MarioMan

I've been using a professional camera (Sony A7C) for a bit over two years now, and my wishlist looks very different than yours.

- Modern computational photography: Imagine having access to a high-end sensor combined modern computational photography tooling. Smartphones do incredible things with computational photography, including HDR, low light stacking, noise reduction, upscaling, and picking out smiling faces from multiple photos. Most of these things can be done in post on a professional camera with tools like Photoshop, but often they are inferior, using a single image to worse affect, requiring a lot of manual work, or just having less mature tooling. I'd love to have access to the raw data and computational pipelines to selectively apply different processing and tweak computational settings in post.

- Better UI: Sony notoriously has a terrible UI in their camera menu systems. Working with it feels like something I would've used on a flip-phone from 20 years ago, with things buried multiple levels down in obscure menus and vague, sometimes poorly translated descriptions. The hardware is great, but the GUI feels like something built by engineers rather than for end-users.

OpenAI provides a tokenizer tool: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Thanks for this. I was looking through my subscriptions, and this one slipped past me.

For anyone looking for more of this, there are several channels that are all pushing LEGO Technic to its limits, not just Brick Technology (https://www.youtube.com/@BrickTechnology).

Some of my other favorites in this niche include:

Brick Experiment Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BrickExperimentChannel

Dr. Engine: https://www.youtube.com/@DrEngine

Brick Machines: https://www.youtube.com/@BrickMachinesChannel

Jamie's Brick Jams: https://www.youtube.com/@JamiesBrickJams

Build it with Bricks: https://www.youtube.com/@BuilditwithBricks

GazR's Extreme Brick Machines!: https://www.youtube.com/@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines

While some companies filter against this, most email services support plus addressing to accomplish the same thing. You can register under myemail+foobar.com@gmail.com, for instance, and all emails will still be delivered to myemail@gmail.com

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-in-exc...

Agreed. My thought on this enabling a "budget" option is that you can get the look of an expensive, multi-light studio with just a single speedlight and a lot of compositing.

This is basically how product photography works if you’re on a budget. You keep the camera fixed in place but adjust the lighting between shots. Then, in post, choose your favorite components of each image and composite them together in Photoshop. I like watching a YouTube channel called “workphlo” that does this. The core process is the same for all of the items, but it’s quite enjoyable to see him vary the techniques.

https://youtube.com/@workphlo

That’s how Elevenlabs voice cloning works. They put the onus on the person making the clone to have gotten consent.

https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning

Disconnect the antenna or the whole modem itself.

It doesn’t look Apple Vision optimized, but this barebones app is free while also running local LLMs on VisionOS, iOS, and iPadOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937 I’ve messed with it mostly out of curiosity to see how fast Apple silicon can run inference on mobile.

This is exactly what the ruling is doing. It is explicit confirmation that it was already illegal under existing law.

One week signing is free with an Apple ID. It's the way tools such as AltStore function.

I prefer a nondestructive approach. I set up an ATTINY85 clone to serve as a DIY USB adapter. Just solder a controller extension cable to the microcontroller to donate the right port, and you have everything you need. You have enough GPIO pins and the requisite 5v logic to make it a great fit. Mine was made for NES controllers, but it uses the same shift logic as the SNES controller, just with fewer buttons.

>We should simply have a well in the dashboard with replaceable inserts that snap in to accommodate different-sized phone models, which would connect to the audio system and power. But no... we still have phones bouncing around in the cabin or attached to hokey third-party claws, and janky-ass Bluetooth which (how many years in now?) can't handle simple music playback reliably.

I've been using Brodit/ProClip USA mounts to solve this. They sell holders designed specifically for your model of phone which attaches to a custom-fit mount for your car's make and model. It's pricy, at about $75 for a holder-mount combo, when cheap Amazon alternatives are closer to $10, but it overcomes a lot of the problems you list. I use it regularly for navigation, since my car doesn't support CarPlay or Android Auto.

Once you have loaded the page, paste exactly the following into the address bar:

javascript:Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("strong")).forEach(strong => strong.style = "font-weight: normal;")

Safari will refuse and give an error pop up. Chrome will remove “javascript:” from the beginning if you paste, to prevent users from accidentally running arbitrary JS. You can type it back in by hand, and then it will work.

