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Simon Cooke

@FleetingShadow

Now @ Google. Ex-Xbox ATG/Game Dev/Your Sinclair Joystick Juggler. Biohacker, Composer, and Physicist. (Opinions are mine only, not my employer).

Seattle, Washington, USA Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
My GDC talk from this year just hit YouTube :) (welllll... I say my talk, there's a bunch of us all crammed in there :) ) If you're interested in seeing what we're doing in Android with Vulkan, 16KiB pages, our new Profiler, and porting premium games to Google Play - including a deep dive by Funday Games' Emil Kjæhr on how they brought Deep Rock Galactic Survivor from PC to... Pretty much everywhere. youtu.be/BcyBAzXfItk
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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
Ok. First question: are you aware of how speed step and related technologies work on modern hardware, and how thermal management works? While we're at it, how about human reaction time? If you ran a CPU at full rate all the time these days (and since about 2015), you'd melt it, and it'd enter thermal throttling mode. But you can goose it and boost it for a short while, as long as it cools down afterwards. Launching apps is great for this. Once launched it's mostly waiting for the user to move the mouse to the right place.
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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
It's more of a thing where they're probably running the clocks lower normally if not needed, and goosing them. If they let them run at full rate the whole time, the chip would overheat and have to thermally throttle. It's not unreasonable but not all workloads would survive that strategy for long.
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
@FreeFrance @Putsncoffee @MickWest It's a Unidentified phenomenon. In all likelihood the US military was testing US military secret projects on the US military. How else do you know if they're working? You can't guess...
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Dominique
Dominique@FreeFrance·
@Putsncoffee @MickWest A simple flare wouldn't have been classified as a UFO by the CIA, in my opinion. This image isn't perfectly symmetrical like a flare. There's a sort of "filament" in the upper right quadrant. (Photoshop color/contrast :)
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Mick West
Mick West@MickWest·
In the first tranche of government UFO files, video PR38 looks the most visually interesting, but the shape was determined to be a camera artifact in the Metabunk investigation two years ago. Diffraction spikes, a bit like Gimbal's, but different camera. metabunk.org/threads/the-ch…
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
Could probably 2D FFT the image, and subtract any strong lines, then FFT it again. The FFT of the image should look a lot like the diffracting element (well, aperture), because it'll be in the near field, and at least close enough to be near the fresnel zone and thus the diffraction element is doing the same thing but in reverse.
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JackHudler
JackHudler@JackHudler·
@Putsncoffee @MickWest Because I worked with telescope optics quite a lot. I instantly recognize what's causing the diffraction spikes and circular reflections in the image. To reproduce them exactly would be a chore without knowing the specifics of the optical system used.
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Puts
Puts@Putsncoffee·
@JackHudler @MickWest I’m just asking for it to be replicated in a photo is all. I’m not expert in this kind of thing, but the “like” examples seem to not look quite the same. It is strange to me in the video how it seems to leave some kind of trail behind it as well.
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Puts@Putsncoffee·
@MickWest The problem is you cannot replicate it. This is what it actually looks like
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Nippon Steel
Nippon Steel@nipponsteel·
@LennyBigelow @MickWest Bravo. Your debunking catches what MickWest and his "analysts' didn't even catch. Hahah. Trying to say it a lens flare. Yeah, a solid, non-shifting lens flare. Just shows nobody no nothing. Even the "expert." Lol. You're the first person to catch this and I agree.
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Lenny Bigelow
Lenny Bigelow@LennyBigelow·
@MickWest Correct. And the motion video shows that it's hanging from some kind of parachute.
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Pam Douve
Pam Douve@FIexecutioner·
@MickWest Yawn yawn yawn. So are you now saying the US government are lying, rather than your usual target audience of the “UAP community/conspiracy theorists”. Bitter Mick will still be bitter when the NHI lands on his garden lawn.
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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
@MickWest The sad thing about diffraction spikes is that if you really really care about them you can FFT the image, multiply them with an inverse mask to eliminate them, and FFT it back. Not sure why people don't do this but James Webb suffers from the same problem.
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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
@MickWest Could have sworn it was this. I tried to find out more but U.N.I.T. was unavailable for comment... 😉
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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
Well... @MickWest is up for a busy couple of months... (Good luck, have fun, don't die...)
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
Yes, tyrannical. Using the legislature to bypass the state constitution, a law banning income tax passed two years ago with a bipartisan majority, and all of that in violation of their oaths. And cynically designed to avoid a referendum, after trying to gut the initiative process here. Pretty much the textbook definition of tyrannical. We can throw dishonest and disrespectful of the people of Washington state if you like? You could have done this legitimately, but instead you act like petty crooks.
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Robert Cruickshank
Robert Cruickshank@cruickshank·
@FleetingShadow "Tyrannical." Using the legislature to pass a law that will surely be voted on by the people is somehow tyrannical. Really.
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
@ThatDude2685 @cruickshank @djw172 Surely they have to know that this pushes people away from the party? It's not like it's 1970 and you can't independently verify things with a five minute web search.
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Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
@FlintDibble You understand that money isn't just sitting in a mattress somewhere, right? It's literally a measure of the value of the companies he's CEO of.
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble·
Yeah, hoarding $10T instead of spending it on solving world hunger or improving health care for poor people is comic book villain style evil, narcissistic behavior Being a good human is living a prosperous life & giving what you can to help others
Dimitri@thedimitri

I love how leftists fundamentally misunderstand how the world works. $10T net worth isn’t “hoarding," it implies massive success and real-world progress in sustainable energy and space travel. But instead, they picture some evil cartoon boss swimming in gold coins in his mansion.

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Simon Cooke@FleetingShadow·
Yes. They passed a law by a bipartisan majority two years ago to PROHIBIT ANY FORM OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX. In what world do YOU think it's honest and forthright behavior to then go "Whoopsie, actually we didn't mean that because we really really want a progressive income tax". Grow a set of ethics because apparently you support UNETHICAL behavior.
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