u/regular_lamp

You can do that in Europe too. How do you think people get to international shooting competitions like the ones at the olympics?

They always were. "Oh look, this rectangle with a screen and a camera is mildly different specs than this other rectangle. How exciting."???

I missed out on 13 and 20 since neither were really a thing where I live. I guess I borrowed VHS from a library if that counts?

At first I was wondering if he is left handed? Switching hands after pulling the pin is nuts, right? That's like using you left hand to hold a gun by the trigger while using you right to operate the safety. I guess he did that because he holds the grenade the wrong way around to begin with which puts the pin on the opposite side.

In compulsory training in Switzerland I had it absolutely hammered into me that you firmly hold the grenade in your throwing hand with the lever/spoon in you palm before pulling the pin and then you immediately throw it. You never "handle" it after pulling the pin.

This goes to the heart of OPs question. RAW formats don't have a consistent meaning the way manufacturers use them other than the letters in the name. And the manufacturers largely don't document their inner workings either. They are just vendor specific mystery formats based on the "trust me bro" promises of marketing.

Sometimes it even depends on the mechanism creating a specific format. BRAW out of a Blackmagic camera does adjust WB equivalently to doing it in camera. Recording BRAW from a FX3 externally on the other hand doesn't. You can adjust the WB in say Resolve but it won't reproduce the behavior of making the same adjustment in camera.

So everyone on the internet seems to have their own definition of what counts as "real RAW" in a gif vs jif type debate that the manufactureres are amusingly silent about.

Taxes are literally filling out a work sheet according to written instructions. School DOES teach you that. Exhaustively. Yet somehow people seem to not realize that because no one shoved a lesson explicitly titled "taxes" down their brainstem.

Even a leisurely pace on a bike is probably around 80W which is like four times the power of a typical fast charger and would charge a phone that could take it in less than 15 minutes. So it would be more than enough for that purpose.

That's not really why this is not viable though, right? I assume you don't use your exercise bike 2minutes at a time? Every mildly fit human could charge a phone by leisurely pedaling for like 20-30minutes.

A toaster, like anything that produces significant heat, needs dramatically more power than a phone.

In that video 700W... A phone fast charger is about 20W which is laughably low wattage on an exercise bike. I guess the bigger practicality issue is that it would take however long a phone needs to charge. And such small amounts of electricity are so trivially cheap that adding a generator to bike would never be financially worthwhile.

Charging a phone 100% every day is about 20Wh*365=7.3kWh. Lets say 10kWh per year to account for some inefficiency. So an annual cost of 2-3$ depending on where you live.

Incidentally toasting two slices of bread is a good energy equivalent of a full phone charge.

The power going into a toaster is not even remotely comparable to the charging power of a phone. If you could somehow pump 700W into a phone it would charge from empty to full in less than two minutes.

Realistic fast charging power for a phone is more like 20W.

I was trying to say that English is in no position to make fun of German for these kinds of prefix shenanigans.

This makes fun of specifically the sentiments like "Teaching <thing> is impossible now because a computer (LLM) can do it for them now!". Which has been the case for math topics for a long time.

Even before AI. Computers were better at pretty much every math skill kids learn before university. Arithmetic, basic algebra, derivatives etc. were things something like a TI89 could do in the late 90s.

It seems fair to question why the same situation for more text based subjects is somehow treated as unresolvable?

I only opened this topic to make sure this was here.

As if the language where "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing has any kind of high ground to stand on.

Most humans don't do these tasks by themselves either. It's always so funny how to be considered "at human level" a single AI system needs to be better at every task than the top individuals in all those fields combined.

I think this is the real issue. Once you found a bug it's often easy to fix. Some obvious omission that makes you wonder why this ever worked in the first place but is fixed by one line. On an individual project level this isn't all that problematic.

But modern software is such a bloated conglomerate of hundreds of libraries/frameworks/apis etc. that keeping a specific machine/server updated with all of them is impractical. Even if the individual libraries etc. are actually not that hard to fix and do improve in the process.

It's like the old window 98 days when Acrobat Reader wanted to update every single day.

I guess that is a little like Magic The Gathering or other collectable card ratings where "good" is actually a pretty low grade that indicates "clear signs of use".

I'd be tempted to do something like "When a creature would enter the battlefield it is put into the graveyard instead". That has a more state-like feel to it by not letting them exist even temporarily.

You could have read about and downloaded example code for that "gun" 8 years ago.

"Everyone" is still not equipped to use that ability, even with an LLM at hand. The threshold is lower but you still need to actually know when this kind of thing even applies to ask for it.

I'm not saying it's not interesting or impressive. But "LLMs do thing that has been demonstrated to work ten years ago" isn't anywhere as nuts as these headlines make it out to be.

You have to first wiggle the gear shifter a bit and dramatically say "Too soon!" for this to work.

I just asked my local non-frontier LLM here how to do this and in the second sentence of the thinking trace it brought up cache timing side channels. Because that is a well known security issue... LLMs knowing this is equally unsurprising as them knowing about any other well documented computer topic.

Cache timing attacks are well known security issues since at least the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities that were a big topic in 2018. LLMs will know about this.

This isn't some scary thing these LLMs invented on the spot, it's something they just know about. I literally just asked some non-frontier local LLM I have here how to do this and it brought up cache timing side channels in the second sentence.

By that logic the order of operations matters though, right? Which seems like something that would come back to haunt you later if you were to internalize it.

Blackmagic and RED do. But then neither of those have their own native mount.