In this context, High Performance Computing (HPC) refers to a computing paradigm where high-performance computers work on a distributed problem (e.g., supercomputers), not the actual performance of this code generator. All it means here is that it generates parallel, distributed code intended for use by HPC platforms.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing

Waze supports this situation and more via the “Reduce difficult intersections” toggle: https://support.google.com/waze/answer/7666303

It’s apparently used to apply an additional routing penalty for “difficult intersections”, assigned by map editors, which provides a robust way to avoid these situations, including difficult left turns: https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/ffypgb/avoid_difficul...

I have been using ExplorerPatcher ever since I jumped to 11. It lets me choose my favorite unholy blend of both Windows 10 and Windows 11 task bars.

There's no need to be quite so adversarial in this case though. The methodology is explained by the report:

> A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training; for each exam we run a variant with these questions removed and report the lower score of the two. We believe the results to be representative. For further details on contamination (methodology and per-exam statistics), see Appendix C.

On a related note, Kaze has done a deep dive into optimizing the Super Mario 64 source code for his ROM hacks. Here’s one of his more popular videos on the subject: https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE

>The pans are specially designed to contain a heating coil in them which implicitly is closer to your food.

Just to note, you don’t need special pans to use an inductive stove. Any magnetic cookware will do, which includes cast iron and most stainless steel. As an intuitive rule of thumb, if a magnet will stick to the bottom, then it’s compatible.

I had the reverse experience. I owned an Xbox 360 and recently picked up a PS3. The PS3 menu is unbelievably snappy by comparison. It’s really hard to go back now, but the Xbox 360 dashboard had always seemed fast enough at the time.

If the copyright makes more money than it costs to maintain, then it is financially viable. I often see this approach proposed alongside a renewal fee that rises each time it is renewed, so that works will eventually become too expensive to maintain copyright on and thus aren't held in perpetuity.

> I don't know who to trust anymore: cheaper variants are likely to be those counterfeits with hacked metadata that advertise having 4-10x the capacity they have[0], and more expensive ones are a crapshoot wrt. performance.

You can validate flash media with f3[1] on Linux/Mac or H2testw on Windows. These tools will fill up the drive with data, then verify that it all reads back properly. This ensures the drive meets the rated capacity and doubles as a sequential read/write test.

1: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

For those that didn't get the joke (like myself), the IEC 60417-5009 standard describes the power button icon shape, with a line partially within a broken circle.

I didn't realize it was this bad, but Wikipedia lists 7 different GTX 1060 chip revisions with 3, 5, and 6 GB variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

In the case of static sites, it can be as simple as copying the latest version to a new server and updating your DNS records. I would try to avoid lock-in not only for the reasons you stated but also to be able to freely shop around for better options at any point.

>You paid a subscription for the benefit of being able to buy games on the platform, with you couldn’t access without the subscription.

This was only true during the first five months of release, when you had to buy the Founder's Edition, which came with hardware to access the service. All purchased games can be accessed without the subscription via Stadia Base, and they planned it this way from the start[1]. Stadia Pro primarily provides the perk of running games on better cloud hardware, providing a 4K HDR surround sound stream instead of the baseline 1080p stereo stream.

1: https://blog.google/products/stadia/summer-announcement/

4K 120hz is merely the limit of the HDMI standard used on the Series X. It is not a hard requirement needed to publish on the platform. This would be akin to claiming that the PS3 was a 1080p 60Hz console, when the vast majority of the library managed closer to 720p 30hz.

While developers are free to make 4K 120hz their target, few games attempt it, and the ones that do, often make significant graphical compromises or are graphically undemanding to begin with.

>the price of a modern GPU alone buys you a whole stand-alone gaming console today.

This has been true for as long as I’ve seen. Mid-range GPUs have historically tended to cost about as much as whole consoles. Pascal, one of the most well-received lines in terms of pricing, sold the GTX 1070 for $400 MSRP, the same price as buying a whole PS4. These new prices being the equivalent of buying two whole machines is what’s truly intense.