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by bane 4y ago
> The community colleges in my area require a surprising amount of prerequisites and pay _dismally_. Exactly. They want quality education provided by people who see it as a social giveback. The pay is almost an honorarium. Many CC profes
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by bane 4y ago
I grew up pretty poor and never had hope that I could go to college...so I never tried in high school, and never took my SATs and was resigned to a life in lower paying non-career jobs. After a few years of this, I remember interviewing at
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by bane 4y ago
In Korea, there's a truck called the "Bongo" which is more of platform for cabover small trucks -- which includes box trucks, pickup-style utility trucks, flatbeds, etc. But all designed to be small and work well in tight urb
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by bane 4y ago
Another way to think about it is that we really don't know what changes drive towards survival as a fitness function, so nature tries as many of them as possible. Teams that make more shots generally make more goals -- more attempts pr
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by bane 4y ago
Anybody in the Southwest of the U.S. may be interested to know that the northernmost known ballcourt for this game is at the Wupatki National Monument in Arizona, an absolutely incredible and very under visited location. https://
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Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter as X Corp(qz.com)
6 points by bane 4y ago|1 comments
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by bane 4y ago
If they can pull this off I think we may enter an age with a clear "Before super heavy reusable launch" and "after". It's mind boggling how much stuff a Starship will be able to chuck into space and come down and th
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by bane 4y ago
Not a problem and good luck!
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by bane 4y ago
That's called "speaker diarization" and there's quite a bit of work in the field. https://github.com/topics/speaker-diarization I have no idea what's good or the best, but there's a starti
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by bane 4y ago
AI/ML and LLMs definitely attract a certain cadre of very smart people. I think they enjoy the way that AI/ML sort of inverts the normal programming mindset and the strategies of handling lots of data. But I also agree that for ma
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Ruffle – Flash Emulator – Progress Report(ruffle.rs)
250 points by bane 4y ago|54 comments
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by bane 4y ago
Wow, as somebody who remembers Xerox's lethargy even in the 80s and 90s, that's both an incredibly apt comparison and shockingly accurate.
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by bane 4y ago
I think this is a great question. When I graduated way back in the day, CS was surging as a major but was still very much emerging from the Mathematics department. We were encouraged to take electives in software engineering and other &quot
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by bane 4y ago
I remember those days fondly as well. Compounded with growing up in a fairly rural area, the BBS world was an escape and exposure to people and ideas that would have never been considered where I grew up. There was also this feeling at th
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by bane 4y ago
For those who don't know much about SK, Yongin is a city of over a million that's right next to/south-east of Seoul -- considered sort of the major suburb region. It's about as large as Seoul area-wise, but is one of the
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by bane 4y ago
While "computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy does with telescopes", I fear that it's become too inexorably bound to computers and too dependent on its foundation in the maths. As a result CS is seen a
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by bane 4y ago
Some other comments here are good but I'll point out that what most people don't understand is that "Watson" is the name of a marketing umbrella, not a technology. Essentially, almost anything at IBM that had AI/ML
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by bane 4y ago
Yeah, I seem to remember there was that brief time period where my PC could barely play MP3s and I used to treat them like zip archives -- rendering them back out to WAV files to play them back. I think you're right and that was arou
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by bane 4y ago
Pay and expenses are, globally, highly unusual. We also get "tricked" by the Anglophone similarities of Canada the UK into thinking we're all sort of the same place. But the reality is the the US generates more revenue, and t
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by bane 4y ago
If there's a spot on the planet where NIMBYism is more powerful than in anyplace in the US, even the Bay Area, it's the London metro area. The "skyline" of London is London City, which is an entire history lesson itself.
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by bane 4y ago
It's hard to describe to the rest of the world how uncomfortable passenger rail in the US is to people not from the US. It's not "European levels but less availability". I've thought a lot about it and the best anal
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by bane 4y ago
Wow, what a beautiful memory! If you don't mind, about what time period was this?
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by bane 4y ago
Well, now I know where the funky thread is! https://peel.fm/a413ced
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by bane 4y ago
There's lots of comments here on XML as a file format, but that's not precisely correct (even the opening of the wikipedia article on it has the same conceptual flaw in the opening description). I think understanding what it actu
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by bane 4y ago
The videogame market is absolutely astonishing right now. When I was a kid there was lots of discussion if there was even room for two major consoles on the market. The combined systems moved for the SNES, Genesis/Megadrive, and the
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by bane 4y ago
It's definitely true, despite the Metro, the area is painfully car centric, with some very difficult to navigate road systems. I've heard it called an area based on the civic planning model of "development denial" where
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by bane 4y ago
One mistake almost everybody in tech makes when they move to DC from somewhere else in the country is that they move to DC proper. DC, despite being a fairly walkable city with a decent subway by US standards and a lot of diverse food choic
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by bane 4y ago
Nope, same shitty results. I've basically decided that my friend's name is going to be my search engine quality test from now on, the results are so spectacularly terrible. All I want is something the crawl the web, suppress SEO s
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by bane 4y ago
I was just searching for an old friend of mine who's last name happens to be a substring of another common last name. I tried everything, quotes, + signs, - signs, middle initials, middle names, cities we lived in together, etc. Every
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by bane 4y ago
In retrospect they're probably more of a "Mac Classic handheld", but to my young eyes, deep in the demoscene, it seemed like a portable Amiga in the way that a HP or Sharp palmtop was a full PC. The TI-89/92 series of ca

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