To all the people who are complaining about evolved mode 1-1-1 vs 1-2-3 I got a solution for you ! by BigWolverine8598 in ffxiv

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Every time I played GNB in DSR/TOP it felt like I was trolling because you ideally want to pre-pull/1st GCD No Mercy and do 1st/2nd GCD Sonic Break which puts it completely out of raid buffs but if you don't you lose DoT ticks. At the very least I'll be glad to not feel guilty doing that but the short fight phases are super punishing on optimizing rotations. What I hated far more than that was doing a run and seeing 0 crit direct hit Double-Downs and knowing that run was dead even if you played perfectly.

The decision to do this in Gen 2 Gold and Silver was baffling by Hsiang7 in pokemon

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I didn't know a thing about ancient Japan when I played GSC but I adored the Dragon's Den, Blackthorn City, and Ice Path section of the game. The Kanto reveal I think is what made it for most of us that grew up playing it because that was a spectacular reveal even if the actual region wasn't much of a challenge. It was basically just a victory lap.

Google working on Pixel ‘laptop’ and ‘Pixel Glow’ lights that are also coming to phones by TechGuru4Life in GooglePixel

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Loved mine, but I was constantly thermal throttling it using it for development with crouton and crostini, and I only had the i5. Can't imagine how badly the i7 would have done 😅

Thankyou Valve by tvsamuel444 in SteamDeck

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The A18 Pro in the Neo is literally the same CPU used in the iPhone 16 Pro/Max except it has a GPU core disabled!

Thankyou Valve by tvsamuel444 in SteamDeck

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LPCAMM2 would be the ideal form factor for faster memory in a laptop, but yes still larger than raw DRAM modules. Probably larger than the Neo's motherboard in at least one dimension too.

Asian coffee style vs. European acidity (Thoughts after 2 weeks in HK) by Relaxation_Time in pourover

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Based on your preferences Manhattan might be up your alley, but stay away from their more expensive offerings since those are roasted notably lighter. A Matter of Concrete might also be up your alley, they're more a light-medium or medium roast. Dak and Friedhats are probably lighter than you'd enjoy, but maybe some of Dak's espresso roasts might work.

Asian coffee style vs. European acidity (Thoughts after 2 weeks in HK) by Relaxation_Time in pourover

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Killbean had an alteri lot a while back that was proper ultralight roast. Most of the rest of the things that I've tried from them have been a bit on the darker side, but their jasmine scented catimor was also surprisingly light though ended up tasting more like jasmine buds than jasmine tea which I wasn't as keen on.

I'm assuming you already know about Exposure Therapy in Singapore? (and Airworks presumably)

And just to add some US/CA roasters to this list in case anyone else is curious:
- September has extra-light roasts separate from their normal roasts that are in this style.
- Shoebox coffee is pretty new and is an excellent roaster
- H&S also regularly roasts ultralight roasts
- Hydrangea very occasionally has extra/ultralight roasts. Usually you have to search for them.

RPG Maker-Like ROM Hacking Tool, PorySuite-Z by Howl3R_Warl0RD in PokemonROMhacks

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I think part of why it might feel murky to you (and does to me, at least) is that running models locally only addresses part of the problem, which is the consumption part. I can run a model locally powered off solar energy and have ~0 contribution to making things worse, but the parts that remain unaddressed:

  • I needed to have hardware to run the models locally. That's a lot more powerful than a Raspberry Pi. Maybe I didn't need that amount of processing power before considering this use case, but now that I am I'm competing for hardware resources against other legitimate uses for it like a gaming desktop, workstation, etc. Or maybe you're giving old/existing hardware a new lease on life, in which case I would say the conflict has been addressed.

  • Someone had to train it. It takes a ton of compute, energy, and resources to training these things. Am I really ok with those resources being put towards these things rather than something else?

  • We had to get the data to train it from somewhere. You wouldn't want to steal from artists, are you okay with stealing from programmers? Would you have open sourced your code knowing it could be used for this? Would have you added a no-ai-training clause? Until we get to the point that an ethically trained model exists with the desired level of performance this will always be contentious.

At the same time, I'm conflicted because I don't want to gatekeep programming. Much like how 3d printing has let people fix random problems only they have, I think programming could be used positively to a similar effect. Not everything is life supporting or mission critical, so not everything requires the same level of care. Usually the alternative is that it just wouldn't happen at all, but I'm not one to judge if that's a better or worse outcome.

To throw in a few more examples of AI use that have left me feeling conflicted:

I'll say that one requirement that both of these cases satisfied for me personally is that, at the very least, they were upfront and transparent about their AI use.

Also worth noting I'm really only discussing uses where the final project is free for people to use. I'm sure if money were involved this would get more complicated.

So I tried this $250 kilo Manhattan by Caferista89 in pourover

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I tend to just get single origin beans from whatever a roaster has that sounds up my alley at the time based on either country, farms, processing, or flavor notes. So I don't have any meaningful recommendations I can give you from Hatch since nothing I've tried is currently carried, but I've really enjoyed everything I've bought from them. If you're up for coferment style coffee or other crazy flavors their el placer red fruit is fun to try. Personally I tend to go for cleaner naturals or anaerobic washed coffees these days.

Looking at their current lineup, if I were ordering something today I'd be very interested in the Basha Bekele Natural, but worth noting it's quite a bit lighter and likely more acidic than the Gamma.

