alephnil

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by alephnil 4mo ago
Newer codecs has generally introduced more ways a video can be encoded, so that the encoder need to work much harder to encode a video, so that it actually achieve the gains that the newer codec allows much more processing will be required.
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by alephnil 6mo ago
In many ways the ENIAC was more like an FPGA than a computer. It was programmed with patch cables connecting the different computational units as well as switches, and had no CPU as such. The cables had to be physically rerouted when changi
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by alephnil 6mo ago
You would need a frame rate higher than the Nyquist frequency of highest harmonic you want to capture. Since the fundamental frequency of the lowest pitch sting is 83.4 Hz, and you want to capture up to the fifth harmonic (at 83.4 Hz * 5 =
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by alephnil 8mo ago
Without having smelled croton oil myself, canned brisling (which is what it is, even if it was sold as sardines) has a quite strong smell and taste. I can easily imagine that it could mask the pungent smell of the croton oil.
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by alephnil 11mo ago
Only if you actually has a system complex enough to require it. A lot of systems that use kubernetes are not complex enough to require it, but use it anyway. In that case kubernetes does indeed add unnecessary complexity.
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by alephnil 1y ago
> 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc The nautical mile is not an SI unit, so it is not defined by a single organization, Your definition used to be the common definition, but it seems like the relevant
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by alephnil 1y ago
Some of the heavy metals are likely from the fire retardant, and some are likely from the fire. Look at zinc vs lead for example. There is little lead in the unused sample vs the environmental samples, thus most of the lead is likely not fr
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by alephnil 2y ago
I don't have a place to upload a screenshot just now, but it's Firefox 135 on Fedora linux 41. What happens is that the squares doesn't stay square like in your screenshot, but varies in size depending on which pieces are in
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by alephnil 2y ago
This does not work in Firefox. The squares get stretched, while the area you can access stays square, so that the lower row is hidden. This makes it impossible to play.
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by alephnil 2y ago
Steel production causes around 8% of the worlds CO2 emissions, so if this is right, this project alone is causing emissions around two thirds of all of the worlds aviation.
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by alephnil 2y ago
Mike Stewart, that is the one with the most in depth knowledge about the AGC on the Curious Marc channel, is also one of the main contributors to this repo, so I guess so.
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by alephnil 3y ago
> You need carbon (coal) to make steel from iron. Carbon in form of coal is currently used for three purposes in steel production: 1) Heat up the ore to high temperatures 2) Reduce iron oxide to iron. 3) Steel is an alloy of iron and car
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by alephnil 3y ago
> This property is more a function of the encoding parameters of the video stream Not really. Formats like mp4 can't be parsed without reading the container header, that may be at the start or end of the file. Thus you can't re
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by alephnil 3y ago
Some funding happens through the university, but an increasingly large part of it is gathered through external grants, most often financed through the government. My understanding is that the author argue that when external grants make up m
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by alephnil 3y ago
The data clearly supported the hole in the middle, and only reconstructions with a hole did fit the data. The data support the hole and that one side is brighter, but not much more than that. Thus a blurred image does not make one believe t
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by alephnil 4y ago
It should be at least one, since I downloaded it, so the counter is broken or delayed.
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by alephnil 4y ago
And they mention this right in the press release. Quote: “The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experiment shows that scientists can get more energy out than put in by the laser itself. This is great progress indeed, but still more is
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by alephnil 4y ago
You saw the same with cars. Back in say 1950, most car owners would know how to do basic maintenance and repairs, both because the cars was mechanically simpler, but also less reliable. With higher reliability and more complex cars, that is
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by alephnil 4y ago
If you use intrinsics, you don't have to deal with the different calling conventions of each operating system, so I have used intrinsics for that reason alone, since I otherwise had to write separate versions for Linux and Windows or h
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by alephnil 4y ago
This will alternate between two different tones, one representing 0 and another representing one, each bit lasting 50 ms, giving a bitrate of 20 bits/s. This is obviously rather slow, so more a fun weekend experiment than a practical t
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by alephnil 4y ago
I have sometimes put my computer in the Iceland time zone for that reason when using dual boot with Linux, since Linux prefer to run UTC on the clock, and the Iceland time zone is UTC+0 with no daylight saving time. Making windows believe i
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by alephnil 5y ago
That is super inefficient, and while it was an industry based on hydropower using the Birkeland-Eyde process before 1910, those factories switched to Haber-Bosch using hydrogen made with electrolysis and electricity from hydropower instead
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by alephnil 5y ago
That some gene is patented does in itself means nothing. At some point in the nineties the patent offices around the world started accepting patents for discovered gene sequences (i.e. sequences read out of some organism). This meant that p
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by alephnil 5y ago
Even if I don't consent to this, it is sufficient that some of my relatives do so to expose information about me. Thus individuals should not even be allowed to give such general consent, as they cannot possible give consent only for t
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by alephnil 5y ago
There was the Rover Jet-1 from 1946. It is exibited (or at least was) at London science museum. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co25218... "When JET 1 was launched, the gas turbine ‘jet’ engin
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by alephnil 5y ago
The reason he was known as Harald Blåtann (Bluetooth) was as mentioned that he had a dead tooth. These are normally black, not blue, but old norse did not distinguish between black and blue, thus the name.
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by alephnil 5y ago
Those robots at least stop at the boundary of the field, unlike fertilizer and pesticides, that run off to the surrounding environment. Such robots are mostly on a prototype stage, and not applied widely in agriculture today, so they are a
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by alephnil 5y ago
The problem is most likely that the moderators do pattern matching for certain key phrases rather than trying to understand its intention. Automatic tools can really only do this. This is very common in moderation and censorship. It's
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by alephnil 5y ago
The design of this is in one sense fascinating. He has essentially thrown out all conventional wisdom of how processors should work, and designed his own system completely from scratch, including the design tools used to design it. If you c
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by alephnil 5y ago
A cancer vaccine would work by priming the immune system to target the proteins that is mutated in the tumor cells, and killing the cells producing them. In fact, the body does this regularly. Cells frequently mutate to divide uncontrollabl

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