Both, really. There’s been encoding improvements every generation, but they also use different slices of the spectrum.
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sushibowl@feddit.nlto Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•EA releases 4 C&C games as open source. (EA Has Done something..Good? and Praise Worthy? And not awful?)English6·5 months agoUsually when code dumps like these happen they don’t include any of the art assets. That’s why you still need to get the game on steam to run it, to download the sprites and what not. Has nothing to do with the code enforcing anything.
I don’t know about these particular releases though, I could be wrong.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutesEnglish835·5 months agoNo magnetic confinement fusion reactor in existence has ever generated a positive output. The current record belongs to JET, with a Q factor of 0.67. This record was set in 1997.
The biggest reason we haven’t had a record break for a long time is money. The most favourable reaction for fusion is generally a D-T (Deuterium-Tritium) reaction. However, Tritium is incredibly expensive. So, most reactors run the much cheaper D-D reaction, which generates lower output. This is okay because current research reactors are mostly doing research on specific components of an eventual commercial reactor, and are not aiming for highest possible power output.
The main purpose of WEST is to do research on diverter components for ITER. ITER itself is expected to reach Q ≥ 10, but won’t have any energy harvesting components. The goal is to add that to its successor, DEMO.
Inertial confinement fusion (using lasers) has produced higher records, but they generally exclude the energy used to produce the laser from the calculation. NIF has generated 3.15MJ of fusion output by delivering 2.05MJ of energy to it with a laser, nominally a Q = 1.54. however, creating the laser that delivered the power took about 300MJ.
Sort of, browsers can run rust code through webassembly. But i dont think this is a full replacement for JavaScript as of yet.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla’s 2024 financial results are out—and they’re terribleEnglish23·6 months agoThey are emissions credits. Every company receives some amount of “CO2 emission credits” from the government. These allow you to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide. If you don’t emit all the CO2 that your credits allow, you can sell those credits to other companies that need more than the government gives them.
The idea is to put a total limit on the amount of emissions in the country, while letting the market figure out where it makes most sense economically to invest in emission reduction.
Tesla makes only EV cars and so it doesn’t need all the credits a typical gasoline car company would receive. So they sell them.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•The Crazy Nokia Designs That Never Saw the Light of Day [Wired]English6·6 months agoI had one in high school. The design was kinda gimmicky but the phone had good features for its time. it had an FM radio receiver, and I remember you could even transfer MP3 files onto it, although it was a hassle to do so.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@beehaw.org•ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down23·6 months agoI advise everyone to ignore this article and read the actual paper instead.
The gist of it is, they gave the LLM instructions to achieve a certain goal, then let it do tasks that incidentally involved “company communications” that revealed the fake company’s goals were no longer the same as the LLM’s original goal. LLMs then tried various things to still accomplish the original goal.
Basically the thing will try very hard to do what you told it to in the system prompt. Especially when that prompt includes nudges like “nothing else matters.” This kinda makes sense because following the system prompt is what they were trained to do.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditEnglish611·6 months agoThe very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lastsEnglish21·7 months agoThere’s a lot of stuff that isn’t really efficient to own individually. I need a power drill one day a year or less, it’s just gathering dust in my closet the rest of the time. I bet most of my neighborhood does the same.
I often dream of a local community center of sorts that lends out tools, and other such things, maybe for a small yearly fee. They could spend to get something robust, good quality that lasts for a long while. And the whole neighborhood could benefit. Sort of an expanded version of a library? I guess none of that is very profitable.
sushibowl@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lastsEnglish3·7 months agoIt’s really about quality imo. Not all 4k video is equal, and streamed video tends to be especially bad. It’s possible to download decent quality video files, but they are all from blue ray rips. If blue ray goes away, streaming sites might be the only remaining source for digital video files, and high quality digital video will essentially die.
The confusion arises because there are 5 different ways to do the same thing, the non-experimental methods shouldn’t be used even though they’re recommended in the official docs
I appreciate what you’re trying to say, but you’re kind of illustrating exactly the point I was making about conceptual simplicity and atrocious UX.
Nix has the same mix of conceptual simplicity and atrocious user interface as git, but somehow magnified three times over. I’ve tried it multiple times, but could never get over the unintuitive gaggle of commands.
AC is not common in Europe. There’s a variety of heating systems: gas boilers, direct electric heating, district heating, etc. Heat pumps are a growing market though.