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by bhouston 1y ago
> UCLA violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli stude
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by bhouston 1y ago
Neat. The screen was so authentic I thought it contained a mini GameBoy inside. That would have been actually neat.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> How do you recover colour from a mono astro camera? Just run it for 3 exposures behind a gel of each of the R/G/B colours, then comp? Essentially yes. To get faint details in astrophotography, you actually will capture a ser
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by bhouston 1y ago
My recommendation, as someone who started with a DSLR and then modded it to remove the UV-IR filter, I would have been better to just skip to a beginner cooled mono astrophotography camera, like the ASI533MM Pro. It is night and day differ
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by bhouston 1y ago
> What you're describing is the domain of a very, very small number of hobbyists with very deep pockets Sort of. The telescope used for the Dumbbell nebula captures featured in the article was at worth around $1000 and his mount is
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Many other cameras, particularly those with aggressive UV-IR cut filters, underespond to H-a, resulting in dim and blueish nebula. Often people rip out those filters (astro-modification), but this usually results in the camera overresp
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by bhouston 1y ago
I'll posted this here because the author himself posted it on Bluesky: https://archive.is/2025.07.22-094623/https://www.businessins...
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The Metamorphosis of Shaun Maguire, a Prominent Sequoia VC(businessinsider.com)
5 points by bhouston 1y ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
Everybody else should close these loopholes as well for both individuals and corporations. The minimum corporate tax of 15% is one place to start: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/global-tax-agreement/
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by bhouston 1y ago
I think this can be summarized as: 1. Stress is bad for you. 2. Things that cause widespread societal stress are thus bad for you. Economic inequality, weak democratic institutions all seem to suggest that people are more stressed as a resu
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Uber drives join union in Victoria, BC(ufcw1518.com)
2 points by bhouston 1y ago|0 comments
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Impressive benchmarks!
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by bhouston 1y ago
Google Pixel has ~5% of the market I understand from current estimates. Apple has 50%, while Samsung has 25%: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/north-...
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by bhouston 1y ago
This title is a shortened version of the summary on TechMeme that reads: "Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI
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Anthropic and DeepMind researchers more likely to reject Meta offers than OpenAI(theverge.com)
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Apple tried to ride the wave of AI and failed (Apple Intelligence?) It was a crappy product, I agree. I keep it disabled. > Apple has recently released a paper which says AI is all maths but a lot of people are saying that they are
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by bhouston 1y ago
> That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI I am reminding when Android phablets were really cutting into the marketshare of Apple a decade ago. Apple was reluctant to release larger phones for a couple years and it was
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by bhouston 1y ago
No one comes close to Apple's ecosystem of hardware. It is amazing and it isn't a simple matter for another company to approach it in the near term.
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by bhouston 1y ago
There is no one challenging Apple on hardware right now. And all of these AI tools can run on Apple machines. So I am not sure that I see Apple falling from its current situation. That said, Apple isn't really riding this wave of AI.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I understand she did convince a lot of advertisers to come back and provided a veneer of credibility.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Imagine if such a misaligned AI had control of robots and could affect the real world? It could decide to act on its misalignment in a more harmful was than just a few X posts.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> MechaHilter It seems to be a reference to mechahilter from Wolfenstein 3d: https://wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_(Wolf3D) Not sure an AI comparing itself to a video game villain is a good sign of things
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by bhouston 1y ago
More here on Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/grok-antisemitic-posts-x-xai/
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by bhouston 1y ago
I am currently running a 8 4TB NVMe NAS via OpenZFS on TrueNAS Linux. It is good but my box is quite large. I made this via a standard AMD motherboard with both built-in NVMe slots as well as a bunch of expansion PCEi cards. It is very
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by bhouston 1y ago
Hmm... a tool for cheating is stolen and relicensed by another company that specializes in cheating tools. Sort of on brand actually.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Interestingly, there were rumors that a certain job board allows hedge funds to read their data to gauge the economic outlook. Not surprised. Just another revenue stream.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I love the rate of Blender improvements these days! Q: Does MacOS support HDR output already in Blender? I wonder if Blender is going to have full support for MaterialX soon for Material Graph import/export? That is really hampering a
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by bhouston 1y ago
It needs to be pushed by Apple or Google and then the other players in this space will get FOMO.
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I guess they got taken out primarily by LinkedIn Jobs? LinkedIn is an online resume essentially with a lot of additional self-promotion, so it simplifies the job application process, and also allows for searching for potential recruits. Jo
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by bhouston 1y ago
I really don't understand why VISA / Mastercard / American Express / Debit Cards do not have a email associated with them that will automatically get sent receipts when you use those cards - or have them show up in the b

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