Sigma fp

[...] actual refreshing, interesting take!

As far as I know, all plasma screens use pulse width modulation to control the brightness of each subpixel. This produces even worse motion quality than a typical LCD; you get both sample-and-hold blur from the high persistence, and phantom array effect artifacts from the PWM. IMO, plasma displays are only suitable for watching movies, which have terrible motion quality anyway because of the low 24 fps frame rate.

The issue with KDE is not the "UX", the issue is the crashiness and jank, which is an issue of C++ and the OOP-ness of Qt, respectively and no amount of philosophizing will fix that. Users can excuse high memory usage, users can excuse low FPS, users cannot excuse jank and crashes. It is very hard to pin down the problems with Qt because on the one hand you can produce well-working UIs with QML if you are committed to it, see Telegram which has a near-perfect UX and I've never had it crash on me. [...]

I have a dedicated Wifi 6 (not 6e, so just miss/using the 5 GHz band) AP just for VR, directly connected to my PC and it works well Virtual Desktop & Quest 3. Have done quite a lot of quite active stuff (exploration, driving, flying, fighting games) and it really is seamless and I don't notice any lag as long as the game itself manages good FPS. [...] :) For the Frame, this should all be much better - easier setup, much better available bandwidth (dongle has Wifi 7), efficient foveated streaming, etc. [...]

bc believe you me… i bought the sigma fp bc it looked sleek and small and ideal for adapting lenses. and allegedly had very good high ISO performance. i didn't realize the IQ of a camera from 2019 was gonna spoil me forever.

Are they disconnected from its customers in current year? They may be alienating the core audience that made them who they are, but I don't think they're disconnected from their customer base, which has changed. RTSes are not popular and they are not platform-agnostic like an FPS is.

Obviously not ideal, but update latency is much better with other third party distributions like iodéOS or CalyxOS. At least in contrast to other vendors, FP provides official support for microG, so this has been without noticeable loss of stability/quality for my use cases so far.

It's a steep price for a niche with not a lot of games. [...] Many of these games aren't even considered fitness games Batman Beat Saber Mother Gunship Superhot Pistol Whip Gasland Thrill of the Fight Underdogs Synth Riders Guerilla Tag Blade and Sorcery Gorn Les Mills Body Combat FitXR Creed If you get a slip rig, just walking around Fallout VR or Skyrim VR will give you a lot of cardio while essentially enjoying a more immersive game than the flat screen version. Name a popular flat screen game and there is likely a decent VR version. There are lots of good racing games and FPS's Zero Caliber Arizona Sunshine Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Bonelab Pavlov Breachers Contractors Into the Radius Tactical Assault It's also worth for having your own private movie theater. [...]

[...] The job is not strictly necessary, but if the money is not spent, it disappears, and so the director has an incentive to ensure everything is spent. [...] Then these project proposals are looked at by an FP&A analyst who has maybe 5 minutes to evaluate each, so of course 100 headcount to maintain a 3-screen CRUD mobile app seems reasonable. [...] I can code this app in 50ms." And so if we actually did put AI in charge of the P&L, they would likely fire 100% of the employees, as well as doing other shady stuff like charging all stored credit cards multiple times, gaslighting consumers as to the existence of the product, and DDoSing the court system. [...] They just disconnect the AI, turn off the computers, and go about their daily business.

[...] To get around this, I looked closely at how the classic MS-DOS and Game Boy Advance versions handled the engine, relying entirely on software rendering. [...] I’d be happy to answer any questions about the porting process, the ESP32-P4 architecture, or handling software rendering on embedded systems. [...]

[...] This takes me back to the first commercial software i ever worked on around 19 years ago, it was an accounting software written in Visual FoxPro. It's a super easy language to get started with programming and the fact that you can drag your widgets on the screen helps a lot. [...] In hindsight that's both good and bad, because the moment you move to another language that doesn't offer an IDE where you can drag widgets with your mouse on the screen to position them and you have to work with containers, programmatically, you quickly realize how little you really know about creating UIs with forms. I don't think i had an opinion back then if VFP was good or bad but I remember the IDE would crash when you tried to build your project sometimes with a pop-up that would say "Catastrophic failure!". I always thought that was super funny and to this day i still have the screenshot. [...]

[...] You must get a top spec 64GB (larger capacities are too slow, smaller capacities have not enough space to record anything). [...] If you suffer from the shadow flicker issue, let me know. [...]

[...] I personally use Mac laptops as well, and Apple devices use P2P wireless and Bluetooth for so many little things you use everyday, so when I click it and it explicitly prints "Disconnecting from Bluetooth devices until tomorrow" prominently, I'm happy with the functionality. [...] About your experiment: - When I disconnect Bluetooth for a day, it shows Bluetooth as on and adds a note: "New Bluetooth connections have been turned off from Control Center." It has a big button above it: "Allow New Connections". - When I disconnect Wi-Fi for a day, it shows Wireless as on and adds a note: "New Wi-Fi network connections have been turned off from Control Center". [...] If I open an app using Bluetooth while it's disconnected, it shows a dialogue saying that new connections are disabled, but app needs new connections. [...] Unless you give explicit permission, it never connects to a wireless network or Bluetooth device. [...] Same for Bluetooth. [...] HDR display is disabled, system FPS is halved, etc. [...]

