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by cubefox 5d ago
Later many or even most PAL TVs were actually 100 Hz (advertised as "100 Hz flicker-free"), but I don't remember seeing the difference. They weren't optimal for games because they used a digital cache to double the input
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by cubefox 5d ago
> Alternatively, sounds like you're a user of the glasses and don't like what these comments might reflect on you if more people agree with them? No it doesn't sound like that!
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by cubefox 5d ago
And TVs supported 480i and later 480p. It was only the old consoles that ran at considerably lower resolution.
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by cubefox 5d ago
> Beginning with our second generation of glasses, the camera is automatically disabled if we detect that the capture LED has been blocked. No photos or videos can be taken until we detect that the light is unblocked.
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by cubefox 5d ago
Yeah flicker, that is true. But people without epilepsy didn't really notice it on video content (TV or video games), even at 50 Hz (PAL) in Europe. On PCs with static content, flicker was a lot more noticable at 60 Hz, e.g. when stari
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by cubefox 5d ago
That's a lie. > Does everyone know when you're live streaming? Yes. A white LED on the front of the glasses lights up while you're streaming to let people around you know the camera is active. https://actionstre
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by cubefox 5d ago
From https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-ques... > Can’t people just cover up or disable the LED? > The camera is disabled when people try to do this. Beginning with our second gener
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by cubefox 5d ago
I still think this isn't really true: > If you display low resolution art on a CRT designed for high resolutions it makes a big difference in pixel sharpness. Basically, PC CRTs would always be quite sharp, due to VGA, no matter whe
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by cubefox 5d ago
> if you have an LCD or OLED that can do true enough blacks, the effect is very similar to having a brand spanking new CRT, even in arcade applications. CRTs are inherently less blurry when your eyes follow moving objects on screen, whic
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by cubefox 5d ago
In Europe, TV CRTs and game consoles also commonly used RGB connections (SCART), so the distinction between CRT and connection matters.
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by cubefox 5d ago
There could be other regulatory and tax hurdles to an Australian coal build-out. We know that coal is at least as cheap as nuclear, and that the electricity prices went up sharply when Germany replaced much of its nuclear energy with solar
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by cubefox 5d ago
> Germany's decommissioned nuclear, and subsequent concentration of base load in Russian gas-fired plants, is certainly a lede your post is doing its best to bury. Nuclear is good (no CO2 emissions and stable energy supply), but it&
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by cubefox 5d ago
If you use RF or composite on a high res screen, including LCD or OLED, the result would be similarly fuzzy.
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by cubefox 5d ago
> This price of electricity is high because gas, Not true. Gas backups are only needed for solar and wind. Gas replaces only battery backups here, which would be even more expensive. > which is still expensive, sets the price of elect
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by cubefox 5d ago
The real advantage of CRTs was the fact that they strobed the frames, unlike sample-and-hold screens (LCD and OLED). The latter cause a blurry image during eye movement ("smooth pursuit"). Games which ran at a frame rate which was
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by cubefox 6d ago
The sharpness of the pixel is in the display connector, not the resolution.
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by cubefox 6d ago
According to SemiAnalysis, both inference and post-training (RLVR) is mostly memory bandwidth bound. Only pre-training is compute bound, but it now only takes a small share of overall data center capacity. https://x.com/Euge
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by cubefox 6d ago
The article contradicts itself for some reason. First it repeats the popular myth that CRTs made the image fuzzy, then it clarifies that this was mostly caused by RF or composite connectors. Which would produce similarly fuzzy results on LC
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by cubefox 6d ago
> - Investing in alternatives has led to massive new industry that is improving the economy of those countries that do it That's a baseless claim. For example, Germany has invested massively in solar but its electricity prices went
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by cubefox 6d ago
No? "Immutable" means "not mutable", so mutability and immutability are mutually exclusive.
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by cubefox 6d ago
> When we speak of "type of a variable", we mean this variable can only be assigned (bound to) values of certain type. This has nothing to do with whether it can be reassigned (i.e. mutability). This seems confused. "Mutab
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by cubefox 6d ago
I would phrase it in terms of subsets. All cats are mammals, therefore "cat" is a subtype of "mammal". So the possible values of the type "cat" are a subset of the possible values of the type "mammal"
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by cubefox 7d ago
Moreover, when you wrote it yourself, you are intellectually responsible, you can defend it, while if the LLM wrote it for you , nobody is really responsible: The LLM didn't write it "out of its own motivation", it was merel
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by cubefox 7d ago
Okay, at least the comment from the mathematician sounds positive. Positive example: Someone is 1) independently interested in a particular conjecture, 2) he lets an LLM prove and explain it, 3) he ends up fully understanding the LLM proof
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by cubefox 8d ago
As you can see in this comment section, everyone complains about everything. If they didn't use aluminium and an OLED, someone else would have complained about "cheap plastic" and "cheap LCD". They can't make e
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by cubefox 8d ago
It's quite the irony that in the end he says > Although the current generation of models is trained to complete tasks rather than to enrich our understanding, and today’s AI companies are misaligned with the goals of the mathematica
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by cubefox 8d ago
It's not.
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by cubefox 8d ago
So the models will not only be using more and more Neuralese in their CoT (like GPT-6), but different agents will also be able to communicate with each other in Neuralese. It's not looking good for monitorability.
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by cubefox 9d ago
> This article was written with the assistance of AI. If that bothers you, stop reading here. Okay!
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by cubefox 9d ago
This was downvoted but it's true.

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