I did actually consider making my post less bite-size to mention waifu2x, particularly the work that was done on the fan remaster of the Avatar The Last Airbender cartoon.
Less because of the software-generated stuff (extended lines, reduced aliasing, etc) that is kinda-sorta "new" information, and moreso because it enabled human-guided addition of genuinely new content, environment/facial detail. The TLA project was driven because a HQ release of TLA didn't even exist. The salient point being: Downloading someone's 720 upscale is a waste of hard drive space, downloading the waifu2x edition isn't, and interpolation is a gimmick to sell TVs.
Blowing up images to higher resolution is indeed upscaling, and I say as much when mocking the faux rezs that streamfags are sold on by their platforms (netflix, youtube, etc). But I elected on the broader approach for wider masses (LOL/. ISN'T NERDS ANYMORE) and tried to frame it like the more widely mocked (and understood) bladerunner/CSI trope.
Zoom. Enhance. Enhance. As unto Hollywood bullshit is the consumer electronics bullshit.
Well you only have to look at it for two seconds to see that it's new, it's novel, it clearly must be superior and Tom Cruise&c are just anal nerds who bitch about nerd shit.
I'm not defending 24fps cameras, but interpolation is not a higher framerate, any more than zooming in on a jpg gives it a higher resolution.
If we want to discuss changes to filming, that's more complicated. My understanding is that shutter speed is tied to the amount of light you capture (something critical in movies) so there's more involved than "dragging a slider".
Regardless, inserted blur-polation is just a Consumer Shiny and can eat a dick.
THE APP!! is gonna be a web wrapper anyway. Just with more telemetry.
I die a little when I hear people, especially in the meatspace, crowing about how the privacy of phone OS. Amazon doesn't give a fuck what phone you did your search on. See how well THE APP!! works when it can't phone home (hint: not at all) with everything it learned. Even for 100% local functionality like the step counting fad.
This. We're expressing an infantile desire for a tidy binary outcome, truth or lie.
Meanwhile ITRW our utterances are a manifestation of a mental process. A thought. Generally we equate the two. "I think that pen is blue". Except when you look closer, that's obviously not how thoughts really-really work. When you look closer, we "lie to ourselves" all the time. Thoughts are speculative, interpretive, they estimate and surmise, they settle for half-certainty and not absolutes. "I *might* have seen certain patterns of light that *might* mean I saw an animal/something shift inside that cave."
At best, you might have chemical/brainwave/biometric responses for a human that is consciously attempting deception. A word that is, again, a loose construct. Any number of statements are half-truths, selectively expressed, etc etc. Even our choice of vocabulary is obviously meant to put spin on a sentence, to euphemize, to convince or dissuade, to manipulate. To deceive.
The tech isn't even that bad, it's that "truth or lie" is like some dumbfuck who thinks art paintings can be put onto a spectrum of "happy vs sad". The tech is pretty smart about stroke length and hue - the problem is voodoo assholes who think those equate to output, that the output is even pigeonhole-fitting to begin with.
No matter how true your points are, the industry will fight a downhill reality. And the swarms of surfacedwellers in their socnets are susceptible. Consider the DeBeers diamond brainwashing.
They have every incentive to convince us that spending $1000 to go from capable-phone-1 to capable-phone-2 is "worth it", if not an utter necessity to being A Complete Human Being.
I don't think throwing a fingerprint scanner at that trainwreck would magically fix everything.
Especially when I'd be giving out my print (after I make a pile of molds out of the costume gels/silicone from any theatrical supply store) within a day, the same as giving out my timeclock credential.
Normally, the pressure of decreased customer satisfaction and employee strain would shift an increase in checkout lines. By which I mean lines occupied by someone being paid a wage, not 28 empty registers and a pair of temps.
Normally.
In our guesswhatgoeshere-ist world, nothing happens and you wait away ineffectually. And you might as well hop over to selfcheckout.
This is why people think they're wealthy. Their world is what their eyeballs see.
