DaGeek247

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Relationship advice? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This Eliezer Yudkowsky. He wrote a bunch of nerd fanfiction, and is apparently mostly famous for his takes on AI. He is a public figure.

How many can you guess correctly? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A is David Koresh, of the bracnh davidians/waco seige.

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Innovative ideas are rarely smart ideas.

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You completely missed the point there, damn. He's saying those things are very likely to be bad investments.

Signal changelog in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and if it doesn't also have the HDR label there's a good chance your video is going to have the wrong colors in it.

Ninja Terminator (1985) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love the baseball pose while holding the katana.

Which U.S. state has the worst roads? My vote is for Illinois. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Texas.

Signal changelog in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

For those not in the know, it's dolby's proprietary hdr format, in a similiar vein to their atmos product, which is high definition audio. You see it labeled in linux isos as "DV", and if it doesn't also have the HDR label there's a good chance your video is going to have the wrong colors in it.

Clark is a man of focus. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"You're weird for not being interested in me" is the same thing, yes.

Clark is a man of focus. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Telling someone they're an alien for not being interested in you is very definitely rude. Sure, you put effort into your appearance, you have pride in your looks. There's nothing wrong with that. It's when you take that rejection out on someone else that it becomes a problem. Here, it's a mild issue, almost certainly intended to be a fourth wall wink at the readers more than anything else, but at the end of the day, she called clark an alien because he turned her advances down.

Clark is a man of focus. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's very much a metaphorical comment for her; normal men, according to her worldview, obviously check out womans titties every chance they get. She's being incredibly rude and arrogant. "If he's not checking me out, he very obviously has serious mental health problems, or is just straight up not human." The arrogant half is the expectation that even if a normal man had the capability to ignore some other woman's titties, no normal man would ever be able to ignore hers.

She would likely consider gay men to be an aberration too.

Midwest goodbye in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right up until they do, and spend 10 minutes checking to make sure you weren't hurt or otherwise injured at their party. This is fine for big public things, but is very much a dick move for smaller groups.

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Comparing compression in AV1, x264, and x265 (kbin.social)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I recently got it into my head to compare the various popular video codecs in an effort to better understand how av1 works and looks compared to x264 and x265. I also had ideas of using a intel video card to compress a home video security setup, and what levels of compression I would need to get good results.

The Setup
I used the 4k 6.3gb blender project, tears of steel as a source. I downscaled the video to 1080p using all three codecs, and then attempted to compare the results using various crf levels.

To compare results I used imgsli, FFMetrics, and my own picture viewer to try and see what the differences are.

The Results

crf av1 KB x265 KB x264 KB
18 419,261 632,079 685,217 – x246 visually lossless
21 352,337 390,358 – x265 visually lossless 411,439
24 301,517 – av1 VAMF visually lossless 250,426 263,524 – x264 good enough
27 245,685 165,079 – x265 good enough 176,919
30 205,008 110,062 122,458
33 168,192 73,528 86,899
36 139,379 – av1 My visually lossless 48,516 63,214
39 116,096 31,670 47,161
42 97,365 – av1 my good enough 20,636 35,801
45 81,805 13,598 27,484
48 69,044 9,726 20,823
51 58,316 8,586 – worst possible 16,120 – worst possible
54 48,681 - -
57 39,113 - -
60 29,062 - -
63 16,533 – worst possible - -

Here is av1 rcf 36 vs crf 24.

I go into more detail with the hows and whys of my choices, in my journal-style blog post, as well as how i came to these conclusions, But in essence, if you want to lose practically no visual information, crf24 through 36 for av1, crf 21 for x265, and crf 18 for x264 will do the job.

If you are low on space, using my 'good enough' choices will get you practically the same visual results while using less space, depending on the codec.

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Truly, the more versatile name to use (media.kbin.social)
 
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Napping with the tv on (media.kbin.social)
 
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Dynamic DNS domain registrar (kbin.social)
 

Hey y'all, I've been using my.freenom as my domain registrar for the past six years without too many issues. I've kept it mainly because it has been cheap as balls. However, I am now looking for a registrar that supports dynamic dns and would love to hear your suggestions. The first results that pop up are google and godaddy which are not what I'm looking for. (I actually had issues with godaddy stealing domain names all the way back in 2010, but that's another story) A local community reference is worth a lot more to me than a top search result.

The plan is to set up my domain to point to my local IP for stuff like valheim servers so i don't have to share an IP every time we want to play. My friendlywrt router supports dynamic dns out of the box, so that's what I'm looking to use for my domain.

Also, it needs to support subdomains going to different places. Complete access to the dns records is enough, but I would love a more user friendly interface for adding things like a separate email host, a webhost address, plus a subdomain for the valheim server.

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Little bit of family joy to share (kbin.social)
 

My sibling is transitioning mtf and just started hormone therapy. She has also always been a huge fan of IPAs and has been super into sharing her love of them with us (to little success). So anyways, our discord movie night comes up and she says she has some bad news. Apparently the hormones have made things taste different, and now she hates how they taste, which is a really big loss for her.

My brother asks if he can tell a bad joke, and she says yes. So my brother says that "when you stop lying to yourself about one thing you start to notice other lies you've been telling yourself, like 'IPAs are good', for example." Anyways, it had all of us laughing together, which I figured I'd share with y'all.

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She was feeling pretty raggedy after the dentist visit (media.kbin.social)
 
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