geor9e

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by geor9e 3y ago
You speak as though this is an ancient hack, but this is exactly how it still works in a lot of modern devices. https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab/ab_implement
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by geor9e 3y ago
Technically it's a lot of specific dates Nov 21-30 2021, Dec 21-31 2021, Nov 21-30 2022, Dec 21-31 2022, etc...
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by geor9e 3y ago
The bus I take to work has their air vents labeled backwards ⭘ for on/open ⏽ for off/shut
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by geor9e 3y ago
Their older app, Beeper Cloud, is free anyhow.
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by geor9e 3y ago
I'm surprised Apple hasn't cut them off yet. They must not be able to for some legacy reason. I suspect the only way to cut them off would be to cut off all the older phones like iPhone 3GS as well. >the iMessage protocol and e
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by geor9e 3y ago
I think we will always fill up the storage available as we crank up the fidelity of our recordings (simulations). Video is an approximation of reality, and we can always ramp up the resolution, ramp up the dimensions, always striving to sim
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by geor9e 4y ago
>wall unit heats and cools homes without ducts. In my house we follow the laws of thermodynamics.
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by geor9e 4y ago
My hypothesis is that the neural network was trained on a lot of labeled photos, so somewhere inside the network, when you see the moon, it has some moon=0.95 confidence number, and whatever label has the highest confidence, it tries to bri
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by geor9e 4y ago
Wow, that is so cool, and such a good writeup. I like the analogy to an encrypted file, and the key being the exact convolution. The amount of information lost is the amount of information in the key. I wonder if there is some algorithmic w
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by geor9e 4y ago
>If they applied a perfect digital gaussian-blur, then that is reversible Not true. Deconvolution is a statistical estimate. Think about it. When you blur, colors get combined with their neighbors. Statistically this moves toward a middl
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by geor9e 4y ago
Alternatively, tack `/export?format=pdf` to the end of a google doc. It generates and displays the PDF version on the fly. i.e. https://docs.google.com/document/d/______/export?format=pdf
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by geor9e 4y ago
In some multiverse timeline, Apple launched an iPhone with a geiger counter built in for this very reason. Instead of crowdsourced Aigtag triangulation, it triangulates these capsules.
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by geor9e 4y ago
I had the same thought briefly, but then thought more about it. These are high energy particles. You might remember the article about cosmic rays that sometimes cause a single bit flip in a videogame, and that there is no easy way to shield