DaleGribble88
@DaleGribble88@programming.dev
College Prof in the US, focus areas are Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 6 days ago:
didn’t just flash the image once per frame
Hmm… I’m detecting that we may be operating with different definitions - made no more clear by the fact that you are talking about projectors while I’m answering a question about cameras. To me, a frame is a single still image on a reel of film.
I think I see your point that a projector would insert more black transitions from on frame to the next so that the black transition from one frame to the next isn’t as noticeable. However, I don’t see the connection to original discussion about frames per second or where the film industry standard of 24fps came from.
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 1 week ago:
24 fps was the capture rate of old film cameras. The reason for that is because of how sound was stored on the edge of celluloid tape. Because of how the sound waves where imprinted on the tape, the max fidelity was at sample rate of at most 10,000 Hz per 18inches of tape. So, 18 inches of tape has to move through the projector and sound head every second.
Consider a 35mm film reel which was popular at the same time. On a 35mm reel, the height of a single frame is about 19mm. So we have 18 inches (457mm) going across the projector screen, which shows a new frame of film every 19mm. That tells us the frame rate: 457/19 = 24.
And that is why films run at 24 fps. Because it was the natural result of technical constraints when sound started being added to film. This is why older silent movies could use lower frame rates. Super 8 cameras recorded at 18fps because they could get away with it, but once Sound Super 8 hit the scene, it got brought back up to 24fps for much the same reasoning as the 1930s had with 35mm film.
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 1 week ago:
Good to know about MacOS and Linux. I usually never turn on the human readable mode on my distros because most are VMs.
Anyway, computer’s absolutely work best with working with numbers 2^n. That gives the most amount of space per bit. Otherwise, we would end up using the same amount of transistors for a fewer number of states. They could also greatly complicate the ALU to determine if it suddenly entered a forbidden state. Two’s compliment would certainly be much more difficult.
Submitting would be nearly impossible too
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 2 weeks ago:
Marketing says it has 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, aka 1 Trillion bytes. SI unit naming conventions dictate that is 1 Tera-of-bytes.
Computers work with powers of 2 (Like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, …), and wouldn’t you know that 2^10 is 1024. So computer scientist will use 1024 as a stand in for Kilobyte because it makes a lot of the math elsewhere much easier.
So, when you buy a 1TB hard drive, the manufacturer is advertising it at 1 Trillion bytes. However, your operating system, like Windows or Linux or MacOS, divides by 1024 when doing the conversion like so: 1 Trillion / 1024 / 1024 / 1024. That works out to just over 931.
To help avoid confusion, the proper term for the 1024 number is a “Kibibyte,” abbreviated KiB, instead of a “kilobyte,” abbreviated KB. Similar names exist for Mebibytes, Gibibytes, Tibibytes and beyond!
TL;DR Your box is measured in TB and your computer measures in TiB because 1st number is bigger and 2nd number is actually useful.
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 5 weeks ago:
Would a rose by any other name not smell just as sweet? And more importantly, would a rose still smell if there was no one around to sniff?
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 5 weeks ago:
Ahh, but a better question is whether they were Roman before they had the name?
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 5 weeks ago:
People build cities, buildings do not, so I’m going to vote for people coming first.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
I mean, if you use the AI incompetentlyvand lazily sure? I think if you use anything incompetently and lazily you’ll get that result. The trick is to not be an absolute dumbass and then you’ll be fine. Know what can and cannot do well, then use it where appropriate to take advantage of the 80/20 rule.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
Oh brother, you have no idea, do you?
This shit is a cancer that has spread all through b2b processes. If you’ve bought gasoline over the last 6 months, all of that was coordinated via AI. Everything from order placement, rights trading & selling, distribution route planning, etc. it’s also worth noting how many phone support jobs have shifted to AI.
Pretty much all fraud monitoring for banks are run by AI now. Both checking transactions and if you call and report a fraudulent charge directly.
Further, you are using Lemmy right now. It is almost certainly running in a docker container, which a tool developed with AI contributions and an integrated AI feature set, and inside of that docker container is almost certainly a Linux distribution, which was developed with AI integrations.
