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by porphyra 6mo ago
isn't that orthogonal to the topic though? it would still be nice to improve the image quality of the camera you have with you as much as possible
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Actually, the Spanish HSR builders have been involved with the project. [1] https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/europe8an-gian8t-be...
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by porphyra 6mo ago
$231 B can subsidize over 400 years of free air travel between LA and SF (assuming $200 per round trip and 2.7 million flights per year [1]). The hope is that the high speed rail would allow way more trips between the two cities, as well as
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by porphyra 6mo ago
A Waymo was recently stuck on some light rail tracks in Phoenix this year [1]. Portland has a rather diverse bunch of streetcars and trams concentrated in its downtown core. Hopefully they don't get stuck on the tracks or block the tra
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by porphyra 6mo ago
There's a big cultural component to it, and many languages don't even distinguish blue and green! Also many languages only distinguish them surprisingly recently --- for example, Chinese and Japanese used to use the word 青 which c
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by porphyra 6mo ago
The new Framework 13 Pro is undeniably really nice and a huge step up from the earlier Framework laptops. But the sad reality is that x86 processors are falling behind in performance. The Intel Core Ultra X7 358H is a whopping 35% slower th
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by porphyra 6mo ago
The fact that it costs a tenth of the La Marzocco Linea Mini helps a lot.
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by porphyra 6mo ago
That's more like the Spyker of coffee machines. Incidentally I went to a random coffee shop that had a Speedster in it. It was great.
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Breville Barista Express probably.
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by porphyra 6mo ago
La Marzocco has such brand recognition that a lot of newbie coffee shops would buy one, but people who buy a more niche commercial machine like a Slayer or a Synesso probably know what they are doing. Still, there's nothing wrong with
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Somehow, the Bay Area, which is full of really rich coffee drinkers, doesn't have a La Marzocco showroom or even any big coffee equipment shop (Seattle Coffee Gear in Stanford shopping mall in Palo Alto closed a couple years ago).
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by porphyra 6mo ago
The improvement in Chinese text rendering is remarkable and impressive! I still found some typos in the Chinese sample pic about Wuxi though. For example the 笼 in 小笼包 was written incorrectly. And the "极小中文也清晰可读" section contains e
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Maybe instead of submitting PRs, people should submit "prompt diffs" so that the maintainer can paste the prompt into their preferred coding agent, which is no doubt aware of their preferred styles and skills, and generate the des
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by porphyra 6mo ago
It's a third party mainboard right? https://metacomputing.io/products/metacomputing-aipc?variant... And anyway the performance of this CIX chip is really bad compared to the Snapdragon X2 or current x86 chips. Jef
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Also very sad that the M5 dominates the X7 358H in singlethreaded performance, not to mention the M5 Pro that dominates it in both single- and multithreaded performance.
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Even with actual asbestos, the risk goes up a lot with duration and intensity of exposure. Probably, the risks of getting cancer from a brief exposure is fairly low, and combined with the ridiculously small sample size of only 12 people to
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Wow, that's great news!
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Darktable is great, but notably, it doesn't have any neural network-based denoising, even though that's now standard in Lightroom, Capture One, and other apps. Darktable only has rather outdated wavelet and non-local means denoisi
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Actually if you read the first five sentences of the article, the point of the CLI is to be friendlier for AI agents (in addition to being useful for humans presumably). > Increasingly, agents are the primary customer of our APIs. Develo
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by porphyra 6mo ago
It doesn't work. > You’ve just missed out—free access to this article has expired. Register to view
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Exactly. Talking in plain English is a lot less mental overhead than reading the man page and figuring out the right command. Nowadays I just use AI instead of remembering ffmpeg commands too. Your point about authentication is important to
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Ironically, with the advent of AI agents and stuff, we're going back from "checkbox engineering" in GUI webpages to CLI tools. Every time I need to clear cache in cloudflare when I upload a new version of an asset, I have to
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Virtual machines aren't the solution for day-to-day computing though. You're missing out on the graphics acceleration, being able to plug things in that just work, and so on.
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by porphyra 6mo ago
For real. Doesn't help that the three/four finger swipe between full screen windows/workspaces has a mandatory animation that you can't disable (you can turn on "reduce motion", but it simply changes the scroll
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by porphyra 6mo ago
> windows should be square found the Windows 8 enthusiast! haha, I kid. (I myself use a tiling window manager , i3, with completely square windows without any gaps or rounding)
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by porphyra 6mo ago
Newer backside illuminated sensors have better quantum efficiency and are sensitive to a greater fraction of the light hitting the sensor thanks to the lack of electronics physically blocking the photosites. Not to mention advances in read
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by porphyra 7mo ago
Sure, but less grain is often worth it. There's a reason why fast lenses exist. The high quality lens being used here can probably still resolve 20 MP adequately even wide open.
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by porphyra 7mo ago
The good low light performance was amazing for its time (10 years ago), and it still holds up decently today. But let's not kid ourselves -- it has been clearly surpassed by modern backside illuminated CMOS sensors like the one on the
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by porphyra 7mo ago
Noise that's easier to see will not be compressed away by the JPEG compression. JPEG is basically just DCT + thresholding. Any higher amplitude noise is going to stay and increase the final file size. Also, pulling more data from your
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by porphyra 7mo ago
The Lightroom one was processed from raw. Also, by brightening it a lot, the noisy high-ISO grain becomes more apparent. Noise is famously incompressible, so it leads to a much larger file size.

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