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by vor_ 3mo ago
Do you have citations for this claim? The "golden ears" argument is often employed by audiophiles, but even the cheapest converters oversample by up to several hundred times as well as employ antialiasing filters.
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by vor_ 3mo ago
Is there evidence that a trained ear can reliably perceive these artifacts in a blind test of converters? I'd be interested in reading those links since converters typically oversample into the mHz range. At 11.29 mHz (256x 44.1 mHz),
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by vor_ 3mo ago
> Decades ago, I was treated to an ABX test in my brother's recording studio. I easily recognized and preferred a 24/192 master he played versus the 16/44.1 down-mix. I honestly don't know whether there was something
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Megatexture caused a lot of problems. In fact, it was such a hindrance that it was removed from the engine in Doom Eternal.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
The loss of the original team was a tremendous blow. After Quake, a common criticism of id was that they put out tech demos instead of games.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
It was people like Michael Abrash who did the groundbreaking optimization work at that time. He single-handedly doubled Quake's framerate.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Prey was infamously in development in various forms for over a decade.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
The technical innovations also began to have no impact or even an adverse one. Doom 3's push for 100% real-time stencil shadows was practically ignored by the industry when HL2 and other competitors came out. MegaTexture was actually r
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by vor_ 4mo ago
There are several snarky knee-jerk reactions in the comments here, but state assemblies pass things all the time that ultimately fail to pass or get vetoed. Now the public will debate it, contact their state senators to give their opinions.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
How did you determine that it's even more dangerous?
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Is that how you built the app you claim Apple rejected as spam?
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by vor_ 4mo ago
You built it from scratch? According to your Twitter, you're not writing any code. You're not even reviewing it.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
There's been a noticeable drop in quality. It's often a blend of AI culture war posts and arbitrary Github links.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Merging related models has been a very common practice for years. See the Stable Diffusion community.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Your recollection is incorrect, and besides that, Covid had a serious impact on the world that's still being felt today. We didn't simply "get through it just fine."
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by vor_ 4mo ago
> is there a truth requirement anywhere? Yes, and it's called defamation when you don't follow it.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
Population caps by fiat have always been terrible moves. Example: every country that's ever had them.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
If a human was hallucinating and polluting a codebase with errors, they would be fired and possibly treated for dementia. Even worse, an LLM is trained to produce plausible-looking results, so it's harder to detect the mistakes.
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by vor_ 4mo ago
> 3 years max. Maybe 5 if you are lucky.The models will continue to improve. The exponential gains in compute efficiency that have been ongoing for 70+ years will continue and that will result in even smarter models. There are dramatic h
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by vor_ 4mo ago
> most code changes are AI generated That's a huge claim.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
In 7 days?
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by vor_ 5mo ago
> LLMs are so frequently inaccurate its crazy to think of it fully replacing search. It's baffling that people have become so devoted to them as a source of information given how inaccurate they are. I've learned not to trust a
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by vor_ 5mo ago
They're saying that if you try to step outside the box or achieve a complex design, SwiftUI falls short, which is also my experience with the framework after using it for many years, especially on macOS.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
> Claims like "It's hard to build a performant SwiftUI app" get into skill-issue territory I don't know why SwiftUI evangelists are still doing this in 2026. How many examples of SwiftUI's poor performance have t
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by vor_ 5mo ago
60% is a normal human mistake rate? You can't be serious.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
> what do you actually want? I want to be able to right-click on an app and choose "Open" to run the program with an authentication dialog. You used to be able to do this, but Apple removed it in favor of an incredibly annoying
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by vor_ 5mo ago
Unfortunately, Linux is nowhere near ready for the desktop outside of the techies/programmers who read Hacker News.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
That's certainly a claim.
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by vor_ 5mo ago
One of the amusing things about AI bros is how naively over-enthusiastic they are about the technology and its inevitability.

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