greypowerOz

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by greypowerOz 2y ago
"Voice Isolator costs 1000 characters for every minute of audio." - can someone expand on this currency for someone out of the loop?
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
>"Also, consider that if you can only read at 100 MB/s off a mechanical drive but your CPU can decompress data at ~500 MB/s then the mechanical drive is able to provide 5x the throughput you'd otherwise expect thanks
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
I feel the pain. People here will recall the heyday of Paper Prototyping i think. It sounds silly in the 21stC to even suggest such a low tech step, but it's saved my a$$ in the past.... and given me a solid basis to renegotiate a pr
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
greylisting was a fun time. And yes i too have absolutely been that person :)
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
a number of the channels i follow have a regular set of porn bots that post links, and also there are also obvious (to a human) machine generated comments. I assume (without any evidence) that YT has a programmatic / ML approach to a
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
i use ffox on android because (for some reason) it's the only one I'm aware of that has ublock origin addon...( happy to be proven wrong :) I also used to use reader mode once in a while...
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
well, to be fair to these guys they wear their agenda pretty proudly on the home page:) "Our mission is to drive impact around the world through great storytelling. Our platform is free, funded by carefully chosen brands dedicated to c
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
respectfully, that article simply repeats variations of scenarios tom brings up in his video;) pick any part of the process in that article and ask "how do you know that the black box is trustworthy?" , in the context of assuming
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
i still refer people to this also. He neatly summarises the core issues. People watching other people count marks on dead trees works great.
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
fellow kdenlive user here, would really like to hear your findings... for some reason recent kdenlive releases seem to have inordinately slow render times on my laptop (no GPU ;) so I'm open to alternatives.. ps don't take this as
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
i respect your view. But IMHO for low speed home-to-office commutes there is a market for 100% autonomous cars that can free a person up for productivity tasks or other activity rather than have to drive the same route over and over. OR sa
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by greypowerOz 5y ago
mick west posted a pretty convincing case for this being "bokeh balls" created by presumed (but unproven) tape anti-glare measures on the front on the lens. Extraordinary claims and all that.....
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
i'd love a pocket-sized "real" camera that could make calls, check messages and do basic social media :) 8-800 mm zoom not essential though ;)
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
thanks for this.. finally a tool even I can't misuse:) ps i didn't see a way to manually set a location, maybe just my old android tablet...
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
surely the big picture for "trust the science" is not "science is always right" (as the writer notes,) but that the PROCESS of testing and revising scientific theories can be trusted. As sabine hossenfelder says.. scienc
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
hugged to death? 6pm sat 13th feb australian eastern summer time (7:00 am Saturday, 13 February 2021 UTC)
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
were any of your ancestors Pheasant Pluckers?
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
maybe just my old android tablet, but i only see a list of tracks/ thumbnails vertically, with no search by genre, author, tag, length etc. Is it just me ? Nice idea though. thanks
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
>The photons, each about two centimeters long, emerge at the end of an optical fiber. this is a use of the term "photon" i haven't come across before.... anyone have time for an ELIF how there are "2cm long photons&qu
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
Destin from SmarterEveryDay posted a video today that referenced this site and it's organizer. Some astonishing amount of time went into it..
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
end of an era for my oldest email address then, i guess!
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
may i ask if using phone as camera and/or audio support will come to linux users at some point? i didn't see on the site how audio was handled, probably just my reading skills :)
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
warning: cat-like typing detected
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
so.. you CAN have a box that is "the internet"....
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
thanks. Out of curiosity, did the twitter OP have to originally post these 8 items in reverse order (to have them appear as intended)? Or is this a bunch of "replies" to post one, that stay in the right order as added?
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
IIRC A 10 Db increase in SPL is perceived by most people as a doubling of "volume". thr article mentions this too... its hard to get a feel for log scales lol.
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
I hear you :) but IIRC the US "rail guns" are generating muzzle velocities in this speed range (?) I've seen very spectacular footage of these rounds tearing a hole in the atmosphere ... so maybe our shared intuition isn&#
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
wasn't one of these washed ashore recently.... https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381...
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
a free "problem_name.wordpress.com" type setup might suit your needs? https://wordpress.com/free/
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by greypowerOz 6y ago
thanks, yeah that's what mean... but i see that the the core insight is that using salted hashes has an exponential decrease in the ease of finding and storing "hashed passwords" for a lookup tabke So am i still in the right

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