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541.
by prvc 5y ago
Which is what, exactly? That the cramped urbanism of "cyberpunk" is desirable if only you add a few plants in the mix?
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by prvc 5y ago
>"just add trees" city, where the necessary trappings of a vertical city (mass transportation, crowds, pollution, etc) are absent. The lists in TFA strike me as just a random grab-bag of things its author approves of, with no v
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by prvc 5y ago
What was the last successful artistic genre where theory preceded practice?
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by prvc 5y ago
>we got a game with a sparkling fictional presentation and lousy interactive elements I think there's a case to be made against that as well. The plot is weirdly placed, it is hard to buy in to the motivations behind for each plot p
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by prvc 5y ago
>I find the constant use of the term "glitch" in the title and the lack of actual details of what happened extremely infuriating. I found this thread fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27011790 &
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by prvc 5y ago
Yet the timbre on this is quite different from that of an ordinary piano. Which make the experiment worth doing on its own (and successful)!
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by prvc 5y ago
>They could genotype a subset of genetic markers. As long as the N of their sample is high enough (tens, hundreds), this would give sufficient precision Doesn't the sample of markers have to be unbiased as well? How would they have
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by prvc 5y ago
>Sad we lost one of the great original thinkers. What made him great, and, to boot, original, in your opinion?
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by prvc 5y ago
>Dr. Lewontin and his co-workers determined that the great bulk of human genetic variability, roughly 85 percent, could be found within a population of, say, Asians or Africans, while just 15 percent of the diversity might distinguish As
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by prvc 5y ago
It would be nice to have other sort options such as "low date" or "mean temperature".
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by prvc 5y ago
Thanks. Terrible choice of name for this phenomenon. Maybe we should/ shouldn't call such a thing, "a Norman Name".
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by prvc 5y ago
Not at all.
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by prvc 5y ago
>There is no simple answer to fix these 2 problems due to crf targets. Traditionally in x264 such scene will simply end up in blocking artifacts. x265 chooses to eliminate artifacts at the cost of detail loss. The down side is that even
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by prvc 5y ago
>The more threads you add into a pool, the more encode overhead you will experience, since every row of encode requires the upper right CTU block to complete before it can proceed. Nowadays, we don't have to worry about that, since
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by prvc 5y ago
>What I’m more excited about is AV1. AV1 is a next gen codec with members from many tech giants (Apple, Google, MS, etc.) to create a royalty free codec. IIRC some of its baseline is based on VP10, which Google scrapped and had its code
556.
by prvc 5y ago
Lower crf will lead to higher bitrates, everything else being equal . It makes no sense to compare this figure between different presets.
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by prvc 5y ago
>Climate change and population growth are separate issues. Sperate, but related: the latter contributes to the former.
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by prvc 5y ago
Fiction uses false statements about reality in order to (attempt to) describe a deeper truth. Cat Person uses true factual details (in addition to false ones) in order to concoct a lie. In that sense, it is the opposite of our usual notio
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by prvc 5y ago
Also, telling an individual user to "just use another DE" does not solve the problem, whose effects are widespread, on a whole ecosystem of software, its users, and developers.
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by prvc 5y ago
>Do you even care? I don't think you do, you'll just delete that desktop and move on and use whatever you want, and that's the whole point. For the record: I care.
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by prvc 5y ago
>KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RA
562.
by prvc 5y ago
The Victorian era was a high-point for our language, in my view.
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by prvc 5y ago
>I am guessing you aren't a fan of Citizen Kane. William Randolph Hearst certainly wasn't one!
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by prvc 5y ago
"All true your honor, but I said the word fiction beforehand!"
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by prvc 5y ago
A superficial appraisal of the situation would have Cat Person be a mere amalgam of details plagiarized from social media with an ideologically derived ersatz-archetype-- a lie bolstered by purloined facts. This article, however, brings f
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by prvc 5y ago
>The reason why the Apollo team chose these terms instead of the Taylor ones was because these were actually optimized for minimum error in the interval −π/2<y<π/2 How would these coefficients be derived in the first plac
567.
by prvc 5y ago
The way the maintainer is behaving over this makes me want to take my chances with Muse Group instead.
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by prvc 5y ago
At first I assumed he had an extremely dry, dark sense of humor, but perhaps you are right and he is simply beyond my comprehension.
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by prvc 5y ago
That show was so good. Unfortunately, nothing like it could be made today.
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New [July 2, 2021] Audacity Data Collection Policy(audacityteam.org)
56 points by prvc 5y ago|35 comments

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