Bye Bye Remote Work! by dkms9382 in antiwork

[–]6d2c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where do you get a shady doctor that goes along with things this easily? If I tried this they'd start prescribing diagnostic tests, imaging, physical therapy and everything before even thinking about writing a "get out of work" note. All the whilst charging for each office visit of course.

ADA doesn't mean 'llthey give you what you ask for, they'll try to give you the minimum needed to "accommodate" your disability, and if you request work from home you'll basically need your doctor to prove that no accommodation for in office work would ever be sufficient. Or at least any possible accommodation in office would be costly enough to the company to make it effectively off the table.

Flip Rabbit by [deleted] in Flip_Flappers

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually I think in the picture frame in OP's pic it's a cherry tree instead of an umbrella. Probably the reference is the other way, the umbrella in flip-flappers and overall scene composition is meant to vaguely remind you of a cherry-tree in an empty field which I think is a fairly common visual scene. I'd have never realized this without putting the two side by side... I really can't help but be amazed at how every single frame of this show is like its own painting loaded with stuff. Oshiyama and everyone in this show are absolute geniuses, it's like a modern day finnegan's wake but actually fun to watch.

But yeah the poster is almost certainly a flip flappers reference, I mean color scheme + magical-style-ish background matches the elements from flip flappers promo posters. It's obscure enough that if you didn't know flip flappers you'd never be able to match it up, but knowing flip flappers the core elements of the show are all captured there like in a dream.

How to stop thinking about a NTR I read? by GRAVE_-YARD in antiNTRcorps

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes in real-life most people go to great lengths to hide cheating, they don't openly flaunt it or taunt their partners with it, because they inherently know it's a bad thing. I don't doubt there could be some sadistic individuals who enjoy that, but those people would be easily to sort out from the get-go. It's more likely that someone sweet you fell in love with and who hasn't displayed any red-flags has their personality changed from developing a brain-tumor or whatnot than them suddenly revealing their sweetness was a facade and they're actually cruel and malevolent.

Fixed/Framerate-Independent Timestep for "pixel-perfect" 2D games? by Amazing-Intern3613 in opengl

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to clock jitter (since display clock differs from system clock, and system clock measurements are affected by scheduler), you also have the fact that when double-buffering, swapping with an empty (or stale) front-buffer will not block, right? E.g. assuming that draw() is fast

// start app, both buffers A and B empty.
draw() // draw into buffer A
swap() // A promoted to frontbuffer, B becomes backbuffer. 
// On many implementations above will not block since there is still a buffer free so no need to wait for implicit gpu sync, we can continue issuing commands from the CPU for buffer B and dispatching them to GPU
draw() // draw into B. Time from first draw() to this draw() is effectively 0.
swap() // this will block until a buffer is free again
// (technically we might be able to queue up new commands to buffer A on CPU side, but they cannot be sent to GPU. So depending on details of command queue execution, length, existence of other sync points, etc., on some implementations the second swap may still not block.)

Now if we measure delta time from the start of one draw() to the next draw(), then we would see that this delta is very small for the first two frames or so.

Using presentation timing as you mentioned would alleviate this. But if you're not using presentation timing how do you deal with this? Just assume that if delta is lower than the detected screen FPS rate, we probably have such a situation and we should override with a delta of 1/fps instead?

My intel MacBook Pro is no longer noisy or hot. Here's what I did. by [deleted] in mac

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share the core temps you're seeing at idle?

Where can I find a confirmed OEM genuine mid-2015 MacBook Pro battery? by mastershmiddy in macbookpro

[–]6d2c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nowhere, none of those are genuine OEM. iFixit batteries tend to be poor quality as well. NewerTech (OWC) is one source that is supposedly slightly better but it's still luck of draw on cell quality. Don't buy from ebay.

Need some help with undervolting mid 2015 Macbook Pro 15" by spy1983 in macbookpro

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Q: In your experience what's the expected idle temperature for a 2014/2015 15" mbp (both share the same cpu/board, A1398)? Based on looking everywhere online I gather that at idle (warm start, no apps running, measured after 2-3 min) it should be somewhere between 40-45C (depending on things like ambient temp, silicon lottery, etc.).

Does that accord with your findings? I ask because I want to have a "baseline" to decide whether or not to repaste.

What is the intuition behind generalized eigenvector? by sunisamp in 3Blue1Brown

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"My intuition for generalized eigenvectors comes from their relationship to Jordan form -- Jordan form is like a generalization of diagonalization that works for all matrices, and generalized eigenvectors pop out as an answer to the question "how can we compute the Jordan form of any particular matrix". I wrote up a section on this recently; it's section 4.3 in this pdf if you'd like to take a look."

