Also, we haven’t even got HDR figured out.
I’m still struggling to export some of my older RAWs to HDR. Heck, Lemmy doesn’t support JPEG XL, AVIF, TIFF, HEIF, nothing, so I couldn’t even post them here anyway. And even then, they’d probably only render right in Safari.
8K is theoretically good as “spare resolution,” for instance running variable resolution in games and scaling everything to it, displaying photos with less scaling for better sharpness, clearer text rendering, less flickering, stuff like that.
It’s not worth paying for. Mostly. But maybe some day it will be cheap enough to just “include” with little extra cost, kinda like how 4K TVs or 1440p monitors are cheap now.
…I actually wouldn’t be against this.
But it isn’t even genuine. They’ve forked llama.cpp into a broken clone like about 500 other corporations, instead of just contributing to shit that actually works and is used, and… that’s about it.
That’s about par for the AI industry.
Tech Bro.
That’s the popular term. It’s most often applied to tech billionaires, but it covers those who idolize them, too.
I think my favorite tangential application is when Sam Altman had a meeting with some TSMC executives, and they allegedly dismissed him as a “Podcasting Bro”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html
Who fucking cares?
Credit card companies.
And their ad buyers, maybe.
Depends how much you have to pay attention.
First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.
But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.
One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.
Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.
Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on. And all this is without weights, or with at most like a dumbbell or a pull up bar, and some kind of chair or bed for certain positions.
Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.
Yeah I was being casual, and I’m not an expert by any means.
I bring it up because, for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately. It’s easier on my knees, with no risk of shin splints and less risk of injury than heavy weights.
Come on, you know what I mean. It’s an indicator exerting yourself. Your blood vessels dilate when you’re hot to try and dump the heat, just like they constrict in parts when cold to save it.
Sweat is not a bad thing. It means your heart is pumping; what you want for weight loss.
That being said, I love exercising in cold weather, if you’re somewhere where you get any. Warm up a little inside, go out, and it just feels fantastic.
And that doesn’t just mean running a marathon. It can be calisthenics in a back yard, or garage, or even just walking out to a spot where you can jog.
While I’m here, let me glaze bodyweight exercises, like push ups, squats, kicks, core stuff, and all the variants. Do them in sets, one “group” a day.
It’s amazingly efficient. It gets you out of breath like running, but gets muscles sore like a weight machine, all in less time. And it’s waaay less stressful on your body than running or big weights.
Yeah, I’m not against the idea philosophically. Especially for security. I love the idea of containerized isolation.
But in reality, I can see exactly how much disk space and RAM and CPU and bandwidth they take, heh. Maintainers just can’t help themselves.
The later sounds very plausible.
Ah. Then I don’t know.
Maybe a bigger dev just has more leverage?
Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.
I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.
To be fair, there would be a loooot of nipples on Twitch otherwise. It’d be nipple sea.
Still stupid, though.
It’s why subscribing to YouTube premium within iOS app costs more because Google just makes up the difference that way.
I wish more businesses would do this. If a middleman is taking a cut, make it crystal clear to your customers.
This is my biggest gripe with Steam, for example. Valve can do 30% if they want, but dictating minimum prices on other stores that have nothing to do with Steam is just monopolistic.
And there goes your engagement.
Apples got them, and Apple knows it.
I find the overhead of docker crazy, especially for simpler apps. Like, do I really need 150GB of hard drive space, an extensive poorly documented config, and a whole nested computer running just because some project refuses to fix their dependency hell?
Yet it’s so common. It does feel like usability has gone on the back burner, at least in some sectors of software. And it’s such a relief when I read that some project consolidated dependencies down to C++ or Rust, and it will just run and give me feedback without shipping a whole subcomputer.
I’m extremely enthusiastic about used stuff.
Folks who buy new products will buy them anyway, and it’ll either end up in a landfill or used by someone else. Mind as well use it.
And, think of the opportunity cost. Your fast fashion presumably replaces “budget” new clothes you’d buy instead, which shrinks sweatshop market demand as a whole.
Also:
If you’re feeling guilty about skipping “sustainable” brands, a lot of those are cons anyway. Some are fine, but there’s a good chance you’d just make some lying jerk richer.
For heavens sake, if you like fast fashion, enjoy your passion.
A conspiracy theory of mine is that Putin’s quite aware of Russia’s aging population, and launched the war to capture Ukraine’s comparatively young population/high birthrate.
The age cliff they’re facing is a very real problem. But Putin also has a pretty conspicuous fixation on biological research, genetics, and “ethnic” Russians that all feels eugenics-adjacent: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/28/ethnic-weapons-and-immortality
Anyway, given Russia’s population of 142 million and conscripts mostly being young men, that would, ironically, be a devastating hit Russia’s “demographic health.” And even if the war ends tomorrow, quite terrible for Ukraine, unfortunately :(
Awesome, thanks for the info and source.
Yeah, most of my frustration came from JXL/AVIF/HEIF and how linux/Windows browsers, KDE, and Windows 11 don’t seem to support them well. Not a fan of packing HDR into 8-bits with WebP/JPG, especially with their artifacts, though I haven’t messed with PNG yet.