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by _kb 3y ago
Another immensely useful source and pattern generator is also https://www.extron.com/article/testpattern .
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by _kb 3y ago
It’s a technique used heavily in psychedelic art and set design for festivals and events, particularly before projection mapping became the norm. When there’s spectral control of the lighting source this can be varied to bring out extremely
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by _kb 3y ago
Parent comment was likely hinting more at the bytes to bits switcheroo. Yes, technically the figure is correct but it's about as honest as a conversation about finance and switching from US dollars to Zimbabwean dollars.
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by _kb 3y ago
I think the important detail is it's OK for it to form part of your identity, but it's also ok for it to not be. If you spend a large part of your waking hours working on something enjoyable, absolutely embrace that. Conversely, i
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by _kb 3y ago
The C4 model [0] provides a mostly sensible structure and techniques for representing pure software systems across different abstraction levels. For systems involving software and hardware, or other complex interfacing (both technology and
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by _kb 3y ago
Modelling video as a series of frames seems like such a waste; and a great point of focus for optimisation. The vast majority of video content has a lot of redundant inter-frame information. De-duping this is a key part of most compression
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by _kb 3y ago
I have no doubt trust levels will adjust, eventually. The challenge is that takes a non-trivial amount of time. It's still an issue with traditional mass media. See basically any political environment where the Murdoch media empire is
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by _kb 3y ago
A key difference in the current trajectory is its becoming feasible to generate highly targeted content down to an individual level. This can also be achieved without state actor level resources or the time delays needed to traditionally im
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by _kb 3y ago
Traditional home automation - Crestron et al - is the absolute wild west. Business models are overwhelmingly based around hardware sales, lock in, and customer retention through obfuscation and control. This applies to both manufacturers an
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by _kb 3y ago
It's a hedge. There's an easy bent towards designing everything for scale. It's optimistic. It's feels good. It's safe, defendable, and sound to argue that this complexity, cost, and deep dependency is warranted whe
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by _kb 3y ago
Divorce doesn’t stop you from being a parent. Having a child is one of the few non-invertable functions you can apply to life.
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by _kb 3y ago
Hard agree. I lost everything. Pre kids: working in a startup with long (but enjoyable) hours, lots of travel, conferences, tech meetups multiple nights throughout the week followed by continued discussion / dinner / bar hopping a
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by _kb 3y ago
Geo/political stability.
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by _kb 3y ago
By the stats, USA is the brutal one: https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3 .
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by _kb 3y ago
It does with encrypted DNS (I think - still mid setup). If you use a configuration profile [0] to explicitly set a DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS server this is still honoured within private relay. IMO vanilla private relay is much neater a
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by _kb 3y ago
I'd hazard a guess this may be primarily for protection from patent trolls and as a mitigation for accidental patent violation. It's likely cheaper to gratuitously patent than risk ceasing production or sale of products.
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by _kb 3y ago
Genius. Such a ground breaking, original, and industry defining idea is even patent worthy: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20... .
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by _kb 3y ago
The descent into feature laden, landfill destined shite is a seemingly universal trend. It's the same across appliances, TV's, computers and wider 'consumer tech' and extends to cars, footwear, and (at least in Australia
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by _kb 3y ago
In many cases, that's intentional and required. Decoding, distributing, processing, and rendering across all the involved components can take in the order of 100's of ms. HDMI 1.3 and up has had a mechanism for equipment to commun
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by _kb 3y ago
Such a beautifully effective tool. The static site generator for my personal site is just it with a thin bash script wrapper: https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh . So much simpl
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by _kb 3y ago
Payroll? You guys are getting paid? Australians get the 'opportunity' to be part of that sort of that sort of espionage as a base level condition of citizenship [0]. As an upside, I guess it helps with encouraging good practices a
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by _kb 3y ago
I believe that's called HN.
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by _kb 3y ago
That's a phenomena common across mediums. There's a certain point - it doesn't matter if it's visual, sculpture, dance, theatre, literary, or sound - where the work itself seems to become immaterial (and arguably aesthet
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by _kb 3y ago
I thought it was a semigroup.
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by _kb 3y ago
Exactly. Current systems that work with large channel counts of high res deep colour real-time compositing are also around 6U 19" rack mount units and pull half a kilowatt of power. Not exactly ergonomic for strapping to one's fac
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by _kb 3y ago
So this essentially appears to be the SEO blogspam playbook oozing into academia? I wonder if any (likely well considered) techniques developed to combat this context may be able to be backported to help reclaim the usefulness of general in
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by _kb 3y ago
FrontPage was good and all, but you can pry Macromedia Dreamweaver from my cold dead hands.
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by _kb 3y ago
AI safe word.
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by _kb 3y ago
It doesn't need to be 'xor' pairing between automated detection or a doctor. It can be both. There's interesting work happening under places like ACEMID [0] on building models that boost detection accuracy. It's a r
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by _kb 3y ago
How Huxlian. What a brave new world we live in.

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