I mean, obviously my house is huge. It's a mansion. I have several cars. I am the opposite of riding a bus. Normal people eat McDonalds and I don't. My six-figure income is indisputable math that I am rich. This is a reasonable conclusion as I look around me.
And it is, in that field of vision.
And so I'll lose my shit at any suggestion of any redistribution. I'm clearly "above average" and they're gonna take muh money.
And I'm fucking oblivious to the fact that in a wealth redistribution, I would be given wealth.
Me? No. That would mean I fit the word "poor", obviously. And that flies in the face of all demonstrated evidence. Impossible. I am wealthy. My salary is kept quiet because I am wealthy.
And I have no idea what The Rich are. I have no idea where "wealthy" is on the curve. I have no idea of how astronomically, mind-fuckingly poor - dirt sleeping bus riding McDonalds begging poor - I am in comparison.
Six figures. Christ.
The point: I'll be totally voting against anything "wealth redistribution" with all my might. Poors ain't taking my richmoney.
If "buy new home" was simply a matter of [luxury-tagged] dollars the behavior would be uniform across cultures within income tiers.
People also buy diamonds "because I wanna" and it's an entirely cultural construct. If you're worth these keystrokes you already know that it was an entirely orchestrated phenomenon, and we're as much to blame as De Beers.
We're quite sensitive to the goals penciled in around us. We even convince ourselves they were ours all along, and it had nooooothing to do with media and observing the world around us, this is what I want for meeeee, I'm giving Morty an A in math. It wasn't because of the world insisting your life is incomplete, you're not a fully actualized person if you haven't hit the bullet points we set for you on careers, relationships, property, appearance. If you look closely you'll notice the phrase "I don't own a TV" is being spoken *at* this. It's real and it drives people's wishes.
Yeah, they'll go broke paying disposables $7/h, who are suddenly encountering miles of dead call time.
You might as well try your "exhaustion" brilliance on bots. They are deployed the same - throwing masses of warm/digital bodies at a wall, without giving a fuck how much of it is wasted.
>I bought a game because I couldn't pirate it immediately >This is MOST people You gotta turn your baseball cap backwards before you rap with us, fellow game enthusiast.
I just realized that lawyers line up their combos exactly the way gamers stack character stats.
"don't get the +60% crit potion, the game doesn't even register crit over 50, so get the +35% crit +35% haste one"
They're just like me. When I'm trying to annihilate a digital zombie as viciously as I can. I put together spreadsheets just so I can calculate an extra superfluous inch of boot up their ass, as if I'm some kind of coffee-chewing psychopathic sadist who loves fucking up zombies like I have no higher purpose. And within the tiny constraints of possibility in a video game (eg original mario = "go right") I don't.
They could probably give me some tips on juggling buffs.
Right, it's not like Big (anything) is any better. Do people think Disney is wearing a halo? Google is probably in an ideal position to design this curriculum from.
I certainly understand being wary of the fuckers (re: Big Firewall, military AI, etc), but then how about stripping away the branding and sponsorship and Brought To You By.
Though, I doubt google's slideshows and flash games will actually give a comprehensive internet-guard upbringing. That would include wisdom like general practices against centralization, tracking, IoT - subjects where google prefers you to be complacent, gardenwalled, spoonfed, and in particular, dependent.
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I did actually consider making my post less bite-size to mention waifu2x, particularly the work that was done on the fan remaster of the Avatar The Last Airbender cartoon.
Less because of the software-generated stuff (extended lines, reduced aliasing, etc) that is kinda-sorta "new" information, and moreso because it enabled human-guided addition of genuinely new content, environment/facial detail. The TLA project was driven because a HQ release of TLA didn't even exist. The salient point being: Downloading someone's 720 upscale is a waste of hard drive space, downloading the waifu2x edition isn't, and interpolation is a gimmick to sell TVs.
Blowing up images to higher resolution is indeed upscaling, and I say as much when mocking the faux rezs that streamfags are sold on by their platforms (netflix, youtube, etc). But I elected on the broader approach for wider masses (LOL /. ISN'T NERDS ANYMORE) and tried to frame it like the more widely mocked (and understood) bladerunner/CSI trope.
