frognumber

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by frognumber 1y ago
#confidentlywrong Most modern cameras can stream video to a computer through a proprietary protocol. These are implemented under Linux in gphoto2, and in other OSes, through some proprietary tool. During the great webcam shortage of covid,
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by frognumber 1y ago
I may be old, but I had the same feeling for low-level code. I enjoyed doing things like optimizing a low-level loop in C or assembly, bootstrapping a microcontroller, or writing code for a processor which didn't have a compiler yet. E
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by frognumber 2y ago
<-- This People are leaving off which lens. In my experience, for low-light: Large sensor + kit (zoom) lens < Pixel Pro < Large sensor + f/1.4 prime It's not apples-to-apples, since my phone has no optical zoom in the len
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by frognumber 2y ago
> Cameras are not in a death spiral. Sales numbers tell a different story. > Artistically speaking, phones can't do what even a low end slr/mirrorless can do, its just that phones are good enough for the low-effort content 9
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by frognumber 2y ago
This is on a long list of why camera companies are dying. There is a long list of issues like this which have prevented ecosystems from forming around cameras, in the way they have around Android or iOS. It's like the proprietary phone
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by frognumber 2y ago
North or South?
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by frognumber 2y ago
The DeLorean was a beautiful car, though! And they've actually gone up in value, by quite a bit. $90k-$190k used, $25k new. Which is curious, since a decade ago, they were quite cheap.
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by frognumber 2y ago
This is not quite correct. 1) CO2 levels have risen from under 300PPM in 1860 to over 400PPM right now -- by around 150PPM -- with a rise of about 25PPM per decade for the past four decades. The difference in CO2 levels in my bedroom with w
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by frognumber 2y ago
CO2 is a proxy for many other gasses. Cheap CO2 sensors sense volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and use those to estimate CO2. Many of those gasses do impact cognitive performance. It's not obvious to me why CO2 would, but if CO2 is g
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by frognumber 2y ago
2020 was roughly when I noticed AMD hated developers. Until AMD fixes that bug, NVidia will continue to outflank them at every point. Ballmer had it right: "Developers, developers, developers."
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by frognumber 2y ago
It's a near-universal sentiment and based on both. However, you get major successes by taking risks. Evaluating people and businesses, I do so based on successes and not on failures. The best people (and businesses) I know failed more
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by frognumber 2y ago
Depends on how they got there. It's in the selection process. Anything with competition about 1000:1 leads to cheating and psychopathic behavior. Anything below 1:4 doesn't. Iterated 1:4 does again.
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by frognumber 2y ago
It wasn't marketing fluff at the beginning. Young Google was a uniquely ethical organization. I think the problem has been how you sustain that culture. That's a deep problem. Checks-and-balances are hard, and Google had none. Erg
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by frognumber 2y ago
That's generally my assumption, but with some exceptions. What selects for psychopaths is the process of climbing the corporate ladder. However, there are ways to get to the top of the corporate ladder without climbing it. For example,
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by frognumber 2y ago
I usually evaluate people based on how they behave by their own stated values and codes. It's been a good rule. What's been amazing to me is how skin-deep the stated values across the tech industry were. Virtually every executive
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by frognumber 2y ago
guntars did the amortization on $25k growing with interest (not fees). In other words, the claim is that 0.5% can be significant. Which is true. When I did the math with my life savings, 0.5% was about the breakpoint where things become sig
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by frognumber 2y ago
I'll be contrarian. The general wisdom is hold the fund with the lowest fee structure. However, if the fee structure is 0.07%, that's $70/year / 100k invested. Even if it's 0.44%, you're talking about $440. The
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by frognumber 2y ago
Older hardware isn't always slower hardware. Intel 6950X is unsupported. That's 10 cores at 3.5GHz. It's about 10x faster multicore and 2x faster single-core than a modern, supported Intel Celeron N4500. Moore-style scaling w
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by frognumber 2y ago
Every Surface laptop I've had has failed. That's a large n. I used them commercially. However, it's also pretty old data (probably about a decade back). Consumer Reports reported on it as well.
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by frognumber 2y ago
Impressive! Suggestion: It would be nice to include a price list on the article. This project is impressive as heck, but aside from being intellectually out-of-reach for most kids, it would be financially challenging as well. Last I looked,
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by frognumber 2y ago
Agreed. Honestly, the problem isn't just which devices, but even more so, this (from the page, not your comment): > No guarantees of future support but we will try hard to add support. During the Great GPU Shortage, I bought an AMD
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by frognumber 2y ago
> Second, are you sure your android phone takes better photos? What camera & lens do you have on your digital camera? Have you upgraded from the kit lens it came with? That wasn't actually my statement. My statement was that it&
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by frognumber 2y ago
I firmly believe this is the branch digital cameras are dying on, and at this point, probably must die on. If these opened up, at least to the level iPhone did in 2007, they'd have an ecosystem as people still used them. As-is, for mos
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by frognumber 2y ago
No one, and let me repeat that, no one "gets" linear algebra, differential equations, or frequency domain on the first pass. It takes years to absorb and multiple passes. See: Bruner / Spiral Curriculum. Ebbinghaus / Spa
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by frognumber 2y ago
I'd go for the A770 over the B580. 16GB > 12GB, and that makes a difference for a lot of AI workloads. An older 3060 12GB is also a better option than the B580. It runs around $280, and has much better compatibility (and, likely, be
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by frognumber 2y ago
32GB at $2000 seems sensible given the current market. I was wondering when RAM would increase. I don't understand AI TOPS. Per NVidia: * 5090: 3352 * 4090: 1321 * 3090 Ti: 320 * 3090: 285 * 3060 Ti: 130 * 2080 Ti: 114 source: https:&
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by frognumber 2y ago
Right now, we increasingly like to stick labels on things, and I'm not sure it's helpful. Autism is a disorder, diagnosed in DSM V. Very few people in your life are likely to be autistic. As with many such things, it's a spec
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by frognumber 2y ago
It's odd, considering this is digikey, that there isn't a "Buy now" button. I'd totally do that if I got everything shipped to me, and knew I wasn't forgetting something.
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by frognumber 2y ago
shrug whisper seems to do well on my GPU, and faster than realtime.
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by frognumber 2y ago
I don't mind paying for hardware. I do mind my privacy, and don't want that kind of information in the cloud, or even traces from encryption I haven't audited myself.

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