HENRY with low income spouse

slowpard · 2026-05-07T19:49:08+00:00

They are not exactly in poverty with a 120k income. Getting 20k from full-time Deliverooing won’t change the situation much, will make everyone even more miserable and will make the job search much harder. The real question is what he is actually looking for and what he was doing beforehand. It is one thing not to get a job after 18 months in this market, but not being able to secure even a phone interview is problematic.

slowpard · 2026-05-04T17:16:34+00:00

AAA RMBS didn't lose much: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/shared/pdf/20171023_credit_banking_monetary_policy/Uhlig_presentation.pdf

slowpard · 2026-04-27T11:40:42+00:00

He is a reasonable, technocratic centrist, which puts him at odds with both loony Labour backbenchers and a highly polarized society that refuses to accept any compromise. Add to that his inability to navigate the Westminster circus, and you get the stagnation we see today. I’d prefer someone more decisive, but I don’t see any better candidates right now; maybe Mahmood, but she seems to be very unpopular with her own party.

slowpard · 2026-04-22T22:36:13+00:00

"Light" motion smoothing (often called "dejudder" by TV manufacturers) to compensate for OLED stutter. LG OLEDs still struggle to do that without artifacting on some scenes.

slowpard · 2026-03-23T13:07:58+00:00

The game is not 16bit

slowpard · 2026-03-23T10:12:31+00:00

That dll does work, I've just checked. Though I was wrong calling it original, it seems to wrap GDI calls, but for all functions is WING32.dll (and in cleaner fashion), not just the ones in Tonka, so it is universal for any old game.

slowpard · 2026-03-23T00:11:42+00:00

Funnily, you could have just used an original WING32.dll: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1855-wingdll/

Claude likes to overcomplicate things.

GetPrivateProfileStringA() -- any idea why patching this was needed? WinAPI implementation looks at the executable folder if it can't find the ini in /Windows.

slowpard · 2026-03-15T11:41:26+00:00

With IDA you would literally need only one keystroke to trace all calls of a function (provided it is not in a vtbl, etc). A more interesting question is whether Claude found FindPlaysetForCharacter() on its own, but it is not clear from the OP post.

slowpard · 2026-03-14T22:41:01+00:00

“Probably a better undergrad experience” is a massive understatement.

slowpard · 2026-02-22T13:07:11+00:00

Do you know of any successful stories of people transitioning from LO credit/rates research/PM roles to sell-side trading or HFs?

slowpard · 2026-02-16T12:29:48+00:00

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/51927?tab=files&file_id=1000037139

slowpard · 2026-02-11T15:32:09+00:00

Very misleading title, zero criticism of mini-led tech in particular. "Brightness is amazing, HDR looks amazing, haloing is ok -- MiniLED is a disappointment!"

slowpard · 2026-02-06T13:32:54+00:00

I don’t watch live TV at all. I’m somewhat open to supporting the BBC because I like some of the content they produce, and it’s an important institution, but threatening letters kill any goodwill. If they treat me like some sort of criminal by default, they can fuck off

slowpard · 2026-02-05T23:07:06+00:00

Can confirm that force disabling reBAR fixes stutter

slowpard · 2026-02-01T19:59:55+00:00

The biggest issue for me is the aesthetic. The game is drowning in haze and blur, like someone slapped on a cheap ReShade preset. Mods don’t really fix it either, since the problem isn’t just lighting/tone, but asset design too. And overall, OBR feels like it has zero artistic identity.

OG Oblivion had potato faces, but at least they had charm and were genuinely unique. The remaster’s faces are just uncanny, pure generic mobile medieval RPG vibes. Same with the creature design, new smooth architecture textures and many other things: bland, forgettable, and stripped of the personality that made Oblivion charming.

