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DdCno1

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  • Netflix raises prices as password boost fades

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  • Netflix raises prices as password boost fades

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  • My great uncle (who was 12 at the end of WW2) had to hide from the Soviets for years, caught pneumonia and almost died before he managed to escape over the Iron Curtain. He suffered from serious health complications for the rest of his life. His mother was murdered on the spot, his teenage sister abducted into the Gulag system. She died somewhere in the Ural mountains, never to be heard of or seen again.

    You on the other hand feel smug and smart about yourself by using entry level college vocabulary on a topic you know less than nothing about. There are few people on this planet I detest more than those who are, for whatever reason, carrying water for authoritarians and authoritarian systems.

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  • Swing and miss. I'm not even American. I am from a country that suffered under real-world Communism for decades though.

  • AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing

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  • I was in a different camp back then. Our CRT TV was high quality and produced a very sharp image, especially with the 3D consoles of the '90s hooked up to it through SCART. Similarly, the first CRT monitor I ever owned was an excellent Sony Trinitron with a flat image, no blur, no perceivable scanlines (I used it for a decade, because I was unable to find flat screen displays that came close). That's why I felt absolutely no love for those scanline filters and didn't get their appeal until many years later, when I realized that the art of most '80s and '90s games was intended for highly flawed CRTs. By that point, those simple filters had evolved into complex shaders that are much more accurate too.

    A couple of years ago, I configured PS1 emulator DuckStation into what a fictional (and entirely impossible) "PS1 Pro". Extremely high rendering resolution in the 6K range to remove any hint of jagged edges, with a scanline shader and some carefully tuned bloom on top to simulate the phosphor glow. I kept textures unfiltered, but enabled settings that fix the console's unstable geometry and texture distortion. I then got a modified version of Gran Turismo 2 with enhanced draw distance (and some bug fixes). The effect is remarkable: The original art is preserved, but enhanced, there's remarkable clarity, yet the scanlines and bloom still create the illusion of a high res CRT. It looks amazing.

  • AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing

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  • Exception: Old pixel art that was meant to be smoothed out by blurry CRT monitors and TVs. Yes, I know those are not algorithms, but still.

  • Who wants a stretchable screen?

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  • This could end up working better than foldable devices. No creases to worry about.

  • Meta hit with $840 million EU fine for 'abusive' Facebook Marketplace ad practices

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  • It's a so-called "soft" paywall that doesn't always trigger. It's common for these to engage after a certain number of articles have been read by the same user. Another method is for a paywall to only engage after an article has gained traction, but depending on how users got there (people coming from Google search results are often exempt).

  • Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash

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  • Teslas are among the safest cars on the road by all metrics. It's just that they get the most press out of all EVs, because they are 1) sort of a poster child for electric vehicles due to how influential the Model S was and 2) due to that idiot at the helm of the company receiving constant attention from the press.

  • Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

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  • As such, it raises concerns that AI systems deployed in a real-world situation, say in a driverless car, could malfunction when presented with dynamic environments or tasks.

    This is currently happening with driverless cars that use machine learning - so this goes beyond LLMs and is a general machine learning issue. Last time I checked, Waymo cars needed human intervention every six miles. These cars often times block each other, are confused by the simplest of obstacles, can't reliably detect pedestrians, etc.

  • Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash

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  • It's best to use specialized tools for this. A knife this small is basically useless.

  • Threads might get ads early next year

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  • If you think the type of person who signs up for a Facebook product will flock over to the "real" fediverse the moment they are seeing ads (which they are most likely seeing everywhere else on the Internet, since this kind of low-information user is usually not even aware of the possibility of blocking ads), then I got a bridge to sell to you.

  • Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs

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  • Also wars, future pandemics, any kind of global cooperation that depends on the White House not being a madhouse, which is a lot.

  • Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash

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  • And make sure it comes with a seat belt cutter.

  • Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Instant 'Tourist Magnet' After Breaking Down On Side Of The Road

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  • This paragraph is the most ChatGPT of paragraphs:

    As Tesla continues to refine its products, it's crucial to address these concerns and ensure the reliability of its vehicles. The abandoned Cybertruck incident serves as a reminder that even the most innovative technologies can encounter setbacks, emphasising the importance of rigorous testing and quality assurance.

  • Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Instant 'Tourist Magnet' After Breaking Down On Side Of The Road

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  • After Elon started Elonning

    I'll steal that one. You can have "the Xührer" in return.

  • Starlink's paperwork to enter India under consideration • The Register

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  • I'm guessing they'll comply with India's censorship demands in order to not get locked out of a large and potentially lucrative market. The fact that state governments can also demand ISP follow their own censorship rules might make things a bit more complicated:

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

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  • The Model X is notorious for this. I know a doctor who just had to fix his Model X's suspension for "thousands" (his words). He also complained that you can never ever reach anyone at Tesla, that parts are impossible to get and that you have to expect repair appointments to be pushed back at least a few times, often mere days beforehand.

    At least the batteries seem to last forever, even on his very early Model S, even after hundreds of thousands of kilometers. There's barely any degradation. Then again, this mirrors other EVs, even much cheaper ones without active cooling. EV battery packs usually outlast the cars they are in, which is why there's a thriving market of second-hand batteries that are used for all sorts of applications, from converting normal cars into EVs to storing solar power at night.

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • This reminds me: In countries like Russia and China, it's not unusual for police to just randomly stop people and search their phones, at which point even locally stored data isn't safe anymore. This could happen in America as well.

  • ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?

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  • Except that I know first-hand that German government institutions are already using this exact tool in order to make up for the chronic lack of translators. They are translating texts into languages they don't speak, which means there's no going over the output to correct for mistakes.