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  • Hmm, I suppose quality of TV might matter. Not to mention actually going through the settings and making sure it isn't doing anything to process the signal. And also not streaming compressed crap to it. I do visit other peoples houses sometimes and definitely wouldn't know they were using a 4k screen to watch what they are watching.

    But I am assuming actually displaying 4k content to be part of the testing parameters.

  • So, a 55-inch TV, which is pretty much the smallest 4k TV you could get when they were new, has benefits over 1080p at a distance of 7.5 feet... how far away do people watch their TVs from? Am I weird?

    And at the size of computer monitors, for the distance they are from your face, they would always have full benefit on this chart. And even working into 8k a decent amount.

    And that's only for people with typical vision, for people with above-average acuity, the benefits would start further away.

    But yeah, for VR for sure, since having an 8k screen there would directly determine how far away a 4k flat screen can be properly re-created. If your headset is only 4k, a 4k flat screen in VR is only worth it when it takes up most of your field of view. That's how I have mine set up, but I would imagine most people would prefer it to be half the size or twice the distance away, or a combination.

    So 8k screens in VR will be very relevant for augmented reality, since performance costs there are pretty low anyway. And still convey benefits if you are running actual VR games at half the physical panel resolution due to performance demand being too high otherwise. You get some relatively free upscaling then. Won't look as good as native 8k, but benefits a bit anyway.

    There is also fixed and dynamic foveated rendering to think about, with an 8k screen, even running only 10% of it at that resolution and 20% at 4k, 30% at 1080p, and the remaining 40% at 540p, even with the overhead of so many foveation steps, you'll get a notable reduction in performance cost. Fixed foveated would likely need to lean higher towards bigger percentages of higher res, but has the performance advantage of not having to move around at all from frame to frame. Can benefit from more pre-planning and optimization.

  • The only hope at this point is that it's so broken by the end that no amount of "tweaking" the current plan/formula is worth doing. Would at least be nice if the light at the end of the tunnel is that a whole new modern way of life will be possible to rebuild from the ashes. Even without trump breaking it further, the current plan wasn't going well, long term. It's going worse now, but in an unsustainable way. The old plan would have taken much longer to get this much worse.

  • Hehe, that doorknob. I can see why it has to be closer to her hands when the door is open, but it makes you wonder at the mechanics of it. How much did she have to pay someone to rig it up that way, or did she work it out herself?

  • The worst part is, if the sign only said the instant death part, it would be a worse deterrent. Like, despite how funny it is to also have a fine, it's a much more useful sign like this.

  • As an add-on to this, some people are inherently better at meditation to start with. So hearing from other people how short their journey was from "meditation is just a waste of time" to "after some practice it started to be more effective" can be really discouraging for people where that journey can be years. But everyone can get good at meditating. And generally, the harder or more useless it seems to start out, the more you need what it offers.

  • The missing relevance in the food ones is that those are the amounts of "undiluted" and "chemically available" versions of those specific poisons it would take.

    For the water, there is currently no exact known amount of water that is considered a fatal overdose, but the amount she quoted is the smallest known/documented quantity to have "worked" at least once. It usually takes much more. She probably asked AI.

    I would imagine, despite the evocative way he edited this video, he probably didn't just take her at her word and then see if she was right. It would be very easy to disprove her in words, but if capable, certainly hold more weight to disprove her in video format, knowing he was safe the whole time.

  • Well, partially a dig on the "weird" "creepy" people that inherited a castle and either rarely or never left it. But also a bunch of generic "other"ing was bundled into it too. Similar to witches, just the poorer, femaler version of "doesn't want to participate in society"(I mean the broad strokes of an older woman living out in a hut in the woods with her cat, is actually a pretty normal and understandable thing)... people still make up all kinds of scary versions of who the neighbourhood shut-in must be, and why they don't leave their house. What kinds of scary things those people must be up to.

    It's all the same stuff, shut-ins are just on the internet now, so we talk to other people now. But our behaviours haven't changed.

  • I mean, the ideas that made people write books about vampires had to come from somewhere, and it's not like neurodivergent behaviours are new.

    It's not that we are like vampires... it's that vampires are like us.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    How long until someone is allowed to make a safety can opener with a long crank?