It all ties back to my point that if someone was going to completely shun all things powered by AI, they would basically have to disengage with any system that has been actively developed, updated, or almost even just maintained over the last few years. It isn’t ubiquitous yet, but it is fast approaching that point.
Isn’t this, like, explicitly because of AI
I mean, more or less, yes? That is essentially the point that I was making. The old ways aren’t as effective anymore because they have been replaced with AI. And just not effective as in effective when compared to using AI, but not effective because the infrastructure, systems, and communities that made the old ways possible have been uprooted.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
On the contrary, it does a great job with responding to work Emails! I paste in the chain and prompt it “How can I tell this person to fuck off in corporate speak?” And I haven’t been fired yet! ;)
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
Same energy as this Simpsons clip.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
Something a friend and I were discussing today was that you can’t really avoid AI and remain productive right now. (We both teach university Computer Science.)
Ignoring how so much of modern society is running on it, you’d have to complete isolate to avoid it and it’s reach entirely.
Additionally, the tooling and infrastructure to support how things were done just a few years ago has all been stripped away. Online search is ass on every major engine right now, most of the forums are dead, documentation and discussion lives inside of private Discord channels. It feels like there just isn’t a back to go back to anymore.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 month ago:
Probably speaking to the choir here, but I do feel it is worth pointing out that those same algorithms were considered AI until like 3-5 years ago when the zeitgeist shifted to AI=Transformers/LLMs
- Comment on business is business 2 months ago:
In my experience, items are only worth what someone is actually willing to pay. Because if it is priced so high that no one in your target demographic is actually willing to pay that much, it is just unrealized gains. And for most people, an unrealized gain is equivalent to 0.
I see this a lot in the MTG community. People will say a card is worth $200 because that is what they list for on eBay. I ask if they’ve ever had an offer for that much - and the answer is almost exclusively no. I tell them that the ones listed on eBay are the ones that aren’t selling. The real value is less because no one actually buying them for $200, that is the cutoff where people stopped buying the card and so the listings stay up.
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 2 months ago:
So… Why aren’t all these AI companies getting charged with multiple cybercrimes?
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
Lateral numbers is my preferred term
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 months ago:
In some sense yeah, I’ve heard from some of my more affluent friends buying multiple copies for different platforms. For example, I know someone with at least 4 different copies of GTA-V
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 3 months ago:
Personally, I’d be very against medical records. Some folks have diseases and disorders which are grossly misunderstood by the public at large, and even civil servants deserve to return to a normal life after they leave office.
- Comment on foil 3 months ago:
You are thinking of y’all, which is a southern American slang contraction of “you all.” However, this person put “ya’ll,” so it’s a contraction of “ya will.”
Either way, neither really fits on the context of the sentence. I wish they had just said poor addicts if that’s who they meant to imply. Shame on me for projecting if I’m misinterpreting.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 3 months ago:
He also complained about steel and concrete being expensive factors in their production. Doesn’t every major construction project use a lot of steel and concrete? Including traditional power plants that run on fossil fuels?
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 3 months ago:
Just because a random Internet stranger doesn’t know a better solution off the top of their head, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem to be clearly seen.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 4 months ago:
Oh they call me the fireman, cause baby that’s my name…
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 months ago:
Fair enough! I personally try to stick to preferred names and pronouns, but to err is human and I do make mistakes pretty often.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 months ago:
I’ve had a good number of trans people in my classes over the years. I’ve frankly been shocked by the number of people who do not care if you guess their gender correctly. Obviously it isn’t the norm, but they are out there.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 4 months ago:
Por que no los dos?
- Comment on wth 5 months ago:
In my experience, good boobs are appreciated by everyone across the gender and sexuality spectrum
- Comment on This place is a prison 5 months ago:
Did you know that 1 in 5 car crashes involve a drunk driver? That means that in 4 out of 5 crashes, everyone is completely sober! It is way safer to drive while intoxicated! Pour yourself another cup, it’s the only way to be responsible.
- Comment on This place is a prison 5 months ago:
I mean, no one is going to do calculus sober
- Comment on heater 5 months ago:
It means that your fuse is still working for at least a couple more minutes
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 5 months ago:
Forget Brent Spinner as data, give me that independence day drip
