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by jsheard 1y ago
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/30/new-macbook-with-a18-ch... Apparently there are references to it in macOS already.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Maybe an audiophile SD card would also produce better photos in a camera? You never know until you try! https://www.whathifi.com/news/sony-claims-high-end-sd-card-o...
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by jsheard 1y ago
It'll get even weirder if the rumoured MacBook Lite with an iPhone processor ends up happening. Incredibly powerful tablets constrained by a dumbed down operating system, sold right next to much weaker laptops running a full fat deskto
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by jsheard 1y ago
I feel like that's missing the point of pre-vis anyway, its purpose is to lay down key details with precision but without regard for fidelity (e.g. https://youtu.be/KMMeHPGV5VE ), a system with high fidelity but very lo
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by jsheard 1y ago
Sora 1 was also lauded as being incredibly good at physics based on the early cherry-picked examples. The phrase "world simulator" was thrown around a lot. That didn't last long once people finally got their hands on it thoug
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by jsheard 1y ago
You remember correctly: https://world.hey.com/dhh/calling-someone-a-nazi-is-a-permis... Posted only two weeks apart!
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by jsheard 1y ago
A word to the wise - colour e-ink still has noticeably worse contrast and slightly worse sharpness than mono e-ink, so even if you can justify the most expensive version it's worth contemplating whether you really need colour.
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by jsheard 1y ago
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dry-powder-running-s... Summarized by Ed Zitron: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry w
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by jsheard 1y ago
According to The Information (which is hard-paywalled unfortunately) venture capital as a whole is set to run out of money in 18 months if things continue at the current pace. AI companies had better turn profitable sharpish.
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by jsheard 1y ago
It looks like this law (which is unrelated to the Online Safety Act) is concerned with children being subjected to ad-tech tracking and similar indiscriminate data harvesting, so a site like this which doesn't feel the need to share yo
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by jsheard 1y ago
Glad to hear that audiophiles have some competition in who can invent the most pointless things to split hairs over. The photo guys need to start taping magic rocks to their cameras to really keep up though.
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by jsheard 1y ago
I guess you'll have to take my word for it if you're not in the UK HTTP 400 - Content not available in your region Direct image links/embeds are being substituted with an image that says "content not viewable in your r
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Imgur is geoblocking the UK(imgur.com)
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by jsheard 1y ago
Every so often I check back on ChatGPTs product search powers, and every time it cites garbage blogspam articles that praise every product hoping you'll click their affiliate links. The irony being that many of those spam articles are
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by jsheard 1y ago
KTX can just store compressed GPU textures as-is, but in this case they're using the Basis Universal codec which is a bit more involved. Basis stores textures in a super-compressed form, which is decompressed at runtime to produce a
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by jsheard 1y ago
Doesn't pretty much everyone using the same instance pretty much defeat the point?
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Total activity across the entire site doesn't meaningfully affect users as long as the activity they actually care about is still there, "Bluesky's aggregate metrics are down" and "Bluesky is the best place to tal
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by jsheard 1y ago
https://kazeta.org is doing something along those lines for games.
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Can we bring this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal128-penguin.s... version back instead? I hear Apple has decreed that glossy/glassy design is cool again.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Eh, there's mechanical keyboards and then there's mechanical keyboards. Boards with a basic plastic construction similar to the Pi500+ can be had for much cheaper, while for the cost of a Pi500+ you can get a super fancy CNC ma
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by jsheard 1y ago
There's not really any need to speculate when this has already played out in other mediums - would you say that the proliferation of LLMs has led to an explosion of novel and interesting works of fiction, or just an explosion of cookie
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by jsheard 1y ago
> It either needs to be: 1. So easy anyone can press a button and magically get exactly what they want with perfect accuracy and quality. 2. So robust and powerful it enables new kinds of music production and super-charges human producer
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by jsheard 1y ago
I think the price discrepancy is due to Google and Apple taking a cut of in-app purchases. Meta should get roughly the same amount of money either way.
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Modders have put a ton of effort into fixing and restoring this game. The developers originally wanted to let players choose the protagonists gender, but they didn't have the resources to make it happen, so of course the community ende
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by jsheard 1y ago
They're calling this a stablecoin but AFAICT there's no direct mention of blockchains or decentralization or anything else along those lines, have we wrapped all the way around to using crypto nomenclature to talk about plain old
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> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were
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by jsheard 1y ago
Not to mention they're 120g lighter than the Max, since Beats aren't subject to Apples mandate of making everything out of metal.
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by jsheard 1y ago
N150 machines come with or without fans, the chip is cool enough to run passively with a decent heatsink. e.g. https://www.minix.com.hk/products/minix-z150-0db-fanless-min... The ones with fans tend to be cheaper and h
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by jsheard 1y ago
> Holy smokes, they actually fixed my personal pet peeve of this entire product line: it has an internal M.2 slot. What's odd is that the original 500 already had an unpopulated M.2 slot, so they considered it a year ago but backed
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by jsheard 1y ago
The big podcast networks like iHeart are able to dynamically splice ads into episodes, so they can be targeted based on geoIP or whatever other signals they have on you.

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