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Re:Pirating the Pirates on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:44PM (#49883348)
I was watching lawrence of arabia recently, and was thinking about similar stuff. There's a few scenes (scenes around the: "my name is for my friends" and the echoey canyon in particular) where lawrence looks almost like a photorealistic game character.

I still don't know what exactly caused this but most likely a multitude of factors are in play. - Deserts are bright, so a bright light was used to illuminate his face, causing his eyes to sparkle. - Streaming from Netflix and compression / decompression might have eaten away some of the high frequency detail

I also learned that they shot the movie in a bigger film stock, so the digitized version of this movie is highly regarded.

If anyone has any idea as to why these scenes in particular look off, i would love to learn more.

It feels like all these models are missing a long horizon orchestrator of some kind. Humans don't think in a single thread, they have thoughts that appear, pause and disappear.

The reason humans don't go into a doom loop is because of this ability of other thoughts to interject and say, no this is stupid.

Re:1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:02AM (#48380102)
> if you had some other XSS in a webview that you can get a victim to open, you get effectively full RCE on their computer.

Github creds or the computer, can't decide which one is worse.

> Nearly all air molecules were once part of a dinosaur fart.

While it is plausible that at least a handful of molecules (out of the sextillions) in a breath you take passed through a dinosaur, i don't think that qualifies at "Nearly all".

Re:Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:38AM (#47137719)
I could not sign up, because "email rate limit exceeded" but i was wondering if it had a feature to probe the voltage at a certain node.
The default size is 512x512 how can i change it?

edit: just changing the values on the canvas tag in inspect element worked!

Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:47PM (#33850703)
Just amazing!
Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem on Monday August 22, 2022 @05:47AM (#32549329)
Has any effort been made to remove/remedy "all sorts of binary data"?