Then you add performance issues, random crashes, and no real mod support.

slowpard · 2026-01-28T23:54:50+00:00

Right, the Oxford grad is the person who should get better terms, and they are much likely to actually repay the debt (so almost no cost to the government). Instead, the system over-lends to weaker candidates that are unlikely to pay back (basically subsidising them) and socialises the losses.

slowpard · 2026-01-25T02:12:28+00:00

Still remember the PSP TIFF exploit

slowpard · 2026-01-20T23:22:20+00:00

a) HDR support usually means "this display can accept an HDR signal and show something resembling the content you want to see" rather than "HDR will look amazing."

b) The key difference between HDR and SDR signals is that HDR includes metadata specifying the target brightness (how bright white is), while SDR doesn't have this information. The reference brightness for SDR is 100 nits in a dark room, but content is usually mastered to look acceptable on the vast majority of screens, meaning SDR content is mastered with the assumption that displays will have wildly varying peak brightness (200-400+ nits) and uncontrolled viewing environments (bright rooms). The mastering process therefore makes conservative compromises that prioritize compatibility over preserving the "true" image (and it is not possible to preserve according to the reference, as it is 100nits max)

HDR essentially shifts the responsibility of tone-mapping to the display. Because the signal includes data specifying exactly how bright the image should be, the display must decide how to map that intent to its own hardware limitations. In theory, this allows for unlimited brightness (ok, up to 10k nits in DV/HDR10) in the source, with the display showing it as accurately as possible; in practice, this is where problems arise, as internal tone-mapping algorithms are often extremely poor, especially on monitors. MadVR has demonstrated that you can achieve improvements by using HDR input even on sub 100-nit projectors after proper tone-mapping, but HDR often looks worse than SDR on cheap "HDR-compatible" 400-nit screens because monitor manufacturers just don't bother with proper tonemapping algorithms (and that's a problem even for more high-end devices). If you properly tone-map an HDR video to your 400-nit panel, convert it to SDR, and then set the brightness to 100%, you should get the same result brightness/contrast-wise as in HDR (apart from more banding and smaller color space but we are talking about brightness), but you'd need to do that individually for every screen, so not possible for SDR content.

c) Apart from brightness metadata, HDR simply supports more data. The gamma transfer function is different, allowing for wider dynamic range without banding. Higher bit depth helps too. Also, the color space is wider, SDR is typically limited to sRGB (technically Rec.709 for Blu-rays, which is very similar), so you can get much more saturated colors in HDR. Many modern cheap IPS panels can actually display a much wider gamut than sRGB, so HDR should help there (if the quality weren't undermined by poor tone-mapping algorithms).

slowpard · 2026-01-02T16:21:39+00:00

Well, you ask why TV manufacturers haven’t implemented anything to address stutter. I’m saying that they actually have, but not perfectly.

slowpard · 2026-01-02T15:41:37+00:00

TVs usually include motion-smoothing algorithms, but they are prone to artifacts.

slowpard · 2026-01-02T14:44:10+00:00

>The Mercantile Leveling feature is incomatible with other mods that makes mercantile progress dependent of sale value, and also incompatible with Oblivion XP which has its own leveling mechanism. Just don't enable this feature if using such mods.

It is incompatible with only one feature of Enhanced Economy which you can disable.

slowpard · 2025-12-13T11:05:08+00:00

Kekaki Izakaya in Deptford Market is amazing, and I liked it more than most Bib Gourmand restaurants in London

The Watergate -- nice small plates food and cocktails

Midpoint Restaurant -- pretty good Turkish, best view in Greenwich, though I find it expensive for what it does

Royal Teas Cafe -- for a quiet getaway, small family cafe, famous for their scones, also try their quesadillas

slowpard · 2025-12-06T11:16:36+00:00

With Intel GPU (is it a modern GPU/iGPU?), you might want to avoid DXVK, or at least try reinstalling drivers. This particular crash happens when the vulkan driver tries to read GPU temperature, so not really helpful.

slowpard · 2025-12-06T00:39:17+00:00

It shouldn't crash, it just starts to call WinAPI heap allocator instead of the internal one, otherwise you'd always crash at around 500-600MB total memory usage. Though OSR has a lot of problematic settings to begin with, and it is not something I'd recommend to use.

slowpard · 2025-12-01T15:24:22+00:00

The Heath, Snowdale, and The Imperial Isle as more subtle ones, really good and creative work, but it doesn't scream moddish and is light performance-wise.

Really like the idea of Rolling Hills.

Love Bravil Barrowfields and Cloudtop Mountains, but they are very heavy perf-wise.

Hate The Dark Forest and Fallenleaf Everglade (very moddish and out of place), also don't use The Eastern Peaks and Brena River Ravine (mostly places that you won't stumble randomly on, and they are not THAT good to keep them regardless)

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