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by mrob 8mo ago
The "would you like to know more" segments are inner nested stories. Those actually are presented as in-universe video, and qualify as epistolary narrative. But to claim that the movie as a whole is anti-fascist satire relies on t
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by mrob 8mo ago
>The film is emulating the type of film that would be produced by this fascist regime. There's no frame story to support this. Going by the available evidence in the movie itself, it's a conventional action movie.
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by mrob 8mo ago
Starship Troopers (the movie) is a terrible example of satire because it fails to show anything substantially bad. When you present a society that's more ethical than real life, nobody's going to care if some people wear uniforms
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by mrob 8mo ago
The reduction in risk is 0.08 percentage points, not 0.08 percent. The "%" symbol always means "percent", not "percentage points". The 0.08 percentage point reduction is a 40% reduction. EDIT: don't assume
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by mrob 8mo ago
>valid proof would never become invalid proof Somebody can give their proof of age to another person.
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by mrob 9mo ago
If you're color blind, you change the palette in your terminal emulator so "red" and "green" become different colors you can distinguish. It even works for rarer forms of color blindness. This works best when people
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by mrob 9mo ago
Which is a good reason to stick with the de-facto standard of red for bad and green for good.
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by mrob 9mo ago
It's a CLI app, it's already configurable. Every good terminal emulator lets you set custom palettes.
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by mrob 9mo ago
The standard terminal palette is only 16 colors. Even if you compress them all into the green-to-blue color range, it's still possible to distinguish all 16. The user can change "red" and "green" to whatever they li
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by mrob 9mo ago
The original post claimed they were "running hundreds of concurrent agents": https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents
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by mrob 9mo ago
During inference, most of the memory is read only.
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by mrob 9mo ago
If you're practicing your serve alone it's convenient to have a lot of tennis balls. It's quicker to gather all the balls in a big batch than individually.
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by mrob 9mo ago
For me, learning that normal people go about their days constantly hallucinating had the opposite effect. I think it could partly explain some problems in society, e.g. people's susceptibility to advertising.
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by mrob 9mo ago
The easiest solution is to use the default font. This has the additional benefit of being the most legible font for every reader, because it's the one they have the most experience reading.
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by mrob 9mo ago
This is IMO the correct decision, and I say that as a regular user of middle-click paste. Middle-click paste is a classic convenience/security tradeoff. It's faster than using the keyboard, but it makes it very easy to accidentall
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by mrob 9mo ago
No, because a reconstruction filter is used to remove the stairsteps. This does not lose any information. I recommend watching the xiph.org videos explaining it: https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos EDIT: Also, consider that true s
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by mrob 9mo ago
Classical labels were recording digitally even before CD players existed, to avoid the generation loss of recording to tape before transferring to vinyl. These recordings were later released on CD and mostly sound great. Dire Straits - Brot
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by mrob 9mo ago
CDs have no distinct sound. CD quality (assuming correct dithering) is transparent to human hearing. You could play a vinyl record into a good ADC, dither it to 16 bits, then burn it to CD-R. It will sound 100% identical to the original vin
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by mrob 9mo ago
Anybody can distinguish 60fps from higher frame rate just by looking at steady motion. The famous Blur Busters Test UFO makes it easy: https://testufo.com/ But in the case of analog recording, nobody can distinguish a pure
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by mrob 9mo ago
Much of the vinyl noise and distortion is pressed into the vinyl itself. Even if you play it using an optical player it will still sound worse than a good CD.
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by mrob 9mo ago
The only additional data that (some) vinyl has over CDs is inaudible ultrasound. Ultrasound is intentionally omitted from CDs because they're intended for humans to listen to. In all audible aspects a correctly mastered CD release is c
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by mrob 9mo ago
Music doesn't need so much support from imagination. You could argue that 24 fps film is a good thing (I disagree), because special effects are expensive and the bad motion quality obscures the flaws, but the same doesn't apply wi
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by mrob 9mo ago
Depending on what you mean by "fail" and "stretching", that sounds a lot like eccentric training [0] (a.k.a. "negatives"). It's effective but notorious for causing delayed onset muscle soreness. I trained
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by mrob 10mo ago
It's a clarity problem too. Stereo speakers always have comb filtering because of the different path lengths from each ear to the two speakers. It's mitigated somewhat by room reflections (ideally diffuse reflections), but the onl
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by mrob 10mo ago
>Do you realize that phones, tablets, laptops, most PCs don't have an option of "just add speakers"? You can buy Bluetooth receivers that plug into the line input of your amplifier.
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by mrob 10mo ago
No, mine had plain cylinders without the decorative lathe work, and it came in a canvas bag not a wooden box. But the selection of shapes is similar.
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by mrob 10mo ago
The set of toys I spent the most time playing with was a big bag of wooden blocks my grandfather gave me when I was very small. They are well designed, with a good selection of different shapes, e.g. it has cylinders and arches and thin pla
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by mrob 10mo ago
There is one important difference between the harmonics of string and wind instruments: it's possible to build a wind instrument that suppresses (although not entirely eliminates) the even harmonics, e.g. a stopped organ pipe. If it so
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by mrob 10mo ago
All wind instruments and all bowed string instruments produce a perfect harmonic series while emitting a steady tone. The most important difference between timbres of different instruments is in the attack, where inharmonic tones are also g
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by mrob 10mo ago
While I agree with the point about improving skills, I think there's a distinction to be made between artistic code and engineering code. Linus Åkesson writes some exceptionally clever code, but it's artistic code. The cleverness

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