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ztjio commented on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me   vladimir.varank.in/notes/... · Posted by u/varankinv
tasuki · 18 days ago
Not really whole. COVID was at best like a quarter pandemic.
ztjio · 18 days ago
Stow the propaganda. 1) it's not over, the pandemic continues and will likely continue for a long time 2) it's already the fifth deadliest pandemic in known history. "Quarter pandemic" is an insane thing to think let alone say out loud.
ztjio commented on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub   forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki... · Posted by u/trms
DeusExMachina · a month ago
I also use it every day. It does its job, but it has many usability issues that make it less than ideal.

For example, copy and paste retains the text color (probably by design). So, sometimes I get black text on a black background, when the app is in dark mode.

The editing process to remove the formatting is pretty annoying.

It takes me time to find the edit button, which is buried in the menu but prominent in the desktop version. Then, I have to toggle the HTML mode and delete the retained tags, which on a phone takes time. The desktop version, instead, has a button to remove all formatting.

ztjio · a month ago
Try pasting into an app/textbox that doesn't support any formatting then copy/paste from there.
ztjio commented on Scott Adams has died   youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo
hexer292 · 2 months ago
Moral distance is an interesting concept, because it implies two acts are comparable at some level.

If someone cured cancer, do you think they couldn't be tried for murder?

ztjio · 2 months ago
No? I don't see how you arrived at that, it seems entirely non-sequitur. I guess you deeply misunderstood what I meant by "moral distance." I'm simply trying to give a name to the idea that there isn't just a binary good vs. bad, and that some things are vastly worse than others. You might choose to represent it on a simple scale where bad is in the negative and good in the positive. In such a case, moral distance would be the distance between the two points on that scale. That's all. This representation would have no impact on whether a single individual can do things that exist on polar opposites of such a scale.

In the context of my comment the point is more about the distance between saying something rude and killing someone, it would be a large distance despite both being negative, and the tolerance levels would likely start somewhere in the negative side of the scale, though in reality you're going to be dealing with much more complex perceptions of good vs. bad behavior and social tolerance of it. But when you compare to the law that's going to have more of a concrete boundary. But it's still not 0 on this scale.

ztjio commented on Scott Adams has died   youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo
hexer292 · 2 months ago
> You can save thousands of people, but murdering someone still should mean a life sentence.

I've struggled with this point of view since my early teens, and possibly even earlier. There is no amount of good one can do to compensate for even the slightest misdeed.

As much as I may agree, however, it's probably the most damaging and destructive moral framework you can possibly have, because it just consumes anything positive.

ztjio · 2 months ago
This is pure nonsense. The moral distance between a good deed and the level of bad deed that receives a meaningful penalty, socially (e.g. felonies) is enormous and there is plenty of fungibility of good vs. bad actions in that space.

That said, it is strange to even consider being good, which is generally a rather easy thing to be, to be some kind of task you should be paid for even virtually. Being basically good is the trivial cost to avoid becoming anti-social. Why should a social group even tolerate you otherwise? With that in mind, as mentioned before, I think you'll find that social groups are highly tolerant of many misdeeds.

ztjio commented on Switch off bad TV settings   practicalbetterments.com/... · Posted by u/DitheringIdiot
pipes · 2 years ago
Yeah I'm finding film maker mode way too dark on my Samsung oled.

I can't find any explanation of how it actually works. Does a each movie get different settings set up by the director?! Doubt it.

ztjio · 2 years ago
It's dark because OLED are not bright at all. Anything brighter than the filmmaker mode is modifying the source image to achieve it, or alternatively driving the pixels in a way that loses color accuracy.

If you care about film and getting the closest result to what the actual thing is supposed to look like you're going to need to couple correct settings with a light controlled room for best results. Or don't use OLED, because, it simply can't achieve the brightness of cinema projection, not even close.

Personally I like the results of a 120hz OLED so much better than other options that I strongly favor a light controlled space for movie watching. For lower grade junk it's usually easy enough to swap to another viewing preset that is brighter.

ztjio commented on Switch off bad TV settings   practicalbetterments.com/... · Posted by u/DitheringIdiot
ryaneager · 2 years ago
I treat the configuration settings from www.rtings.com as the Lord’s word.
ztjio · 2 years ago
They're pretty good but when it comes to things like color, that can vary from panel to panel so you might actually end up with something worse. That said, I'd start there and if there's any question about the result you should just buy or rent a calibration tool.
ztjio commented on Switch off bad TV settings   practicalbetterments.com/... · Posted by u/DitheringIdiot
grishka · 2 years ago
I don't know if it carried over into 4K TVs, but I'm surprised that the dreaded HDMI overscan isn't mentioned anywhere. I'll never understand WHY and HOW someone thought that implementing this at all, let alone making it the default, is a good idea. You had one job, accept a 1080p signal and output it pixel-perfectly to the 1080p display panel. Yet somehow, someone thought that it would be a great idea to cut off the edges of the image and interpolate it so everything looks atrocious. And then every single TV manufacturer agreed and implemented it. Whenever I see this kind of cropped image on a TV, I grab the remote and set it to the only mode that should exist on digital displays, direct pixel-to-pixel mapping. Just blows my mind I have to do that.
ztjio · 2 years ago
It's rare but some source material is created with the assumption of overscan, whether that affects on-screen graphics or even some cases just total garbage is produced into the overscan areas... it all varies, but from the TV maker's perspective, doing what you're describing means this garbage never appears and they never get calls from confused angry customers who think their TV is broken because some broadcaster has some garbage at the edge of the feed.
ztjio commented on Switch off bad TV settings   practicalbetterments.com/... · Posted by u/DitheringIdiot
jeffmcmahan · 2 years ago
As a former high end audio/video salesperson, I just want to state for accuracy that local dimming, as a feature, is not dynamic contrast. Dynamic contrast is terrible. By having an LED backlight array dim spots that are darker in the source material, the display achieves better absolute contrast. It is not adjusting the exposure to fake it. It is instead getting closer to the contrast given by the source material. It created some halo issues, but it was a step in the right direction.

This is not new tech at all - I was selling Samsung LED TVs with this feature in 2007 or so. Samsung, Sharp, and Sony has little choice but to improve contrast, because their LED sets were right next to Pioneer KURO plasmas that were just absolutely amazing - OLEDs are only catching up their PQ now, 15 years later. First on the scene was the Samsung LN-T5781 - https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-ln-t5781f-review/

ztjio · 2 years ago
Seriously. Imagine people going out and proudly buying a shiny new MiniLED TV only to have their half-educated HN jockey of a child come in and disable the entire point of that technological advancement.

Even normal LED backed LCDs can have FALD (Full Array Local Dimming for those who don't pay attention to this field) and that's not especially new, though, hit or miss in effectiveness on earlier TVs.

ztjio commented on Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews   old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdP... · Posted by u/el_hacker
gardnr · 3 years ago
And this version which has been updated recently: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
ztjio · 3 years ago
That is an entirely different tool with the same name.
ztjio commented on Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC   twitter.com/OnDeck/status... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn
earthling8118 · 3 years ago
Steam has had a dedicated feature for this for a decade now. Except it didn't do it over the network, just files which you had to provide transport for yourself
ztjio · 3 years ago
This is different than the backup feature, behaves extremely differently. The backup feature is so insanely slow that restoring from a typical USB media a 120GB game takes longer than downloading that same game on 100mbps internet connection.

This method I'm referring to (and probably what they will codify) is much, much faster.

u/ztjio

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