OneEyedRobot

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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Imagine how small the drive would be if it just had 'things I might ever watch'. The size for 100% isn't even that big given a few iterations of storage tech. I'm just blown away by how little Netflix really gives you.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'm probably wrong here, but it seems to me that storage is practically cheap enough (not quite) that Netflix could simply send out a drive with their whole library and then a membership gives you access codes. Send out a new drive per
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>The amount of propaganda on the platform is ridiculous, though very frequently disguised as "news" or "educational". I certainly don't see that on the youtube channels I frequent, but admit that the 'news&#
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It seems to me that content neutral (neutrality? neutralness?) and copyright violations are there in order to build eyeballs and brand. You use them for growth. Once the size is there, you curate. Profit becomes the issue and the tendenc
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>I don't like these stories. It always trends towards the most inflammatory arguments, those being inherint bias and unconscious racism put upon our technology. Oh well, it's the times we live in. If people simply laughed at th
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I wonder if AIs are good at distinguishing individual gorillas, etc. I'd never really thought about the problem of classification being harder (perhaps) than identification if you see what I mean.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Us humans are super good at distinguishing faces. It would be interesting to test a bunch of midwesterners at their ability to tell Asians apart or to be able to distinguish various Asian ethnicities. My guess is that a lot of the dist
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. I suppose you could skim through Usenet archives.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Growth is an accounting technicality. Dunno how you should measure wealth/growth/etc. If we all plan on getting wealthy via moving money between accounts, buy low/sell high, and surveillance advertising, the sky's th
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>It's hard to see why "economic growth involves doing more with less" would work on a small timescale but not a big one. I would guess that the marginal value of cleverness or technology decreases over time
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It strikes me as the computer hobbyist version of getting a good deal on an old Bridgeport mill.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I can't say that I think of ten year old stuff as being particularly old. I've got the normal pile of early Thinkpads and a couple of cheap desktops but don't lust after them, it's just that new is too expensive (plus, s
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
hah, found the DMV rule "Only if located on a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres and that is within a county having a population in excess of 4,000,000"
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Re: crash safety, I wonder if it's possible to retrofit some extra safety measures on these things? That's a good question for any older car. I can think of a number of measures, but it would be interesting to see some real e
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>I don't want a big pickup truck. It's a tough thing to buy aside from vintage. Bummer that these aren't sold in the US (1/2 down the page). Maybe it isn't just lack of demand but also scads of DOT safety stand
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It really is a tough problem I think. If you put in high speed rail from my small town in the Sierras down to a nice beach, I'd be all over it. As you probably know, there's really not much in the way of point to point mass trans
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Passing visual was always the crazy part. Heaven help you if you have a 1976 car that's missing some part made from unobtanium. My understanding is that they can't test for NOx without rollers and the smog shops couldn't aff
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
At the cost of touching their face, build-up of funkiness (it isn't like they put on a new mask all the time), unwarranted confidence.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
That was my take. When this first hit I quickly read every mask study I could find, typically concerning flu transmission. My rule of thumb immediately became that it's pretty much useless outside of N95 masks...which luckily I already
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
"The proportion of individuals with COVID-like symptoms was 7.62% (N=13,273) in the intervention arm and 8.62% (N=13,893) in the control arm."
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>The issue is that there aren't any studies showing that safe doses are effective for treating this disease in humans. Actually I'm seeing a few, but they suffer from the typical lack of statistical rigor that I've come to
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
That's odd. A quick look at sci-hub shows a bunch of ivermectin papers that don't look half bad. I figure that if a physician wants to go off-label on a prescription they should go ahead. Plenty of warnings of course. Buying it a
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
It would be great if someone from Apple spilled the beans on what actually went down. No doubt the Apple Internal Affairs Department would be all over that. It would be a good test for Apple Privacy(tm).
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>There’s the 25 year rule and then there is California. Exactly. I remember in the DMV regulations that there's a special dispensation for Kei cars that essentially defines Catalina. 'An island over xxx square miles in size&#x
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'd say that no modern party even remotely resembles a political party of the mid-1800's.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Perhaps this is the end result of valorizing difference. Oooh, I think I'm going to steal that. To be fair, maybe it's just another mechanism for culture transfer. Hours per day on a phone filled with highly evolved addiction
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Unless you live on Catalina Island, my bet is that you can't license it for the street. It's a shame. I'd own one in a minute set up for snow days.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Perhaps someone here could lend some insight. Just exactly why is Apple doing this? I doubt that it was due to some huge upsurge in demand from it's customers. The arguments against are easy enough. This kind of tech is not ethical
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Oh well, even if Apple backs off they'll just try something else. Even though surveillance has always been a thing, the ability to both collect and parse the data is unparalleled. No need for Walsingham's secret police, or at lea
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I always assumed that Maine was the king of power outages.

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