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by mrandish 2y ago
And where there's movie "Synergy", a "Franchise" can't be far behind... followed by the inevitable "Cinematic Universe."
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by mrandish 2y ago
> 3D AI girlfriend... based on the 2003 film Unexpected cross-movie tie-in: Scarlett Johansson, who played the Girl with the Pearl Earring in the 2003 film, also played the AI girlfriend in the film "Her".
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by mrandish 2y ago
Yes, I agree. I was actually planning to retire that mobo and CPU after the GFX upgrade but that damn Haswell is so good, I didn't need to. The previous GFX card (a 1080) was the bottleneck getting 120fps reliably. I really didn&#x27
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by mrandish 2y ago
> Windows startup is perfectly fine No... it's not fine. I don't reboot all the time for work or run a zillion VMs, I'm just a regular user. But sometimes when I'm rebooting - I need to get to necessary information qu
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by mrandish 2y ago
At installation Chrome, Edge browser and Acrobat Reader all silently add multiple background tasks to Windows startup which will then run at every boot and log on. Those tasks check for updates, pre-load and ensure their usage analytics g
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by mrandish 2y ago
Oh, that's too bad. I haven't checked it out in a long time. However, in recent years the Office UX has been getting increasingly worse for me too. Not ugly, just bigger and fatter, taking up more screen space to show less info. I
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by mrandish 2y ago
Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only us
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by mrandish 2y ago
I'm running a well-optimized 2014 Haswell I5-4590 system with a Radeon 7800 XT in my virtual pinball cabinet. It's handling real-time 3D at 1440p 120fps at medium-high settings and VPX is pretty CPU heavy. My system is probably on
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by mrandish 2y ago
I think the expression the GP was referring to (which would have been common in 90s workstation vendors selling to engineering/scientific customers) wasn't so much about accounting software specifically as big finance and busine
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by mrandish 2y ago
> It is rare for academics and students to work "part-time". Sorry, that phrasing didn't properly convey my intent, which was more that most academics, students and community/hobbyists have other simultaneous responsi
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by mrandish 2y ago
I'm not even following AI model performance testing that closely but I'm hearing increasing reports they're inaccurate due to accidental or intentional test data leaking into training data and other ways of training to the te
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by mrandish 2y ago
I use a combination of add-ons to fix YouTube that let me: * Block shorts * Adjust the number of thumbnails per line, thumbnail shape, border, etc * Limit the length of titles/descriptions * Force titles/descriptions into normal u
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by mrandish 2y ago
I've been running the SmartTube app on my Chromecast (and on a Fire TV) for over a year and it's fantastic . Of course, you'll need to side load it but once installed it'll update itself directly. There are lots of tuto
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by mrandish 2y ago
Very nice. AI music researchers: this is an example of one kind of interaction model creative people would love from AI music tools. Personally, I have zero interest in typing a text prompt and getting a complete song as an output. However,
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by mrandish 2y ago
> Keeping pirates from enjoying the game isn't a victory for the developer, generating sales is... In a lot of IP product categories, there are different classes of users who pirate. In the case of movies, a friend of mine who'
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by mrandish 2y ago
> Tbh it still puzzles me why gameplay degradation specifically was chosen as a way to try to discourage piracy. Yeah, I get that maybe it made the developer and/or publisher feel some kind of 'justice' was done, but it&#x
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by mrandish 2y ago
Wow, write-up was eye-opening for me. My first computer was a 4K Radio Shack Color Computer based on the Motorola 6809 CPU. It had no hardware support for sprites, tiles, palette tricks or other neat graphics. But what it did have was proba
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by mrandish 2y ago
> So, you can yell "fire" falsely and cause a stampede? As the article I linked points out, that trope was (and still is) a hypothetical that tells us nothing useful about first amendment speech rights. The reason the article i
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by mrandish 2y ago
https://archive.is/iZC4v Hopefully, that works. It's the first time I've done an archive like that. It works for me, but it always did because I'm using the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on in Firefox https:&#x2
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by mrandish 2y ago
Just in case you're not citing that old debunked free speech trope ironically, please see: "Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again" by First Amendment expert Ken White ( https://www.theatlantic.com/
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by mrandish 2y ago
Yeah, it's never really been a place I'm interested frequenting but I'm also oddly pleased that we live in a world where it can still exist.
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by mrandish 2y ago
I have no doubt that Dialog Enhancer features, which are available on many streaming devices and AVRs, can work well. They are basically variants of multi-band dynamic compressors tuned to target vocal frequencies on the center channel. Bot
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by mrandish 2y ago
That's not only a lovely story, it also holds useful insights about effective problem solving and collaboration (or when the best collaboration is just listening). There's a different but somewhat related "no response necessa
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by mrandish 2y ago
> you don't know that you'll work out your problem in the process of explaining it. For me, the solution doesn't often arrive while I'm explaining the problem but I've had a strong correlation with solutions ar
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by mrandish 2y ago
While exploring the Adventure Family Tree ( https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html ), I came across a promising improved variant called ADV770 by Mike Arnautov ( https://mipmip.org/adv770/index.h
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by mrandish 2y ago
Frankly, I'd rather that content producers and their sound mixing and mastering engineers just improve the audio levels of their dialog tracks in relation to the rest of the mix. I already have my center audio channel goosed +3db beyon
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by mrandish 2y ago
Thanks for explaining the unique value you find in analog modular hardware. > With a Eurorack you can plug in some patch cables and quickly try it out. I'm curious if it's possible to do the same kind of modular interconnection
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by mrandish 2y ago
The issue has been covered pretty extensively and is well worth looking into. It's been discussed and analyzed by several noted constitutional scholars. It's been a while but IIRC it was unconstitutional because the president cann
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by mrandish 2y ago
Call me hopelessly naive but I think it's generally a good thing to rescind laws we don't want to enforce (or choose to only occasionally enforce), fix laws that aren't working as intended, and actually enforce the remaining
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by mrandish 2y ago
> I remain horrified that people I really thought were normal Americans are willing to burn it all down just so they don't have to hear Spanish spoken in their doctor's office. The GP (or GGP, I forget) was discussing very spec

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