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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> Yeah, we are very close to losing video as a source of truth. We've been living in a post-truth society for a while now. Thanks to "the algorithm" interacting with basic human behavior, you can find something somewhere t
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> Gemini sounds like the space program LOL, maybe I'm a bit jaded but Gemini sounds like some kind of cryptocurrency scam.
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
I'm really not sure why the tech industry needs a union. Adding a giant layer of bureaucracy in between people would wreck the whole industry. Plus we get paid a shit-ton of money with perks not seen anywhere in any other industry. I&
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> Instagram would give you the impression that we are all travelling in business class to new destinations every week. And LinkedIn would have you believe we are all incredibly successful executives teeming with wise words.
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
Video also has the twist that, unlike audio, it has to support a bunch of different hardware configurations. You’ve got to support multiple video codecs, multiple resolutions and bitrates. And to be good you might even be serving several of
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
Didn’t they also include calendaring at some point? Didn’t JZW once famously say all software grows until it eventually has an email client?
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
Oh boy does that bring back memories. Yahoo’s “portal” used to compose itself based on a bunch of RSS (or was it ATOM) feeds, both user submitted and in-house. If you build your feed in just the right way, yahoo would transform it using you
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> I guess if we repeated that experiment nowadays it would be the other way round. As somebody with a long unused DSLR packed away… I’d say it depends on the lens. Maybe. One thing that iPhones still can’t do as good as a DSLR is very l
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
The best way to get people on board with more bike infrastructure is encouraging ebikes and escooters. In my city, 50% of the bike lane traffic downtown is Lime Scooters--people who would never own or commute with their own bicycle. Suddenl
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> I would think there would be a mobile app interface for flipper? If you want to interact with the software on flipper zero you have to use the "remote" app (or whatever) on the phone. It kinda sucks though because it literall
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> It complained that the NFC stickers I bought were non-writable. I'm not an expert at NFC but after playing around with Flipper I've learned that there are different types of NFC devices and they aren't at all interchang
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> IIRC, the biggest thing to fall out of that is the US government banned scanners that could pick up the frequencies commonly used by cordless phones. I recall that. I think the age of SDR's made such a ban (law?) almost impossible
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
Was going to say the exact same thing about /r/flipperzero. It feels more like a fan subreddit full of kids, which.... ain't my scene at all. People on that subreddit make it seem like it is this amazing thing that will get y
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> And there are a few references to certain breeds of dog being better at certain things. I mean, different dog breeds have different talents. In Bluey, the Sausage Dog has his moment where he can't run very well but he can roll (at
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> They also tried to get re-dubs done to remove the Aussie accents, luckily that was pushed back on. There seems to have been a period in television where any "hard" english accent had to have an accompanying subtitle under it.
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
Watch about 5 minutes of Blippi and find out :-)
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
> I'm wondering if I should actually try watching a couple of the episodes mentioned here. Yes you absolutely should. One of the things I really like about the show is it promotes imaginative play. It addresses things like how to de
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by cruffle_duffle 3y ago
According to whatever study the parent comment cites, most of them are used to contact family. Seems the solution to allow free calls from monitored prison phones is a good compromise.