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Why AV1 Encoding Is Not Ready for Real-Time Streaming(red5pro.com)
1 points by ScottFree 6y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Does anybody how these antibodies are being identified and how distinct they are from other, similar viruses (like the flu)?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I wonder if there's an age component. I read that same book and I remember (maybe erroneously) that the artists who worked best in the morning were older, whereas the artists who worked better at night were younger and oftentimes addic
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To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging(dl.acm.org)
1 points by ScottFree 6y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Huh. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Consulting looks like the holy grail when you're stuck doing staff enhancement freelance work.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
May I ask what the specialized role is? Management? Sales Engineer? Business analyst? Data science?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
US or Europe? If Europe, would any of them hire a filthy American? ;)
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I prefer working with legacy turds over steaming hot new shit, but I have a hard time finding companies who will pay me for that work. Everybody wants the steaming hot new stuff.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> But when the discussion comes up, people don't talk much about the reasons you describe. Which people you're talking about? The survivors who are still working in the field? Or those who had heart attacks at their desks at 50
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by ScottFree 6y ago
So solve it for the 101st time, but better. Everything is broken and nothing works. So, build something that isn't broken and does work. I just found out yesterday that AWS Amplify doesn't have a manual deploy button. It's on
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Let's take the personal out of it: what if you're a freelancer or a contractor and the email and account used (and subsequently lost access to) was your professional email and account? Something like scott@freetechnologies.com? Th
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Random example: reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing. git log git revert {hash} I'd hardly call that a whole lot of typing. It's roughly equivalent to 2-3 clicks in a GUI app. Where the GUI
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by ScottFree 6y ago
That's because OLED has 45 years of active development behind it's belt. EInk only has 24. [0] The first OLED patent was filed in 1975 and the first practical OLED was created in 1987. Only in the past 5 years (2015-2020) has OLED
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Handmade Hero: Twitter and Visual Studio Rant(youtube.com)
7 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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The most powerful programming tool – flow control(clips.twitch.tv)
4 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Huh. That's pretty damned interesting. Thanks for explaining!
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Is this a localization thing? In this image here[0], the italicized word clearly leans to the right. Funny thing happened when I tried to type that out: typing /italics/ caused libre office to automatically italicize the word. [0]
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Why elm? It looks more like a DSL than a real language and a verbose one at that. I'm looking at some of these examples on their website, like the random number generator, and wondering why it takes so much code to print a random numbe
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Oh, come on. html/css+js is capable, but the programming interface sucks. Surely, you can at least imagine something better.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Imagine you have seen a cross platform gui that you'd rather use over a website. What would it look like?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> Don't put developer workstations on a network that connects to the internet. Is there a story behind that one? That one is very common and not traditionally considered harmful.
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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf](bankofengland.co.uk)
4 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Thank you for the recommendations! I'll check those books out.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Am I the only one here that finds it odd that not a single response so far has included a book on the nuts and bolts of how to start and operate a business? How and where to register the company, how to keep payroll, how to hire/fire,
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by ScottFree 7y ago
tl;dr, from TFA: "This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump." cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rAFHXl...
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The Fed's Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ScottFree 7y ago|2 comments
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> If you have a different investing vehicle to suggest, please let me know. Land, seeds, livestock and ammo. If you're worried that the market might collapse so hard that it won't recover in your lifetime, then trading money fo
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Does the "convert to text" feature work as nicely and smoothly as advertised in the Remarkable 2 launch video[0]? If yes, then that alone is worth the price for me. I've tried a number of solutions that have claimed to do thi
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Do you find that people respond positively to sarcasm?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Apple has demonstrated for years now that they're not interested in the enthusiast/power user/developer market. They want the profits that come from disposable mass market devices. The switch to ARM laptops would be the perfe

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