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by plastic3169 11mo ago
I recommend the book and the new research. It reflects on the rat park study and makes what I think are good arguments that addiction is not a simple thing we can fix only by fixing the enviroment even though it is part of it. OP was asking
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by plastic3169 1y ago
That’s a good goal and I think we should aim for that regardless if it fixes addiction. I would not call it easy though. And would it be world without addicts? There are plenty of well connected rich social happy folks who can’t handle simp
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by plastic3169 1y ago
There is a new book by Owen Flanagan ”What is it like to be an addict”[0] where he goes through the phenomenon of addiction from many different angles and argues that rat park type findings are true but only give partial view to the problem
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by plastic3169 1y ago
> ”Full self driving" is another example; your car won't be doing this, but companies will brag about limited roll-outs of niche cases in dry, flat, places that are easy to navigate. Not expecting my car to be self-driving anyt
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by plastic3169 1y ago
This unoptimizing has been going on since the start of time. Why are the values in json to start with? At somepoint the bad slow generalized version will overtake the specialized ways of doing things.
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I am surprised one bag crowd seem to pack so many computing devices with them. Some have phone, laptop, ipad and kindle and pride themselves on being minimalists.
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by plastic3169 1y ago
People use these for sure but the biggest problem with these I feel is that they produce ”finished shots” with 8 bit colors and heavy grading. It’s hard to mix it with the other material which actually looks quite bland while it is being wo
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by plastic3169 1y ago
True but it is also like saying that some office building came out better than other because the workers put more effort into it. There is skill to to the craft but also it’s a game of constraints and how the project is planned and budgeted
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Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI(roc.camera)
1 points by plastic3169 1y ago|0 comments
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by plastic3169 1y ago
Video signal without the noise or grain is annoying to watch as it makes everything in the ”out of focus” zone look smooth blurry. Your eyes want to focus yet it is an illusion of depth without an actual depth. Noise texture emphasizes that
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I think he argues more that if 24-bit audio would have been brought to the market like HDR it would have been advertised as being able to be louder. The new stereos would lack the volume control as 24-bit audio would encode absolute volume
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Debunking HDR [video](yedlin.net)
128 points by plastic3169 1y ago|74 comments
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I love this. It used to work like magic but something happened and now it barely recognizes birds for me. Only if they are really close. Anyone else? Maybe my hardware is failing? I also travelled and loaded other packs and wonder if I mess
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I had friend who had the same idea to do it for pixel fonts with only two colors and 16x16 canvas. It was still 2^256. Watching that thing run and trying to estimate when it would finish made me understand encryption.
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by plastic3169 1y ago
There are 700+ million people living in Europe. The countries are tiny, most have bunch of official languages. The fix would be to use users selected language and not to flip flop it based on location. IP based location guessing doesn’t wor
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I once met this older gentleman at a wedding and when I asked about his life he said he used to be really into computers but the personal computing revolution made him sour. It turned professional field step by step into junk until there wa
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by plastic3169 1y ago
It is insane to defend Sam Altman here, but it looks to me that World goes out of their way to not to link the biometric data to identity or even save it. Sure you need to trust the black box but if the company gets taken over there is no d
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I’m in the middle age slump. There is more talk around me about death. Some of our parents died in their 50s and this perspective of ’this might be the last decade’ is creeping in. Yet the same person talking might have still one of their g
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I think sign up for anything is a tall order. To use a recommendation site I would need it to just start asking me questions and immediatly also start the process of visually narrowing down content suitable for me. How many ratings from me
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by plastic3169 1y ago
I’ve worked in film mastering so yes I am an outlier. My point was that industry guarding the DCP makes sense as the leaked pirate versions are not the same thing. In music world everyone can buy uncompressed CD, but with moving image end u
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by plastic3169 1y ago
There are no high quality pirated versions though. The streaming version and even blu-ray is compressed way heavier than these DCP files. I’d buy these cinema versions of films in a heartbeat if they were availble.
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by plastic3169 1y ago
Like vi(m) or emacs?
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by plastic3169 2y ago
Consumers can only buy that which has been manufactured. There is customer demand but nobody is forcing anyone to start a company. If you build a factory and release tons of co2 that is the concrete act destroying the planet. Blaming your c
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by plastic3169 2y ago
My favorite is that luggage with wheels was invented in 1972. The tech was there already. We just waited for somebody to invent it.
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by plastic3169 2y ago
Apple TV remote has it’s problems but at least it strives to be simple. Magically it also controls enough amplifier and projector (I don’t know how, hdmi signals?) so I don’t need to touch any other remotes on daily basis.
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by plastic3169 2y ago
That’s it, sorry for the confusion everyone. I stand corrected.
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by plastic3169 2y ago
I mixed diseases. English is not my first language. Just checked from wikipedia that it has 20 million yearly cases and assumed it was the mostly harmless kids disease we all had (which is vaccinated against now also I learnt). Anyway why u
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by plastic3169 2y ago
Is this quote an example of making the issue seem larger than it is? Measles ”feels” very common although at any one point I guess not that many people have it, but many see it in their family or remember experiencing it. So it feels like a
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by plastic3169 2y ago
I just realized that it has been ages since I saw a wacky website. So refreshing. I have been asking everyone to stop trying to reinvent the wheel, use best practices, make the content separate from the design, keep it clean, readable and a
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by plastic3169 2y ago
I think parent was trying to make the point that it is not linear progression, but more bathtub curve where very small places and big cities are similar dead zones. Goth town sweet spot is in the middle.

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