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piskov··on Insects don't swarm at LED lights
The entire premise (moon uv, ir etc) is wrong so the conclusion is wrong.

Sky is always brighter than the land, moon is not required.

Lamp movement is the confusion of where is “up”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3

piskov··on Anthropic's growth just flattened
Or it secured more compute early at a lower price.

Also model/token efficiency.

List of possibilities is big

piskov··on The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
No Vue, huh
piskov··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Well, it is obvious that not “any nuclear project” needs 20 years of planning :-)
piskov··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
> Any nuclear project must be planned 20 years

Is it true? France built more the 40 nuclear reactors in the 80s. I doubt it started “planning” for those in late 50s.

Ain’t designs standardized? Russian Rosatom builds a nuclear plant in 5-7 years

piskov··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
See apps like Reflector.

Or you can use Zoom or likes of it and connect to it from ipad and share screen.

That actually has lower latency than quicktime thing you mentioned

piskov··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
I mean isn’t that how zoom and likes of it work?

You can either share a specific window (and need to switch off and share another if you want to share another app) or you can share entire screen.

If I understand correctly that’s what would be the solution here

piskov··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
Operator Mono is still very, very nice.

https://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator

piskov··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
It is basically jetbrains mono
piskov··on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
To be fair these are different tools.

Back in the days you would use cleanmymac for emptiying caches and what have you, and daisydisk to find big folders

piskov··on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
btw there is a storage section in Chatgpt app settings, showing used space on disk and other related stuff
piskov··on Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
Mole is ok too

TUI version is free, though there is a paid app if that’s your thing

https://github.com/tw93/Mole

piskov··on Tesla Roadster
How come this totally cool thing with 397 points is on the third fucking page being #65.
piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
This is not the way
piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
You don’t want movies going from apple tv at 120 hz: it is a tremendous bandwidth at 4:4:4 color and can introduce banding and other color issues. Because even if apple tv manages to output that with 100% quality, tv may not be able to be fast enough to “chew” through that. At this rate priority is to show “something” fast enough.

ie outputting 24/25/30 is completely fine: tv will use corresponding multiples of frames by itself (120 for 24, 50 and 60 for 25/30, etc.)

piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
Supporting 4 HomePods surround only in the new model is a classic dick move by Apple.

Also not supporting the original, completely fine and working HomePod for this is another.

Though first place here is dropping raw photo support for the $2k iPhone duo.

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(All these are software features which hardware supports.)

piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
What type of content you would run at 120
piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
You are doing something wrong.

Resolution has nothing to do with dejudder and what have you: these are TV settings.

You should however have match framerate and hdr modes to content in apple tv settings on (unless you have a really old TV).

piskov··on New Apple TV 4K
App store has games — that would take most if some people are into casual stuff

Obviously some cache for local playback, photos, screensavers, etc.

piskov··on AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
Xbox cloud or whatever it is called will stream this without an actual xbox
piskov··on The lamps in my house
Homekit wall plugs
piskov··on The Curious Power of Punctuation
> what about, say, the war in Gaza?

That was not on my top-5 list of things that may be in that article.

piskov··on I said no and Apple said yes
They optimized it for omarchy oht of the box
piskov··on I said no and Apple said yes
This has changed recently

For example this dell is superb, has tandem oled with 200% scaling and runs linux (dhh runs this on onarchy)

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/laptop-computers/spd/xps14da...

piskov··on Measure internet censorship
> Measure the speed and performance of your network with the NDT test

This is very much in line with the likes of pokemon go, wiki landmark projects and what have you (those are nice things to have for autonomous drones/missiles to navigate only with vision when gps/cellular/starlink is actively blocked).

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Russia banned stuff like speedtest because things like that may help “map” the network, aid NSA to model malware propagation, etc.

Not that this should matter when you have cisco, dell, nokia hardware, but it won’t hurt either.

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I mean come on, some nuts even willingly install stuff like this: https://atlas.ripe.net/

piskov··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Went to readonly mode in 2024
piskov··on iPhone Duo
I am left-handed (as is 1 in 10?), new UI really makes it unusable: dock and buttons are at the right side instead of being at the bottom.

And given the selfie camera position, I really doubt there is an accessibility setting to mirror the UI.

piskov··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Why not use cheap vps?

It will not get down with half of the internet the next time cloudflare has issues.

piskov··on Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet
Don’t get it dirty
piskov··on Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet
That’s why they developed a special toothpaste with less foaming (see the presentation video on youtube)
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