In article <vcgjns$g1mt$1@dont-email.me>, terje.mathisen@tmsw.no (Terje Mathisen) wrote:

My cousin Nils has hearing loss after a lifetime spent in studios
and playing music, he can't use the offered hearing aids because
they add 3-4 ms of latency. (Something which he noticed
_immediately_ when first trying a pair.)

I get similar problems using cameras with electronic viewfinders after
decades of optical ones. I suspect it's not the absolute lag that gets
noticed, but the offset between when your fingers do something, and the
signal reaches your senses.

John

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 8:00:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:

In article <vcgjns$g1mt$1@dont-email.me>, terje.mathisen@tmsw.no (Terje Mathisen) wrote:

My cousin Nils has hearing loss after a lifetime spent in studios
and playing music, he can't use the offered hearing aids because
they add 3-4 ms of latency. (Something which he noticed
_immediately_ when first trying a pair.)

I get similar problems using cameras with electronic viewfinders after decades of optical ones. I suspect it's not the absolute lag that gets noticed, but the offset between when your fingers do something, and the signal reaches your senses.

I refuse to give up on my dSLRs because light goes through the optics
in 2 nanoseconds while the screen is milliseconds later. Since the
camera companies dropped dSLRs I have dropped out of buying their
equiptment.

John

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According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:

I am convinced that quantum computers will eventually be good at some
things that regular computers are not and cannot be. ...

They seem to be rather exceptional at protein folding compared to
classical computing.

I think you're confusing them with recent large AI models. They run on
normal computers.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/

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The way I implemented it was by updating the "official" back frame buffer, and compare the update with the visible front buffer. If at any time a write to the back buffer did not result in something that was already in the front buffer, I just copied the back buffer to the front and went on from there.

The only application I use which is still doing something like it
nowadays is `mosh`, and I must say that it is a great feature.
[ It's occasionally "problematic", such as when I type a password before
the prompt appears, so `mosh` doesn't know yet that it shouldn't be
displayed. 🙂 ]


Stefan

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