Never been a fan of editing photos, especially as I have difficulties dealing with the infinite possibilities. I just stick with default output from the camera and just fix backlight or some minor adjustments required. [...]

[...] Benchmarks and FPS don’t really show things like micro stutters and little performance wrinkles like that. [...] Upgrading my CPU alone with the same GPU took away the environment loading slowdown almost entirely. [...] My old advice would have been to buy one of those sweet spot cheaper mid-range gaming CPUs, but my newer advice is really if you’ve already spent all that you’re willing to spend on a GPU (I have a 9070XT, my only upgrade paths are insanely expensive), buy the highest gaming CPU on the list for gaming benchmarks (e.g., I wouldn’t go crazy with a 9950X3D2 since it doesn’t have any gaming improvements above the 9850X3D). And the thing about CPUs is they’re not insanely expensive like GPUs. We are talking a price delta of $200 between this beast of a CPU and something way more middling.

Blackmagic sold their cameras with support for CinemaDNG advertised, and removed that support after the fact, leaving only BRAW that more or less locked you into Resolve. [...] Luckily, I noticed that just before I bought a unit (!). Now I’m a happy owner of a Sigma fp, which not only is sold with CinemDNG support—shows that BM did have some choice, after all—but is also technically superior. If I ever do something where their gear is required and someone leases it, sure, but I don’t see why I would give my personal money to BM after how they handled this.

I’ve been doing a lot of extreme low temp (-70C ambient) photography with a Sigma FP. It’s basically a full-frame box hybrid movie camera. The addon EVF works well long after the LCD freezes. [...] USB charging is nice but I use a cabled external battery most of the time. The battery will die in minutes outside and for whatever reason Sigma decided not to add USB power pass through in the EVF. [...] The power solution I came up with is a modified battery charger with a removable base (Wasabi Power). I added teflon coated cables and a connector to go to the (also butchered) dummy battery. Real battery gets stuffed into a pocket or up a sleeve. The camera doesn’t care how cold it gets, from experimenting. It’s also small and the display is most of the back. If you make the display bigger, the camera gets bigger. [...] Really you want a good OLED display or a high-res viewfinder. [...] The same goes for wifi - a lot of new cameras have 2.4Ghz in them (my OM-D EM5ii from almost a decade ago can sync to an app). [...]

[...] Sigma FP (great camera too), as you mentioned elsewhere, does uncompressed CDNG. [...] It could be nice to have that as an option on Blackmagic cameras too, but to be honest I don't miss it since BRAW arrived - the files get huge. It's a shame RED was awarded a patent for in-camera lossless compressed RAW video. [...]

[...] i bought a used nikon zr, just waiting for it to arrive. [...] and the sigma fp L is incredible but i really need ibis. [...]

PS5 emulation has gone from barely working to running Dark Souls at 10+ FPS with virtually no graphical glitches… in 6 weeks. [...] Lots of might but slow to turn. [...]

Fun Fact. My first “tech job” was tech support at EA in the late 90s. Serious Sam was the FPS of choice for late night LAN parties for the EA tech support and QA teams. Tech support and QA were shared resources. They’d shift people from support to QA in summer for fall/winter holiday releases and back to support around the holidays. Serious Sam was the one FPS that would run decently on our workstations. Long story but I got promoted to maintainer of the EA game tech support site which is what got me into coding.

I see your Prince of Persia and raise you seventeen games fully or partially reversed and ported to the web by one very capable guy in a few weeks with frontier and open weight models: He also did this thing where he “spliced” different game concepts and turned WoW into an FPS: In case you mistake him for an “AI booster”, you should see this guy’s other posts, he is extremely critical of the AI frontier labs and Tech Bros and this whole AI bubble. But he is also a very experienced game developer, and under his control the latest models have pulled off these crazy feats. What you are reading is the analysis of a domain expert and what it means for the industry.

[...] I just like static typing more nowadays, and prefer a "bunch of libs stringed together for my project" over a "framework". [...]

I think it was more the folks involved. Real story tellers and weirdos with great taste and somehow supported by organizations that got finished titles published. Wasn’t there a dive on Freddy Pharkus up on FP recently? These kind of folks still exist and still create. There is a lot more noise to sort through these days.

You are missing the point. Sigma is offering a LEGO piece that one can use to assemble one's own configuration. Viewfinder and everything else can be added. They also offer two other sensor LEGOs: one that looks like a previous/heaper gen (fp) and other with high-res 60+ MP sensor ("fp L"). I like the idea.

[...] So, that said, I would make two clarifications: -- Floating Points ++ Floating Point computing where by Floating Point computing would mean the actual application computing that we build, as opposed to "Floating points" referring to the ideal ancient standardized hardware layer abstractions. [...] So if pressed, I wouldn't say "Floating points are not deterministic" but "Floating Point computing tends to be non-deterministic", but I would feel very comfortable shorthanding it to "Floating Points are non-deterministic" anyways. [...]

In some ways this is similar to those game demos people get the LLMs to build. When you say "build me a cool cyberpunk FPS" you get the FPS it can build, not the FPS the author wanted, or the FPS that is desired by players. [...]

Honestly as someone who grew up playing SC, WC3 etc... it gets kinda old. If you have played one, you have played them all. I totally welcome an FPS in the Starcraft world and something fresh from Blizzard.

[...] As someone who has built their own LLM from scratch, I have an extremely good idea of what they can and can't do. [...]