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by chilmers 3y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but it seems like VR displays especially could benefit from the higher resolution and better efficiency.
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by chilmers 3y ago
I recently listened the podcast Our Fake History's two parter on Machiavelli and can recommend it as a nuanced look at his life and work. Most particularly, the host points out the context that Machiavelli wasn't writing The Princ
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by chilmers 3y ago
Yeah it's surprising to me how many people who were previously skeptical of IP laws in general, are all on board to use them to attack AI companies, advocating that a copyright holder should have the right to control exactly how their
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by chilmers 3y ago
The problem is, changes to the web platform need to be backward compatible. You can't make a global change without potentially breaking existing content. In this case, you could easily end up triggering scrolling in a bunch of places,
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by chilmers 3y ago
Well fortunately New Tube for London (this new train design) all got signed-off a decade ago. Buuuuuut, TFL only bought the trains necessary for the Piccadilly line, with "options" to buy trains later for the other lines. However,
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by chilmers 3y ago
To me both phenomenon are about about a disconnect between a person's internal and external self. An introvert is someone whose internal feelings do not naturally coincide with the mindset and behaviours necessary to be socially activ
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by chilmers 3y ago
I love how level creation for games like Doom and Quake has developed into these small, independent scenes, with a rich community history and a real sense of taste and refinement in how they approach designing for these games. In the same w
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by chilmers 3y ago
Every so often I stumble across the Wikipedia page of an author from the 19th or 20th century who was _hugely_ successful in their time, writing many bestselling books, and yet is almost totally forgotten now. They must have justifiably bel
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by chilmers 3y ago
Unless you're two hundred years old, you joined the development of this technology in the middle. There was already decades of progress in electronics and telecommunications theory and engineering that everything you listed was built o
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by chilmers 3y ago
Personally I never use a case on my iPhone precisely because I want to enjoy the premium feel. I don't know if I'm luckier than the average person, but I've never broken or seriously damaged a phone by dropping it (and I have
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by chilmers 3y ago
Even the most cursory venture into a Wikipedia talk page usually reveals a Pandora's Box of vitriol, turf wars, ideological zealotry, personal attacks, bad-faith debate, and a pervasive, misanthropic anger, typically coming from long-s
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by chilmers 3y ago
Photographers using these kinds of copyright enforcement services are only hurting themselves in the long run. Most aren’t going to risk multiple thousands of pounds worth of fines for a few content images. They’ll switch to AI-generated co
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by chilmers 3y ago
This article has some data on the historical height of Wimbledon champions: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/tennis/anthropometry-wimb... Height has risen over time, although the rise is far more pronounced for
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by chilmers 3y ago
From https://www.secureworks.com/blog/law-enforcement-takes-down-... "To interact with infected hosts, the replacement servers required a certificate that can sign messages. It appears that the certificates were o
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by chilmers 3y ago
The article presents small discussion forums as safe and cosy, which they can be, but their insular nature also makes them a perfect breeding ground for extremist views. We shouldn’t ignore that most of the radical politics and conspiracy t
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by chilmers 3y ago
I'm not I buy that the lack of great success stories coming out of co-working spaces is because peer pressure conspires to kill original ideas. In my experience, people working in these places are usually professional and polite, not g
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by chilmers 3y ago
This article doesn't seem to consider the role of natural selection on birthrate, but presumably this will act to arrest the decline eventually? Presuming individual desire to reproduce is variable and can be influenced by your genes,
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by chilmers 3y ago
10 years, and yet any discussion on this site about front-end development will be filled with people complaining about how front-end development practices change too quickly.
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by chilmers 4y ago
Watching the bright and beautiful trailer for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City reminded me how wonderful it is to have a director who isn't interested in a pointless pursuit of "realism" in an inherently unreal medium, and i
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by chilmers 4y ago
What exactly did I say that implied I was acting as this was a “great insight I’d discovered”? That’s a rather rude and unfair insult I’d say.
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by chilmers 4y ago
This sounds exciting, but the example outputs look quite bad. E.g. from the interactive conversation sample: > What is the capital of France? > Marseille And many of the generated image captions are inaccurate.
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by chilmers 4y ago
If you limit your communication online to a subset that cannot be willingly or unwillingly misunderstood, then you will say nothing at all. People's capacity to misread is infinite.
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by chilmers 5y ago
This article is proof that you're deep enough into crypto, you lose the ability to see any event through any other lens. Putin's actions in Ukraine are not a great mystery, and do not require a conspiracy to impose a CBDC to expla
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by chilmers 5y ago
The problem with Cyberpunk and other similar titles is the disconnect between marketing requirements and the reality of developing such insanely complex software projects. If any software developer reading this was working on a similarly co
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by chilmers 5y ago
Interesting, thanks. I did do a basic consumer blood test which reported my testosterone as "normal" (whatever that means), but I should probably do a more in-depth one and check these things.
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by chilmers 5y ago
I took SSRIs for a year in my late twenties. They had no effect on my depression, but resulted in permanent sexual dysfunction. My own fault for not properly researching the potential long-term side effects, I suppose, but it certainly wasn