leguminous

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by leguminous 8mo ago
I disagree. There are some new (sub-) genres and great games since that period. * Roguelites have proliferated: Hades is the most obvious example, but there are a variety of sub-genres at this point. * Vampire Survivors (itself a roguelite)
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by leguminous 8mo ago
What is the advantage over blue noise? I've had very good results with a 64x64 blue noise texture and it's pretty fast on a modern GPU. Are quasirandom sequences faster or better quality? (There's no TAA in my use case, so th
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by leguminous 8mo ago
At some point, most NTSC TVs had delay lines, too. A comb filter was commonly used for separating the chroma from the luma, taking advantage of the chroma phase being flipped each line. Sophisticated comb filters would have multiple delay l
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by leguminous 8mo ago
I think they are more accessible now than when that article was written. My wife and I bought a mid-trim Hyundai Kona Electric for under $35,000. Besides, lots of people buy used cars, and there are crazy deals on used EVs. I've seen B
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by leguminous 9mo ago
> For example, 720 is tied to 13.5 Mhz because sampling the active picture area of an analog video scanline at 13.5 MHz generates 1440 samples (double per-Nyquist). I don't think you need to be doubling here. Sampling at 13.5 MHz ge
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by leguminous 9mo ago
CRTs didn't have pixels at all. They had shadow masks (or aperture grilles) and phosphors, which could be a triad of rectangles, lines spanning basically the entire screen height, or dots. They did not line up with the signal, so it do
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by leguminous 9mo ago
Aerated concrete is an established building material in some parts of the world. In Europe, a big manufacturer is Ytong, and they even make precast panels in addition to blocks. It's made differently from this, though. It is aerated th
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by leguminous 11mo ago
If you look at the Steam hardware survey, most users (as in, > 50%) are still using 1080p or below. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
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by leguminous 1y ago
The EPA estimates that radon[1] is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. I have a RadonEye monitor in the basement. They aren't that expensive and it's nice to have the piece of mind. [1] https://www.ep
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by leguminous 1y ago
CCCP was just a collection of existing codecs, they didn't develop their own. Most of the codecs in CCCP were patented. Using it without licenses was technically patent infringement in most places. It's just that nobody ever cared
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by leguminous 1y ago
I've been vegetarian for a long time and I still think Beyond burgers are great. I have a pack of them from Costco in the freezer. I like black bean burgers, too, but Beyond burgers taste like my (distant) memory of a "normal&quot
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by leguminous 1y ago
> Nobody is out there policing flicker rates. Actually, Energy Star and California's Title 24 have flicker standards. They may not go as far as some people like, but you can look for these certifications to know that a bulb at least
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by leguminous 1y ago
As far as I know, that's only support for the container format. You can't actually decode HEIC without also installing libde265, which you are supposed to have a license for. I'm not even sure how you'd go about gettin
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by leguminous 1y ago
On my 8-bit-per-channel monitor, I can easily see banding, though it is mostly obvious in the darker areas in a darkened room. Where this commonly manifests itself is "bloom" from a light object on a dark background. I can no long
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by leguminous 1y ago
What book was it?
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by leguminous 1y ago
Some amount of vertical blending often occurred because scanlines tapered off in brightness, bleeding into the next scanline. For example, if the electron beam spot has a two dimensional gaussian profile, then the vertical profile of a scan
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by leguminous 1y ago
The half pixel offset makes sense, though. If you have two textures, you want the edges to align, not the centers of the pixels. See, for example: https://bartwronski.com/2021/02/15/bilinear-down-upsampling-..
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by leguminous 1y ago
When my wife had some minor surgery (not fully anesthetized), there was a nurse present who counted all of the sponges, etc. that were used, then made sure there were that many on the tray at the end. They didn't match up, and it turne
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by leguminous 1y ago
Part of the reason the US government needs to use consultants is because they can't actually pay enough to hire senior developers directly due to the constraints imposed by the GS pay scales. Often times the top levels of the pay scale
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by leguminous 1y ago
Some US states require lead screening (blood tests) for babies and toddlers. In that case they are covered by insurance. My son has been tested once so far.
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by leguminous 2y ago
Using `mix()` isn't necessarily bad. Using boolean operations like `lessThan()` is probably better than `step()`. I just tested two ways of converting linear RGB to sRGB. On AMD, they compile to the same assembly. Method 1. float
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by leguminous 2y ago
Those high COPs are probably for relatively small temperature deltas. Heat pumps get _less_ efficient when the temperature deltas are larger. See page 18 of the manual linked below for an example. As the temperature gets lower, the heating
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by leguminous 2y ago
This is a good point that I had not considered, and I will add a few additional thoughts: * In cold weather, solar heat gain can work in your favor as well. Much of the effect will depend on the orientation, shading, and properties of your
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by leguminous 2y ago
> What's the average monthly leccy bill in Phoenix during the summer? $400? The average high temperature in Phoenix in July is 106.5F (41.4C). If you are cooling to 70.0F (21.1C), that's a difference of 36.5F (20.3C). The avera
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by leguminous 2y ago
That sounds like bufferbloat[1]. You can usually address that by using a router that supports active queue management, but it's a little esoteric. Newer versions of DOCSIS also specify support for simple active queue management on the
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by leguminous 2y ago
I live in the US and I just counted 65 visible APs on 5GHz. The DFS channels aren't usable in this area, so almost all of those are trying to share the same 2 80MHz channels.
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by leguminous 2y ago
I have done something like this with a Lanczos kernel (a=1) downsizing repeatedly by 2x, a small Gaussian kernel, and then repeatedly upsizing by 2x with simple hardware bilinear sampling. The (2D) Lanczos downsizing can be done with only f
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by leguminous 2y ago
I assume that, if you aren't being sarcastic, you're European? Or at least not American? You're currently down voted, but many Americans probably don't realize that some countries don't allow vented dryers. Vented d
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by leguminous 2y ago
I was using Taichi recently to prototype some fragment shaders (I just mocked out texelFetch, texture, etc and wrote a for loop over each pixel). I found it convenient to be able to run on the CPU and also not have to deal with any OpenGL o
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by leguminous 3y ago
From the same site as this air purifier article: "The case against ultrasonic humidifiers." https://dynomight.net/humidifiers/

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