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by dorkwood 4y ago
Couldn't these all be part of the plan, though? Make himself look incompetent so that people underestimate him?
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Apparently uploading videos that don't degrade to unwatchable quality is a pretty hard problem to solve. A lot of artists work around this by uploading gifs, which then get converted to videos by Twitter's backend, but aren't
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Yet number of users increased faster than ever. Source on this? I've seen reports that the number of "monetizable daily active users" is up, but nothing about the actual user count.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Could this be all part of the plan, though? A way to single out the true believers?
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by dorkwood 4y ago
In my experience, CHESS takes 2-3 business days.
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I drink a lot of soda.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I first heard about this on Radiolab. Maybe you heard it there too? >> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, t
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by dorkwood 4y ago
So I suppose they're pulling Twitter ad spend for other reasons? I guess this whole fiasco is still damaging to their brand.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I don't follow the stock. What's the real reason it's down?
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by dorkwood 4y ago
That's only if you're generating noise based on pixel coordinates. It's possible to generate digital noise of all different sizes and shapes.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
New ones are born every day. We will never run out.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Is it really an education problem? Should the artist care that their images are not actually being stored in a database? Would they say "oh, well now that I know how it works, I'm actually fine with it"? I suspect their indig
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I once worked for a company that created a large AR installation for an event. People could see themselves up on a big screen, and were able to "collect" digital items by waving their hands as they floated by. The only thing is, t
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by dorkwood 4y ago
If that were the case, why would they revoke blue checks and prevent any more signups? Or was just the right amount of chaos created that they didn't need to create any more?
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Really? In my experience, sarcasm doesn't fly on reddit unless you end with /s
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Maybe you could use little clicks and pops with your mouth to signify different characters. The computer could learn which one is which. That way instead of typing "if (int i = 0; i < count; i++)" you could say something like &
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Binance is in a good position since they now know who to short.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I think that might be jumping the gun a bit. The article talks about a jump in "monetizable daily active users" during Elon's first week as owner. Couldn't that just as easily be explained by dormant accounts opening Twi
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Twitter’s monetizable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 percent... according to an internal FAQ obtained by The Verge that was shared with Twitter’s sales team on Monday to use in conversations with advertisers.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Being able to combine programming knowledge with knowledge from my previous domain. I don't need to be particularly great at either, but they multiply together to make me very useful.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I haven't read much about it to be honest. I know they must be doing something clever under the hood to make it run so we'll on that hardware.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> But Twitter employee Esther Crawford tweeted Saturday that the “new Blue isn’t live yet — the sprint to our launch continues but some folks may see us making updates because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time.” Looks like
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> closer inspection reveals that the underlying technology will not be purely blockchain-based. “I’m confident in our decision not to put social media content on a blockchain,” tweeted Bluesky CEO Jay Graber. “It’s blockchain independent
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> It's a lot easier to handle realtime in an editor than in a fully featured game. There's less other stuff going on I don't think that's true. Most games are optimized to limit the number of draw calls and textures.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Raymarching is costly and rarely used in realtime engines but Blender isn't realtime so rendering SDFs directly would probably be viable. The viewport still needs to update in real time for it to be a viable modeling workflow, tho
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by dorkwood 4y ago
You can throw a voxel remesh modifier onto your model in Blender to get the same functionality. It will convert your model from polygons to SDF and then back to polygons.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
What constitutes a threat to you? "A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues." Saying you will publicly shame someone if they do something you don't want them to isn't a threat?
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Can you elaborate for those of us reading? I looked up the meaning, and it seems to match. "the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats." He's threatening advertisers so that they'll s
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Don't worry, they've already revoked access. From further down the article: > Twitter said its offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended in order "to help ensure the safety of each employee
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> If you mostly use it as a social network between your friends you might not care because they’ll presumably see your tweets because they follow you rather than because they found them in search or whatever. One would think, but I rarel

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