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Tarquinn2049

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  • I get a lot of ideas in the shower. Do any of you use any kind of waterproof note taking pad and pen so you can catch those ideas before they vanish in the steam?

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  • So many suggestions for putting your phone near the shower but outside of it... phones are waterproof now. I just bring my phone with me in the shower now, and use my notes app to write down anything I don't want to forget. I was already using it for a shower checklist, since I find it pretty hard to function in the shower. Also doubles as a way to consistently clean my phone, which is a nice plus, I likely wouldn't remember to specifically clean it very often otherwise.

    If your phone has a charge port plug, make sure to keep that in during the shower, if it doesn't have a plug, keep the port oriented down, or you may have to wait a couple hours to be able to charge after. I've had my last couple phones in the shower hundreds of times now over the past 10 years, only had it happen twice where the charge port got too wet and had to dry before I could charge it, and neither time was when the battery was low enough for it to matter.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • I would imagine it's the same scale, just a base 10 feet instead of 20 feet. So in yours you would see at 24 feet what the average person would see at 20 feet. Assuming there is a linear relation, and no circumstantial drop off.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Also, usually when people use the term "perfect" vision, they mean 20/20, is that the case for you too. Another term for that is average vision, with people that have better vision than that having "better than average" vision.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • And you get a TV small enough that it doesn't suit that purpose? Looks like 75 inch to 85 inch is what would suit that use case. Big, but still common enough.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Hmm, I suppose quality of TV might matter. Not to mention actually going through the settings and making sure it isn't doing anything to process the signal. And also not streaming compressed crap to it. I do visit other peoples houses sometimes and definitely wouldn't know they were using a 4k screen to watch what they are watching.

    But I am assuming actually displaying 4k content to be part of the testing parameters.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • So, a 55-inch TV, which is pretty much the smallest 4k TV you could get when they were new, has benefits over 1080p at a distance of 7.5 feet... how far away do people watch their TVs from? Am I weird?

    And at the size of computer monitors, for the distance they are from your face, they would always have full benefit on this chart. And even working into 8k a decent amount.

    And that's only for people with typical vision, for people with above-average acuity, the benefits would start further away.

    But yeah, for VR for sure, since having an 8k screen there would directly determine how far away a 4k flat screen can be properly re-created. If your headset is only 4k, a 4k flat screen in VR is only worth it when it takes up most of your field of view. That's how I have mine set up, but I would imagine most people would prefer it to be half the size or twice the distance away, or a combination.

    So 8k screens in VR will be very relevant for augmented reality, since performance costs there are pretty low anyway. And still convey benefits if you are running actual VR games at half the physical panel resolution due to performance demand being too high otherwise. You get some relatively free upscaling then. Won't look as good as native 8k, but benefits a bit anyway.

    There is also fixed and dynamic foveated rendering to think about, with an 8k screen, even running only 10% of it at that resolution and 20% at 4k, 30% at 1080p, and the remaining 40% at 540p, even with the overhead of so many foveation steps, you'll get a notable reduction in performance cost. Fixed foveated would likely need to lean higher towards bigger percentages of higher res, but has the performance advantage of not having to move around at all from frame to frame. Can benefit from more pre-planning and optimization.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • I think they only retroactively count as slave labour after the bill makes it to trumps hands, and promptly into his toilet...

  • An Accident I Swear

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  • The worst part is, if the sign only said the instant death part, it would be a worse deterrent. Like, despite how funny it is to also have a fine, it's a much more useful sign like this.

  • Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got ‘Scammed’ by Trump Watches

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  • This whole situation is setting a really bad president for the future.

  • DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source

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  • Overall is that even a deal over a used headset? Even a fully featured non-stripped down one? Like given what features his headset does have, it's comparable to some pretty old headsets... and it likely does even those bare minimum features more poorly than an older used headset would. Not to mention comfort.

    Like a 10 year old Rift CV1 has almost as much resolution at 90hz/fps instead of 60. And while it's lenses would be relatively terrible now, they were pretty much the best option of their day, and likely still better than whatever this dude sourced. Not to mention their motion to photon was around 12 ms. The absolute best result this guy can hope for is 16.6ms, and that's only if everything else in the pipeline is faster than the screens refresh rate... maybe it is... but I wouldn't bet on it personally.

    I'm sure it was a fun project though.

  • Practically hear the jingle

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  • I think if I could hear the jingle it would be separated like:

    It's the most wonderful time

    of the year

    Just given where the breaks are in the jingle.

  • It's a civilizational progress

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  • I don't know the name of the meme, but the person is Drew Scanlon.

  • Trump Brands Dems the ‘Party of Satan’ in Unhinged Rant

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  • No one needs to be "given a message" to hate trump. It's the natural stance taken upon hearing even 1% of what he is about. We don't "hate" easily, he's just that easy to hate.

  • 'None of us have ever asked for special treatment' - US female veterans respond to Hegseth speech

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  • Oh weird, you mean they didn't fact check to see if they even had any idea what was going on? So uncharacteristic of them.

  • 'None of us have ever asked for special treatment' - US female veterans respond to Hegseth speech

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  • They'll have to get creative for the super important "writing your name in the snow/sand" portion of the military exam.

  • Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

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  • They may be following the detailed recipe of those that came before them, but they're using spoiled ingredients.

  • Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in embarrassing gaffe

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  • The worst part is it's only missing a comma, and maybe one or two more words to clarify, but they would be optional once the comma was in.

  • 'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'

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  • If the meeting had already happened before Trump directed them to do so, then it would make sense as a pulse check to see if there would be any dissent. But the meeting hasn't happened yet.

    There is of course the possibility that it was supposed to be about that and someone mentioned it to Trump and he couldn't hold it and jumped the gun without knowing why it was so important that the meeting happened first... that is unfortunately, plausible...

  • Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

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  • Did any of those soldiers actually keep that medal anyway? That seems like one of those things they would be trying their hardest to forget, keeping the medal would have sucked.