frooxie

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by frooxie 2y ago
An RTX 5090 is nowhere near enough if you want to play graphically demanding games on the latest high-resolution VR headsets. Many are close to 4k*4k per eye, so essentially an 8k screen that needs to run at a stable 90 fps not to cause nau
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by frooxie 4y ago
I didn't know that there were countries that required that. Can you give me a few examples?
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by frooxie 5y ago
It looks like dry humor to me.
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by frooxie 6y ago
> dedicated cameras have mainly been innovating in video production rather than stills in the last 5 years. Well, not Sony. Their mirrorless cameras have gotten much better autofocus and battery life and slightly better ergonomics, usabi
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by frooxie 6y ago
Before I introduce a new game, I start by watching a video, reading the rulebook, playing a couple of games against myself, and then practicing and refining a script so I can teach it as effectively as possible. It's a lot of work, but
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by frooxie 6y ago
Two petabytes, according to PC Gamer.
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by frooxie 7y ago
> It has absolutely nothing to do with pas as in a step. "Pas" as in the negation originally came from "pas" as in a step, through expressions like "I will not walk another step".
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by frooxie 7y ago
According to NATO's 2018 report, Estonia was one of only six NATO countries (out of 29) that met the goal of dedicating 2% of their GDP to defense. Not that dedicating 100% would stop Russia if they wanted to invade.
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by frooxie 7y ago
> High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism I wonder how this fits with the "extreme male brain theory of autism".
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by frooxie 7y ago
After 30 years in IT, I've never once seen anyone use a Mac for anything business-related, much less programming. That is not an exaggeration. (At my current company, we're using 75% Windows, 25% Linux.)
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by frooxie 8y ago
You seem to be literally saying that harassment is necessary when developing operating systems. Is that your intention?
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by frooxie 8y ago
> Why on earth would they not use their own platform to present their content? I know one of them personally, and I think in her case, she may have had a few hundred people following her art blog, while on Instagram, she quickly amassed
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by frooxie 8y ago
A few years ago, my favorite writers and artists had personal blogs. Today, many of them have moved to Instagram, Twitter and/or Facebook, making them inconvenient or impossible to follow using RSS. Apart from the migration to walled g
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by frooxie 9y ago
Do you have any books to recommend for people who aren't interested in learning in-depth about historical linguistics, but like reading about the sort of interesting trivia found in the Tumblr post?
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by frooxie 9y ago
English used to have a four-form system, where yes and no were the responses to a question posed in the negative, whereas yea and nay were the responses to positively framed questions. I know German has "ja" and "doch" a
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by frooxie 9y ago
I'm on 54, probably forever as there's no response from the developer of the RSS addon I use. (I tried 15 of the most popular alternatives, and didn't like a single one, so Firefox 54 it is.)
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by frooxie 9y ago
I really like the original Lee/Kirby comics (and Byrne's run in a similar style), and I'd love to see movies that were true to the best parts of those comics. The only good FF movie we've gotten so far was called The Inc
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by frooxie 9y ago
> Not sure what you mean. I mean that e.g. if we create a machine that can solve every thinking-related problem that humans can solve, then we can be certain that we have created artificial intelligence. But how are we supposed to ascert
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by frooxie 9y ago
We understand what intelligence is better than we understand what consciousness is. "Artificial Consciousness" would be the vague term.
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by frooxie 9y ago
According to the book "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism", countries become hardworking and disciplined because of economic development, rather than the other way around. A long but intere
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by frooxie 9y ago
A similar thing happens with comics; The New York Times's review of Art Spiegelman's WWII memoir "Maus" started with the line "Maus is not a comic". This was meant as praise, because "obviously", if i
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by frooxie 9y ago
How about if I draw 7000 sketches or drawings in a year? How would that be "bulk registered"?
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by frooxie 9y ago
If we tell people the dangerous false idea that hard work is the main factor that makes someone rich or successful, we could end up with a terrible society where the rich feel they have no responsibility to help the less fortunate (by e.g.
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by frooxie 10y ago
A weird detail is the Chinese transliteration of "karaoke":卡拉ＯＫ. It starts out with two Chinese characters pronounced "ka" and "la", and then tacks on the English "OK": ka-la-OK. So the English word &
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by frooxie 10y ago
Here's another paper, "Learning Styles - Concepts and Evidence": http://psi.sagepub.com/content/9/3/105.abstract I quote: "Although the literature on learning styles is enormous, very few
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by frooxie 10y ago
Also, even if every law was made in accordance with some perfect ethical system (whatever that would be), problems remain: 1. You can still do unethical things that are too small or too big for laws to handle. It's perfectly legal to c
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by frooxie 10y ago
31/40, but when I'm asked to visualize something I don't immediately conjure up a detailed picture, it's more like a cursor going over a scene and adding details as needed. For instance, until I was asked to "Rate h
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by frooxie 10y ago
> I thought the "neutral inner voice" was universal. For me, most of the time, I don't have any kind of inner voice. I don't usually think in words; thinking is more like combining abstract symbols/feelings/
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by frooxie 10y ago
I think this post from 2009 is where I learned that there's a large variation in people's ability to form mental imagery: http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/ Maybe you'd f
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by frooxie 10y ago
> Look at any picture of a person using the Oculus Rift. How does it make you feel? Envious that I don't have one.

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