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by avidiax 10mo ago
The problem posed by this article is that companies are wasting candidates' time by making applying take time while offering no actual position. What if we imagined that companies charged a fee to apply instead of charging candidate ti
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The spammers spend almost no time filling any application, no matter how much work is intended. They have scripts for that. Granted, making it standardized means less skilled spammers can spam too. Making it difficult to apply reduces the n
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The employers want applications so badly they are willing to post job ads that don't exist. The need for a referral to get human eyes on your resume is a different problem that isn't made better by making every application expensi
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by avidiax 10mo ago
We could at least require that all applications have a standardized format for resumé and a list of legally allowable questions. No more requiring the candidate to do 30 minutes of data entry to encode their resumé into your HR system. Then
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The job exists, in the sense that Bob is currently doing it. Unless Bob turns in notice, your application will be in vain.
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The inability to pay a high tax increase constantly comes up in discussions on Prop 13, and it seems like a willful failure to find a solution. For personal property, raise the taxes, and give the home owner the option to defer the raise as
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Yeah, the Apple TV isn't better so much as it is very aggressive. I usually have to long press the power button on the Apple TV remote to get it to power off and let go of my receiver. Other devices like an nVidia Shield or the XBOX re
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by avidiax 10mo ago
It goes beyond just pointing out hypocrisy. This is a well known propaganda strategy called "Whataboutism." [1] It's unfortunately a tremendously effective smokescreen that divides the audience and shuts down meaningful debat
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Look up signage displays. Only problem with them is that they may be overly industrial and missing things that consumers would want, like Dolby Vision.
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by avidiax 11mo ago
It does this for HDMI inputs as well, BTW. Using such a TV as a computer monitor sounds dicey. There will eventually be a data breach of the uploaded screenshots, assuming they aren't able to fingerprint entirely on device.
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by avidiax 11mo ago
> Relatedly, there's an empty niche in the market for a USB-C power bank that can act as a UPS: able to charge and discharge at the same time without interrupting the discharge port when the charge port is disconnected I think there
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by avidiax 11mo ago
If I need 12V/1A, then that suggests I need 5V/2.4A even with 100% efficiency. Without negotiating anything, a device shouldn't draw more than 5V/0.5A. That's not to say that a boost converter doesn't have valu
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I looked at adding USB-PD as a replacement for a 12V barrel-plug power supply in a recent project. One big issue that came up (and killed the idea) is that if you are not battery powered, then putting a USB-C power input on your device that
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by avidiax 11mo ago
If the DNS server is actually local like it's supposed to be, it should have just a few ms ping. Quadrupling that just once is no big deal. The user won't even notice, since every OS does lots of background DNS activity before the
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I would like to see DNS servers require each client to establish one TCP connection to be allowed to use UDP thereafter. If this were the default on DNS servers, then DNS amplification attacks would be nearly impossible. They rely on spoofi
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by avidiax 11mo ago
My understanding is that you shouldn't be using HW accelerated encoding for any archival purpose except realtime capture. The PSNR/bitrate is much lower for HW encode, but the encode rate is typically realtime or better. That&#x27
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by avidiax 11mo ago
Yeah, I would think that the simulated grain of AV1 might be characterizable, even though, IIRC, it is pretty sophisticated.
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by avidiax 11mo ago
My first question is, where is this guy getting AV1 videos? Never seen these on the high seas. Also, given that these videos are going to be reencoded, which is tremendously expensive, I feel that any optimization in this step is basically
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I looked into this before, and the short answer is that release groups would be allowed to release in AV1, but the market seems to prefer H264 and H265 because of compatibility and release speed. Encoding AV1 to an archival quality takes to
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I suspect that AI is in an "uncanny valley" where it is definitely good enough for some demos, but will fail pretty badly when deployed. If it works 99% of the time, then a demo of 10 runs is 90% likely to succeed. Even if it fail
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by avidiax 11mo ago
Smart Pipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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by avidiax 11mo ago
This isn't the first time that the industry has foot-gunned itself. The continued reliance on say, COBOL, and the complete lack of those developers comes to mind. Even before LLMs, there were periods recently where multiple companies h
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by avidiax 11mo ago
Not sure if it is natively supported, but the malware can just decrypt a disk image to RAM and create a RAM disk mounted to +. Or it can maybe have a user space driver for a loop device, so the sectors of the drive are only decrypted on the
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by avidiax 11mo ago
Sounds like some meta-feedback that should be delivered to her. Of course, this kind of person has lots of ways to deflect, so they have to actually genuinely believe in open feedback as a value, and be willing to understand how they are fa
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by avidiax 11mo ago
> paradoxical risk, where successful treatments unexpectedly lower the risk of higher-risk patients to below that of untreated lower-risk patients. This seems perhaps tautological whenever the treatment intensity is binary, and it's
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by avidiax 11mo ago
You could make a moire pattern, but it would probably be pretty hard to get it flat enough on a shirt, and it wouldn't be distinct enough to get interpreted by AI.
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by avidiax 11mo ago
Why not put a resistor (for heating) and a bit of foam insulation on the crystal? This is way more direct than spacebar heating. You could also add a transistor attached to the resistor and a GPIO and use the clock drift as a proxy for temp
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by avidiax 11mo ago
You are right that gun owners wouldn't want those things, but they are unlikely to want a smart gun as a solution to those things. They want the gun to be available to them, and not be under duress to use a fingerprint reader or pin pa
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.
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by avidiax 11mo ago
I don't think the rent will cover most mortgages in California, especially not at higher interest rates. Depends on equity and interest rate of course.

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