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New comment by dubbie99 in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

dubbie99 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:38:36 +0000

I am a color science and image expert and couldn’t make heads nor tails of the dark table UI. I wanted to like it but it is just so horrible to use that I couldn’t stick with it.

New comment by dubbie99 in "AirPods Max 2"

dubbie99 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:59:23 +0000

Ah mine do this. It’s suuuper annoying. I assumed it was because I use them connected to my work Linux workstation.

New comment by dubbie99 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

dubbie99 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:19:42 +0000

One flaw with this assumption is that images are available in literally counts of trillions to train on. With 3D models there are virtually no production quality models freely available to train on. Even companies like ILM or Weta have nowhere near the number of models that would be needed to train a robust modelling AI

New comment by dubbie99 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

dubbie99 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:16:54 +0000

The thing is CAD models look perfect. They are completely un-editable in that state however. You have to go back to the cad program to make edits to the original solid model.

New comment by dubbie99 in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

dubbie99 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:11:37 +0000

That’s not really how 3D modelling works. You can’t just improve some of the model. You have to improve all of it. Fixing to top of the paddle also changes how the junction at the handle goes and so on. That’s why no one has solved ai 3D modelling yet. It’s like asking a gymnast to learn how to do the second half of a handspring first, and then for step 2 they can learn the first half. It doesn’t work like that.

New comment by dubbie99 in "Green lumber fallacy in software engineering (2022)"

dubbie99 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:28:06 +0000

If they were the guy responsible for maintaining the hydraulics on the logging machinery, who gives a shit if they know anything about trees.

New comment by dubbie99 in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

dubbie99 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:25:36 +0000

I have one on my desk at work. I use it 2-3 times a week for quickly calculating things. It gives me a good feeling every time I use it.

New comment by dubbie99 in "Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All"

dubbie99 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:25:14 +0000

A micro is far superior on both these metrics.

New comment by dubbie99 in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

dubbie99 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:18:43 +0000

The materials that go into a chip are nothing. The process of making the chip is roughly the same no matter the power of it. So having one chip that can satisfy a large range of customers needs is so much better than wasting development time making a custom just good enough chip for each.

New comment by dubbie99 in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

dubbie99 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:57:23 +0000

No, because the child is behaving as a curator which is a valuable act. I never hear ai “artists” claim to be curators, they always claim to be creatives.

New comment by dubbie99 in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

dubbie99 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:34:54 +0000

I don’t agree with your music synthesizer analogy. I own a synthesizer, however I don’t possess any musical talent whatsoever. I cannot for the life of me produce anything remotely listenable from the thing. I know how to use it, but cannot make good music. You just need to look at some street performer banging on a plastic bucket and entertaining a circle of people to realise that the ability to make music is orthogonal to having the right tools.

AI art is more like me pressing the demo button on the synth, looking you in the eye as it plays the preset tune and saying “I made this”

New comment by dubbie99 in "Toys/Lag: Jerk Monitor"

dubbie99 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:25:08 +0000

My theory about why it helps gamers to have a higher frame rate is that for something like a whip turn, with a low frame rate, your brain has to take a brief moment to work out where it ended up looking after the pan. But if your frame rate is high enough, you brain can keep updating its state during the pan because the updates are continuous enough not to lose “state” during it. This means when you finish the fast move, there is no delay while you reorient yourself for a few milliseconds.