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by brushfoot 2y ago
No offense, but this sounds like a terrible camera for your use case. It sounds like you know that. My Sony that I've been using as a webcam since COVID can do that, and it was 6 years old when I bought it. Upgrade when you can!
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by brushfoot 2y ago
The principle is to use the right tool for the job. USB can do just about anything. Video out is one possibility. But HDMI can already do that. It doesn't make sense to expect the manufacturer to provide a free app to make USB do somet
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> Is there a reason OP can't get themselves a $50 USB capture card and a $20 HDMI cable, and use OBS to capture the feed? This is how I've used my Sony camera since COVID. It works great. I wasn't sure at first if OP was t
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound). Why not both. I hire, and it crossed my mind to reach out to hi
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by brushfoot 2y ago
But that's not the way Stack is actually run. Remember Monica? She was a Stack moderator who got in trouble over Stack's new Code of Conduct a few years back. The Code required using people's pronouns if they listed them. Mon
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> It's trying to avoid learning new things and trying to preserve the status quo Well, yeah. Sometimes the status quo is good. Sometimes you don't want to learn how to do simple async page updates for the thousandth time. Becau
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Impressive project. I was curious how it discovers data relationships and was going to check the repo, but it looks like there's no code, only issues and releases. Is that right? Which leads me to... - Is this closed source? - Does it
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Totally. It's a hard rut to get out of. But it's a skill that can be learned like any other. For me, I'm a bit of a screen junkie with social anxiety. One of my blockers was negative self-talk. I would think, "They'
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Get off the apps. The Internet is full of this kind of social sleight of hand. Leave it alone. Use it for what it's good at, and intimate relationships is not one of those things, beyond meeting someone. And even that's gotten wor
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Agreed, especially given the idea of plants feeling pain has been used to attempt to discredit or debunk vegetarian ethics—even though it's not true in that sense. Using a poetic descriptor like "mournful" in this context see
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Agreed, particularly if you pipe to fzf. (For those who haven't used it, fzf is a fuzzy-searchable menu for the command line. You pipe lines of input to it, and it shows them in a menu. You start typing and it fuzzy searches the menu a
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Solopreneur here. For me, email marketing works, but in my experience, it works best when it's personal, casual, and highly targeted. This year, I actually had a prospect thank me for a cold email I sent him. He said in his 20-year car
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> they characterise Loma Linda's 9000 Adventists, who make up 40% of the population, as living a decade longer on average > This claim is hard to reconcile with the CDC's official numbers which show a typical life expectancy
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Loma Linda residents do have some of the highest lifespans in the world. Not on average -- but that wasn't Buettner's point. His point was that there's an unusual number of long-living outliers there.
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> The paper is pointing out that if you actually look at the data there is nothing remarkable about the region's average lifespan That's my point -- the region's average lifespan is irrelevant. It's only relevant gi
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by brushfoot 2y ago
The idea wasn't that averaging out the lifespan of all Loma Linda residents, regardless of lifestyle, would yield a higher number than everywhere else. It was that there was an unusually high number of outliers living there, and the qu
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by brushfoot 2y ago
This misses the forest for the trees. The CDC looked at average life expectancy in Loma Linda across all demographics. Purely geographical and on average. The blue zones focused on the greater longevity specifically of Adventists in Loma Li
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by brushfoot 2y ago
This doesn't really address Loma Linda, California, the Adventist blue zone. The researcher's criticism of Loma Linda isn't that people don't live longer there; it's that Adventist Health purchased Dan Buettner&#x27
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by brushfoot 2y ago
"Users near you" functionality is sorely needed in online spaces, considering how much interaction has moved online. Reddit has worked around their lack of it to some degree with location-based subreddits like r/AtlFilmmakers
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Incredibly, one of the study's authors chooses to single out STEM as a possible cause. STEM -- when there are so many other issues that could be contributing. For example: - Less physical activity, more obesity. Both have known effects
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Friendly reminder: This blog post represents a software engineer's personal opinion on creativity, upvoted here by fellow software engineers. No studies are cited. The assertions are corroborated by the author's personal experienc
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Note the focus on preferences and self-declarations, not behavior. This is about how people self-described when they feel alert and productive. It doesn't necessarily mean there aren't benefits (or conversely, detriments) to &quot
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> If there is a use case for spreadsheets that is not better served by some real code, I'm interested to hear what it is. Think of spreadsheets as a convention-over-configuration low-code environment with a tightly coupled GUI for s
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by brushfoot 2y ago
It depends. The type of project affects the decision too. If it's a small, standalone CRUD app on a SQLite database, mocks would probably be a bad option, sure. On the other hand, it could be an integration platform that integrates wit
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> the time they spent on mocks easily outstripped the time a good build engineer would have spent creating a fast reusable test framework This goes back to team size and skills. Not all teams have build engineers. And not all mocks are s
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Bad article. Some of the advice is good, like decoupling I/O and logic where that makes sense. But the general idea of mocking being an anti-pattern is overreach. This kind of thinking is overly rigid/idealistic: > And with Pos
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by brushfoot 2y ago
> Seems like he took an L Your numbers come out to $250K/year at Google and $230K/year as an entrepreneur. That's a small price to pay for this kind of real-world education. There's no guarantee his next business will
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Maybe, but I was shocked to find out that OpenAI had been training on my private chats. I was sending it entire files of my source code on the assumption that my private chats were just that, private. Now big swaths of my source code have e
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Ask HN: Is anyone else migrating to self-hosted tooling because of LLMs?
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by brushfoot 2y ago
Discussion on Reddit before it was removed by r/ios mods: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cryayx/latest_ios_upd...

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