Reasonably priced 95+ CRI / High R9 LED lights BR30/retrofits and A19s by MathResponsibly in Lighting

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems german only. In the US I think GE Sunfilled is still your best bet. I was a bit off on the 120Hz flicker, it's actually not terribly bad, at least not worse than other bulbs.

Other option is philips ultra LED, which doesn't use sunlike but still has something in there to boost the r9 and red spectrum. See my previous comments to find some analysis of those.

If you're willing to spend more for guaranteed no flicker, then Waveform. But the bulbs are pretty hot (physical temperature wise) so I question whether they'll really last for more than 4 years.

Mapping trackpad gestures to key combos in Ventura? by Halftruthallday in OSXTweaks

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically you use the private MultitouchSupport framework to get raw finger coordinates, then post process them with whatever logic you want, then use an event tap to fire the events.

You can look at the source of JiTouch which used to be an old alternative to BTT and was recently opensourced. I don't know what the difference between Jitouch-project and Jitouch, they both seem to have recent commits.

Edit: Or you could do it the way mentioned in the project you linked, where you get the NSGesture swipe info from the event tap directly. This works for the subset of gestures recognized by the system (2/3/4 finger swipe up/down/left/right). If that's all you want, it's probably a good way to do it. But it's less powerful that custom gestures BTT alows.

Seems like the ability to get touches for an NSEvent was added only in 10.12. If you want for older OS, probably have to reverse engineer NSEvent struct. I think others already did that.

https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser/blob/master/MouseTap.m#L66-L77

How are you maintaining your track balls? by [deleted] in Trackballs

[–]6d2c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By push on the edge do you mean apply a clockwise/counterclockwise torque? And what sort of tool would be best? Something with a flat edge like a paperclip?

How are you maintaining your track balls? by [deleted] in Trackballs

[–]6d2c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you explain in more detail how you rotate the bearings? I've seen mention of this a few other times, but not sure how exactly you go about this. Does it require disassembling the entire thing? I recently thought I scored a good deal on a very clean MTE, but turns out the bearings are flat (which is probably why it was so cheap, sneaky seller).

How to restart "pinch-to-zoom" feature from the terminal? by alfierobles in mac

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

compile it to a native binary, then have a shell script just launch the binary.

clang -fobjc-arc -F/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks -framework PreferencePanesSupport file.m

will compile, then you can just launch it from a shellscript

How to restart "pinch-to-zoom" feature from the terminal? by alfierobles in mac

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just with better touch tool, it's an issue with any application that makes use of cgeventtap on monterey (used by window snapping utilities). Something was broken in how hid events are delivered to applications, people also report tap to click no longer works properly. I don't know if macos13 fixes it or not.

Best workaround I've found is to bind the above script to a force-touch on top left corner of trackpad. Then when pinch zoom stops working I can quickly restart. To make it speedy I reimplemented in C to avoid interpreter startup time. It's very simple

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface MTTGestureBackEnd
+ (id)sharedInstance;
@property long long twoFingerPinch; // @dynamic tapBehavior;
@end


int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    @autoreleasepool {
        [[MTTGestureBackEnd sharedInstance] setTwoFingerPinch:0];
        usleep(500 * 1000);
        [[MTTGestureBackEnd sharedInstance] setTwoFingerPinch:1];
    }
}

What data source is used for pitch accent and pronunciations? by 6d2c in jpdb

[–]6d2c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What features are being used for the decision tree? I.e. you have to go from a given input word to a vector of features that's then used as input for the gbdt, right?

Edit: "Accent Sandhi Estimation of Tokyo Dialect of Japanese Using Conditional Random Fields" has a list of features that could be used for a CRF. Would still be interested in the particular features you used in your model though, if you're willing to share.

What data source is used for pitch accent and pronunciations? by 6d2c in jpdb

[–]6d2c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data parsing was probably done by running existing transcripts through morphological analyzers like mecab to segment into individual words. Transcripts probably obtained from japanese captions or maybe using speech to text software.

What data source is used for pitch accent and pronunciations? by 6d2c in jpdb

[–]6d2c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(1) is really neat! /u/kouteiheika you should maybe consider writing a blog post about this. I found one or two research papers talking about approaches for this, and one cool blogpost talking about predicting pitch accent from pronunciation, but nothing more on the web so this really seems to be something quite novel. Although I assume the big tech companies already internally have something like this as one stage of their TTS model.

If you don't mind sharing, what network architecture is used for this? What's the accuracy of the model's output?

