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by daveevad 4y ago
Big fan of MythTV here and daily user forever now. Paired with an HDHomerun and Jellyfin, MythTV really gives one a pretty good poor man's Youtube TV with no recurring fees. One of mine runs in a virtual machine in the garage at my fa
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by daveevad 4y ago
from my perspective, both require way more disposable income and time than is reasonably available. perhaps i'm not being charitable and full disclosure: i don't live near many friends.
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by daveevad 4y ago
The first two tips: host dinner parties and sublet your apartment are not widely applicable.
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by daveevad 4y ago
The last time I perused the ToS for my ISP, it disallows this sort of thing if it's commercial in nature. This specific use may not be against ToS from my perspective. For the record, I selfhost a containerized instance of nextcloud
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by daveevad 4y ago
> I don't even need a TV tuner ATSC is a pretty awesome standard. There's parts of the newer ATSC standard that even supports 4k over the air. Other parts are more concerning from the data tracking perspective but it seems li
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by daveevad 4y ago
It looks to me like he's using a product by WolfVision that markets itself as a Visualizer[1]. [1]( https://wolfvision.com/en/products/vz-8uhd )
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by daveevad 4y ago
A decent explanation of how to use MythTV to identify commercials is available here, https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv/programs...
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by daveevad 4y ago
You stated here that they paid $850 to initially register the domain name. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33929354 Do you have proof of the initial price paid for registration or is this in some part speculation?
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by daveevad 4y ago
0.5 miles to 1 Wilshire Boulevard as well. It continues to fascinate me how the digital and physical worlds collide in some way.
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by daveevad 4y ago
Is there perhaps some automatic feedback loop where AI trained on AI content will manifest as obvious uncanny valley?
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by daveevad 4y ago
Indeed - as a Bay area resident who drives into the central valley at least once a year and passes that substation, that incident is one of my favorite mysteries to ponder on the hours long drive.
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by daveevad 4y ago
I too have recently started diving into Go in a more comprehensive way. Any ideas about why it seems to you right now is a good time to cash in on golang? My best guess is the ascendence of Kubernetes has made reading Go rather instrumenta
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by daveevad 4y ago
FWIW (not much) - I've never used IG or read The Atlantic. There is simply far too much stuff on the Internet that's not memberwalled or paywalled.
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by daveevad 4y ago
One weird GDPR implication our team considered during initial implementation of our solution was US citizens traveling to Europe, and even people visiting embassies of EU countries in the US, would seemingly trigger all applicable constrain
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by daveevad 4y ago
Indeed but at the same time, weapons and ammunition begin to look far more valuable than communication. I'm trying to reason through how valuable information would be in a grid-down scenario. Presumably, all the major roads would hav
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by daveevad 4y ago
Those are the people that need to understand that a lot of security depends on simpler file formats.
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by daveevad 4y ago
I was thinking text/plain would be best way to get the point across.
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by daveevad 4y ago
It seems to me that distributing this information as a PDF undercuts the message a bit. It's tangential; sure, but also, it doesn't strike me as particularly good security either.
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by daveevad 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
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by daveevad 4y ago
The send money to my relatives in South America without having to pay exorbitant transfer fees still seems pretty plausible to me.
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by daveevad 4y ago
> same DC that early Yahoo was hosted in Space Park 1? Famously, Yahoo wasn't quite up to the task on 9/11 which led to considerable thought about planning for the unexpected 100x event.
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by daveevad 4y ago
At least one strange aspect of her biography that has always stood out to me is: > During high school, she was interested in computer programming and says she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities. That
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by daveevad 4y ago
I was trying to figure out how to run the mythtv commercial flagging code w/o running an entire mythtv-backend. It doesn't look particularly straight-forward, if I recall correctly, because mythtv wants to store the cutlist in a
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by daveevad 4y ago
All the other github hosted software which is eligible for this achievement is available https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an... edit: oh no, log4j-2.11.0
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by daveevad 4y ago
IIRC, in the 90s there was a Subway in the same complex that housed the Kentucky Arcade, but maybe it was a Blimpie's. Maps show it as a seven minute walk to the King Library. My hope is that I crossed path with this genius at some p
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by daveevad 4y ago
> While he never went to school at UK, this will not be his first time on campus. Following his graduate work at Purdue University, Zhang lived in Lexington for a few years and managed the finances at a local Subway franchise. During tha
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by daveevad 4y ago
> people I don't admire or don't feel represented by I share this sentiment and can't figure out why politicians aren't better stewards of the peoples' interest. The primary philosophy guiding me at this point i
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by daveevad 4y ago
> I have no political leanings I am rather incredulous at this statement but if you are being truthful, please help me arrive at this same locality. The closest I can manage is all of my political leanings are derivative of those who ra
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by daveevad 4y ago
At least a few of these are derivative of other projects. I don't deny the engineering innovation of Facebook but it must be moderated to some extent by the way ideas are flowing between engineers at mega-corps, probably from at least
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by daveevad 4y ago
thank you and that should have been obvious. perhaps i need to get out of the industry more.

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