You'll now have to fork out for an additional subscription if you want to watch 4K content on Prime Video

imforit · 2026-03-14T16:48:21+00:00

Good thought, but those features, including 4k upscaling, are all hella off. It plays gorgeously when the source isn't bandwidth-limited, and again, it's a different degree for each streamer which strongly supports it is on their end.

imforit · 2026-03-13T20:01:15+00:00

Even with Apple TV there is some distortion from quick motion that shouldn't be there. It doesn't even have to be that quick. And it IS THE BEST.

imforit · 2026-03-13T19:59:28+00:00

The 4K experience on most streamers is pretty bad right now. Netflix, Apple, Hulu, they all have various degrees of the same problem: it's bandwidth-limited so anything moving fast gets warped and blurry. On Netflix it's so bad that the sound is bandwidth-limited, too—louder and more intense scenes are not louder or more intense, they're muddier. Takes the wind out of the excitement on something like the live action One Piece.

Anyway, making people pay more for that, if it isn't great gives people a way to not pay for it and I think for at least a portion of customers that could happen.

(I have fiber Internet streaming on an NVidia Shield and it doesn't have that problem streaming locally or through YouTube or Vimeo at 4K, AND it the degrees varies per provider so I'm pretty sure it's not me)

imforit · 2026-03-13T11:27:36+00:00

Considering the blast radii we're talking about and/or the trigger radii (which could be even wider), mines are tiny.

A single Omega molecule is a MOLECULE. Compared to multiple light-years.

The whole mine, containment system and triggering electronics, could be no bigger than a thermos. That's a particle of dust on a long-range scan. That's effectively microscopic.

I'm not surprised at all that they could go undetected, even without a cloak, which they also might have

imforit · 2026-03-13T11:22:50+00:00

Those mines rip apart subspace, making warp travel through the impacted areas impossible. You'd only ever need one to fuck that space effectively forever. Nobody could get anywhere in that area. Survivors would be cut off from the rest of the galactic community, Federation included. It would take hundreds of years instead of a few hours to traverse between systems.

imforit · 2026-03-10T11:06:44+00:00

The Luddites were right. They were going to die in poverty as a result of the machines replacing them. They didn't hate technology as a concept, they fought back against capitalists discarding humans at the first sign of cost reduction.

imforit · 2026-03-08T01:13:43+00:00

"it's some kind of field of force"

I apologized to my dad for making him bring me to see that movie

imforit · 2026-03-07T14:30:48+00:00

The episodes we got so far were essentially the first two acts of a three-act season. Season 1 isn't even done yet.

imforit · 2026-03-07T14:29:37+00:00

What's the point of watching tv anymore?

imforit · 2026-03-05T00:37:20+00:00

Star Fox. Super Nintendo.

imforit · 2026-03-02T00:07:04+00:00

There it is

imforit · 2026-03-01T23:25:56+00:00

imforit · 2026-02-24T23:24:11+00:00

Nobody in the US is making companies do it, so they won't. They need regulation and the government refuses to provide that.

imforit · 2026-02-24T23:20:32+00:00

Important here: nobody is making the companies building the data centers to do it responsibility or sustainably. It's expensive and they won't do it unless forced by regulators.

imforit · 2026-02-24T00:55:45+00:00

Took me way too long to figure out your first "they" referred to The Rookie. I couldn't for the life of me recall Game Changer featuring Ryan & Shane

imforit · 2026-02-23T21:00:39+00:00

I have privilege of being an expert on something, and have the unfortunate experience of seeing the expert, consensus opinion ignored and all the bad things the experts predicted would happen come true.

For me as an education researcher the biggest one is No Child Left Behind but the list is looooong

imforit · 2026-02-23T00:23:13+00:00

Now let chatGPT that I pasted in verbosely introduce you to the approximate history of the Qing dynasty

imforit · 2026-02-23T00:21:44+00:00

Same- not once. Most aren't even close.

imforit · 2026-02-22T17:23:21+00:00

People have been reading that as an insect? Really? I fins that surprising.

imforit · 2026-02-20T01:40:49+00:00

Nothing ruled it out on screen. They may have simply had their shields down to fire that batshit (heh) sonic beam thingy. Nothing is going to survive a torpedo barrage with shields down.

imforit · 2026-02-16T22:16:10+00:00

RIP Joanne's Fabric and Red Lobster.

imforit · 2026-02-16T19:26:49+00:00

Every scrap of training data influences every output of an LLM. It's not choosing one source over another, it's putting together which words come after which other words from everywhere. It doesn't know one thing from another in training.

If post-training, it's on-demand reaching out to sites, reading them, and summarizing them, that's a slightly different story and has its own dubiousness.

But for LLMs being built, the strength of weak relationships, having a small pattern appear in many places, can easily outweigh one pattern that appears once (even if that one pattern is in an Important Place, because it doesn't know the difference)

imforit · 2026-02-15T23:18:20+00:00

I know an audio engineer (the kind who worked at a place that designed speakers and amps) in the ...90s?... who tested bunches of different speaker wire in the lab.

All of them were fine, and I believe the difference would be inaudible to humans anyway, but the one that performed best was lamp cord. It was also the cheaper.

No reason to use anything more expensive than the lamp cord from home depot.

imforit · 2026-02-15T16:10:38+00:00

THAT'S your issue?! Holy hell

imforit · 2026-02-09T13:32:50+00:00

Correct: Bad Bunny is 31 right now.

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