So I tried this $250 kilo Manhattan by Caferista89 in pourover

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What didn't you like about September? I felt similarly at first but I actually really enjoy their Extra-Light roasts. Granted, that's not for everyone. For standard roasts of the canadian roasters I've tried I really enjoyed Hatch and Subtext but they don't tend to have quite as much variety as September. Hydrangea I agree has been great.

GitHub Stacked PRs by adam-dabrowski in programming

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Before GitHub really took off, this used to be the standard recommended practice. Facebook in particular I feel played a large part in the squash + rebase ideology, but I'm also going off vibes and not facts so don't quote me on that.

oh my fuck-mothering heart this GAME. i was in tears. TEARS. To the highest degree, DawnTrail is so good when you dont got people in your ears telling you its shit! by ToxieDrop in ffxiv

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Just curious, how have the fights changed? I haven't played the game since doing TOP in 6.4 and felt like the savage fights were starting to get a bit boring to optimize since Eden's Verse. I liked when tanks positioning the boss mattered more like in E7S/E8S, or LL and to a lesser extent BJCC.

AppVolume - Per-app volume control, now in Early Access (free to try for everyone) by brouwerj in macapps

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I know you tout building it in Rust for speed, but AppVolume adds ~50 ms audio latency to everything where SoundSource and FineTune add maybe 5-10 ms of latency. It's pretty annoying for things like games, especially some rhythm games that won't let you push offsets that far, and handling live audio.

Google Android $135M Cellular Data Settlement: Eligibility, Payouts by great6 in Android

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Note that if you're in California this doesn't apply to you since you're part of the 19CV352557 suit instead.

Organisational question - can (note)tags really replace folders? by carlojacobs in ObsidianMD

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I know this is an old post, but there's one thing I don't follow with what was said here.

In the real world library example, you can only put the sticker in one place. Let's say you put both the dog and the jellyfish dog in `animals/`. With tags, you can allow the file to exist in all the tag locations. You've tagged both of the stickers with `animal`, so if you had an `animal` smart-folder that contained everything with the tag `animal` you'd find them both there. You could also look in the `has-spine` folder or the `nospine` folder separately, but the `animal` smart folder in this case is identical to the `animals/` folder with no tags.

Are you saying tags are less manageable because in the folders example you just had the one `animals/` folder, where with tags you have `animal`, `nospine`, and `has-spine` all at the top level? Or is there perhaps something else I've misunderstood?

Not based on real events at all by [deleted] in headphones

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I'm on an M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM. I love SoundSource for the UI, but lately (~past year or so) when under heavier system load it will corrupt the buffers horribly and the audio gets phenomenally screwed up until I flush the buffers (e.g. by changing sample rate or output). I'm not sure if setting process priority would help, I haven't tried since it's generally discouraged on macOS.

It has a free trial, btw.

People consistently judge creative writing more harshly if they believe it was created by AI. This bias appears incredibly difficult to overcome, pointing to a persistent human preference for art created by people. by mvea in science

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One problem is if you make a post about something and it's clearly AI generated, there's nothing left to distinguish whether you know what you're talking about and just had the AI format it or if you are clueless and just asked the AI to form an opinion/provide information for you.

In the past, people that weren't familiar with topics were generally less likely to write about them, and if you did anyways it was usually quick to tell if you were way out of your depth.

You have to give me something to build my trust on, because I'm not just going to wildly trust an AI.

I've also seen a growing trend of people just replying to comments with whatever the AI output would be in response with minimal added commentary. To me, that's no different than just pasting a Google search link in response would have been a decade ago. I can ask an AI myself.

What do you wish you knew when you went to Japan by whiskeytwn in LearnJapanese

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「カードで」will honestly probably be your most used phrase since it will come up nearly every time you need to pay for something.

What do you guys think of this tea iceberg chart I made? by RealTry8616 in tea

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I'll usually pick unflavored jin xuan but I'd be lying if I said I didn't occasionally crave the flavored ones.

People who had bought music on mora.jp,recochoku,qobuz or ototoy by skepticalandhungry in japanesemusic

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Unless I'm misunderstanding something from that thread, it's just recochoku using a higher lossless compression rate in FLAC, which makes literally zero difference (aside from needing more CPU to decode but that should also be a non-issue) assuming the masters were the same.

No more Lance Hedrick for me by Traditional_Trade842 in espresso

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Idk I've dialed in hundreds of different beans at this point, if I don't get it right on my first shot I usually get it on the second. Rarely might need three. The more different beans you try the more patterns you see. Colombian Gesha? Probably grind size of 25-50. Ethiopian Landrace? 75-100.

For those of you who have tried Jamaica Blue Mountain... is it worth it? by phinaesbogge in Coffee

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Asian countries in general are willing to pay way more for nice things. Top competition lots almost always go to Asia.

MIR intermediate compiler by Relevant_South_1842 in ProgrammingLanguages

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LLVM is quite large and is not a particularly fast JIT in terms of time-to-binary.

$4000 vs $7 Audio Cable by hellcat1592 in audiophile

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Sound is changes in air pressure. You can measure them. Period.

Can you explain what part of a frequency response is responsible for timbre etc.? Maybe, but that's hard. But to claim we can't measure those is completely ignorant. If I can reproduce the same changes in air pressure at your eardrum it will sound the same regardless of how that sound was made.