qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 8 months ago

I'm curious what this actually is. Yes, we can see under moonlight and also at noon in the tropics, but not at the same time. It's somewhat akin to the dynamic range of a camera


an 8bit B&W camera has a gigantic dynamic range if you allow for shutter, aperture, and gain settings to be adjusted.

In other words, while the dynamic range of my eye over the course of an hour is maybe 60dB*, there is no way I can use that dynamic range in a single scene/"image".

*Just a guess from sunlight at ~1kW/m^2 to moonlight at roughly one millionth of that (super hand wavy I know).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not sure I'd call $3500 trivial...

(/s...sorta?)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Lol comment removed for (I guess?) linking to a Wikipedia article on Chinese dissidents...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who was caught wiretapping.

Between August and September 2007 Chinese hackers were suspected of using Trojan horse spyware on various government computers, including those of the Chancellory, the Ministry of Economics and Technology, and the Ministry of Education and Research.[180] Germans officials believe Trojan viruses were inserted in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files, and approximately 160 gigabytes of data were siphoned to Canton, Lanzhou and Beijing via South Korea, on instructions from the People's Liberation Army.[181]

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad

It is a very long Wikipedia article (as is anything involving CIA activities abroad, to be sure).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

Chinese companies != Chin...wait.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you want to rule out most everything software, you can use dd and nc to benchmark file transfers with minimal overhead. iperf also your friend of course :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 8 months ago

Article specifically calls how they're axing military and first responder discounts, how you still get upcharged for HiFi if you use their DJ Integration feature, and how they're nixing the free tier.

The article is not an advertisement; it contains some good news for consumers and some bad news for consumers. The notable bit is the good news, hence it's the headline. And it's notable exactly because it's good news


most everyone else is raising prices across the board.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, it is. It may not be interesting to you, but it is (as others said) noteworthy when a company bucks the trend of the industry.

This type of story is business journalism


it's not world news or politics, but it's still news. And the article isn't as rosy as the headline


they are still upcharging for the HiFi service if you used the DJ Integration feature (no idea what this is, I don't use Tidal), and they're axing military and first responder discounts.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, "increasing market share" would be something like Netflix ditching FreeBSD for Linux.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

For me, an Android for personal, iPhone for work.

One of them is a phone that mostly works the way I want it to; the other is a phone that...mostly works the way I want it to.

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