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I love the note regarding the rearview mirror being an actual, you know, mirror.

A friend was teasing me the other day for using my mirrors while I backed up, ignoring the various screens and camera feeds dotting the dash. I reminded him that photons impinging my eyes reflected off the material world at the diffraction limit of the visible spectrum remain much higher fidelity than some shitty parts-bin screens.

Plus those rearview screens are always horribly bright. You know what has infinite levels of dynamic brightness? Light bouncing off a planar reflector.

So much of modern cars is cost savings and poor design decisions dressed up in the name of modern - but ultimately resulting in UX worse than an early 2000s Honda.

That’s great, unfortunately it is quite rare for CS undergrad programs in the US to require the basic engineering and science classes the other engineering/science majors require.

It is funny, almost as funny as an entire cadre of people with “engineer” in their title who've never had to draw a free body diagram, learn circuit analysis, understand the basics of thermodynamics, or the mechanics of materials.

She dedicated it to Trump

It’s crude, but you can overcome the degraded quality imparted by gpu accelerated encoding by specifying a higher video bitrate.

Find a complex short scene in your cpu encoded video, extract it, ffprobe it to get average video bitrate, and take the same clip in raw and try gpu accelerated encoding at +20% bitrate. From there, iterate.

For a friend’s use-case that I helped with, +30% video bitrate bump overcame the degraded vquality.

Edit: strangely enough, if memory serves, after the correcting +30% was applied the actual ffprobe bitrates between the videos were very similar, maybe a 10% or less difference. Someone smarter than me can work that logic out.

AnandTech was one of the websites that helped me as a child. I found it around 2002, and the clear-headed manner in which it discussed chip fabrication, function, lithography and the associated engineering and scientific foundations of them - as well as general concepts of bios, motherboard, chipsets, slots, bandwidth etc - helped foster a curiosity and familiarity with electronic hardware that has served me well for my whole life.

It helped me dream larger than my surroundings; which in turn helped me get out of an unstable home, poverty, and a dead-end town. I was sad when [H]ardOCP went down, but this hits different.

fyi, if you're uncertain in the single-digits place, you have no precision in the tenths place. for experimental uncertainty, it's always one sigfig

On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements

You shouldn’t approach it from such a detached, cynical angle. The import is as if the OSI embedded senior agents in the postal system during the labor unrest in the US during the 1910s-20s, and the FBI in Ma Bell during the second red scare in the 40s-50s.

The possibility for gatekeeping primary modes of information exchange is quite real, and quite worrying.

this article reads like it was written by a LLM

"Anyway, we all already know this because we all experience human life in 2023."

there it is! enough arm-chair theorizing by computer "scientists", an actual material scientists! or condensed matter physicist, or crystallographic expert, or inorganic chemist...