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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm familiar with how residuals work (and sometimes go unpaid), but in my opinion that's not a flaw in the idea itself, but rather a question of regulation and/or better legal work (in the contracts) to prevent studios from e
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by dperfect 6y ago
> The IPO is the carrot that you're dangling ahead of early employees many years prior to getting to that point. Yes, that's essentially what I'm saying, but I wonder if there aren't some better alternatives to incent
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by dperfect 6y ago
This makes sense from an investor’s perspective. My objection to IPOs is not so much financial, but more about what it does to a company’s internal culture. Having been at a company that went through an IPO, I saw how that culture shifted -
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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm on a fairly new machine (i9-9900K OC'd to 5.1 GHz, 32GB RAM, NVMe, RTX 2080 Super), and I was expecting smooth, stable frame rates at 1080p. Unfortunately, the game seems to be limited by one or two CPU threads consuming a con
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The almost impossible chessboard puzzle [video](youtube.com)
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by dperfect 6y ago
My experience has been the opposite; it's significantly faster than any screen sharing I've ever used, and I've not encountered any bugs so far. I suppose there are a lot of factors at play (connection speed, server specs, ph
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by dperfect 6y ago
FYI - you can host this yourself in a docker container using https://github.com/cdr/code-server . I recently set this up on a server running from my home (only accessible via WireGuard) precisely so I can code anywhere
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by dperfect 6y ago
I'm not faulting consumers for wanting free stuff. If anything, it's a symptom of companies (and investors) putting too much value in vanity metrics and expecting that it will be easy to transition to revenue. I've seen it fi
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by dperfect 6y ago
It's true - charging for something that was once free can be risky, but it isn't always bad as some might believe. I have great respect for businesses that charge for a service that provides real value - even if it was once free.
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by dperfect 7y ago
Yes, you and I both recognize that they're only talking about the VPN's own websites, but I'd bet good money that a majority of less-technical readers (not HN readers) won't understand that distinction. It feels like the
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by dperfect 7y ago
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like this is trying to scare people into thinking that the VPNs mentioned are doing this tracking on the sites you visit while using their VPN, when it's really only about the VPN's own webs
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by dperfect 7y ago
In the spirit of asking silly questions (as encouraged in some comments here), here's mine: My small SaaS company's PostgreSQL RDS instance and app servers are in a VPC with security groups configured to only allow connections fro
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by dperfect 7y ago
Fair enough, and what you do sounds cool. What I'm saying isn't really directed at you specifically, but rather to the people I see/hear every day making the same claims in a business context. A lot of vanity metrics without
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by dperfect 7y ago
> I use my IG for promoting my music and need to know how well each post is doing ... There’s literally no point for me otherwise. (assuming your comment wasn't sarcastic - maybe it was?) I've never understood this. Shouldn&#x2
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by dperfect 7y ago
As others have pointed out, the claimed link between banknotes and terminal dimensions is unclear, if not flat out wrong. The article's own logic is missing a crucial connection right here: > At one point sales of punchcards and rel
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by dperfect 7y ago
The most interesting thing about this (compared to results from similar research/projects) is that in all of the examples, camera movement is forward and down relative to the original perspective. The results are really good, and some
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by dperfect 7y ago
> No server needed. No expensive hardware required... You can use your Router, NAS, Raspberry Pi, Smart TV. So... it turns those things into servers then (many of which already run servers by default)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, bu
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by dperfect 7y ago
> Why can't you simply average adjacent frames during your framerate decimation? In theory you could, but in practice, it doesn't work very well and you tend to get some really nasty artifacts depending on the motion of the sce
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by dperfect 7y ago
> Superior reproductive technology in no way prevents you from creating a scene that has that and any other kind of artificially applied crappiness... The technology to produce movies at high frame rates has been around for a long time (
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by dperfect 7y ago
Yes, cinematographers do vary the shutter angle for artistic purposes, but that just confirms the fact that the amount of motion blur present in a film is a deliberate artistic decision rather than a side effect of using an "antiquat
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by dperfect 7y ago
> I find the suggestion that videogames don't need to suspect disbelief, but films do, very strange. True, the distinction may seem strange to some, and it's not always a clear distinction. Here's how I'd describe it
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by dperfect 7y ago
Yes. "By far the most common setting for cinema has been a shutter angle near 180°, which equates to a shutter speed near 1/48 of a second at 24 fps." [1] "A 180° shutter angle is considered normal." [2] [1] https:
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by dperfect 7y ago
> You can losslessly go from 120 to the other popular frame rates, including 24. Not true. Something filmed natively at 24 fps and a 180° shutter angle is vastly different in terms of perceived motion than 120 fps converted to 24 fps.
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by dperfect 7y ago
Panning shots probably look awful if you're watching 24 fps content on a device running at 60Hz (many consumer devices, computers, and Blu Ray players do this by default). Since 24 frames can't be evenly spread out over 60 frames,
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by dperfect 7y ago
From the article: > he soon felt at ease in the Rachmaninoff, which he had prepared but did not expect to come until after the Tchaikovsky, in the final round of the competition [emphasis added] It's a bit ambiguous, but it sounds
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by dperfect 7y ago
I don't think this will do anything to help with the "crappy iPhone [app] ports to the iPad", at least not for a while. Those apps will still be there, and they'll likely still be approved in the future. From my understa
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by dperfect 7y ago
I believe it happens for any guest OS (search for "amd reset bug"). Some people are using a workaround that involves removing the device (in the sysfs), suspending the host, and then rescanning, but for me, that's not much be
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by dperfect 7y ago
In case anyone runs across similar AMD GPU issues, the "disable_idle_d3=1" option in the second pastebin link (when used as a kernel parameter) should be prefixed as "vfio-pci.disable_idle_d3=1". Even then, it can still
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by dperfect 7y ago
I don't have any specific guides about my setup, but here are a few things that have been helpful to me: - Good starting point for setting up macOS under QEMU/KVM: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM - DSDT&#x2
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by dperfect 7y ago
I do this using Proxmox (QEMU under the hood), and it's been mostly a nice experience. I currently run 3 VMs on a single Linux box with 3 GPUs (one per VM via VFIO passthrough). I've used both NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards with su

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