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Newer codecs has generally introduced more ways a video can be encoded, so that the encoder need to work much harder to encode a video, so that it actually achieve the gains that t…

In many ways the ENIAC was more like an FPGA than a computer. It was programmed with patch cables connecting the different computational units as well as switches, and had no CPU a…

You would need a frame rate higher than the Nyquist frequency of highest harmonic you want to capture. Since the fundamental frequency of the lowest pitch sting is 83.4 Hz, and you…

Without having smelled croton oil myself, canned brisling (which is what it is, even if it was sold as sardines) has a quite strong smell and taste. I can easily imagine that it co…

Only if you actually has a system complex enough to require it. A lot of systems that use kubernetes are not complex enough to require it, but use it anyway. In that case kubernete…

> 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc The nautical mile is not an SI unit, so it is not defined by a single organization, Your definition used to …

Some of the heavy metals are likely from the fire retardant, and some are likely from the fire. Look at zinc vs lead for example. There is little lead in the unused sample vs the e…

I don't have a place to upload a screenshot just now, but it's Firefox 135 on Fedora linux 41. What happens is that the squares doesn't stay square like in your screenshot, but var…

This does not work in Firefox. The squares get stretched, while the area you can access stays square, so that the lower row is hidden. This makes it impossible to play.

Steel production causes around 8% of the worlds CO2 emissions, so if this is right, this project alone is causing emissions around two thirds of all of the worlds aviation.

Mike Stewart, that is the one with the most in depth knowledge about the AGC on the Curious Marc channel, is also one of the main contributors to this repo, so I guess so.

> You need carbon (coal) to make steel from iron. Carbon in form of coal is currently used for three purposes in steel production: 1) Heat up the ore to high temperatures 2) Reduce…

> This property is more a function of the encoding parameters of the video stream Not really. Formats like mp4 can't be parsed without reading the container header, that may be at …

Some funding happens through the university, but an increasingly large part of it is gathered through external grants, most often financed through the government. My understanding …

The data clearly supported the hole in the middle, and only reconstructions with a hole did fit the data. The data support the hole and that one side is brighter, but not much more…

It should be at least one, since I downloaded it, so the counter is broken or delayed.

And they mention this right in the press release. Quote: “The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experiment shows that scientists can get more energy out than put in by the las…

You saw the same with cars. Back in say 1950, most car owners would know how to do basic maintenance and repairs, both because the cars was mechanically simpler, but also less reli…

If you use intrinsics, you don't have to deal with the different calling conventions of each operating system, so I have used intrinsics for that reason alone, since I otherwise ha…

This will alternate between two different tones, one representing 0 and another representing one, each bit lasting 50 ms, giving a bitrate of 20 bits/s. This is obviously rather sl…

I have sometimes put my computer in the Iceland time zone for that reason when using dual boot with Linux, since Linux prefer to run UTC on the clock, and the Iceland time zone is …

That is super inefficient, and while it was an industry based on hydropower using the Birkeland-Eyde process before 1910, those factories switched to Haber-Bosch using hydrogen mad…