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I’m confused - are you suggesting that people use headphones instead of small laptop speakers to not annoy their next door neighbors?
They probably mean 'neighbors' as in people nearby in the same room. This is indeed a good use case for headphones/IEMs.
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They provide the capital required for that venture.
So if I order lunch, am I providing the capital required for the venture of ordering lunch? Is there anything in the universe that's not venture capital? When all you know is a hammer...
Anyway, it doesn't matter. The gist is, someone else than the user paid for the experience without immediate expectation for profit from side channels and that's how we had free and awesome things.
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> They just weren't tracking you every nanosecond of your life. Exactly. But only some of that was paid by ads.
> But only some of that was paid by ads. Ah yes. They were paid by altruists who had the foresight to know that 30 years later they will be able to track everyone and collect their dues.
Patents are interesting. IIRC, Apple has a patent on a method of creating a fast Gaussian blur by combining multiple low-radius blurs to create a large radius blur in real-time. I remember looking into this because I was so confused how Apple could create a fast real-time Gaussian blur with a large radius with no latency. Even game developers fail to do this, utilizing other blurs like box blurs instead to create the…
Isn’t absurd that algorithms and mathematical solutions can be patented?
Patents are interesting. IIRC, Apple has a patent on a method of creating a fast Gaussian blur by combining multiple low-radius blurs to create a large radius blur in real-time. I remember looking into this because I was so confused how Apple could create a fast real-time Gaussian blur with a large radius with no latency. Even game developers fail to do this, utilizing other blurs like box blurs instead to create the…
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So if I order lunch, am I providing the capital required for the venture of ordering lunch? Is there anything in the universe that's not venture capital? When all you know is a hammer...
No. If you are s 14 years who is into hobbits and you are writing a fan fiction, your mom is a venture capitalist when feeds you and gives you pocket money which you used to buy a domain. She can be a venture capitalist or angel investor depending on her expectations. I guess it also can be a case of racketeering if she does that you just shut up, then you are the VC investing in your own stuff with the money you ext…
I have always noted this when listening to music on my M1 MBP. "There is NO way my tweeters aren't about to explode!" I recall how quickly the speakers in my Microsoft surface laptop self-destructed... In my experience, the #1 prerequisite to driving a speaker this aggressively without destroying it is having a clean source of power. Hard distortion and clipping are what break voice coils in direct, physical terms. T…
I've also used a few that you can tell exactly what kind of power you're hooked up to (120v @ 25 amp perhaps) and it will draw just up to that limit and stop. Neat stuff
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No. If you are s 14 years who is into hobbits and you are writing a fan fiction, your mom is a venture capitalist when feeds you and gives you pocket money which you used to buy a domain. She can be a venture capitalist or angel investor depending on her expectations. I guess it also can be a case of racketeering if she does that you just shut up, then you are the VC investing in your own stuff with the money you ext…
Most of the time, it wasn't other people. People were paying for their own hosting for their own purposes, much like how I order lunch.
Patents are interesting. IIRC, Apple has a patent on a method of creating a fast Gaussian blur by combining multiple low-radius blurs to create a large radius blur in real-time. I remember looking into this because I was so confused how Apple could create a fast real-time Gaussian blur with a large radius with no latency. Even game developers fail to do this, utilizing other blurs like box blurs instead to create the…
Where do they use it? The control center pulldown shade in iOS?