testaccount372920

Sounds like these strikes are really having an effect

Probably some of the reasons other commenters mentioned, but also it’s a lot easier to not extend an agreement than to cancel it.

Hell yeah, holding the ceos etc accountable

Which, although they don’t improve conditions for the workers, are also expensive

DLSS is essentially an advanced interpolation algorithm, it makes a guess of what should be in between two know pixel values. This can be very useful for human operators who need to look at the data. It also has the advantage that you only need a trained model and one image frame at a time. Some ‘superresolution’ methods essentially do this, but ideally you don’t use this until after you’ve applied mathematically correct techniques.

Superresolution methods exist in many forms. Basically all of them require either some prior knowlegde (or assumption) of what you’re looking at or it takes a lot of data. But once you have this, you can go beyond the optical resolution of your system in a mathematically correct way, you don’t have to guess!

Some examples:

• Lens correction: it’s possible to determine how imperfections in your lens affect the image, then correct for this. With this prior lens knowledge your images will be nearly as good as those from a theoretical perfect lens. However, you’re still limited by the (diffraction limit) laws of physics, regardless of how (im)perfect your lens is.
• Deconvolution: from physics it’s known how light diffracts (bends) and how this leads to optical limitations. Through deconvolution you can undo this. This takes a lot of guess work to find the correct solution, but once you have the solution, you can check that it’s mathematically correct (it’s a bunch of fancy integrals).
• Using information of multiple pixels v1: if an object in your image consists or more than one pixel, you have more information to determine where exactly this object is. If you know the shape of the object (e.g. a circle) you can make a fit to it and determine some properties extremely accurately (e.g. the circle center of a 1 μm particle can routinely be determined to a 10 nm resolution by a microscope that has an optical resolution of 200 nm). This method requires prior knowledge of the shape! Planes and oil storage tanks have known shapes…
• Using information of multiple pixels v2: theoretically you just need more information to go beyond the optical resolution. This can be done by taking many images (from slightly different positions?) of the same field of view. I don’t know how this works, but I have no doubt that there are people doing this.

In my memory, which to be honest is quite limited, it was uncontroversial to say thay autonomous robots should not be used to kill people. Non-autonomous robots, such as Ukraine seems to be using, are essentially nothing more than an extension of modern arms, but one where the person ‘wielding’ the weapon is in a relatively safe place.

Oh no! Anyways…

I’m really saddened though by the amount of needless destruction of resources and life that this war causes.

I’m pretty sure it’s not a requirement (e.g. Poland buying tanks from South Korea), but it is of course strongly incenitivised and NATO members (mainly usa) undoubtedly put pressure on other members to buy internally. The pressure will fall away and the incentives will flip around to not buying from the usa

Invaders seems more fitting

Mini Putin needs to go

Wow, Vance maybe gets a chance to be useful for once…

A production rate of 2000 drone interceptors per day seems pretty good. It is quite incredible to see how fast Ukraine has innovated and set up production facilities when it comes to drones.

2009 maybe doesn’t sound super long ago, but it’s 17 years, that’s almost the midpoint between now and when operating systems became mainstream.

The USA is rapidly burning through munitions that Ukraine desperately needs. I suspect the loss of those anti air weapons etc is much worse for Ukraine than the small reduction in drones launched at them.

Both show Orban starting to rise again or at least not decline anymore :( Come on Hungarian people, you have a chance to get rid of the wannabe dictator!

The man who wanted to make peace in many places in the world and get a peace price for it, has decided to start yet another war in the Middle East…

There’s plenty of perfectly fine distributions out there. Mint is an easy choice, easy to get started with, big community that probably already has answered the questions you might have and otherwise you can ask them. Many more gaming focused people use Bazzite, not sure what it offers on top of a basic, well working environment.

The Nvidea graphics card could cause issues since drivers tend to not be supported well. Again, you’re most likely to find help for the bigger distros such as Mint and Bazzite.

Regardless of which distro you choose, just try it and see how it goes. Dual boot can be a nice starting point (but make sure you get the partitioning right before installing anything!).

So far the USA still provides a competitive funding environment, despite the budget cuts. I suspect that the increasingly limited academic freedom due to the fascist government will become the greater driver of migration.

I’m under the impression that not many people have moved yet and that it’s mostly people returning home (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, they’re great researchers too), but of course acquiring funding takes a while. We’ll have to see how it continues in the next few years.

I think patience has already run out. It is rather a calculated approach of identifying what does and what doesn’t depend on the USA, and setting up alternatives for those things that do depend on the USA for example through trade deals (Mercosur, India) and investing in independent tech (funding open source projects, governments moving to native tech alternatives).

In the past year the EU has found out that it depends scarily much on the USA, but also that it can be more independent than expected while also having serious economic leverage.

The idea of the Netherlands and Belgium merging is completely detached from reality, adding Luxemburg to that picture makes even less sense. Economically it could be great with the combined harbors of Antwerp and Rotterdam. But historically and culturally it clashes, even between The Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.