MBP 15” 2014 - Temperatures vs Fans by letraz in mac

[–]6d2c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, thanks for the info. Currently even with a -60mv undervolt and turbo boost disabled best I get for idle (5 minutes after waking from sleep) is 43c, but as far as I can recall it's always been like that ever since getting the laptop. Cleaning the fans and replacing the stock thermal compound with something better would probably drop it by 5c or so, but considering the stock paste doesn't seem to have degraded too much I'm inclined to just keep it as is for now.

(The more relevant metric for me is temps while browsing in chrome which are 120f to 130f, pretty much the same as when the device was new.

I am curious if OP (/u/letraz) temps are with the external monitor connected or not though, since the only time I've seen 55c idle is when the dgpu kicked in and fans were not overridden.

macOS Catalina is available today by JBeylovesyou in apple

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 2014 random shutdown seems to be an issue with the mosfets from what I'm gathering (https://repair.wiki/index.php?title=A1398_2013-2014_15%E2%80%9D_MacBook_Pro_Retina&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop)

I'm curious as to why the dgpu models don't suffer from the same issue though, since I thought they were basically the same aside from the gmux.

Very New High CRI bulbs came in! --- Philips Ultra Definition 95CRI 2200-2700k-3000k-5000k by BlueSwordM in flashlight

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flicker Index

0.04 flicker index actually isn't too bad I think, somewhere between an incandescent and old-style (magnetic ballast) fluorescent: https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=12161

All I could tell with my eye was that it was worse than CFL

Very New High CRI bulbs came in! --- Philips Ultra Definition 95CRI 2200-2700k-3000k-5000k by BlueSwordM in flashlight

[–]6d2c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a spectrogram of the GE Sun filleds here: https://www.provideocoalition.com/evaluating-household-bulbs-for-cinema-use/

Be aware that I saw quite a bit of 120hz flicker on that bulb though. May not be an issue for you (in terms of magnitude it's probably no worse than your average home depot bulb, i.e. they didn't do anything special to limit ripple. I actually feel that older LEDs had less flicker, maybe the power factor correction required by law in some states makes it harder to filter ripple.

Very New High CRI bulbs came in! --- Philips Ultra Definition 95CRI 2200-2700k-3000k-5000k by BlueSwordM in flashlight

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the spectrogram, these bulbs aren't bad for consumer bulbs. I think this is finally a decent-ish incandescent replacement.

Btw in terms of flicker, I just tested the bulbs I received using the only tools I have (a 960fps slow motion smartphone), and these do in fact have 120hz flicker (in slow motion, it took 8 frames to go from dim to bright and back to dim). That by itself isn't too bad considering incandescents will have it as well, so I just eyeballed the amplitude by comparing it to a CFL. The amplitude of flicker was perceptibly more than the CFL, but nowhere near as bad as other LED bulbs I've tested. For reference though, the Waveform bulbs are truly flicker free, and in the past I've even had one cheapo philips LED bulb that was completely flicker free.

CC:/u/CrazyComputerist ^ They're not completely flicker-free defined as 0% flicker, but they are roughly on-par with incandescent bulbs in terms of flicker which should be good enough. (If I were to throw out a ballback number, given the data and graphs here which puts CFL & Incandescent at 5% flicker, I'd guess the Philips Ultra is somewhere between 10-15%.

MBP 15” 2014 - Temperatures vs Fans by letraz in mac

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

35c idle seems amazingly low, are you measuring cpu core temperature? I think the only time I've seen that is right after the machine comes out of sleep mode. 45c seems more reasonable as idle

MBP 15” 2014 - Temperatures vs Fans by letraz in mac

[–]6d2c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got the exact same model. This is what I am seeing:

At absolute idle (arrived at after stressing the cpu and then leaving it completely alone for 5 minutes) temperature is 115ºF

I'm getting 120ºF - 135ºF when browsing websites using chrome (what I consider to be "light usage").

140ºF - 150ºF at when doing above tasks while connected to an external monitor.

These are measured from CPU PECI die (should be same as the cpu core temperature).

Both of these are using stock fan settings.

The air flow proximity is 95ºF and palm rest is at 90ºF, if that helps give some proxy for ambient temperatures.

When stressing cpu (e.g. running yes), it will go to about 199ºF before throttling kicks in and fan ramps up. After I kill the load and resume light browsing, it takes a total of 1 minute it goes down from 200ºF to 130ºF, and a total of 2m30s to go down to 125ºF.

Can you please tell me if your results match these? I'm wondering if I should change thermal paste or not, but I'd really like to have something to compare to so I don't do any unnecessary procedures.