TrevorJ

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by TrevorJ 11y ago
History has shown that to be the prudent course of action.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Oh come on. It's hardly a foreign concept to have certified hardware/software environments for certain toolchains. Extended support for Win 7 is 2020. Win 8 is 2023.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Well, for me at least it is because I depend on Windows machines to do my day to day work. Any time I spend dicking around with an OS that's actively trying to screw me (I can't run the software I need in win 10) is time I'm
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
MS isn't respecting the update settings I choose allready. I no longer trust any of the so called "solutions" they are offering. Edit: in my particular case I tracked it down to a third party install that was forcing a window
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I had windows 7 set to ask permission before installing updates. This morning it downloaded an update and without warning it shut down all my software and tried to restart to install it. I was able to cancel the restart but now I have a nag
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Only a certain percentage of people are addicted to gambling. For many, it's a simple calculus of the entertainment value. If 45 minutes of playing penny slots is worth the 10 bucks or whatever then they do it. I do agree with your gen
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
That's the point. You shouldn't have to do that. Why should I be forced to expend any energy at all securing myself FROM my OS?
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Exactly. I won't have my productivity help hostage to an OS that acts like I should be beholden to it because it was generously forced on my for free.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I've used Gmail on 4+ machines in a variety of browsers and have never ever seen that. You must be in the darkest A/B test timeline.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
>But then Google actually did exactly that with their Go machine! I would argue that this is not what they did. What they did was take something a human player does (study games to learn how to play). And then parallelized this to a lev
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Email, in my opinion, is still the best solution for a number of collaborative and communication tasks. It's deficient in any number of areas, but it does away with all the useless and distracting features of things like slack.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Thanks for the info. I can totally understand why defense and space companies don't do public tours, it is too bad on some level though.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I think it's designed to be enough to convince would-be hackers to reveal the bug, but not enough to incentivise large amounts of people to sit around all day every day trying to break Facebook for bounties.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Wait, you can take tours of SpaceX?
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Different business models, different segments of the market.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
That's why chain of custody is a thing. That argument could be made for anything, even physical objects can be tampered with.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I admire your philosophy on this. It's impressive work for 48 hours starting from scratch. I'm also glad you recognise that 2,000 for a video like this is a reasonable rate. A lot of times people don't realize just how much g
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
It's a youtube video, not a research paper. I think you are being unnecessarily pedantic.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
To me, it feels on the face of it, the experiments are really really reductionist and fail to recognise the role of human subjects and social cues in the equation. For instance, in the first experiment outlined they had one set of subjects
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Self control as a static variable is not equally useful across all situations... I find it improbable that humans would have only a single 'algorithm' through which to mediate executive function. Surely the dominant strategy would
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I admire the experimentation, I'm sure there's room to innovate on things like company structure, but you have to balance the desire to experiment with the wellbeing and security of your staff, and this particular example seems t
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
It's a devil's bargain. The value is in the network, so the real job of the tool is to be as frictionless and low overhead as possible. Conventional wisdom says you can't build a business model around that, so you get product
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
The long and short of it is this: if they got a scan of that detail from a Kinect, of an object under glass then they better release a SIGGRAPH white-paper because what they accomplished was better than the state of the art. Of course there
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Problem is, it's under glass. Unless you use a polarizer you'll get a lot of false positives for points of correspondence. Photogrammetry would require a whole lot of very properly lit images as well. From a technical standpoint t
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Being under glass makes it a non-starter in my book. You could do it using polarizers potentially, but they didn't.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
Still a big issue with the artifact being behind glass. In a controlled environment where you can take all the time you need, I still don't think you could get a scan that's as good as the one released.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that people are unreliable drivers. Humans are certainly capable of driving very very well, but they perform unreliably.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
>Anything except DNA is essentially a fortune teller reading a palm. DNA evidence has been somewhat problematic as well, though mostly due to improper/non existing lab standards: https://www.utexas.edu/courses/b
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
The positional tracking tech valve is using seems like the most elegant, robust solution I've seen yet, so I certainly hope it becomes a standard. The best part about it is that the cost per device is so low to implement it (the tracki
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
There's a not very well know software that's written by one guy what's been around for 10 year so which can do this for moving images with an amazing amount of flexibility. It's a lot of fun: http://synthetik.

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