Justin
(Justin)
Tech nerd from Sweden
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Ah, fair enough. I seem to have misrembered nifty 50 lenses as being specifically for portraits.
Strange technical writing in this review, and a misleading headline. The phone has a 35mm equivalent focal length lens, it doesn’t have a “35mm” full-frame sensor.
A 35mm primary lens is unusual for phone cameras, as usually the primary lens is a wide-angle lens, but 35mm is still quite wide. It isn’t very different from the iPhone’s focal length eqv of 26mm.
In terms of using it as a zoom lens, typically portraits are taken with 50mm lenses, and the iPhone’s “telephoto” lens is 77mm, so 35mm isn’t very narrow, either.
Also, Nubia seems to be a brand from ZTE. It sounds like a Nokia ripoff, and aren’t ZTE banned in the US? Is this phone the result of the CCP dodging trade restrictions? That seems more interesting than a slightly narrower camera lens.
Aren’t coops basically democratic condos? In Sweden we have “bostadsrätt” which are condos governed by a democratic resident association. They’re good for democratic control over housing, but they still require a mortgage and they’re still subject to market speculation. Some of the apartments can be rentals, but that still means you have a landlord, just that your landlord is your neighbors.
Having the city or the state as your landlord seems like it would be more ideal, or at least a balance of coops and public housing.
Yeah, I mean Rocky Raccoon is legendary. I know it’s one of me and my friends’ favorite songs. A big ballad masterpiece. I guess Tommy and Rocky Raccoon were both part of a rock opera trend in 1968, not really sure.
The lyrics are amazing, with lots of double meanings, stylistic characters, and cinematic dialogue. The folksy country feeling and Paul’s affected southern accent is classic. The snare drum when rocky gets shot. The twist at the end with the song ending with the listener not really knowing if Rocky dies or not. The song also inspired the Guardians of the Galaxy character, Rocket Raccoon.
I honestly disagree that the Beatles were putting out “filler”. Much of Beatles’ lesser known stuff wasn’t filler, it was just not as popular. There’s some real quality and ingenuity in the vast majority of Beatles songs. There’s definitely some weaker songs that could be polished a bit, but even those songs often were inspirational for the entire industry.
Honestly, name any song and it’s probably well known for something.
Yeah I mean, most westerners have never heard of wukong and aren’t really interested in a soulslike game centered on him from a brand new studio. It’s cool that Chinese devs are starting to release games internationally, but this concept was never going to be that popular outside of Asia. The fact that they shot themselves in the foot with their advertising didn’t help.
Gaming revenue is mostly down due to the console cycle, GPU revenue is pretty flat.
The datacenter revenue is amazing, but the question is how much of that is due to Zen 4 Epyc, and how much of that is due to the AI bubble. I think they said ~$1B of revenue was in MI300 AI-market GPUs. So probably only about $500M or so growth in Epyc CPUs.
For gamers? I think this quarterly report shows that AMD is getting more and more popular in the DIY CPU space, which will be made extremely clear after the Intel earnings call tomorrow.
Arrowhead is a very small company. Company details are actually public knowledge in Sweden, and you can see that arrowhead only has 4 board members, two of them being the CEO and vice CEO: https://www.allabolag.se/5567796544/befattningar
Crunchbase seems to think they don’t have any venture capital, so it’s possible that the board members are the only shareholders here, but who knows.
Sure, eyes dont have a “global frame refresh” like computers do. That’s why we can tell the difference between 24hz and 60hz video. Every eye cell is excited independently and continuously.
Still, there’s a physical limit for frame time where 99% of humans wouldn’t notice a full screen flash 99.9% of the time. Being able to shake your head around with a 1000hz vr headset and not perceive and motion blur from sample and hold seems pretty close to that limit.
AMD’s c cores aren’t quite the same as Intel’s e cores. Intel’s e-cores are 1/4 of the size of their P cores, while AMD’s c cores are about the same size as their standard cores, but a bit more square shaped geometrically.
Intel’s e cores are completely different architectures from their p cores, while the only difference between AMD’s cores are a bit less cache and a bit lower frequency.
Intel’s are like comparing an Raspberry pi core to a full x86 core, while AMD’s is like a lower binned regular core.
AMD has “big” cores, too. Their 3d vcache models trade multithreaded performance for more cache. Their “3 core tiers” approach is very obvious in their server line up:
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-bergamo-epyc-9754-cloud-native-sp5/
I remember people talking about 1000hz being the holy grail for vr headsets, though so it seems like there’s more consensus on 1000 Hz being a good limit. Frame time is just the inverse of hz.
But yeah ive personally only used 144hz, I think I could see a difference with 204hz, but I’m not sure if I’d be able to discern 480 or 1000hz outside of maybe VR.
I appreciate that Riot at least took the time to consider supporting Linux and explaining the situation to the community. Unfortunate that I won’t be able to play League of Legends anymore but I guess there’s not that much momentum behind a community of only ~800 daily users. Looking forward to switching to DotA.
making derogatory comments about people’s penises is not feminist