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by zrav 1y ago
Also don't forget one of the promises of RAW: That RAW developers will continue to evolve, so that you'll be able to generate a better conversion down the line than now. Granted, given the maturity of developers the pace of innova
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by zrav 2y ago
> ive said this before but we have min-maxed our economy to optimize for profit. We may be entering the reaping phase of that now. Expanding the scope beyond the economy, one could certainly make the claim that the Age of Consequences is
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by zrav 3y ago
Here a certified flight instructor compares his experience teaching MS Flight Sim users vs DCS users. Anecdotal as it might be, he notes a clear advantage to the DCS users in the areas of situational awareness, intuitive flying skills &
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by zrav 3y ago
See this discussion about the state of native encryption and the linked list of open bugs: https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/is-native-encryption-re...
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by zrav 3y ago
What makes you say zvols are neglected? In fact the people that did most of the work porting ZFS to Linux, i.e. LLNL, use zvols for their HPC cluster and they still employ a number developers and the primary maintainer of ZoL. I also rememb
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by zrav 3y ago
Well said. The movie is powerful enough and the subject relevant enough to still resonate with the younger generation. I do wonder, however, if the older the movie gets, the more distant the imagery from the seventies might intuitively appe
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by zrav 3y ago
I'd say Naqoyqatsi has all the qualities of the first two movies, except in the area of visuals. The score is phenomenal, up there with Glass' best.
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by zrav 4y ago
With minor tweaks LXD works just as well or better for this, with a polished UX.
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by zrav 4y ago
Former unimportant Eve player active 2008-2017, involved in most of the big wars of that time-frame. I met Mittens for the first time in meatspace in 2011, before he built much of his influence and infamy, but the impression I got back then
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by zrav 4y ago
There are many possible reasons for images not looking so sharp. From the top of my head: - When not stopped down, most lenses are not that sharp, especially older ones. - Most sensors employ an anti-aliasing (lowpass) filter that blu
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by zrav 4y ago
No. Light is quantized (photons), as is analog film (emulsion crystals remain clear or turn dark, never in between). Virtually all modern DSLRs and DSLMs have 14 bit sensors, which results in quantization noise below the noise level of the
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by zrav 4y ago
Indeed. A similar thing happened in the HiFi loudspeaker industry: If manufacturers simply pursued higher fidelity they'd converge on flat (on/off-axis) frequency response, near perfect impulse response etc. making them sound more
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by zrav 4y ago
Indeed, for the last two decades the first movement of Soil Festivities has been my go-to track to get me in the zone when I have to get any serious writing going. It just flows so nicely.
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by zrav 4y ago
Yes, it is of course based on the Cyberpunk TTRPG IP, which sets many world building aspects. However if compare the content of the Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG guidebook with what is in 2077 you'll quickly notice the monumental difference in
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by zrav 4y ago
Just as the Witcher games are basically fan fiction paying homage to Sapkowskis books, CP2077 needs to be seen as a homage to many classics of the cyberpunk genre. Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell to name a few obvi
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by zrav 5y ago
Indeed. At $currentJob with 1k employees we use Dell laptops (currently Latitude 74xx series, Precision 75xx and 55xx). The 55 series has been the most problematic by far. The earlier generations broke down so frequently that we had to have
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by zrav 5y ago
So do I! Which is why I absolutely loved the symphonic poem to FF6, especially the arrangement of Kefka's theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uVAD7jliM
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by zrav 5y ago
I tend to agree. But there is another aspect: Sadly the democratization of internet access has lowered the bar across the board in regards to both form and content of discussions in communities. I've been a heavy forum user and occasio
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by zrav 5y ago
... but its an essential feature if you're using the software to run, say, an internal company microblogging service.
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by zrav 5y ago
Moving containers between hosts is not a use case that is well supported by docker. The tenor being that you should rather delete and recreate. While not a replacement for docker, with LXD moving containers between hosts is a single comman
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by zrav 5y ago
Tangentially the same is true for mountain bikes to a degree, and for a reason not mentioned in the article: Wider tires (run with lower pressure) cope better with uneven or soft terrain. This can easily be verified by riding different tire
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by zrav 5y ago
Consider that even before the sun-setting of Atlassians server editions price is one of the main reasons I see for customers wanting to migrate away from Jira (and Confluence for that matter). In 8 years of operation we saw a sixfold increa
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by zrav 5y ago
How do you justify being more expensive than even Jira Cloud? IMO if you can't beat Jira on pricing while positioning yourself as an alternative to the market leader you've already lost, no matter how technically fancy your produc
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by zrav 6y ago
I've spent an afternoon testing zstd's custom dictionaries. It really only provides benefits on small data blocks. According to my tests, the largest blocks at which custom dictionaries could still provide a benefit is 8K, above t
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by zrav 6y ago
RAW naturally doesn't make you a better photographer, but there are clearly benefits that can result in better looking pictures than what the in-camera JPEG conversion is capable of. Not only that, I even see one of RAWs promises fulfi
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by zrav 6y ago
A more personal account: https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...
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by zrav 6y ago
I disagree with everything you said except your last paragraph. Technology is nice but it has yet to lead to a net reduction of our ecological footprint. The fact that we are unsustainably destroying our biosphere is supported by scientific
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by zrav 6y ago
No one is denying that, but that is missing my point. How is population growth a good thing in the context of sustainability? Improvements in efficiency have generally been more than offset by increased productivity and thus (unsustainable)
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by zrav 6y ago
The behavior you describe is essentially inertia-driven, only producing change when it becomes inevitable. And it'll be the reason we won't manage to prevent most of the ecological collapse that is already happening. If we don&#x2
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by zrav 6y ago
Yes, that didn't help of course. JPEG2000 was a bit more efficient than JPEG by virtue of being a newer, more computationally intensive format, not because of wavelets. A modern format like the h.265 derived HEIF still uses DCT/DS

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