kderbe

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by kderbe 20d ago
Intel N100 spec sheet [1] says it's limited to 4K@60Hz and this seems confirmed by a few Reddit comments. If you're using the N100 for display output, are you sure you're not running 1440p@120Hz? [1] https://www.in
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by kderbe 3mo ago
This essay says it's not possible to make a public-domain implementation of Opus. But it could be released under BSD (as libopus is), which is fine for games, as evidenced by the Licenses section of the credits in many games.
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by kderbe 3mo ago
In the Hydrogenaudio discussion thread's metrics table, the new encoder scores better than Core Audio. But this is at constant bitrate (CBR) [edit: maybe not? see lesscraft's reply below]. Core Audio also has variable bitrate mode
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by kderbe 4mo ago
PBS NewsHour interviewed one of Check Point's security evangelists this evening to discuss this same report. The discussion is a bit broader in scope than this blog post. https://youtu.be/8bG7J3mjH5s?t=71 (I linked dir
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by kderbe 4mo ago
I would read a follow-up about LimeWire's dynamic query routing. I enjoyed the writing style very much and now I'm reading Rick's other articles on topics that normally wouldn't interest me. Thanks Rick!
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by kderbe 5mo ago
That's my verdict on Stephen's Sausage Roll too. My personal favorite sokoban is Patrick's Parabox (the name is an obvious nod to SSR) because its puzzles have a gentler and finer-grained difficulty ramp.
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by kderbe 8mo ago
The process you describe, of porting the code and polishing the visuals, is for a "remaster". Ubisoft's now-cancelled Sands of Time project was described as a "remake" [1], which generally is a bigger project that k
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by kderbe 8mo ago
Rtings publishes charts in abundance, but the subjective quality of a monitor is more important. For example, a chart will tell you a monitor has low color deviation from sRGB after calibration, but won't tell you that the monitor UI t
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by kderbe 9mo ago
Steve Burke from GamersNexus tested eight games from their benchmark suite on Linux last month. Although his conclusion was generally positive, there were problems with nearly every game: - F1 2024 didn't load due to anti-cheat - Drago
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by kderbe 1y ago
The app I most regret losing in the 64-bit transition is Disney Animated [1]. App Of The Year in 2013, and gone completely a few years later... [1] https://mashable.com/archive/disney-animation-app
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by kderbe 1y ago
I would loosen the memory timings a bit and see if that resolves the ECC errors. x265 performance shouldn't fall since it generally benefits more from memory clock rate than latency. Also, could you share some relevant info about your
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by kderbe 1y ago
Your first link doesn't seem to be about introducing noise, but removing it by averaging the value of multiple captures. The second is to mask quantizer-correlated noise in audio, which I'd compare to spatial masking of banding ar
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by kderbe 1y ago
Grain is independent frame-to-frame. It doesn't move with the objects in the scene (unless the video's already been encoded strangely). So long as the synthesized noise doesn't have an obvious temporal pattern, comparing stil
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by kderbe 1y ago
The article points out the masking effect of grain, which hides the fake-looking compression artifacts, and also the familiarity/nostalgia aspect. But I will offer an additional explanation. Look around you: nearly all surfaces have so
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by kderbe 1y ago
Idle power almost always goes up with higher resolutions and refresh rates [1], and AMD cards typically raise their idle clockspeeds more drastically than Nvidia cards [2] when resolution or refresh rate increases. The OP uses an 8K 60Hz sc
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by kderbe 2y ago
Puffer channel changes are near-instant. https://puffer.stanford.edu/
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by kderbe 2y ago
I clicked because of the bait-y title, but ended up reading pretty much the whole post, even though I have no reason to be interested in ZFS. (I skipped most of the stuff about logs...) Everything was explained clearly, I enjoyed the writin
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by kderbe 2y ago
Chips and Cheese most reminds me of the long gone LostCircuts. Most tech sites focus on the slate of application benchmarks, but C&C writes, and LC wrote, long form articles about architecture, combined with subsystem micro-benchmarks.
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by kderbe 2y ago
2D animation traced over live action is called rotoscoping. Many of Disney's animated movies from the Walt Disney era used rotoscoping, so I don't think it's fair to say it results in poor quality. https://en.wikip
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by kderbe 2y ago
Correction: Itch.io lets developers choose their own revenue split. It's 10% by default but sellers can choose any amount, even 0%. https://itch.io/docs/general/faq#why-buy-on-itchio
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by kderbe 2y ago
Some of these platforms are less closed than others. Steam, for example, will give developers "Steam keys" for free to sell on other platforms or through their own storefront. So a developer can sell on Itch.io which only takes 10
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by kderbe 2y ago
Anyone interested in Caltrain operation should check out the Caltrain HSR blog, https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/ . It's not just about high-speed rail. For example, last week the blog pointed out that the new trains t
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by kderbe 2y ago
iPhone 14's sold in the US do not have a SIM tray. They are eSIM only.
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by kderbe 3y ago
Andrej Karpathy makes this same point, using the same book reference, in his "[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models" video from Nov. 2023. Here is a link to the relevant part of his presentation: https://youtu.be&#x
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by kderbe 3y ago
602K (616,448 bytes) of free conventional memory. I looked it up in the manual ;) It's the only DOS game I played that needed >600K of conventional memory, and I too remember the struggle to free that much.
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by kderbe 3y ago
"Spatial videos are captured in 1080p at 30 frames per second in standard dynamic range." Won't this look extremely soft and stuttery on a Vision Pro? Even on a standard screen these videos will look quite bad compared to the
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by kderbe 3y ago
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-burst-mode-shots... "Tip: You can also press and hold the volume up button to take Burst shots. Go to Settings > Camera, then turn on Use Volume Up for Burst.&q
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by kderbe 3y ago
If this gives you an appetite for more block-breaking, check out Pippin Barr's BREAKSOUT, a collection of 36 wacky variants of Breakout: https://pippinbarr.com/breaksout/info/ See also: https://n
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by kderbe 3y ago
The article disappointed me and did not live up to its "at scale" title. At best it repeats the happy-path official documentation, and where it deviates it's for the worse. I have spent some time administering Redshift. I agr
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by kderbe 3y ago
(2006) In case you, like me, miss the dateline at the top and become more and more puzzled by the arguments and examples presented. I will credit the article for using examples that are still visually appealing today, even (especially?) the

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