AdrianTheFrog

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Computers are still advancing roughly exponentially, as they have been for the last 40 years (Moore's law). AI is being carried with that and still making many occasional gains on top of that. The thing with exponential growth is that it doesn't necessarily need to feel fast. It's always growing at the same rate percentage wise, definitionally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

People estimate ~100 million, which is still a lot. Of course it's worth noting that they weren't attempting to launch a payload or really recover much of anything, so the only real cost of failure is that they might need to launch more test flights later than they otherwise would have had to.

Apparently estimated total development costs are probably a bit less than half of the Artemis program cost, although the Artemis program has actually developed a fully functional and reliable rocket by now. So it's hard to say if SpaceX's development method will be cheaper in the long run. (Discounting the later manufacturing costs because I don't see any reason why a more ULA, Blue Origin, or NASA-like development process wouldn't still be capable of producing a cheap rocket if that was the focus)

Honestly losing to the US military industrial complex in development cost would be pretty embarrassing. (Congress makes NASA use all the MIC suppliers for their rockets)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

lol I had no idea they use H in some places

it seems a little weird but I guess the exact placement of letters isn't really all that impactful when you aren't in c major anyways (where the alphabet would correspond to a scale)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the luxcore render plugin has much faster converging caustics (does some photon mapping/bidirectional stuff iirc)

It's also open source!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You're still perfectly visible in shadows and reflections. Anyone who catches you in a mirror will see you completely naked.

Ambient light occlusion counts too, the area covered by your feet looks perfectly black.

Edit: You can create this scenario pretty easily in Blender. Here's what it might look like:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Is that a term people use to describe eating in real life? Not just Minecraft?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The ice created has an index of refraction of 1 and extremely low surface reflectivity. It is almost impossible to see and can appear anywhere within 5 meters of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Does a capacitor count?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Implying he isn't right wing anymore, or just not openly?

I agree with most of the stuff he says, he just doesn't seem very nuanced and I find the angry tone slightly off-putting. I like NJB tho, probably because he's just sarcastic at some points for effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's for transferring pictures over the wifi network or a local wifi network that the camera is hosting. If you have the SD card plugged in, there's absolutely no reason to use the app instead of your phone's file manager. I don't even think the app will recognize an SD card, but I don't really know. It might recognize a plugged in camera, but it doesn't advertise that and I've never tried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's not really anything you need the app for. It can remote control the camera with a live feed, which is cool but not all that useful, at least for me. It can also transfer images and videos, but I'm not sure it does the videos at full resolution, at least in my camera. For all practical purposes it's just a little less useful than carrying a USB C SD card reader around with your camera that you can plug into your phone (because it also takes a good minute to connect usually, but my only datapoint is a camera from 2014 so they might have improved it since then)

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double slit rule (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

What New York might look like with a double slit as your camera aperture.

Original picture:

Double slit kernel:

What an eye might see, for comparison:

Here's a different, big double slit:

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rust rule (lemmy.world)
 

in the new minecraft april fools snapshot

it makes your gear degrade quicker with damage

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pi rule (lemmy.world)
 
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

With the smaller 14b model (q4_k_m), just letting it complete the text starting with "why do I"

edit: bonus, completely nonsensical (?) starting with "I don't" (what could possibly be causing it to say this?)

 

I was thinking about how hard it is to accurately determine whether a screenshot posted online is real or not. I'm thinking there could be an option in the browser to take a "secure screenshot", which would tag the screenshot with the date, url, and whether the page was modified on your computer. It could then hash both the tag and the image data and automatically upload this hash to some secure server somehow. There would need to be a way to guarantee that only the browser could do this, or at least some way to tell exactly what the source was. I'm not much of a cryptography person, but I would be surprised if it isn't possible to do this. Then, you could check if the screenshot you see is legitimate by seeing if it's hash exists in the list of real hashes.

 

mitosis or some such

 

I'm sure everyone's fine with this

 

reference image if you have no idea what I'm talking about:

I know this is a minor nitpick, but it's something that annoys me.

I got this graphics card mostly because it was the best deal on Amazon at the time (gpu shortage), and I also thought it looked decent from the images they had. However, when I actually installed it, all I see is the relatively unattractive looking black metal backplate with some white text. The other side is always the side shown in the promotional images too - not a single one of the pictures in the Amazon listing even shows the side that you'll be seeing 99.9% of the time. Do they think everyone hangs their PCs above them from the ceiling, or has open-air testbenches? Why do they never even bother with the other side? I know they want the fans on the bottom so the cooling is better, but the air in front of the CPU shouldn't be that bad, a lot of cheaper GPUs don't need that much cooling, and a ton of people have watercooling now anyways so the CPU radiators just go on the sides.

 

my reasoning: the actual colors we can see -> the wavelengths that we can extrapolate to -> basically extrapolated wavelengths plus an 'unpure-ness' factor -> not even real wavelengths (ok well king blue and maybe lavender if I'm being generous could be)

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... rule (lemmy.world)
 

Just 3% less votes than Jill Stein, and he dropped out 3 months ago

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've often seen this sort of thing in videos advertising GI in minecraft shaders, and tried it out in blender.

 

This is at JFK, does anyone know what they are used for? There wasn’t an obvious time when it was taking a picture.

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