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by dahart 1y ago
I could agree that advertising is ‘always manipulative’ in the sense that, of course, it always seeks to sell you something and hope you’re swayed into buying. Most of it isn’t secretly or overtly manipulative, most of it is someone saying
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by dahart 1y ago
Personally I feel like keeping a list of annoying ad brands and avoiding them would take up too much of my mental space, and it would lead me occasionally to bad purchasing decisions. Advertising is what it is, sometimes manipulative and so
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by dahart 1y ago
Please elaborate. If true, and they were imagining some unstated infrastructure, then what is it and what does home upload speed have to do with anything? What exactly did I misunderstand?
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by dahart 1y ago
I replied to a comment that was talking about user upload speed. They replied to a comment about other people’s computers. Did I misunderstand? How do you get good infrastructure without using other people’s computers?
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by dahart 1y ago
Does the performance of individual data ownership hosted at home actually change very much when people have gigabit upload speeds? Since applications can already make multiple asynchronous requests, if we’re imagining that applications woul
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by dahart 1y ago
690 is mentioned a few times, including a FAQ note on the differences https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/#f... Q: How does this differ from the rejected PEP 690? A: PEP 810 takes an explicit, opt
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by dahart 1y ago
Note the PEP does have a FAQ entry that mentions reasons they believe this proposed solution might be preferable to LazyLoader https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/#f... Q: Why not use importlib.ut
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by dahart 1y ago
That’s not what @torginus was referring to. There’s nothing wrong with having and exposing application specific settings. There’s nothing wrong with drivers having application specific optimization patches either, but that’s a very differen
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by dahart 1y ago
PTX is sometimes referred to as assembly, and it is an ISA, much lower level than C++. When people talk about writing inline assembly for CUDA, they mean PTX, and the C++ compiler’s inline assembly “asm” statement assumes PTX. For the most
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by dahart 1y ago
Do you mean the power mode? The article says there are 2 power modes, 5W and 10W, and that 10W is the default. From that I would assume that you can make everything go faster by using 10W mode, but only if you had already made things go slo
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by dahart 1y ago
> Do you feature? Yes, this is what the author is concerned about. There’s a big difference between being filmed incidentally, and being filmed on purpose for the activity you’re engaged in. Being accidentally in the background is one th
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by dahart 1y ago
I entered 4e10 for Energy | Kilocalories, and got: => 0.914x the recommended daily food consumption for a male human adult (1.09x smaller) Is this a bug, or am I not eating nearly enough?? ;)
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by dahart 1y ago
Yes! You’re talking about the space between the application’s output and the display, and I’m talking about capture, storage, and processing before tone mapping. In many HDR workflows there are a lot of things in between camera and tone map
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by dahart 1y ago
> SDR isn’t a standard at all, it’s a catch-all to mean anything not-HDR. Maybe you’re thinking of LDR. Low Dynamic Range is the catch-all opposite of HDR. SDR Standard Dynamic Range means Rec. 709 to most people? That’s how I’ve been us
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by dahart 1y ago
> The most common relative colorspaces have 1.0 as an arbitrary user brightness setting, not the max brightness. You’re using different words to say the exactly same thing I was trying to say. You’re not arguing with me, you’re agreeing.
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by dahart 1y ago
I thought you were saying the TV industry is fixing it, maybe I misunderstood. PQ is a television standard, people don’t really use it in other scenarios. I thought you were defending PQ. If not, then I’m not sure why we’re talking about PQ
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by dahart 1y ago
> Newton’s method isn’t really so useful for cubics (outside of lucky initial guesses), given how simple the algebraic expressions are. Do you have a better suggestion for a baseline that compares the author’s method? To clarify, it’s cl
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by dahart 1y ago
If the author is here, have you tested and can you comment on the precision of these different methods? I see the code uses some fast-math style approximations for a few operations. How does that compare to Newton-Raphson? And what was the
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by dahart 1y ago
Wait, I’m confused by that, what is wrong with the idea of using physical units? Nits are an absolute physical unit. The fact that 1.0 in PQ = 10k nits and that 1.0 represents an absolute physical brightness, not a relative one, is a critic
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by dahart 1y ago
> This does seem to be very specific to Game Maker though. Good point. I was going to point out that in general comparing 6-bit color to float color should not result in a change in brightness, tonemapping, or anything other than maybe s
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by dahart 1y ago
“Agricultural emissions” are coming from and regulated based on the machines involved, and animals, not really plants. We don’t require fossil fuels to feed humans, obviously , since humans didn’t use fossil fuels before a hundred or so ye
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by dahart 1y ago
Human breath isn’t counted as fossil fuel emissions because the natural carbon cycle is a closed loop (all carbon we exhale came from our food and goes back to growing more food [1]), and also because humans don’t eat fossil fuels, of cours
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by dahart 1y ago
Good point, it’s getting better, but often print statement debugging is not available in shaders either, and you have to resort to the visual form of print debugging: outputting a tinted color. Crude, but often enough it’s plenty effective.
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by dahart 1y ago
I’m a huge advocate for using debuggers, but saying never print is too dogmatic, and sometimes incorrect. There are plenty of environments where a debugger is not available or very difficult to setup - GPU shaders historically, embedded env
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by dahart 1y ago
It really depends. The VS debugger is excellent , and it is usually easier I agree there. But gdb is more easily scriptable and more powerful in certain situations, so I reach for gdb sometimes for the harder bugs even though I use VS more
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by dahart 1y ago
Hehe, I agree less inflation is good, but that’s a completely cherry picked comparison. 1984 was a one-time GDP growth peak and it immediately dropped and never happened again even though Reagan still had 4 more years. 1979 was the peak i
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by dahart 1y ago
> Reagan ushered in a decade of strong economic growth By what measure? Can you source that claim? “Since World War II, according to many economic metrics including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth,
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by dahart 1y ago
Poking around for only a minute, the largest SQLite file I could find is 600GB https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1j8wt4l/workin... The largest filesystems I could find are ~1EB and 700PB at O
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by dahart 1y ago
Nice work! I’d love to hear about your goals with this project, do you want to get it into PDF or browser engines, or anything like that? Mark Kilgard surveyed some path rendering engines with a few curves that most have trouble with. It’d
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by dahart 1y ago
This is an interesting argument. I’m not convinced but I’m open to hearing more. Don’t we only know about Socrates because he was written about? What evidence do we have that writing reduces memory at all? Don’t studies of students show tak

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