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by mrandish 9mo ago
As I teenager I got my first computer in 1982 - a 6809-based 4K model from Radio Shack named just "Color Computer" (because all their other models were B&W)! I taught myself BASIC and then assembler on that machine. Because I
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Wow. Only one page in and already bookmarked to absorb later. Thanks for the link.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Yes, I didn't take your post as disagreeing. I appreciated the current data since I haven't looked lately.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
With the insane valuations and actual revenue at stake, benchmarkers should assume they're assessing in an adversarial environment. Whether from intentional gaming, training to the test, or simply from prioritizing things likely to mak
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> these are earnest people. I agree. I'll also add that when my startup got acquired into a very large, well-known valley giant with a sterling rep for integrity and I ended up as a senior executive - over time I got a first-hand ed
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Hence my point. :-) Subjecting each other to drive-by Turing tests is going to cause more net damage to online communities than it'll help.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Although I haven't looked at the actual reports in a long time, I think that's consistent with my understanding. The Google money (program service revenue) was a much higher percent in the past, creating the $1.4B nest egg. Now th
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Benchmark tracking of cloud AI performance is going to be crucial going forward. Vendors are selling a service that by its nature is very difficult for customers to gauge day to day. How will I know if a code revision is ~2.5% less good t
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Back of the envelope math says... It sounds like you haven't looked into Mozilla Foundation's history regarding CEO salary, bonuses and overall use of funds.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> people typically support foundations While I agree with the general point that non-profit donors have a legitimate interest in the use of funds, in the particular case of the Mozilla Foundation, I believe the vast majority of that mone
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> Before 2025, nobody talked like this. I enjoy writing posts online and I've been doing it since the days of BBSs and 300 baud modems, transitioning to Usenet and nowadays mostly just here on HN. People seem to find my posts genera
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Cool! Just this week I've been playing around using web chatbots to write userscript. So far, I've just been cutting/pasting code from ViolentMonkey's basic edit window - which is a clunky workflow and a real editor like
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by mrandish 9mo ago
You're welcome. One of the best things I did once I realized I was reluctantly on this journey, was start keeping notes in a cloud backed-up file of every registry setting I tweaked or little utility I installed. Just a quick cut and p
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by mrandish 9mo ago
This is very welcome. Just a couple months ago I was down some interesting retro-computing rabbit hole and there was a story referenced in a couple articles and a book. The cited source was an original document that's in CHM's col
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I'm still surviving on Windows but only because over the last four years, as each new annoyance and regression arose, I made the mistake of very gradually, in tiny increments, sinking the time into invoking the arcane incantations nece
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Interesting, I've never seen more than two 4-wire Skycams used in an NFL broadcast (at least that I knew of). Given the need for flexible endzone to endzone coverage of NFL games, I'd imagine sectioned arrangements might be better
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Unfortunately, the author confuses the broadcast Skycam with the All-22 views. They aren't the same thing and the All-22 cameras aren't even controlled by the television production (although they are available to it). Per NFL leag
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Related but tangential to the article's thesis, I just want to add a technical perspective about NFL football broadcasts from someone with a background in professional live broadcast television production. Due to the massive popularity
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by mrandish 9mo ago
In case you didn't know, the NFL releases game video on their website which can be downloaded as part of their basic NFL+ subscription ($7.99/mo). It's not the broadcast feed, it's the "all-22" views where you
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I get that you don't like football and you don't like television, which is fine. As someone who's been analyzing video content industry trends for a few decades now, I just want to let you know you've reached some incomp
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> the oscars audience is shrinking Yes, but NFL viewership is growing. > all TV broadcast is growing like 1/10th the rate as Netflix did in the past decade. Okay, but that undermines your earlier point. The NFL isn't tied to
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> football as a televised spectator sport? trending down. AFAIC, NFL football is almost always the top 99 out of 100 most viewed television programs in the US every year. The Oscars usually manage to claw onto the list and in election ye
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Highly relevant Simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8 While being an insightful satire of mass training LLMs with (negative) reinforcement learning, it's actually from the 1993 episode "Last E
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by mrandish 9mo ago
As a non-scientist (but long-time science fan and user), I feel your pain with what appears to be a layered, intractable problem. > > who are looking to 'boost' their CV Ultimately, this seems like a key root cause - misalig
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I suspect they're going to find it challenging to turn protected speech into something prosecutable like obstruction - assuming activists exercise even a modicum of care in their wording. Seems like just another intimidation tactic but
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> "European" Commodore 64 with PAL was actually a few percent slower than an American C64 with NTSC. And other crazy things like that. Indeed! Even in the Playstation 2 era, many games still ran at different speeds in Europe t
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by mrandish 9mo ago
Indeed and even today's HDTV specification has elements based on echoes reverberating all the way from decisions made in the 1930s when specifying B&W TV. The composite and component sampling rates (14.32 MHz and 13.5 MHz) are both
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by mrandish 9mo ago
> And while it is not quantized as such there is an element of semi-digital protocol to it. Yes, before posting I did debate that exact point in my head, with scanlines as the clearest example :-). However, I decided the point is still d
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by mrandish 9mo ago
These are actually pretty funny.
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by mrandish 9mo ago
I think the visual differences broadly break into technical aspects (film grain, contrast) and aesthetic (composition, lighting, density, motion). A lot of modern viewers don't like film grain so any director not named Christopher Nola

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