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by dbspin 1mo ago
Citation needed. I've owned Apple laptops for many years - and I'm a video editor (amongst other things). If this is the case it's new behaviour.
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by dbspin 1mo ago
> even the M5 laptops are consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops. When plugged in... This caveat is so enormous it should almost be legislated. If your computer use is at all portable, a computer that
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by dbspin 1mo ago
I think you'll need a more sterling critique than 'why would you wnat to tie this to a file format', to the most successful open source media technology of all time. Aside - yes there are or were legal issues with the fraunho
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by dbspin 2mo ago
OK... I'm going to assume good faith even though your wording makes it somewhat unlikely. Similar textual examples would be any text containing actual language as it's spoken in a given place or time. Or any factual textbook detai
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by dbspin 2mo ago
This is a classic mistake. We have no way of estimating the future value of a given book. It's perceived current value (a large part of which is simply obscurity) may be low. But it's future value - to historians, ethnographers, t
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Doubtful. A robust protocol would be to scan several of each edition (to ensure no scanning errors), and scan each edition. Then too, these books are being purchased in lots with accidental duplicates, and all the major labs are doing it. S
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by dbspin 2mo ago
"Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.)." Hell no. Sourcing ideas? From AI? Are you kidding? Essent
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Interesting. In every European country I know of, the private option is still available. Just vastly cheaper and more beneficial due to having to compete with a public option which covers basic necessities, surgery etc.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Downvotes are disturbing and ideologically motivated rather than bothering to engage with the point. You're not a musician if you hop onto Suno and generate a song. You're not a filmmaker if you open Gemini Omni and prompt some vi
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by dbspin 2mo ago
So... You don't write with language models... You have a language model write for you... You can spend all the time you like developing structure and ideas, but if you don't actually do the writing you haven't written it. T
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by dbspin 2mo ago
From my observation and discussions I'd say 'the public' are far more concerned by material conditions - i.e.: the threat of job loss, the noise and environmental concerns around data centres, the increases in the cost of ele
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by dbspin 2mo ago
No... As tech helper for various family and friends, I've been the one to clean install brave on a variety of machines. I typically demonstrate youtube before and after ublock for them, so they can see its effects. Never once not had a
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by dbspin 2mo ago
I don't know what to tell you... It most definitely does not block youtube adverts for me and never had / did... Also, I found Ublock origin updates less reliable / frequent on Brave. Since switching zero issues.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Brave's ad block is pretty ineffectual by itself. For example it doesn't block youtube adverts. Recently switched to Firefox with Ublock origin, and loving it. So much more efficient and quick than it was back in the day when we a
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by dbspin 2mo ago
I was replying to the references to the canon of Western mythology around dwarves and the like.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Since dwarfs (little people) actually exist, I don't think we need to reach into psychedelics for an explanation.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
100% this. I wish more techies could understand this. That same logic underlies the 'scanning books and music and movies without permission is just like a student / artist / filmmaker learning'. Differences in technology
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by dbspin 2mo ago
That's not the case at all. You can regulate and audit a small number of players. To a great extent at least. You cannot even theoretically regulate local models. Hell I've got a jailbroken Qwen 3.5 running on my mac studio that h
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Not spear phishing in organisations... Spear phishing against individual people. Your grandmother, your aged uncle... Your comment on nuclear waste is so ill considered and poorly informed it's not worth responding to.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
I'd like to question that premise. Open models are great for research, privacy, cost, customisation and a host of other things... But they're also going to be the engine that breaks the world. I'm already surprised that we ha
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by dbspin 2mo ago
The investors.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
They're not remotely similar. The consequences for a spill of nuclear waste - either from a storage facility that's been compromised or hit by a strike during a war, or for example the sinking of a delivery ship that's transp
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Yup, and a duopoly isn't a free market!
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by dbspin 2mo ago
> most of my contrarian ideas are correct. My stripper finds me attractive, my therapist is in love with me, and my genius goes unrecognised because of small men intimidated by ideas they cannot comprehend. I'm really hoping your co
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Beautifully articulated, but I have to disagree with you on nuclear power. We're close to the point where renewables and battery tech are a solution to all our power needs. Remaining obstacles being primarily political / geopoliti
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by dbspin 2mo ago
'Europe' is a big place. Here in Ireland good quality beef is readily affordable, and not particularly more expensive than chicken or pork.
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by dbspin 2mo ago
That is not what Yedlin's tests show or made an effort to test! His famous first set of comparison tests are about resolution, specifically his opinions about the unimportance of 4K. I deeply disagree with his conclusion, because he is
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by dbspin 2mo ago
The only cinema cameras I know of that don't employ some variation of a bayer filter in the colour science are black magic cameras. Their higher end cameras all have an RGBW sensor with a 6*6 grid including a white photo site. This is
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by dbspin 2mo ago
That's fascinating - presumably a facet of the IMAX process. The majority of films shot analogue are graded digitally. Because the most popular film stock they use (Kodak Verita 200D, employed for it's 'classic' look, go
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by dbspin 2mo ago
Hilariously out of touch take. In the West AI video is popular almost exclusively amongst boomers (and of course tech company employees). Gen Z absolutely loath it. Filmmaking is yet another future career that's being made impossible f

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