Zoom. Enhance. Enhance. As unto Hollywood bullshit is the consumer electronics bullshit.
Well you only have to look at it for two seconds to see that it's new, it's novel, it clearly must be superior and Tom Cruise&c are just anal nerds who bitch about nerd shit.
I'm not defending 24fps cameras, but interpolation is not a higher framerate, any more than zooming in on a jpg gives it a higher resolution.
If we want to discuss changes to filming, that's more complicated. My understanding is that shutter speed is tied to the amount of light you capture (something critical in movies) so there's more involved than "dragging a slider".
Regardless, inserted blur-polation is just a Consumer Shiny and can eat a dick.
THE APP!! is gonna be a web wrapper anyway. Just with more telemetry.
I die a little when I hear people, especially in the meatspace, crowing about how the privacy of phone OS. Amazon doesn't give a fuck what phone you did your search on. See how well THE APP!! works when it can't phone home (hint: not at all) with everything it learned. Even for 100% local functionality like the step counting fad.
It's https://xkcd.com/934/ all over again, but for s/browser/app.
Well he should have had some kind of coverage assurance solution.
Oh wait, when you need insurance for your insurance you're not just getting "increased chocolate rations", you're paying for it.
The only difference between paranoia and prudence is popularity.
That's just my interpretation though, in catchy sound bite form.
>> Mercury in aerosol form
Calm down Satan.
This. We're expressing an infantile desire for a tidy binary outcome, truth or lie.
Meanwhile ITRW our utterances are a manifestation of a mental process. A thought. Generally we equate the two. "I think that pen is blue". Except when you look closer, that's obviously not how thoughts really-really work. When you look closer, we "lie to ourselves" all the time. Thoughts are speculative, interpretive, they estimate and surmise, they settle for half-certainty and not absolutes. "I *might* have seen certain patterns of light that *might* mean I saw an animal/something shift inside that cave."
At best, you might have chemical/brainwave/biometric responses for a human that is consciously attempting deception. A word that is, again, a loose construct. Any number of statements are half-truths, selectively expressed, etc etc. Even our choice of vocabulary is obviously meant to put spin on a sentence, to euphemize, to convince or dissuade, to manipulate. To deceive.
The tech isn't even that bad, it's that "truth or lie" is like some dumbfuck who thinks art paintings can be put onto a spectrum of "happy vs sad". The tech is pretty smart about stroke length and hue - the problem is voodoo assholes who think those equate to output, that the output is even pigeonhole-fitting to begin with.
No matter how true your points are, the industry will fight a downhill reality. And the swarms of surfacedwellers in their socnets are susceptible. Consider the DeBeers diamond brainwashing.
They have every incentive to convince us that spending $1000 to go from capable-phone-1 to capable-phone-2 is "worth it", if not an utter necessity to being A Complete Human Being.
Duh. Walmart did this because they want to pay out more in salaries, not less. This is money trickling down, not up.
Disregard the statistics that clearly show Prolekistan's sole export will be shrinking, not growing.
There will be lots of jobs for wants-into-college Billy. Lots of jobs!
>If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear
Actually there's not much to fear period. A "buddy" can have a silicone mold of your print in within hours.
I don't think throwing a fingerprint scanner at that trainwreck would magically fix everything.
Especially when I'd be giving out my print (after I make a pile of molds out of the costume gels/silicone from any theatrical supply store) within a day, the same as giving out my timeclock credential.
Normally, the pressure of decreased customer satisfaction and employee strain would shift an increase in checkout lines. By which I mean lines occupied by someone being paid a wage, not 28 empty registers and a pair of temps.
Normally.
In our guesswhatgoeshere-ist world, nothing happens and you wait away ineffectually. And you might as well hop over to selfcheckout.
"It's just good business."
https://xkcd.com/2078/
This is why people think they're wealthy. Their world is what their eyeballs see.
