That must be laughable quality. 1080p blurays easily clock in at more than 22Mbit/s for grainy content, the spec allows 40Mbit/s. And that's not even including the audio.
UHD discs must deliver at least 82Mbit/s.
And a lot of content is not even using the things that UHD standards allow to deliver (4:4:4 chroma instead of 4:2:0, higher framerates).
So even if they're delivering in HEVC is suspect that the compression is not source-transparent.
Netflix has pretty good compression but yeah this is why I canceled my 4k subscription when they announced they were raising prices. I think 4k is currently $4/mo more and I have a gigabit connection. If they are going to charge 30% more for the privilege they shouldn't compress it to the point where it's not appreciably different from upscaling 1080p.
Streaming services really frustrate me for that reason. I get that bandwidth costs money but when e.g. Play Movies advertises a movie rental for $5 but when that actually means $5 for SD (who the hell even uses SD) but $10 for UHD when it's compressed to shit, what service are you actually providing me?
'Well, turn it on!' is certainly one solution, but of course enabling JavaScript doesn't just let me view images (something HTTP & HTML do just fine anyway), but also enables execution of potential malware, tracking & other nastiness.
Not the person you were replying to, but if they want to sabotage my experience because I don't wish to be tracked or infected with malware, then that's their business I guess. I hope they don't expect me to think delightful thoughts about them for doing it.
They could just load the images and videos without the need for javascript. We know that they can do this, because they specifically made it show low-res versions for those without javascript. They went out of their way to handle this admittedly niche user base already, purposefully to make their experience worse.
Most people who don't have Javascript are using very old, antiquated browsers. The NYT cares enough about its lower-income and foreign readers to make it fail gracefully. I think that sending low-res photos makes infinitely more sense.
As someone who owns a $1300 Fuji x100F, color me impressed. The only thing really separating my Fuji from the iPhone 8 is the level of detail when zoomed in, otherwise the images just look great.
The performance of these smartphone cameras is getting closer and closer to DSLR's nowadays. However the level of zoomed in detail still can't compete, but most consumers don't care anyway because most just want to take pics of their food and post on instagram.
That seems wrong... Your x100F has an APS-C sensor and is going to benefit from better dynamic range and low light performance for it. The iPhone can use its auto HDR magic to recover dynamic range but that's gotta have an impact with moving subjects. The noise is accounted for by noise reduction and that will cause mushiness and loss of detail. I haven't seen an analysis, but I'd also imagine that the x100F is going to have a vastly more performant lens in terms of things like overall sharpness, microcontrast, and focal plane performance.
The iPhone 8 is doing some post processor magic to do lighting and bokeh in a way that is difficult to replicate either physically or in post. This is really nice! That said, real bokeh will be hard to beat even with AI as it depends a lot on the three-dimensional information available at the time of capture. AI will have to re-create that stuff and will always be an approximation. Of course, your x100F isn't going to be a bokeh monster, but other cameras at that level compare here.
You're right in that for IG food shots it's never going to matter and that's great because the iPhone created a golden age of photography, tbh. But it's silly to say that this hardware can compare to pro hardware. If you're shooting with pro hardware it's because you're going to push performance in some way or another and those are the times that an iPhone can't keep up.
That said, these AI improvements can help push performance as they improve and I'd love to see Apple work with a camera company to incorporate them.
>> But it's silly to say that this hardware can compare to pro hardware.
Yes, that is true for people who have some knowledge. For most non-photography-buffs, the comparison goes as far as "hey, that looks as good as the photo Uncle Joe shot on his DSLR". It's a very superficial comparison, but for a layperson, perception is reality.
I would liken it to the concept of "virtual surround sound". Of course, it's not really surround sound, but if the listener's ears and brain are tricked enough to think it's surround sound, it's surround sound to them.
I have the x100T and I'm considering selling it before it's too late. I love that camera, but now it's close enough to something that is in my pocket all the time.
As a longtime DotA player and someone who's following the pro scene, this is very impressive. Especially considering how it's beaten Sumail, widely regarded as one of the best 1v1 players in the world. Can't wait to see what OpenAI have in store a year from now for 5v5.
>The bot didn't recognize items on ground so he expended Mana picked up mango then killed. So yes, he won, but it was more gimping the bot.
That's insane that he figured out how to beat it so quickly. I feel there are other ways to cheese it too. Like maybe survive until 6 -> rush shadow amulet -> smoke -> activate and walk into lane during fade time -> ult when the wave/bot is on top of you. I bet the bot has never seen invisibility and wouldn't know what to do
Hey just be glad it's not another one of those even clunkier nodejs "desktop" apps
To be honest though, calibre just works for me. Sure it's not a super optimized c++ project but there's so many things it can do. See I just need to transfer ebooks to my kindle, and it does it perfectly every time.
This is pretty good to hear honestly. Competition is always good for the consumer. This rivalry between Discord and Slack will only make things better for everyone.
I've always had a respect for anyone who has a math major. In my experience (as a comp sci major) there's a strong correlation between being a math major and being smart.
Even if the parts were very optimized price/performance wise, would it still be a good idea? I would imagine that each place has a specific biome that is suitable for specific crops, each person has a different amount of acrerage, etc.
I dont see the point of this. If I were to start a farm I'd buy some farming books on amazon, do my research, and buy the best equipment part per part. I dont see why anyone would want to spend 50k on some random farming kit.
Exactly this. In facebook I am friends with everyone I know from high school. It feels depressing to go on facebook nowadays, because it's just littered with political vomit and rehashed memes. In Instagram I follow only my current high school friends, and generally people that have cool lives. Going on instagram feels much better.
I'm doing art as a career after my comp sci degree and instagram is just perfect for me. The fact that instagram is pics only works very well for visual artists, and I can easily share my work in a relaxed sort of way. There's also tons of other artists on instagram and the way it's set up I can easily see their pieces of artwork much more easily than twitter/facebook.
Also Facebook is a dead zone now. It's literally pointless political junk and rehashed memes shared by "friends". The only usage I have for it is to message my old friends.
Snapchat is also starting to die out ever since Instagram implemented their own "snapchat" feature. IMO Instagram just does it better than snapchat. Snapchat is just too bloated for me. See with instagram I can follow someone like Kanye West, see his life in cool pics and his "snaps" in a convenient way.
