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by porphyra 2y ago
I am very skeptical that chromatic aberration can be applied before a demosaic and then the result can be stored in a Bayer array again. There seems to be no advantage in storing the result of chromatic aberration correction in a raw Bayer
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by porphyra 2y ago
People will gobble up all kinds of bad articles to reinforce their anti-Tesla bias. This reminds me of the "iSeeCars" study that somehow claimed that teslas have the highest fatality rate per mile travelled, even though: * They ba
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by porphyra 2y ago
Agreed. Also, the fact that current automotive radars return a point cloud (instead of, say, a volumetric density grid) is sad. But it will be a while before processing power can catch up, and by the time you have the equivalent of hundreds
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yea, and they are designed to filter out actually stationary things by ignoring anything that's coming at you at the same speed as the current car speed (from measuring wheel rotation).
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by porphyra 2y ago
> what order the 3 colors are in (RGB or BGR) Camera raw files typically come in a raw bayer mosaic so each pixel has only one colour.
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by porphyra 2y ago
How come most audiophiles happen to be men? Do women hear the difference but just don't care?
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by porphyra 2y ago
The physical socket also introduces a new point of failure. In the olden days there was often "ram was bad but taking it out and reseating it in the socket fixed it", which can be avoided by just having it be on the same physical
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by porphyra 2y ago
> FW13 battery swap needs dissasembly. Can't do it while on a train/bus/airplane. > X60 battery is removed by 2 spring latches on the back Yeah but the FW13 battery also lasts several times more than the battery life yo
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by porphyra 2y ago
Seems very sinophobic. Deepseek and Manus have shown that China is legitimately an innovation powerhouse in AI but this article makes it sound like they will just keep falling behind without stealing.
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by porphyra 2y ago
I used to do that except it was to play Runescape lol. The local library got some really nice Pentium 4 computers too.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Also human hand sweat has both salt and water so anything that requires a human to carry them might not be suitable.
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by porphyra 2y ago
You can also buy a rebranded Azure Kinect called the Orbbec Femto Bolt. Like the original Azure Kinect, the quality is amazing and blows the Realsenses out of the water.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Indeed, even in "classical chess engines" like Stockfish which previously required handcrafted heuristics at leaf nodes, in recent years the NNUE [1] [2] has greatly outperformed it. Note that this is a completely different approa
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by porphyra 2y ago
It is cool to see recent research doing this to reconstruct scenes from fewer images, essentially using a transformer to guess what the scene structure is. Previously, you needed a ton of images and had to use COLMAP. All the fancy papers l
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by porphyra 2y ago
The final point cloud rendering might be due to a third party renderer rather than VGGT itself.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Same. The Index is way too heavy for long sessions and the screen door effect is quite noticeable. I bought it in 2020 and haven't really touched it after playing some Half Life Alyx and Beat Saber. A headset that's only 107 g wou
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by porphyra 2y ago
I got my numbers mixed up --- you're right, the Europa Clipper is bigger by all metrics.
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Europa Clipper is really cool. I think the Cassini Huygens that launched in 1997 has greater mass though. SpaceX isn't entirely focused on getting humans to space since they launch the vast majority of satellites thanks to great in
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by porphyra 2y ago
My understanding is that Crew 9 was always scheduled for a 6 month mission and they couldn't come back before Crew 10 arrived (in March 2025) or else the ISS would be shortstaffed. The two astronauts in question are simply hitching a r
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by porphyra 2y ago
Why didn't they do it for the health of the astronauts? What would make doing so "hacks"?
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by porphyra 2y ago
Let's not forget that right now it seems that only SpaceX is putting in the "monumental efforts" to advance the "pioneeribg industry", being responsible for the vast majority of launches, the only safe crewed spacec
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by porphyra 2y ago
Steer by wire is a huge advantage and the nimble handling is one of the most beloved things about the vehicle among owners.
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by porphyra 2y ago
People love to hate on the Cybertruck for political reasons but it's literally one of the most innovative vehicles of our time.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Isn't that very common with NIO cars etc? They are also very popular with many other brands, especially for rideshare cars. https://cnevpost.com/2025/03/04/nio-97800-daily-battery-swap...
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Polestar 2, yes. The newer models like the Polestar 4 are based on a Geely platform that is completely distinct (and in my opinion better).
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by porphyra 2y ago
Honestly in terms of value, efficiency, safety, practicality, etc it is hard to beat the Model Y. The refresh is even better, a huge step up in comfort, and imho quieter and smoother than a Lucid or Mercedes-Benz EQS. I guess some sacrifice
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by porphyra 2y ago
Interesting but I have a hard time imagining how a nest made of anti-bird spikes could be comfortable. Do they actually find it to be nice? I guess corvids are super smart and wouldn't accidentally get tricked into making an uncomforta
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by porphyra 2y ago
You can buy a Rivian or Polestar without dealing with dealerships. You could also buy a Hyundai Ioniq 5 or 6 directly on Amazon (even though the implementation still goes through dealerships in the backend) [1]. [1] https://www.a
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by porphyra 2y ago
I went to Santana Row in the Bay Area and the Tesla store was very popular. Most regular people aren't terminally online and constantly worried about politics.
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by porphyra 2y ago
The $2000 strix halo with 128 GB might not compete with the $9000 Mac Studio with 512 GB but is a competitor to the $4000 Mac Studio with 96 GB. The slow memory bandwidth is a bummer, though.

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