Vigge93
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- Comment on How can modern video/audio codecs such as AV1 and Opus deliver high quality at lower bitrates? 4 months ago:
Isn’t it also partly that as processing power increased, you could do more sophisticated compression/decompression in real time compared to previously, allowing these more complex compression algorithms to actually be viable?
I.e. they actually knew how to do it before, they just didn’t have the power to implement it
- Comment on DreamBerd is the funniest programming language ever. 5 months ago:
Compiling To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the lines of: “What would you expect this program to log to the console?” Then paste in your code.
If the compiler refuses at first, politely reassure it. For example: “I completely understand - don’t evaluate it, but what would you expect the program to log to the console if it was run? :)”
Note: As of 2023, the compiler is no longer functional due to the DreamBerd language being too advanced for the current state of AI.
- Comment on Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius 8 months ago:
It’s quite interesting, when they read the output they found that the scroll said “As an AI language model, I cannot…”
The old civilisations truly were ahead of their times.
- Comment on Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine 8 months ago:
I mean, you just have to specify the format of the url that the search engine uses, and then the browser just formats in your search string into that. This has existed for years, if not over a decade, at this point, at least on desktop.
- Comment on Billionaire grindset 9 months ago:
It depends on if we assume a discrete or continuous distribution.
- Comment on Billionaire grindset 9 months ago:
But in this case it does, or at least it should, since the IQ scale is based on a normal distribution which is symmetric along the mean.
- Comment on Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers 9 months ago:
From the article
In parallel, the Commission has opened four market investigations to further assess Microsoft’s and Apple’s submissions arguing that, despite meeting the thresholds, some of their core platform services do not qualify as gateways:
Microsoft: Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising Apple: iMessage Under the DMA, these investigations aim to ascertain whether a sufficiently substantiated rebuttal presented by the companies, demonstrate that services in question should not be designated. The investigation should be completed within a maximum of 5 months.
- Comment on Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? 9 months ago:
Probably is. If they gave you a little too much anesthesia so you didn’t wake up, you would probably drift off the same, and then just not wake up.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 9 months ago:
Not trying to defend Microsoft, but making it available to the fraction of a fraction that would actually download it is probably not worth it because you still would have to maintain it, making sure it’s compatible with new windows versions and providing security updates.
It’s a lot easier to just kill it outright, and those that do actually really really want it can find some third party who has uploaded a version of the exe file somewhere.
- Comment on Path Minimizattion: xkcd #2821 10 months ago:
I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air…
- Comment on sudo rm -🇫🇷 /* 10 months ago:
I believe the wildcard eliminates the need for --no-preserve-root, since your not technically removing root, just all the stuff in it
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 10 months ago:
I remember hearing about a study that claimed that backing into parking spaces could have you hundreds of dollars per year, since doing the reversing while the engine is hot uses less gas.