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MCU? ...Marvel Cinematic Universe?
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Terminology nitpick: MOND is a Dark Matter theory. Dark Matter is whatever causes the observed phenomena that galaxy rotation rates are all wonky. If it explains galaxy rotation rates, which MOND does, it's dark matter. I'll use t
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The business world needs to stop supporting Microsoft Office. The creative world needs to stop supporting Adobe Photoshop. The industrial design world needs to stop supporting Solidworks/AutoCAD. Everyone needs to stop supporting Micro
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The Navy was directed by the Executive branch to release the videos. They released the videos and a non-statement about what the videos were. My guess is that there's an internal report describing the FLIR system and how the FLIR syste
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This leaped out at me too. Doing lossy compression on RGB is not setting yourself up for success. Of course, then you'd need two sliders in the UI; one for how much to compress the Y and one for the CbCr. SVD also works on complex matr
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It's too late to edit my post, but the point of the CO2/methane thing is that if we found a planet that had lots of both CO2 and methane in its atmosphere, that is an atmosphere that exists in a non-stable equilibrium, which impli
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I used to think that too. Life could be anything; crystals, pure energy, eddies in the superfluid cores of neutron stars, swimming in seas of metallic hydrogen in Jupiter's core, living clouds floating in Venus' upper atmosphere.
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> We're certainly not going to be detecting a world full of microbes from light years away. JWST would be able to detect an oxygen rich atmosphere like ours, which is a sure sign of life. Oxygen rich atmospheres are not a stable equ
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Fundamentally, because big-O notation operates on the size of the input, not the number of elements in the input. As a trivial example, let's say you represent each city by their latitude/longitude encoded as integers, with 0
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It's not about that. The merits of the technology--the fact that even shitty 128kbps MP3 sound better than vinyl--is irrelevant. I don't care that vinyl sounds worse. I digitized my entire CD collection in the late '90s. I ha
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That's what he's saying. He's not saying that Big Government and Big Tech are separated, he's saying that Big Government and Big Tech ought to be separated. In the West we fight pretty hard to keep the Church and Sta
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So one flight gets canceled. There doesn't exist an automated way for the crew to log in the system that the flight is canceled. The crew of the cancelled flight calls in to a call center in a central office. There's a person ther
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> It's fun & satisfying to think about, It's neither fun nor satisfying (edit:for me) to think about. It's theoretically impossible to design and run an experiment which would either falsify Copenhagen and not-falsify
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> In the minutes before flight 521 lined up to land, two flights were forced to abort their landings after encountering wind shear; however, they didn’t tell the controller their reasons for doing so, and the controller didn’t ask. The a
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> Along with 24FPS. 24FPS is gonna stick around for a while. I've not seen any high framerate movies that didn't make the movie set look like a...movie set. This is great for sports and documentaries where a better visualizatio
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by nwallin 4y ago
Does 10 bit color actually deliver a benefit if you have an 8 bit screen?
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Wait, what's wrong with metadata on raid1?
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> 3. The examples they gave are missing read/write barriers, which are rather important. #2 will only happen during read/write barriers. That is to say: your code is memory-unsafe by default. If order and cache-invalidation mat
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That is correct, the article goes into details why. See the "Apple's Secret Extension" section as well as the "Total Store Ordering" section. The "Apple's Secret Extension" section talks about how t
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mplayer uses ffmpeg to decode h264.
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ffmpeg has dedicated code for decoding h264 on ppc, as well as all the support code for rescaling and yuv->rgb conversion etc. It's probably not going to be able to decode super ultra duper high bitrate h264, but I would expect it t
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(x^y)/2 + (x&y)
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After a collision, the periapsis is at most as high as the point of collision, and the apoapsis is at least as high as the point of collision. In plain English, if two satellites collide with each other at an altitude of 450km, it doesn&#x2
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Weekends? Weekends are... the ... ends of the week. When you build a bookshelf, do you do: <stack of bricks> <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> or do you do: <book> <book&
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Three backticks then a space. Then paste the code. then hit enter 4-5 times until it sends it. I don't know where I learned this eldritch incantation--it certainly wasn't in the documentation--but it works.
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It's kinda ridiculous though. My work PC has 16GB of RAM and I periodically hit issues with heavy swapping and routinely causes my computer to BSOD or freeze irrecoverably. Obviously it's not just Teams and its 1.2GB of usage, but
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I think this is an interesting idea but I also think it will never gain adoption. Move constructors/Move assignment should be noexcept by default. It's not entirely clear to me what a program ought to do if a move constructor&#x2F
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> the popular "why does Netflix need X thousand engineers, I could build it in a weekend" sentiment that is frequently brought up on forums like this one. I don't think that's a popular sentiment about Netflix. Twitte
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> Something I heard a while back is that very roughly 90%+ of compiler generated code is made up of 19 instructions and the rest are rare enough that you on x86/64 you shouldn't memorize them, just keep the manual handy. I wond
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> 5) Complex SIMD instructions like PSHUFB or PUNPCKxx which modern compilers can't reason deeply enough about your code to use effectively. (I'd love to be proven wrong on this one!) I ran his example on my own machine and fou

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