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by chaboud 5y ago
For me, this is both accurate and appropriate. We own four cats in our household, aged 16-25. So they’ve been around almost as long as I can really remember. In all that time, anything I’ve been capable of doing I do much worse and much mo
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by chaboud 5y ago
You can find many simple but observed real world examples of unintended consequences from indexing on observation by searching for examples of Goodhart's Law (which, as commonly generalized, should actually be called Strathern's L
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by chaboud 5y ago
You can just start out where lots of folks start out: Do the basics by following along with videos from established and accessible instructors (e.g. Rodney Yee, Seane Corn). These are folks from the DVD era that are still active. Pleasant
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by chaboud 5y ago
You’ve tried the snark twice, but it’s not aiding your point. What is the actual mechanism you think should be implemented, and how does that support cross-party referencing while avoiding other modes of vulnerability (e.g. denial of servic
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by chaboud 5y ago
How would it block creation? Is AWS supposed to keep a full record of CNAME entries for the Internet and keep it up to date? Since CNAME records can point to other domains, I’m not sure how AWS is supposed to police this and allow cross-re
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by chaboud 5y ago
Could Eve then just register bob.com and point it to bob's random bucket to mess with him? And shouldn't Alice be able to register Alice.com and point it at Bob's bucket if she feels like it? It seems like the answer already
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by chaboud 5y ago
Unless he was born on February 29th (good luck getting that drink at a bar), reading after only hitting two birthdays is the stuff of legend. That said, having been told so by a genius, I feel like I'm now unshackled, ready to pursue a
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by chaboud 5y ago
This is actually a great little advertisement for CalVer and SemVer baked into a send up of some pretty important projects with goofy ZeroVer history. I use ZeroVer on documents that are in a draft state to signal that they're draft, a
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by chaboud 5y ago
What you're highlighting is the lack of avalanche effect with perceptual hashes (on purpose). This makes them great for identifying transformed content (e.g. local TV channels via a cable box, ads on channels with slid in lower third
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by chaboud 5y ago
REAPER is basically a Vegas Pro clone. As one of the early Vegas devs and a Mac user, REAPER feels like home to me. It’s solid, and it’s my go-to for time-focused audio editing when I need to move quickly. However, as an old Scream Tracke
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by chaboud 5y ago
The false reverence in this is hilariously consistent. You can just feel the angst dripping through the page.
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by chaboud 5y ago
Yeah. And here I thought someone had done a reverse Impossible/Beyond: making bread from animal products. I guess chicharrón will have to do until then.
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by chaboud 5y ago
That's probably at least in part because Adobe has a history of buying and/or following their way to a lot of industry positions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Adob... That said, I b
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by chaboud 6y ago
There is a chasm between “doing something like this distracts from more effective options for change” and “people can only do one thing at a time”, and arguing the latter when someone says the former feels disingenuous. For example, in Cali
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by chaboud 6y ago
I only support finger painting with natural pigments and sculpture from unprocessed materials with no tools... Basically, someone needs to smear fruit on a rock or punch a tree if they want to reach me. Otherwise, it's not art, just g
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by chaboud 6y ago
"The closure of anyone over friendship is likely all people." Except Ted. Nobody likes Ted, and he has no friends. Yes, you, Ted. You know who you are. Joking aside, an aggregate measure of proximal association and affiliation
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by chaboud 6y ago
“ This style of house made so that people can feel rich and high status while wasting enormous amounts of energy to heat and cool is an affront to our future generations.” Wow dude. You decided why people want specific things and let us kno
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by chaboud 6y ago
Wooosh! That’s the sound of a joke flying overhead. Decentralization is a feature. As with most features, it has technical and behavioral costs. In the case of Bitcoin, this cost is an enormous computational and environmental burden. Howev
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by chaboud 6y ago
Personal optimization schemes fall apart when we have to interoperate with others, just like in system architectures. Think about the cognitive load of your spouse when you decide how a system should work.
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by chaboud 6y ago
This article is packed with odd mistakes. One more is the assertion that Microsoft has been hard at work to make Windows, an x86 operating system, work with ARM. The NT lineage of Windows has worked on PPC, MIPS, Alpha, IA64, x86, x64, and
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by chaboud 6y ago
Somewhere there is a line between pragmatic and negligently flippant. There are reasons to care about code quality beyond a chip on one's shoulder. Scalable, extensible, and readible systems retain optionality and can provide substant
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by chaboud 6y ago
When you’re trying to scale teams of thousands of programmers, the dynamics of sloppy ones leaving traps and cruft in the codebase become the things you care about. At least, it’s the stuff I care about now. Much of what we do is mundane,
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by chaboud 6y ago
The energetic stupid programmer is the single most destructive thing you can have on your team and in your codebase. They make messes for everyone else, and a dummy writing bad code can produce more volume than even the best coder writing
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by chaboud 6y ago
They are talking about a bidirectional reflectance distribution function, a now common modeling technique for practical representation of complex surface properties when illuminated. That said, a full BRDF is not the only way to approach th
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by chaboud 6y ago
For purposes of browsing, you can source your top-level "zoomed out" layer from a single photograph and blend at lower tiles in the quad tree or normalize the downsampled capture data against a reference. Nonetheless, thanks for d
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by chaboud 6y ago
I'm disappointed that the illumination is not uniform in the stitch. Artifacts from the sampling and stitching leave subtle bands in the output that I'm fairly confident are not in the original. This is likely a biproduct of usi
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by chaboud 6y ago
Years ago I totaled a mountain bike in a strange pinched-wheel-in-crack accident that bent the frame in two places but left me uninjured. When I commented to a bike designer/engineer that it was a strange failure, he said that it was i
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by chaboud 6y ago
Climbers and riggers should all be familiar with fatigue limits. It can be as high as 50% max tensile strength for steel, but I use 30% as my working figure when rigging, and I regularly re-inspect and age-retire gear (at least use annualiz
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by chaboud 6y ago
Rivian has an independent 4-motor setup. It's a compelling case of extra parts allowing for simplicity. It also allows for the ever-entertaining tank turn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwM8KE2L3I
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by chaboud 6y ago
There are technologists outside of SV? (Kidding) Having worked in technology in the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and SV as well as working regularly with (and at) teams on the East coast, in the south, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Europe

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