I mean, obviously my house is huge. It's a mansion. I have several cars. I am the opposite of riding a bus. Normal people eat McDonalds and I don't. My six-figure income is indisputable math that I am rich. This is a reasonable conclusion as I look around me.
And it is, in that field of vision.
And so I'll lose my shit at any suggestion of any redistribution. I'm clearly "above average" and they're gonna take muh money.
And I'm fucking oblivious to the fact that in a wealth redistribution, I would be given wealth.
Me? No. That would mean I fit the word "poor", obviously. And that flies in the face of all demonstrated evidence. Impossible. I am wealthy. My salary is kept quiet because I am wealthy.
And I have no idea what The Rich are. I have no idea where "wealthy" is on the curve. I have no idea of how astronomically, mind-fuckingly poor - dirt sleeping bus riding McDonalds begging poor - I am in comparison.
Six figures. Christ.
The point: I'll be totally voting against anything "wealth redistribution" with all my might. Poors ain't taking my richmoney.
>>Except they can afford armed security guards.
>And they will hire them (Job creation!).
Should I tell him about the killbots? His post seemed pretty blue already.
Seriously though, last I checked african warlords were already using "security drones" to keep their mine slaves in check.
They don't even have to lie.
"I'm not aware of any X" is the nonstatement that we're all gargling to the hilt.
If "buy new home" was simply a matter of [luxury-tagged] dollars the behavior would be uniform across cultures within income tiers.
People also buy diamonds "because I wanna" and it's an entirely cultural construct. If you're worth these keystrokes you already know that it was an entirely orchestrated phenomenon, and we're as much to blame as De Beers.
We're quite sensitive to the goals penciled in around us. We even convince ourselves they were ours all along, and it had nooooothing to do with media and observing the world around us, this is what I want for meeeee, I'm giving Morty an A in math. It wasn't because of the world insisting your life is incomplete, you're not a fully actualized person if you haven't hit the bullet points we set for you on careers, relationships, property, appearance. If you look closely you'll notice the phrase "I don't own a TV" is being spoken *at* this. It's real and it drives people's wishes.
Yeah, they'll go broke paying disposables $7/h, who are suddenly encountering miles of dead call time.
You might as well try your "exhaustion" brilliance on bots. They are deployed the same - throwing masses of warm/digital bodies at a wall, without giving a fuck how much of it is wasted.
So go on. Make it a wasteful process.
>I bought a game because I couldn't pirate it immediately
>This is MOST people
You gotta turn your baseball cap backwards before you rap with us, fellow game enthusiast.
>vote with your dollars
I bet that magic spell has solved EA and Comcast by now.
Unless this sound bite is fantasy bullshit, then they're probably as big as ever.
I just realized that lawyers line up their combos exactly the way gamers stack character stats.
"don't get the +60% crit potion, the game doesn't even register crit over 50, so get the +35% crit +35% haste one"
They're just like me. When I'm trying to annihilate a digital zombie as viciously as I can. I put together spreadsheets just so I can calculate an extra superfluous inch of boot up their ass, as if I'm some kind of coffee-chewing psychopathic sadist who loves fucking up zombies like I have no higher purpose. And within the tiny constraints of possibility in a video game (eg original mario = "go right") I don't.
They could probably give me some tips on juggling buffs.
>do they represent the majority?
Overwhelmingly.
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
But do you honestly think they did it without doing any market research?
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/oneplus-ignores-its-own-user-polling-removes-headphone-jack-on-oneplus-6t/
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
>>small demographic
88% opposed
OPEN ME IN WINAMP
Right, it's not like Big (anything) is any better. Do people think Disney is wearing a halo? Google is probably in an ideal position to design this curriculum from.
I certainly understand being wary of the fuckers (re: Big Firewall, military AI, etc), but then how about stripping away the branding and sponsorship and Brought To You By.
Though, I doubt google's slideshows and flash games will actually give a comprehensive internet-guard upbringing. That would include wisdom like general practices against centralization, tracking, IoT - subjects where google prefers you to be complacent, gardenwalled, spoonfed, and in particular, dependent.