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by SamPatt 8mo ago
It wasn't about having the videos held hostage, but about the ease of accessing and viewing them. I didn't want to do DVDs at all - frankly, that's just a bad experience to go through 200+ hours of unlabeled video.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Hi gwern! My siblings are very much not developers. That's a lot of data for them to download, store, and figure out a way to view. I was worried they'd just see a list of filenames and not put in the effort. By creating a streami
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I agree. I'm fortunate. I hope that you can enjoy the memories as best you can.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Bro, you're paranoid. I'm the author. Look at my blog. I write my stories myself. I wrote a geoguessr article last year that hit the top of HN. Yes, I've used VLC. But I'm using a fairly new machine and hadn't insta
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I posted this 5 days ago, and it didn't seem like anyone saw it then, so I'm happy folks are enjoying it now.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
I would absolutely try that first.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
It's the Big Video8 cartel astroturfing.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Really? I'm the author and I can't conceive of any way this could be considered marketing. It's a personal project, I'm selling nothing. But I am looking for work, so hey, if anyone is hiring and they enjoyed the post, t
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
It's a joke; my grandma worked as a switchboard operator in the 1940s for two weeks. As she says, she "disconnected half of Washington DC." We often refer to government agents as "feds." I wasn't considering an
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Glad you enjoyed it. Definitely get some good videos.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
I have a NAS backup as well.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Thank you, and thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Immich is great, after doing this project I installed it for our current family photos and it works well, although I keep hitting a bug where older photos are blurred and never load. I need to investigate that.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Thanks for the tip! Part of the issue of automated scene detection was that there isn't any way to get the other metadata, such as who is in the scene or the date. But I could have probably auto split the entire file at the start then
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My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood(sampatt.com)
210 points by SamPatt 8mo ago|85 comments
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Agreed. Applying the intelligence we already have more broadly will have a huge impact. That's been true for a while now, and it keeps getting more true as models keep getting better.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
I found coordinating skill usage across worktrees quite annoying, how are you managing this?
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
5.2 Codex is excellent at reviewing commits. I haven’t used 5.3, I assume it's as good or better. Especially for large commits, it's become indispensable.
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by SamPatt 8mo ago
Or maybe when we actually see it happening we realize it's not so dangerous as people were claiming.
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Everything has tradeoffs - those panels themselves take energy and rare earth minerals to create, and getting both of those requires pollution, primarily in China where they have lower standards than western nations. So filling Canada with
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Yes, and it's wonderful to see. As the article itself explains, this isn't due to government led redistribution of wealth anymore: > The 20th century infrastructure model was: > Centralized generation > Government-led &gt
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Agreed. But there are poor people in Canada, and forcing them to pay more money (and slightly lowering their own quality of life) so that wealthier Canadians can install solar panels is, at least, a debatable policy.
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Everything has a tradeoff. That's a foundational truth of economics. Environmental protection is a luxury good in economic terms. The Environmental Kuznets Curve is compelling to me. It's extremely difficult to assess the ROI on
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
At an individual level? Agreed. But at a national level the data is compelling. I'm convinced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Yes it's awesome to see solar adoption without subsidies. Wonderful technology. Decentralized energy production is powerful.
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
That's exactly my point. They're making decisions based on their economic reality not sacrificing for environmental principles like the above commenter. Solar is great. It can stand on its own without subsidies.
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
>I'm a renter, been all my life, I'd be happy to pay more in taxes if it means more solar panels for everyone except me. That's because you're rich like most people on HN. Environmental protection is a luxury good. Th
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
I enjoyed coding because of what it enabled me to _do_. I can now do more with AI tooling so I enjoy that more. I know lots of you enjoy coding for its own sake, more power to you. But it's no surprise to me that many (most?) view it a
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
What term would you use? You can't say "a finished product" because it may never be finished, but something that other people find valuable seems like a good definition. I get the argument. Sometimes I really enjoyed the actu
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by SamPatt 9mo ago
Well yeah! This is objectively a great process for getting a lot of work done.

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