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by mrob 1mo ago
24fps is the worst part of film for me. I've watched a lot of films, and I made an effort to watch important and critically acclaimed ones. While I enjoyed a lot of it at the time, I don't really have any desire to watch any more,
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by mrob 1mo ago
I'd personally rather watch 480p60 than 1080p30. There's a lot of material in which spatial resolution is mostly irrelevant (e.g. presentations, which involve people talking and slides designed to be legible from a distance), but
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by mrob 1mo ago
>I wouldn't expect mint-family herbs to have much hormone modulating effect at all Mints are closely related to pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), which was traditionally (and dangerously because of toxicity) used as an abortifacient. It
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by mrob 1mo ago
You don't need to feel the latency difference. You can tell the difference between high refresh rates by keeping your eyes still and moving your mouse cursor. The higher the display refresh rate (assuming the mouse sampling rate is hig
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by mrob 1mo ago
Only SD CRTs make an audible shrieking sound. LCD computer monitors were replacing VGA or better CRTs with a horizontal refresh rate of >30kHZ. Maybe they could annoy your dog but no human could hear it.
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by mrob 1mo ago
CRT flicker is equally visible when frame rate is the same as refresh rate as when it differs. 60Hz CRTs were never good. 60Hz was only considered "acceptable" because people didn't know any better at the time. At least you d
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by mrob 1mo ago
If those input devices are so good, why don't we see people winning e-sports tournaments with them? The mouse (as in a high-end gaming mouse on a high-end gaming mouse pad) is the best positioning device yet invented because it allows
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by mrob 1mo ago
The most influential work of genre fiction (Lord of the Rings) is written in a literary style by a well-read author. How many people have even heard of "Fourth Wing" in comparison?
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by mrob 1mo ago
You can get away with slower refresh rate if you're using keyboard input only, but keyboard input is annoyingly restrictive for many common tasks. Anything involving graphics (even just looking at graphics, e.g. zooming in on a graph)
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by mrob 1mo ago
>we have the identity function of type A → A (which reads a value as input and outputs the same value) That only exists in theoretical computer science. In real computer programming, you always have some bounds to the value of A.
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by mrob 1mo ago
We need faster refresh rates. Slow phosphors also cause unnatural visual artifacts. 1000Hz is roughly the point where you get motion quality that, except for a rare few test signals (e.g. multiplexed displays), is easily mistaken for realit
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by mrob 1mo ago
If you're running it while idle and don't need the quickest results, reducing the clock speed improves energy efficiency (and in your case avoids overheating the battery). There will be some optimal speed that maximizes computatio
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by mrob 1mo ago
>Everything these days is glass and refresh rates The higher the display refresh rate the metaphorically "quieter" the computer. Discrete frames introduce latency, phantom array effect, and (on most displays) sample-and-hold bl
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by mrob 2mo ago
Every visible UI animation is visibly slow. I've used MacOS computers before, and despite having hardware that benchmarks faster, they all feel slower than my old Linux desktop. The biggest reason for this is the animations.
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by mrob 2mo ago
>If you only use 99% it means there are small particles you can't catch. Air filters don't work like sieves. The smallest particles are easier to block than the mid-sized particles. See: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by mrob 2mo ago
HEPA filters are counterproductive in standard air purifiers. Air purifiers pump their cleaned air directly into the dirty air of the room. It doesn't matter if that cleaned air is extremely clean, because it's immediately mixed w
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by mrob 2mo ago
The obvious countermeasure is adding tamper detection to make it automatically trigger if they try.
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by mrob 2mo ago
Yes. Correct software is more important than developer convenience.
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by mrob 2mo ago
I don't have to open the article to be confident it's not worth reading. Anybody knowledgeable in the field should be familiar with AI writing tells and the message they send. It only takes a few seconds thought to transform the t
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by mrob 2mo ago
>Every intelligent being knows not to hurt others for no gain. As the article clearly explains, an ASI has plenty to gain by killing you. You cannot help it, but you can potentially hinder it, so the optimal choice is removing the risk.
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by mrob 2mo ago
If I run an unsharp mask filter I'm not making any decision about what individual edges mean. I might look at the result and decide to apply more or less sharpening, but that's still not "semantic editing", because the e
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by mrob 2mo ago
The line I draw is at semantic editing. Manipulating images based on abstract geometric or statistical features like edges or color histograms is acceptable. Attempting to guess what those features mean is not. Traditional sharpening, color
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by mrob 2mo ago
You probably have a SVG renderer in memory already, and you already have a frame buffer and/or compositor buffer(s). Why should adding a graphical representation of the weather require more than a few KiB?
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by mrob 2mo ago
It is absolutely the government's job to regulate externalities. Otherwise, personal virtue is just subsidizing third party vice. Energy is fungible. Every joule you save lowers the cost for people who don't care.
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by mrob 2mo ago
Lower color rendering index than incandescent lights too. High CRI LEDs are available, but they're still worse than incandescents and less efficient than the conventional LEDs.
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by mrob 2mo ago
There are only two routes to preventing the climate disaster we've already set in motion: Risky geoengineering projects like stratospheric aerosol injection. Direct atmospheric capture of CO2. The latter is the safer option because it&
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by mrob 2mo ago
British ice cream is generally terrible because our laws are too lax. Previously (from 1996 until 2015), "ice cream" required a minimum of 5% milk fat and 2.5% milk protein. This is still low compared the the USA's requiremen
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by mrob 2mo ago
Big generators in power plants use alternators with field windings, not permanent magnets. Wind turbines use either permanent magnet generators or induction generators. Permanent magnets generators are more efficient, especially at low wind
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by mrob 2mo ago
>there was very little need for personal mobility in society People regularly traveled to nearby market towns. There's still a strange omission: why didn't anybody in Europe invent the Chinese-style wheelbarrow, with the single
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by mrob 2mo ago
100% agreed. Restricting possession of physical items is less tyrannical than restricting communication. Social media is only harmful when it's ubiquitous and inescapable. When you have to make a conscious effort to "go on the com

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