pixelfarmer

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by pixelfarmer 10mo ago
> Even Samsung is running into this issue now [...] These large corpos are so greedy to the point they harm themselves. I remember something similar with Amazon, where the Amazon shop had to redo the whole architecture from some microser
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
Which is why humans use tech and tricks to get things done. Gravity Blast is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir_KZNsTNiQ
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
If you have a large set of lets say floats in the range between 0 and 1 and you add them up, there is the straightforward way to do it and there is a way to pair them all up, add the pairs, and repeat that process until you have the final r
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
> It’s like saying sunglasses protect you from the sun It is actually much closer than you think. There are the standard sunglasses and then you have actually rated sunglasses for various purposes. The more extreme the environment, the
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
There can be verification for such things.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
Your spine doesn't care why an ejection happened.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
> the primaries are defined by the display, not by ambient illumination In itself that is correct, but as you've noted, our own vision system isn't operating like that. The same display brightness and colors will be perceived v
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
The problem is that it permeates writing in so many places. For example, games get more and more littered with this sort of nonsense, too. And worse, it is often also used as a vehicle to convey all sorts of ideologies. Many people don&#x27
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
I haven't read the actual paper, but alone from the abstract many questions come up. Personally, I doubt the any "near" to "mid" term population decline will have larger effects on the climate change we are seeing.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
It is like Sim City 1 where crossroads generated traffic, so you'd replace them with parks.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
It can, but it requires the track to be free in front of it and being allowed to go at the required speed to catch up.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
If I look at one of the photography books in my shelf, they are even talking about 18 stops and such for some film material, and how this doesn't translate to paper and all the things that can be done to render it visible in print and
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
There is no system that fulfills your requirements. It is even easy to explain why: Humans are part of all the moving pieces in such a system and they will always subvert it to their own agenda, no matter what rules you put into place. Th
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
I will tell you one example with inheritance: The Linux kernel.
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
Doesn't need video anymore, high end cameras can run wild on taking picture after picture and start doing so before you even fully pressed the shutter, to account for human delays and the ones of the tech itself. I mean we are talking
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
If I see something like "At least on Linux, long and long long are both 64 bits in size." my skin starts to crawl. Not only that, but GCC defines __builtin_popcount() with unsigned int / long / long long, respective, i
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by pixelfarmer 1y ago
So that is how the US is helping with reaching the climate goals ...
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
This has a lot to do with framing in photography, architecture, and all these other things where "design" is involved that humans perceive as pleasing. It also means that not everyone has a knack for that. In return, chances are g
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
> Memory bandwidth. It is the thermal envelope that defines pretty much everything nowadays. Without active management of it chips would die a heat death very fast. Which also means chips are designed with a certain chip external heat ma
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
> Then you'll get code that passes the tests you generate Just recently I think here on HN there was a discussion about how neural networks optimize towards the goal they are given, which in this case means exactly what you wrote, i
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
> Even if the tech freezes in place, I think it will yield substantial economic value in the coming years. The question is, where will this "economic value" be? Because "economic value" and actual progress that helps
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
Neural networks are generalizing things as part of their optimization scheme. The current approach is just to dump many layered neural networks (at the core) as in "deep learning" to solve the problems, but the networks are too re
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
Yeah, it is down to the apps, not the phone as a device as such. Engagement driven software exists on consoles and PCs / laptops as well, and I'm not even talking about "social media" stuff, but pretty much all live serv
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
Over the years I was wondering why management is often so bad to begin with. There are terms like "stupid" that are often used -- I certainly did and still do -- but more often than not the people in question are not really stupid
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
The problem is software, though. I have a X200s with 4 GiB RAM from 2009. It was interesting to see how Firefox got slower and slower over the years. Granted, it not only is Firefox but also retard websites which use loads and loads of JS t
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
Germans have this "StVO" which regulates the rules in traffic and also what happens if you not follow them. Crossing a red light can result in a ticket, no matter whether you are a pedestrian or driving a car. Naturally, doing tha
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
There was a recent article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-c... Seems like the models have quite a few holes. It made me wonder if anyone has considered making
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
I remember looking into Rust for a personal project, on embedded, in 2016. After poking through all of it I decided against doing that because it was clear I'd be spending a lot of time getting Rust working at all instead of doing anyt
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
Youtube link from 7 years ago to give some context about the progress and also "flexibility": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01y6bR6ETpA
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by pixelfarmer 2y ago
PC speaker: - 8088 mph demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y - Area 5150 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDxdoRTZPc - Stormlord (game, 1989): https://www.youtube.com/watch

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