overzeetop

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[–] overzeetop 2 points 1 year ago

I guess I’ll just keep an eye on it, but I may wait a few extra days before sending in my old phone / trade in, just in case.

[–] overzeetop 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's quite the myopic view of US national politics. Biden can't stop Netanyaho from performing escalatio on Gaza than he can force Macron to limit France's trade coziness with China, affect the interaction between Pedro Sanchez and Catalan separatists, or require Erdogan to admit Sweden into NATO. He has influence, but he doesn't hold veto power over a foreign leader.

[–] overzeetop 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mmmm, no. I heard that Biden and his ultra-centrist party have done nothing to stop deforestation in the Messia region of Mozambique. I'd rather have Trump and vote my conscience than allow globalists like Biden to ruin the Earth.

(just in case... /s)

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Samsung QN TVs do VRR up to 144Hz (with a 4k input signal) and up to 60Hz with an 8K signal.

I intend to partition the screen into three zones - a status monitor in the bottom 400-500 pixels (newsfeed, media player, fancy clock), a 2100-2400 pixel high working space in the middle, and a planning and notification band at the top 1000 pixels for calendar, email, phone, tasks. Gaining a 7600 pixel wide workspace without a middle (or 1/3) bezels will be explicitly valuable for my workflow, especially since I'm working with large-format (A1) PDFs on a regular basis.

WRT refresh rate, high refresh in office work is highly overrated. For or 3-4 years I ran dual 4k/30Hz for office work off of a Surface Pro tablet and - for office and CAD tasks at a viewing distance of 36" - the experience was indistinguishable from running at 60Hz. 100ppi at 36" viewing distance (my desk) is about the limit of my usable acuity* and a good target for me. I can see jaggies in single pixel lines of moderate intensity (grays) on black backgrounds (most of my CAD work). They mostly disappear with bright lines (bleed) and are invisible in black on white (word processing and PDF documents) and full color (photos).

* not too surprising , really, since 100ppi @ 36" is 1 arcminute resolution, or close to 20/20 vision.

[–] overzeetop 3 points 1 year ago

Do you experience time then? Seems that no collision is likely in a mostly empty, but finite universe.

Every golfer knows that trees are 90% air, and yet the chance of a golf ball passing through one without hitting anything is demonstrably zero.

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I remember wondering about that on my last major upgrade over a decade ago. I’ve currently got a 3070, which isn’t going to be doing any 8k native gaming for sure, but will run my office apps at 8k/60.

I admit the resolution seems a wee bit ridiculous for most things, but I work in architecture and regularly need to cross reference 2 or 3 D size/A1 prints simultaneously. 8k wide lets me (just barely) read fine print on two sets without zooming in, but even 30 Hz is perfectly acceptable. First world problems…

[–] overzeetop 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's not exclusively peer to peer, so there must be infrastructure, no?

[–] overzeetop 0 points 1 year ago

Oh, it definitely does. A copy does not need to be verbatim - derivative works, of which even an inaccurately memorized copy would certainly apply - to be infringing. Otherwise a re-encoded copy of a video - having been entirely changed through the encoding process - would be a new work. When I sing a song from memory, it's effectively reproducing the equivalent recorded copy from my brain. Of course, the performance is yet a new copy - and I can be sued if I were to change the lyrics or notes outside of the specific contract under which I perform (performance) or record (mechanical). Broadway show owners do this all the time (prohibit changes of words and characters, among other alterations) - and generally they win in court if challenged, shutting down shows and cancelling performance rights

[–] overzeetop 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would not the act of memorization an infringing copy? Copyright itself does not allow a provision where a non-ephemeral copy may be stored, regardless of the medium or duration. You would, of course, have the positive defense of fair use - if you were sued for your infringing copy, you could mount a defense that the storage falls under the fair use provisions, but you would still be required to defend yourself at your own expense. Would it make a difference if we, one day, developed a method of reading memories. Someone with a photographic memory could then be used to recreate the work from their copy - clearly a violation, and hence the storage is a violation (excepting backup/fairuse - which is still an infringement, but a special case of permitted infringement)

[–] overzeetop 2 points 1 year ago

does it mean it won’t ask all the others and just assume they want to?

You're close. It won't ask non EEA users, but it will require they do so, much like Apple requires that you either have or create an account to use there products. There is no want/do-not-want, only mandatory participation in information collection and their push marketing channel.

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago

Write your name and address on a standard letter paper along with your request. Add to that a cashier's check for $4M and take it to the CEO of Verve Therapeutics, sign a few papers see some ~~quacks~~ doctors who will provide the necessary certifications, and I'll bet he can get you into the next trial phase.

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

big carbon capture plant

I didn't realize they had one, or even cared that much about it (since their power sources are something like 99.9x carbon free). I knew there was a research site that was doing deep drilling on the peninsula, but not the purpose.

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