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by bicubic 8y ago
Google's purpose seems to have changed from helping people find the most useful information, to funelling people to information that Google wants them to find on a particular topic, whether its the most useful or not. Are we really sti
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by bicubic 8y ago
Related to that, is there anything that allows to completely save the state of a modern website with all of the fetch requests and websocket related stuff it fired off? I just want an ability to save and reopen exactly what I'm looking
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by bicubic 8y ago
It’s aliasing. You don’t see it on stuff filmed with most consumer cameras because they have an anti aliasing filter over the sensor. If you want maximum resolution, you remove that filter. They could have removed it in post but again it wo
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by bicubic 9y ago
It doesn’t need to be directly reciprocal. You could have a system where having your paper peer reviewed costs X tokens, and you earn tokens by peer reviewing other papers that don’t have citation links to yours. Or you buy tokens with cash
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by bicubic 9y ago
The problem with Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ is that it’s anything but. Asking drivers to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel while not steering guarantees that their attention will wander, because their brain isn’t getting enough
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by bicubic 9y ago
If you need privacy then self censor? One of the core reasons for privacy is to prevent censorship in all forms.
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by bicubic 9y ago
I would argue that you have an ethical responsibility to fight that battle. Here in Australia, when you become a software engineer, you join the Engineers of Australia, become a chartered Engineer with some additional civic rights and respo
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by bicubic 9y ago
But GPU is also able to use lower resolution types. There must be more to the TPU advantage.
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by bicubic 9y ago
The prioneers and experts of the field see it as a problem. The uninformed opinion of the general public doesn't carry much weight on this matter. People who don't see it as a problem should take the time to read one of dozens pub
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by bicubic 9y ago
Very real concern. A lot of effort goes into sterilising craft intended to land on or impact other planets. If we fail to do so, we run a real risk of seeding earth life on those planets and forever ruining our chances to test them for the
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by bicubic 9y ago
Words which indicate that the author strongly feels that the topic is a black and white issue, and they are on the correct side of the debate. A list of sample words is linked in the top comment. In this context, absolutism basically means
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by bicubic 9y ago
Because there is no cheaper solution that's reliable. I think when we figure out affordable global positioning without needing external infrastructure, we'll unlock a major technological milestone as a species. Right now you can d
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by bicubic 9y ago
It's possible the operation bandwidth limited in which case at some point a faster card won't speed it up any more. But gpu acceleration vs software is an enormous difference in premiere
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by bicubic 9y ago
Your links sent me down a rabbit hole of Iot stuff and now I'm super excited about it. Had no idea that lte-m is so widespread. It's only a matter of time before it's easier and cheaper to get any kind of networked devices on
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by bicubic 9y ago
> and reasons it might not forever Is there historical precedent for something to be as widely accepted as gold, which isn't considered valuable today?
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by bicubic 9y ago
No matter which way you look at it, drug policy enforcement causes more harm and costs more dollars than the problem it purports to alleviate. Take a look at Portugal where all drug possession was decriminalized and drug-related crime went
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by bicubic 9y ago
Random English tip! 'I made a dna test' means that you have created a dna test. 'I took a dna test' means you have performed a dna test on yourself. 'made' and 'performed' are the same word in a few E
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by bicubic 9y ago
> The images were captured in automatic mode, we used default settings for all cameras throughout the whole collection procedure. I guess while that technically makes the images 'dslr quality', that's not how dslr cameras
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by bicubic 9y ago
So... webassembly?
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by bicubic 9y ago
The lack of access to clean water and most of the bad stuff happening around the world is not an engineering problem, it's a political problem. Elon Musk's passion lies in engineering, not in politics. So while your sentiment is f
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by bicubic 9y ago
Does this support dynamic moving lights? That's the 'wow' moment that's going to feel like a move to next generation graphics - when all/most lights are fully dynamic and contribute to GI.
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by bicubic 9y ago
They enacted tremendous social change for their time, but they weren't dictators. Even if they wanted to abolish slavery or enable women to vote, it would have never happened because those were very unpopular views at the time. Only a
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by bicubic 9y ago
Your thoughts actually do have mass, just like the data encoded on an SSD or hard drive has mass. If thoughts are the activity state of the brain, then the mass of the thoughts would be derived from the potential energy of the electrical im
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by bicubic 9y ago
Perfected the feed? Uh. My biggest complaint with youtube is that the feed is awful . It doesn't help me discover new stuff I like, it doesn't even help me discover obvious stuff like new uploads from posters I like. I don't
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by bicubic 9y ago
In addition to that, digital advertising is different from all predecessors in a couple of ways which make it very unpalatable to the target users. First off, it's the target who wears the majority of the costs. Extra bandwidth to serv
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by bicubic 9y ago
I don't disagree with that in the slightest. Infosys is the optimized answer to shitty IT governance in the west. But that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't solve an actual business problem.
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by bicubic 9y ago
> It is worth noting, that it can't be a million dollar business without actually solving a business problem. Based on my interactions with Infosis, I beg to differ. As best as I can tell, their business model is basically to convin
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by bicubic 9y ago
> I've had people who couldn't understand the problem no matter how hard I tried I understand the problem you're describing very well, but I had to read the entire problem statement to understand what you're talking a
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by bicubic 9y ago
In my experience this is critical to advancing the state of the art. Knowing the rules tends to lock one into a 'faster horse' mindset. If you want to invent a car, you're best off being ignorant of horse rules and convention
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by bicubic 9y ago
> - just American internet's future American internet has a very strong and direct impact on 'international' internet. Aside from the fact that a large fraction of international traffic passes through American switches or

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