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Steel-manning the opposing perspective could yield stronger insight in favor of their passion. This would convince people to change their minds more effectively, because most are obsessed in the case of "true SBS" with physical abuse.
I think your original comment just had a ring of "he's selling a book, don't trust his intentions"
Most naggy popups seem to drive users into clicking that highlighted option, and I think this has trained me to consider the dull-coloured choices first.
Microsoft's move intends to confuse users, at least by subverting the usual expectations around privacy nagging.
I'd be interested to hear about the PBR material workflow in the catalogue rendering department! How on earth can you match real life materials at a satisfactory level?
How do manufacturers like IKEA collaborate with professional interior designers/architects these days? Are there even professionals outside IKEA who'd wish to produce photorealistic renders with these models?
Why'd a god be special over any other one?
Most creators upload at 1080p, and YouTube has always given bitrate recommendations to match their service. Even with updated documentation, I'm expecting lots of people using their existing encoding presets for future 1080p uploads that can't benefit from this paywalled upgrade.
Active web browsing requires downloading a crapton of files with wildly different sizes and sporadic timings between them. Add normal user interaction, API requests, ad cycles, long video streams that won't max out all bandwidth, all happening at once across multiple tabs. The client also sends much more data with each TLS handshake and all those HTTP headers.
This could probably be masked by deliberately filling idle periods with garbage data just to appear as a stable data stream both ways.
Would you call it a gift if a visiting neighbour brought a smelly trash bag to your door while screaming at you for "looking like a dead squirrel"? They certainly took the time to carry that leaky bag, think of a sequence of helpful words to tell you, and even risk damaging their vocal cords! They certainly weren't obligated to do so, either. A slap in the face isn't necessarily "a generous act of ancient Egyptian medicinal practice to prevent disease".
We don't have to accept all "gifts" as gifts, so we certainly don't have to call any hurtful garbage as "feedback" in the first place. We don't have obligation to take it as a generous act, either -- wouldn't this make us feel guilty about feeling hurt?
I don't intend to be mean or snarky. Your comment made me think and come up with this sort of "insight".
I really wish online stores utilized this to convey dimensions and material texture better.
They do look surprisingly convincing.
"Deepfake therapy" lets therapists simulate the presence of dead or non-cooperative people [1]. A study showed positive results when sexual violence victims could safely discuss with a deepfaked version of their abuser [2].
[2]: Initial development of perpetrator confrontation using deepfake technology in victims with sexual violence-related PTSD and moral injury: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.8829...
- Representing assistive robots/software with friendly human faces
- Reconstructing the likeness of people with permanent facial injuries when connecting with family
Other, questionably "legitimate", commercial uses are already in production:
- auto-generated corporate training videos
- "Personalized" advertising
I'm hating it already.
I wish Git(Hub|Lab) READMEs could embed asciinema sessions instead of blurry, bulky, un-seekable GIF clips.
Nope.
Aliasing can be eliminated by low-pass filtering (blurring) the input signal before sampling it. This could be done by keeping the background even slightly out of focus, or coating the display.
Unless it's traded away for performance (or style choice), you are experiencing alias-free sound and image processing all day long.
Many internet operators advertise speeds as "1Gb/s" or even "100M". Add in the confusion between 5G and 5 Ghz WiFi.
It's really fascinating seeing this mechanism alive, even in a simple mechanical kitchen timer with plastic gears. When wound up, the balance wheel starts to swing a little and quickly accelerates on each tick.
I think the classic clutch is using `sort | tail` for finding just the largest element among millions of lines.
Wine applications may suffer from extra latency (40+ ms) when using ALSA directly, because Wine's ALSA driver uses hidden additional buffers. Using WineASIO with Jack will get around this, but setup can be painful.
Obviously, they want to add their own telemetry, advertisements, and "helpful suggestions" like this.
Yesterday, 2022-03-01 at roughly 09:00 UTC, I was completely blocked from accessing my bank account. Eight hours later, at roughly 17:00 UTC, it took me several attempts, each loading for over a minute, until I gained access to my account. "Normal" issues fail immediately, so this time felt completely different.
The YLE news article stated that this was indeed a DoS attack, and I think it's been years since a Finnish bank was targeted.
> I’m actually not 100% sure why this happens (and sometimes doesn’t), but it’s an artifact of the rasterization process when text is rendered to screen.
This is a brilliant technique called subpixel rendering.[0] A "typical" computer screen's pixels are split into three columns of red, green and blue, instead of lighting up as a solid square. Using color fringing at non-pixel-aligned edges of characters can effectively triple the perceived horizontal resolution.
Wrong assumptions about the pixel layout will show up very badly, as shown in [1]. HiDPI displays (also mobile, not just 4K) get no real benefit from this and usually have a more complex subpixel layout anyway. I remember seeing old iPads usually showing awful fringes as subpixel rendering was enabled without considering the actual orientation of the display.
Reading the article was indeed surprising and depressing - it certainly is a plausible scenario! The question is: is such a disfigured desktop experience an acceptable result, given that the physical hardware enables much, much more productivity?
To me, the whole ordeal screams: software bloat, software misconfiguration, background service overload. You could snappily send mail 15 years ago, and the computational task itself hasn't grown much, besides bloated browser login windows.
Try booting a 2 GB RAM machine to some RAM-preloading Linux thumbdrive and you'll see why the problem is not "spinning rust HDDs" and "only 4 GB RAM"