twelfthnight

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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I think CD quality is a good analogy to 4k, 1080p is mp3 128 and 1440p is mp3 320. 1080p isn't quite human level perception, but no one will notice if they aren't trying. 1440p is essentially exactly human perception, and 4k is sl
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Oh, yeah important caveat for sure. If you go to the store now many TV brands don't even sell mid/high level TVs smaller than 55", unless they are intended for gaming (probably expected to sit closer).
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
You're right, DLSS is specifically for games, I forgot "super resolution" was the name for the Nvidia model that runs in full screen mode, which I've used and is pretty cool, seemingly better than automatic upscaling in
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Article doesn't mention AI upres tech like DLSS, which could be the future. My experience on 4k monitors is that DLSS is noticably better than 1080, and not much worse than native 4k. Don't know about 8k, but I think 4k is a sweet
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
If someone is price conscious, why move from postgres to snowflake?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Why not set your own hard qualifications and just ask applications to check if they have them or not? Why use a fuzzy AI algorithm at all, especially since the cost of a resume screen is so low relative to the cost of hiring poorly?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
People talk about efficiency a lot, but they miss the basic point that efficiency in a free market means lower prices and decreased profits (due to competition). Companies profits are soaring. Folks upset about lay offs are not against that
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
EDIT 2: Wanted to say that personally I have an interchangeable lens camera _and_ a Richoh, and think of the Richoh as costing about the same as a (nice) lens. The more you do photography the more you will realize there isn't just one
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Personally I love my Ricoh GR III. There are two versions, one is 28mm and another is 40mm (GR IIIX). They are fixed lens which sounds bad, but in reality it prevents you from constantly thinking about buying new lenses and switching lenses
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I hear you. It's good to point out and hold accountable people in positions of power who are corrupt. My argument is that (to me) I doubt a leader being corrupt is uncommon. Thus I think it's worth questioning why we are focusing
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Before this scandal basically no one knew or cared who the president of Harvard was. All of a sudden, we all have an opinion. I think the issue we have is not a culture restricting free speech, I think the issue is a media landscape that sp
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I've always found R dependency and package management to be considerably worse than Python. Years ago we needed to use a Microsoft mirror of cran to pin versions which routinely went down making builds impossible. Pushing to cran is a
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I wonder if Resume Driven Development is a reaction rather than a cause. For instance, you see companies laying off everyone and pushing bad products, so you decide "I might as well use some cool new tools and make myself employable&qu
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> you won't become closer to the truth until you reach that minimum level of understanding This might be my misunderstanding of the article. How do you gain knowledge at all without considering new arguments you hear? > Doing the
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> I think you pretty much have to stick with your prior Yeah, at least to me that makes sense if you're forced to make a choice. Although in some ways if you really have no clear evidence it doesn't matter what choice you make
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I guess if I encountered two diametrically opposing arguments of equal validity I would increase my uncertainty, not just stick to my prior. That's super different to just ignoring new arguments, right? Like going from "I think X
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Why is it assumed that someone who is convinced by arguments is prone to wrong ideas? Wouldn't that type of person become iteratively closer to the truth every time they hear a new argument and compare to the others they've heard?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Powerful people stand to lose a lot if developers could just distribute their software directly to users without intermediate browsers/app stores. You might say that this is technically possible right now, but those people do _everythi
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> very few open-source LLMs explicitly claim they intentionally support structured data, but they’re smart enough and they have logically seen enough examples of JSON Schema that with enough system prompt tweaking they should behave. Ope
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Agree the analogy is inappropriate and (unintentionally?) deceptive. That is, it's used to make you feel the argument is more correct than it is by borrowing the trust we have in "fancy" ideas from math/physics. The whol
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I can't actually put it into production at my company, but for selfish catharsis, I ran datamodel-codegen over our cluster's jsonschema and generated Python pydantic models for all resources. I was able to rewrite all our helm usi
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Oh absolutely. I guess I just got the feeling reading this that there was more than the standard pride here and that there was professional PR going on. If no one else is getting that vibe I'm okay to accept it's just me.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Hope this doesn't come as snarky, but does Google pressure researchers to do PR in their papers? This really is cool, but there is a lot of self-promotion in this paper and very little discussion of limitations (and the discussion of t
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Recently I've been drifting away from template engines toward native data structures + serialization for programmatically creating html/yaml. For example, CDK is following this pattern for building cloud configuration YAML. Do fol
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
It's a really good point. It's natural, but if an API is primarily used to serve a front end, all other internal consumers (analyst, data science, etc) take a back seat. I think it also leads to situations where most of the engin
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> why do we need higher education For me it's not about getting folks better jobs, it's about increasing access to general education. For those motivated, getting broad education makes them much more productive. Someone had to
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
It's interesting that administration and spending has gone up at the same time funding has gone down. My argument is that defunding isn't doing anything to combat the higher ed corruption. It's hurting students and leading t
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Here's some context: https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/state-fundin...
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
This is definitely a problem. But we still need higher education as a society. I think there must be some third way between just throwing money into the pockets of university presidents and defunding it and creating an anti-intellectual so
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
This feels like a feedback loop where political parties defund public colleges, it becomes worse, they say "look how bad it is" to justify more cuts. It becomes worse... EDIT. I do think there is also a phenomenon that over time c

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