Well yea, this one came out in 2014

Probably would look relatively similar to this camera when using a regular amount of zoom?

I’m sure there are a lot of earlier ones as well tho

well, i measured that on windows (since I still run windows on my main PC) but I assumed it would be similar on linux lol

will cost probably a lot more but if you find a good deal on a superzoom camera those are neat because at the max zoom range you can get some shots that not many other cameras can take (and certainly not phones)

I got a used sx60 hs for like $200 a couple years ago, compared to my phone (oneplus 12) it’s decent at macro, great at high zoom, but worse at basically anything else. of course if you want that look then it’s good for that too lol.

Also keep in mind that those all have pretty small sensor sizes (actually apparently the sx60 hs has exactly the same sensor size as this camera) so you need the area to be pretty bright for max zoom to be usable, and fast subjects are pretty hard.

curated photo dump:

TV

captive birds

wild birds (i really don’t know why that hawk let us get so close to it…)

full zoom

macro (it can actually focus on the lens, if you ever want to do that)

top of the london eye

random helicopter

can get some nice bokeh

full zoom range across the thames

steam is like 500 MB of ram by itself at least for me rn, so add any game or os stuff on top and it rounds up to a gigabyte

2.8e-7 kWh per second!

If you can give ChatGPT the transcript and it can say “yes that’s about ____”, then that means it’s certainly possible for them to do the same. I would expect that anything trained specifically for that should only get better from there, although obviously they’re not going to throw ChatGPT-sized compute at it.

With a super lightweight laptop, 5w is achievable during light usage. I have one that draws that. It’s usable for Google Docs sort of stuff indefinitely on a 5w charger. It can also go down to ~2.2w with low screen brightness and very low load. It is absolutely terrible though, celeron 3855u. I got Minecraft Java to run at 60 fps though… But it was probably using 7-12w then.

With a modern arm chip, you could get pretty great performance at that power draw. My phone (snapdragon 8 gen 3) in power saving mode can be like 5-10x faster at about 6 watts it seems like.

Glancing around my room and I’m pleasantly surprised at the amount of whimsy I have on display

Makes sense, for naive, completely diffuse lighting (not reflective) the result is just the sum of base color * light visiblity * cos(angle between surface and light) for every light

And then for light bounces just repeat that many times, but considering every surface as a light

In the general case, for a more complicated material, the resulting brightness on a surface can be pretty much any arbitrary function of wavelength, the angle the light comes in, and the angle of the observer (called a BRDF). As long as it’s not putting out more light than it’s getting in, it’s probably possible. These functions can get especially complicated when there’s multiple thin layers, imagine a brushed metal surface with a layer of oxidization, a clear coating, some dirt, and some dust. Even for a single position on the surface, each of those reacts so differently to different input and output angles that no simple functions will represent the surface well. For CGI in films, they usually will layer many simpler BRDFs together, but that’s slow for games, which usually try to approximate surfaces in a single one.

Yes, it’s a common brand.

In the United States, pudding means a sweet, milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant custards or a mousse, often commercially set using cornstarch, gelatin or similar coagulating agent. These puddings are known in some Commonwealth countries as custards (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, as blancmange if starch-thickened, and as jelly if gelatin-based. Pudding in America may also refer to other dishes such as bread pudding and rice pudding, although typically these names derive from their origin as British dishes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding

The way genes swap around isn’t really consistent with the whole ‘fractions’ thing, so that’s not too surprising I suppose

If you are playing games where trackpads are useful, there’s not really another option, so it’s automatically a good value. I know my steam deck experience would have been a whole lot worse without those, and I would probably never consider a gaming handheld without them. But for the gaming I do with an xbox controller, I currently just use it for some video games at my computer (where I have access to a mouse anyways), and maybe split screen with family. I think my Gamesir Cyclone 2 controller (at half the price) is an unambiguously better deal for that, in the premium controller space. If I were using it mostly for couch gaming, that might put the Steam controller in a better position, or if I were mostly playing games that support whatever haptic trigger things Sony has, that controller might be in a better position.

One of the other more unique features is the tracking in the Steam Frame. It would be cool if they could standardize that sort of thing so it would work with other headsets. I wonder if they’ve considered that.

afaik wayneko just stays at the bottom of the screen, is there a way to get it to not do that?

i’ve heard a lot of good things about typst

Compared to most other countries at the time, it was very democratic.

Looked this up, turned on zswap on my cheap laptop and now it’s so much more usable, thanks