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by brk 7y ago
I work in the video surveillance space. The short version is that you are unlikely to be able to do anything worthwhile with those videos. If you want to contact me privately I can take a look at them and maybe offer some specific suggestio
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by brk 7y ago
I first read this story somewhere, back in the early 90's. It is a great piece of hacker lore, and a lesson (IMO), to not ignore little "rounding errors", as they can often be indicative of bigger problems lurking beneath. Th
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by brk 7y ago
IANAFDE (I am not a fluid dynamics engineer). My gut tells me that for this to work as designed, you would need to ensure the fluid moves exactly as intended, primarily smoothly and evenly. I know nothing about your 3D printer, but if the o
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by brk 7y ago
Fuel cells are also built to higher burst standards than "fuel tanks", as they often have less impact protection around them than a fuel tank that was designed to fit into the cars overall structure.
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by brk 7y ago
Where is $20,000 ‘livable’? Savings or not, I don’t know of many places where you could live on a net income of ~$1,300/mo. what do you do for medical benefits alone in that income bracket?
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by brk 7y ago
All things considered, "5 figures" seems like a pretty low income for something that is "very very hard", and risky. Seems like if you have the skills and tenacity to day trade like that you could find some other job to
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After seven roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws(arstechnica.com)
3 points by brk 7y ago|0 comments
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by brk 7y ago
It possibly could be. It has been 15 years since I worked in the CATV market, so I'm not totally up to speed on the nuances of the latest platforms.
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by brk 7y ago
Backbones are generally symmetric. Without getting into super deep detail, on cable internet, there is a balance between spectrum allocated for Tv content, and internet bandwidth. The system will have a finite amount of spectrum available,
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by brk 7y ago
Debatable if the concept is staying. But Knightscope is almost certainly not going to be around for long. Take a look at their financials and you’ll see they’re very much lacking both a revenue stream and a reliable fundraising strategy.
851.
by brk 7y ago
Well, the company is nearly bankrupt and has lost a lot of people lately so odds are you might get away with it.
852.
by brk 7y ago
Your best case example is a statement made over a century ago?
853.
by brk 7y ago
This has been my line of thought as well, autonomous vehicle will slowly emerge over time. We are not waiting on 1 or 2 big tech breakthroughs alone, but also on a lot of infrastructure and regulatory changes, which take a lot of time to en
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by brk 7y ago
I agree. I actually spoke with the ReFirm guy ~2 years ago when they first found the Dahua vulns. I don’t see any new data or proof in this report. Also, as I recall the vuln was in a binary called ‘sofia’ or ‘sonia’ that was a modified ver
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Cloudflare Outage Affecting Multiple Sites(cloudflarestatus.com)
8 points by brk 7y ago|0 comments
856.
by brk 7y ago
Not only different, but different by a couple of digits to account for the width of the tabs on the discs inside the lock that you are rotating with the knob.
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by brk 7y ago
I seem to recall PG telling a similar story about flickr at the very first "Startup School" meeting. The original idea was an online game targeted at teen girls, and there was some kind of photo sharing element that was part of th
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Professional AR Measuring Device for Smartphone(arrim.net)
1 points by brk 7y ago|0 comments
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by brk 7y ago
I disagree, the ratings are averages, so outliers should be naturally smoothed out. You should not need to appeal any 1 (or 2) bad ratings, if the rest of your ratings keep your average up. However, if you are consistently being rated such
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by brk 7y ago
You don't get to pick your driver, so the driver ratings really don't matter to any particular user for a given ride. IMO the driver ratings make sense, and give the driver incentive to not take purposefully long routes, to not ig
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by brk 8y ago
"Your company is theoretically worth at least as much as theirs." Maybe. Having worked in the auto industry (albeit well over a decade ago), it is one of those industries where connections, and knowing how to navigate the relation
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by brk 8y ago
The "average" surveillance camera often does not have sufficient pixels-on-target/pixels-per-foot to do face detection for the majority of persons in the scene. The trend towards higher resolution cameras (eg: from an average
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by brk 8y ago
Perhaps. My anecdotal experience does not show a high ratio of women on facebook who are also friends with their mothers. I have also noticed older seem to list their maiden name less frequently. However, I do agree that in general several
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by brk 8y ago
That would be HER maiden name, not her mothers.
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Facebook Allowing Anyone to Look Up Users from Phone Number(fastcompany.com)
4 points by brk 8y ago|1 comments
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by brk 8y ago
I'm in the same position. My MBA has got to be 5 years old. I would be willing to replace/upgrade it, yet everything current seems like a compromise in some way (if not compromise in direct features, compromise in what you really
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AT&T gets burned by rivals over its fake 5G network(engadget.com)
5 points by brk 8y ago|0 comments
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by brk 8y ago
Generally anything that is not time sensitive, either because it is about a generic or static topic, or because the author makes regular updates if it is not static. EG: a post on WWII airplanes would be evergreen, as the data is pretty muc
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by brk 8y ago
Can’t the cashier do that?
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by brk 8y ago
It seems to go for the "least interesting" result. eg: I gave it 363 and it gave me back 363 + 0 + 0, which while technically true, 121 + 121 + 121 would have been more in the spirit of it, IMO. Or even 242 + 121 + 0 would be a li

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