
It's John Nagle as in Nagle's algorithm, I'm sure he has an existing intellect.
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by cbolton 1mo ago
They didn't want to add 100K lines of multithreaded C++, for security reasons. See https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064 . (I edited the timeline to clarify)
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by cbolton 1mo ago
I just wrote a timeline here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445897
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by cbolton 1mo ago
To summarize the timeline: 2015-2021: Google and Cloudinary develop the technical foundations, work on standardization with the JPEG group and write the reference implementation 2021: Chrome and Firefox introduce experimental support 2022:
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by cbolton 3mo ago
I wonder if piracy will eventually fill for physical releases of movies and games. It might be a fun project to make an online store game work on blue ray with nice packaging...
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by cbolton 3mo ago
That's not true, not all games are Game-Key cards, see https://www.dekudeals.com/switch-2-physical-games
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by cbolton 3mo ago
They can include these limitations in a contract which can be enforced like any contract.
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by cbolton 3mo ago
No you can't. Statistical tests assume independent data points. Testing the same individual repeatedly would be pseudoreplication, leading to wrong conclusions. If you mean run different tests, where you collect different kinds of data
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by cbolton 3mo ago
Typst tags by default, which is more than LaTeX can say. But LaTeX supports automatic tags for math which is huge. There's good progress on this in Typst (this release just added MathML support for HTML and MathML is also the basis for
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by cbolton 4mo ago
That just means lower net voltage => lower current => lower torque right? When you do need torque you need current and the losses that come with it.
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by cbolton 4mo ago
Much speculation here. It could well be that Iran's hard-line government will become stronger because of the war. People that were not specially pro- or anti-government probably didn't like seeing the US and Israel bomb their coun

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