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by bhouston 8mo ago
I agree with that. Cell service in Canada is centred around cities and non-minor roads with most every that isn't in those categories it gets spotty pretty quickly and the non-existent. https://www.planhub.ca/planhub&#
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by bhouston 8mo ago
While I understand the nostalgia, as a Canadian I wasn't even aware this was a thing. We still have CBC radio that broadcast weather reports, and whether reports are still available on the internet. If I understand correctly, this serv
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Trump makes a lot of claims of unfair elections, declaring a state of emergency and is talking about a third term. Hard to really know for real what will happen but it is suspicious. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics&
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by bhouston 8mo ago
“ There were non Muslims in senior political positions.” What are you talking about? Iraq is >95% Muslim, but there are a few different sub groups. With those numbers there were few in government then and now who are not Muslim. https:&
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by bhouston 8mo ago
> They've blown up 11 Starships without any of them making it to orbit. They purposely were not trying for orbit from my understanding. The last one did orbit the earth at suborbital heights and release satellites. It did seem to
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by bhouston 8mo ago
On the surface, the changes appear logical. The difference in philosophy between NASA's current approach and SpaceX is quite stark. SpaceX has launched 11 Starships in the two and a bit years, with a lot of them blowing up. Where as
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by bhouston 8mo ago
The quote was only for the 2022 pivot to AI safety, the 2026 pivot away from AI safety is the topic of this hacker news post.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
> Isn’t that the opposite of what he’s saying? The quote was from 2022 for the first pivot to AI to prevent it from becoming a terminator style entity. The last pivot was not in the quote but is the topic of this current Hacker News pos
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by bhouston 8mo ago
This guy from Effective Altruism pivoted away from helping the poor to help try to control AI from being a terminator type entity and then pivoted to being, ah, its okay for it to be a terminator type entity. > Holden Karnofsky, who co-f
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by bhouston 8mo ago
I've heard that Samsung's business practices can be quite predatory. Basically if you have cool tech and you try to sell it to Samsung, you'll often get a few meetings and then they will go silent and then what you were tryi
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ZSTDify: A robust pure-JavaScript implementation of ZSTD(github.com)
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Zstdify: A Pure TypeScrpt ZSTD Re-Implementation, Written in 4 Hours(benhouston3d.com)
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University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"(texastribune.org)
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Why "Land of Assets" Standardizes on glTF for the Master Asset(benhouston3d.com)
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Summary: "We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow e
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Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm(nature.com)
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Hasn't there been issues with AVX2 causing such a heavy load on the CPU that frequency scaling would kick in a lot of cases slowing down the whole CPU? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#Dow..
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by bhouston 8mo ago
Real business people keep running production lines if they are profitable and build additional production lines for new businesses. Real business people do not shut down profitable lines because they are making a pivot, that is what failin
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by bhouston 8mo ago
This reads to me like someone saying “you can’t dump me, because I am preemptively dumping you.” It is a forced pivot to avoid having to admit failure.
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by bhouston 8mo ago
FYI, apparently there was a data breach, but it would seem better to fix the issue and continue with this public service than to just shut it down completely. Here is the Journalist organization in the UK responding: "The government h
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by bhouston 8mo ago
There is another that is also quite mature that will render most Three.js scenes: https://github.com/gkjohnson/three-gpu-pathtracer Demos here: https://gkjohnson.github.io/three-gpu-pathtracer/exam
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by bhouston 8mo ago
The soldiers were indicted for tears to his rectum, so IDF lawyers believe it: https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-idf-reservists-indicted-for-...
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by bhouston 8mo ago
What do you mean "it doesn't work"? What does your console say? I actually log the HDR capabilities to console while feature detecting: https://github.com/bhouston/hdrify/blob/main/demos&#x
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by bhouston 8mo ago
It works great on my MacBook M3 display. And also on my HDR compatible external monitor. The HDR content is literally is brighter than white on my monitors. I wonder what is different about your setup?
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by bhouston 8mo ago
It works best in Chrome as for some reason you can not set Floating point data into a Canvas object in Safari, even if it supports "display-p3" color space. Specifically Safari will never get to this line in the feature detector:
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HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript(hdrify.benhouston3d.com)
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IDF reservist and civilian accused of insider Polymarket betting(theblock.co)
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by bhouston 9mo ago
The issue is unlimited spending. Rich people can tilt the political system to benefit themselves by their ability to spend unlimited and then push for things that enrich themselves like lower taxes that doesn’t benefit society at large. Th
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by bhouston 9mo ago
I bet Garry Tan will find that going after him for the wealth tax won’t poll well so he will find a different angle. Thus it won’t be a debate about a wealth tax, it will just be the standard make your opponent look bad in order to unseat
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by bhouston 9mo ago
Your statement is ignoring the systematic growing inequality in the US between the ultra wealthy and everyone else. And the use of those funds to influence politics (because of Citizens United, etc) to create polices that benefit themselve

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