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by mrob 4mo ago
The modern equivalent of ReplayGain, EBU R 128, is already ubiquitous in the industry. People brickwall records anyway, presumably because more people are likely to complain about being unable to hear the quiet parts in their car, or about
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by mrob 4mo ago
You can see this grease by the effect it has on water contact angle. If you have a smooth glass/metal/ceramic surface, cleaned by a highly effective method (e.g. an ultrasonic cleaner), water poured on it will slide off easily wit
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Goes on to explain how they used 3D blender...which wasn't available until 1998. In the early 90s, there was enough money in this kind of software that you could have hired a specialist 3D artist to use the software that was availa
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by mrob 4mo ago
In context, it's talking about sprites that are going to get non-integer scaled anyway (in-game pickups), so it's just about maintaining a consistent detail level. If those specific sprites had their resolution increased, everythi
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by mrob 4mo ago
GLQuake introduced the r_wateralpha setting, which allowed transparent water, but the maps were still compiled with visibility calculations that assumed the water surfaces were opaque. You got visual artifacts unless you enabled r_novis to
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by mrob 4mo ago
In the final video, it looks like the destructible vases take several shots to destroy. IMO, they should only take one. Real life vases only take one, so requiring more makes the gun feel weak. It seems to be cosmetic anyway, so there'
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by mrob 4mo ago
They can believe that: Capitalism is the most effective driver of progress known. Capitalism has lifted enormous numbers of people out of absolute poverty and is a great positive for the world. Inequality is an unavoidable side-effect of ca
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by mrob 4mo ago
Nobody has a problem with rentals. Just be up front with the terms and don't try to pretend it's a sale.
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by mrob 4mo ago
The way I see it, there are three possible outcomes: 1. AI works worse than expected. Our economies are depending on this not to be the case, so it triggers the Greater Depression. Widespread poverty and misery ensue. 2. AI works as exactly
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by mrob 4mo ago
To complete the analogy, it's like nukes, except we don't have the slightest idea how to calculate the odds of it igniting the atmosphere. (And note that in reality, while the Trinity test "ignite the atmosphere" calcula
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by mrob 4mo ago
Show me a single substantial (5000+ words) piece of writing from before the release of GPT-3 that triggers Pangram with high confidence.
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by mrob 4mo ago
>If I am not a very good writer, that means an LLM IS actually better than me If you're not a very good writer, I'll at least skim your work to see if it contains any good ideas. If it's slop, I'll just close the tab.
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by mrob 4mo ago
Average latency difference isn't much, but wireless's inherent sensitivity to interference makes the worst-case latency difference a lot higher. I don't want to lose a game because somebody in the vicinity turned on a poorly
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by mrob 5mo ago
>One normally starts on the chanter, which is more like a recorder In the case of the Great Highland bagpipes, the most similar traditional instrument is the rauschpfeife (capped double-reed with conical bore and without prominent bell):
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by mrob 5mo ago
JPEG has the great advantage that all JPEG artifacts look like JPEG artifacts. Newer codecs create artifacts that can be mistaken for part of the original image. That's a heavy price to pay for improved compression efficiency.
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by mrob 5mo ago
>Strong static typing has been an option in Python for years now, and it should just be the default. https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html "The Python runtime does not enforce function and variable
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by mrob 5mo ago
En-dashes are not em-dashes, and they're standard typography for numeric ranges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Ranges_of_values
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by mrob 5mo ago
Fuzzy search Reverse dictionary Stack Overflow clone, except you're guaranteed to get an unreliable answer promptly instead of waiting for a human to give it OCR, with new and exciting failure modes Machine translation, with new and ex
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by mrob 5mo ago
When I tried this in the past, it was non-trivial because the editorial changes are mixed with the technical changes. Reverting the editorial changes broke the technical changes.
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by mrob 5mo ago
I commented on this kind of editing several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16957359 The edit is still in place, and I still maintain that changing 'phone to phone in dialogue changes the meaning.
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by mrob 5mo ago
Freshly cleaved mica has an extremely clean and flat surface.
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by mrob 5mo ago
Monospace text is objectively less dense, which means you have to move your eyes more. Every eye movement is an opportunity for error. Monospace text only makes sense when seeing exact character counts matters (which it often does in comput
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by mrob 5mo ago
You might be comfortable taking that risk yourself, but if you misrepresent your FOSS contributions as your own copyright you impose that risk on third parties. Tricking people into infringing your employer's copyright is asshole behav
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by mrob 5mo ago
>Seeing the cursor at all times gives you some point of reference, and once you release the tool, you know where your cursor is. Seeing is an inferior means of knowing where the cursor is compared to intuition. When I move the cursor, I
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by mrob 5mo ago
Unlike with fuel, we're not burning the EVs, so even if China cuts off the supply we can keep using the ones we've already got. It would be inconvenient, but not an urgent problem like loss of access to fuel.
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by mrob 5mo ago
Only true for a plug-in hybrid with a series drivechain (a.k.a. "extended range electric vehicle"). The more common type has two parallel drivechains linked with clutches, so you still have all the drawbacks of a conventional inte
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by mrob 5mo ago
It's better because it's the minimum change to mouse cursor behavior that allows the feature to work. You don't need to see the cursor while it's off-screen because the point is manipulate the 3D object, and you can look
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by mrob 5mo ago
The UK is well suited to wind power, already has many wind turbines, and continues to install more. We have a good amount of solar panels too. Renewables provide the majority of electrical power when conditions are good and the share will o
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by mrob 5mo ago
I think a better way to implement that feature would be a mechanism for programs to temporarily enable off-screen mouse cursors. This should also track the position where the cursor would be if it had been clipped to the screen boundary as
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by mrob 5mo ago
If it's part of the OS's standard accessibility framework then it's acceptable. The important point is that applications shouldn't be able to arbitrarily move the mouse in situations when it's unexpected.

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