#improvements

MPV 0.42 Media Player Brings Wayland Improvements, Improved HDR

MPV as the open-source, cross-platform media player originally based on MPlayer/mplayer2 is finally out with a new release...

Phoronix · EN

Ordinary Life Improvements since 2018

Gwern wrote a post about his ordinary life improvements in 2018. I feel like now is a good time to write a follow-up. Obviously, we’re different people who live in different places and have different habits. What’s better, people in comments live in other places, and have other habits and hobbies and I hope would bring 10x of what I can think about. So, for me, compared to 2018, Laptops are fast and live all day. Smartphones live two days on one charge. Noise cancelling headphones are great. Dishwasher and robot vacuum remain the best quality of life improvements for home. Both bec

Smagin · EN

Potential improvements to HowTruthful and its agent skills

I followed my own instructions for exploring Massachusetts 2026 ballot question arguments. I figured out how I want to vote. I also figured out some improvements to make to HowTruthful and its associated agent skills . Since users are rating statements' truthfulness on a 1-5 scale, it's not very useful to have a hedged statement like "Massachusetts legislators who run unopposed can take voters for granted and ignore important issues." If the rest of the statement is even a possibility, the word "can" makes the statement as a whole true. The AI skill should change such statements into a definit

LessWrong · EN

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...

Phoronix · EN