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1y ago
> You’re saying PQ is “downright wrong”? Why? Yes, PQ is downright wrong because users view content in differing ambient environments. 50 nits in a movie theater and 50 nits on a sunny day are extremely different perceptually. > How
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> Companies like Rosewill sell ATX cases that can scratch that itch. Have you looked at what they cost? Those cases alone cost as much as a used server. Which comes with a case. > What about PCI Express card? Regular ATX computers are
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1y ago
You'd do that at the OS level, games don't need to re-invent that. Games do now ship with HDR calibration wizards to deal with the particular aspect of luminance range and SDR white point being totally undefined and inconsistent,
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> True, but it’s harder to see the point of HDR without having to deal with colors that are brighter than the display can handle. 1.0 is a completely arbitrary value that has no meaning. When used with sRGB 1.0 means "users brightne
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1y ago
This does seem to be very specific to Game Maker though. Like saying 0.0-1.0 is 8 bit unorm is incorrect. It's just a unorm, no bit depth is otherwise implied. Similarly HDR doesn't mean exceeding 1.0. It can mean that, but if y
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1y ago
> For 8+ bays you just need a SAS HBA card and one free PCI-E slot. Not to mention that many motherboards will have 6+ SATA ports already. And what case are you putting them into? What if you want it rack mounted? What about >1gig net
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1y ago
> Like if you have a large media library, you need to push maybe 10MB/s, For just streaming a 4k bluray you need more than 10MB/s, Ultra HD bluray tops out at 144 Mbit/s. Not to mention if that system is being hit by somet
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> The homelab group on Reddit is full of people who don't understand any of this - they have full racks in their house that could be replaced with one high-end desktop. A lot of that group is making use of the IO capabilities of t
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1y ago
Note the E5-2690V4 is a 10 year old CPU, they are talking about used servers. You can find those on ebay or whatever as well as stores specializing in that. Depending on where you live, you might even find them free as they are often consid
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1y ago
You mean AMD's unified architecture. They were a founder of the HSA Foundation that drove innovation in this space complete with Linux kernel investments and unified compute SDKs, and they had the first shipping hardware support.
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1y ago
It's in the github issue in OP: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375#issuecomme...
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1y ago
It was an easylist change (so adblockers) that caused the issue: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/2d39de407dc96904... Whether or not you consider that an issue shrug but it's not directly YT
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1y ago
YouTube didn't change anything. The ad blockers recently started blocking the metric call for whatever reason.
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> Maybe people just got fed up with Youtube. Creators are not reporting any declines in ad revenue that match the drop in view count. Indeed several have reported revenue is the same despite the view count drop. So it's quite unli
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Even today F1 teams are allowed 4 engine replacements before taking a grid place penalty, and those penalties still show up regularly enough. So nobody is making "reliable" F1 engines. You can see this really on display with the A
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1y ago
Or if you're an Android developer then main doesn't exist at all and never has But yeah I don't understand why the author is so excited about this. How "ugly" a trivial "Hello, World!" does not really matt
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> Yeah; once you get deep enough, you realize you can just install things yourself, configure them with Ansible, or Nix, or whatever, and have full control. I think if you've gone through the effort of setting up Ansible scripts for
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> but at the same time, as I said, if you're in the market to install TrueNAS on your own hardware, you are also probably someone who could relatively easily Google your way through doing it manually in roughly the same amount of ti
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1y ago
I can setup Samba, NFS, and ZFS manually myself, but why would I want to? Configuring samba users & shares via SSH sucks. It's tedious. It's error prone. It's boring. Similarly while docker's CLI interface is rel
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> The chip is not designed for this rate of power dissipation Says who? AMD advertises the chip as having a base clock of 4.3 GHz over all cores. The 9950X pulls somewhere around 220W at 5ghz all cores and with how power scales, 170W at
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1y ago
> Couldn't this count as false/misleading advertizing though? For what, exactly? TDP stands for "thermal design power" - nothing in that means peak power or most power. It stopped being meaningful when CPUs learned to
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1y ago
The internet permission is exposed to the user, it just can't be revoked by the user. But that's true of like 100 other permissions, too. It's the default case that permissions are not revokable. And I did provide 2 reaso
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> The internet permission is the only regular manifest permission you can't toggle in the settings. That's not even a little bit true? There's a ton of 'normal' permissions, almost none of which are user-overri
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1y ago
There's plenty of actually problematic stuff Google does (like this change in the article), there's no need to make up whack ass conspiracy theories, too.
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> The main thing this permission would be used for would be blocking ads. This permission has existed for longer than runtime permissions. You have never been able to revoke it, it was just something you agreed to when you installed the
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> But it's hidden, apparently because keeping users from using it to block ads on apps is of greater concern to Google than keeping people safe. The internet permission has nothing to do with ads? It's a hidden permission becau
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> iOS devices [..] have much less data collection than stock Android iOS does a tremendous amount of data collection including for the usage of ads as per Apple's privacy policy. All the same types of data that stock Android collect
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Zig is for people who want to write C, that's really it. It's not a replacement for C++ or Rust or Go or Swift or anything "serious". As for why you would choose it over C, because C has too many problems for even the C
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> So the future is Zig. He got there first. The future is many things, but a love letter to C is definitely not it. Zig is cute and a fun hobby project that might see above average success for a hobby project. But that's about it. I
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Literally first Asrock motherboard I happened to click on has it listed as a feature: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X870%20Taichi%20Creator/index.... Asus has options as well such as https://www.as
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