SavantIdiot

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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
This video is really well done. I worked on optimizing the Xing video player for Pentium MMX ages ago (almost 30 years?!), and had to figure this out by reading the same one book on the topic over and over again. I never quite got the detai
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Thanks, now I understand it even better!
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
This glosses over the best part: the quantized DCT is where the magic happens. Basically the 8x8 block is converted in to one of a handful (64) different possible choices, they look kinda like electron orbitals, modulated by coefficients. I
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
fun fact: all french grapes are grown from american root stock [1,2] due to an infestation in the 1960s. one could argue it is a benefit so that if either country is struck with something like this for truffles, they can share. -- [1] http
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I'd rather have it grown locally than like coffee or cocoa beans where entire country-sized economies are devastated by US megacorps (see the reasons why we need fair trade), not to mention what they do to the environment.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Using Feynman to throw shade at Minsky. Nice. I read "Age of Intelligent Machines" by Kurzweil in 1990 and so far he's the only one that thinks human-like AI won't be until the 2100's, but he also has a more holisti
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Back in the 90's I worked with a guy who used a Dvorak. Any fans still out there?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I think the bigger question is: do we still need AV software on Windows machines? Isn't windows defender good enough?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
More importantly, what FONTS will be in vogue in 100 years???
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> Are you telling me that an Electron developer will be able to implement a system significantly faster than an equally-experienced Qt developer? Yes. Hands down. I'm actually saying two things: there are far fewer Qt developers,
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I wasn't even talking about the penalty of writing a Qt application in C++. That's a different penalty. Qt doesn't really compare with what can be done with a good UX/UI dev on the team, and in much less time. And there
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
What is PERLs version of numpy?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Because it saves my company 66% in development costs.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Drake turning away: ElectronJS 0.06GB app Drake approving: Any modern game requiring 100GB of content
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Clearly not the same place McAfee went, that's for sure. The late 80's early 90's had some strange Tier-2 computer celebs (Tier 1 being Jobs, Grove, Ellison, and Gates).
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I like how the control algorithm doesn't even appear in this project because there is so much tech already made and cheaply available. That's a testament to electronic commodities: all of these specific little control devices ...
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I read somewhere that a pandemic becomes an endemic when we agree on how many people we can accept dying each year.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Military design is fascinating: because they have such a huge number of testers, small details like the expansion indents and the dual-purpose handles evolve. Today I see these lashed to the sides of Suburban Assault Vehicles all over town,
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Anyone have the link to the scoring architecture OP references? The provided link 404s.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Move to Portland, Oregon! There is a huge market here for local farm produce and livestock. During the 2000's, I couldn't find a CSA because all local farms were selling nearly everything to restaurants. In terms of meat productio
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
That's one way to look at it, if you want to radically oversimplify the problem. Another way to look at it is there currently exists very clear discrimination practices based other vectors (income, geography, history). System racism is
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Is their tech a commodity? I knew one of the principals (who was hired away by Uber for an ungodly sum of money) who had spent years writing a lot of proprietary networking code. I don't think that IP is a commodity, is it?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I had netflix from 2003 to 2020, and still got DVDs until 2018 when I moved to an area with broadband. It has been a ride: from it's rapid decline from having all sorts of art-house films (Preminger, Castle, Fassbinder) on DVD, to havi
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> an enthusiasm for splintering over small matters of doctrine. Identity politics, tribalism over principle, virtue signaling, whatever fad this is, I question your assertion that you are "leftist" when you describe progressive
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> they have to go on record clarifying exactly how they define race - In these contexts, "race" is a stand-in for social segregation phenomena and not the Oxford dictionary defintion. By not identifying the distribution of vari
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
No. That's why Non-Profits, 501(c) corps in the US, exist. E.g., Linus wasn't looking for profit, and Linux ate the world.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Never heard of that, thanks for the recommendation!
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
If you have some time, watch "Stalker". It's pretty amazing this twisted-reality dreamlike film was made in 1979. It feels right out of 2010.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> And boy would Google find it hard to follow you down that road. This is a good perspective. Where can Google not go? Places that don't lead to profit. They will try (cough Wave cough) but will give up.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Can you imagine being a dev on this bugfix? The bug is known, but every second wasted testing, regressing, and preparing to deploy, literally millions of emails aren't delivered. That's some serious pressure. I wonder if there wer

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