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by gusfoo 8y ago
If you're reading this, FFmpeg developers, please accept my thanks for your work. You have become a "Category Killer"[1] in command-line video tomfoolery. [1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homeste
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> I consider friendship to be an endorsement of the other person. That's odd. May I ask how old you are, and what culture/country you're from?
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> What we really need is Fully Automated Luxury Communism. This Time It's Different, honest.
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> Russia is hostile? By what metric? Would the metric of having invaded two sovereign nations in the last few years count?
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by gusfoo 9y ago
That's rather sad. I was one of the children that he inspired with his remarkable works. I shall off to Youtube to re-watch some.
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> Also make sure you look at the affect of monsanto GMOs on the indian farmer's suicide rate: You forgot to add the end of that sentence. It goes, "... and you'll find, in amazement, that farmer suicides went down in line
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by gusfoo 9y ago
True, but a lot of those earlier examples relied on hand-labelled segmented images ("sky", "background", "person" etc.) whereas this could be directly used as an artist's tool without relying on academic d
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by gusfoo 9y ago
You can tell a young person wrote that copy from the use of "on accident" instead of "by accident" on the DMCA image. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5947035/29184514-2...
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> Yeah, rollbacks are more of adding a revert to the top of the pile Neat. It reminds me of the method used in gaming nowadays, which is to just write a "savepoint" marker in to the message stream instead of pausing the entire
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by gusfoo 9y ago
> So, will the police presence now simply disappear? No. He is wanted by the UK courts for failing to appear when on bail and so will be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
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by gusfoo 10y ago
> If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them What an absurdly simplistic view of the world you have there, Yan. The real world is more complex, and people are not static things - they change. Your ar
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by gusfoo 11y ago
> Interesting customer retention scheme Big Pharma has come up with. Yes, keeping the customer alive is indeed good for business.
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by gusfoo 11y ago
OpenSSH supports "~" as an escape character when it's the first character on a line. So try "<return>~?" to see a list of available commands.
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by gusfoo 11y ago
> I think people irrationally get offended by swearing. American people do, yes. At least for the last few years. Rest-of-world is more relaxed about it. And here in the UK it can be a sign of affection to call a friend a 'daft cunt
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by gusfoo 11y ago
> Do you understand how hard it is for an 'idea guy' to recruit a technical team? Not hard at all. The first one takes time because you have to be really careful, from then on it's just a matter of contacting a recruiter a
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by gusfoo 11y ago
> Configuration management software like Chef and Puppet is widespread, but feel too heavy handed for image building. I bet such systems will be phased out of existence in their current form within the next decade with containers. Hmm, I
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by gusfoo 11y ago
Try http://asoftmurmur.com/ - it's meaningless ambient noise that I find quite effective as audio wallpaper.
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by gusfoo 11y ago
Still the prohibition on use in gambling applications, just as Crytek does. And Unity is $200K/year for gambling. I use Unigine instead. It's absolutely great. Rough edges but it looks great and is easy to use.
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by gusfoo 12y ago
I agree that there isn't these things now , but I think of this as an enabling technology which can gateway us in to new things.
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by gusfoo 12y ago
I still love Perl. I've done more diverse tasks in that language than any other. In fact, I think that the only more go-anywhere-do-anything language that exists is C, but why bother with the hassle of C when Perl is there?
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> When a bank for instance in Denmark lends you 300.000USD it actually ads 300.000 to the economy out of no where. No - it does not. You have completely misunderstood how money works. There are two entries in the ledger, not one. The cre
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by gusfoo 12y ago
NV kit works by converting the photons to electrons and then cascade-mutiplying them and and then converting back to photons.
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> does the motor run all the time, or in intervalls? It runs all the time. I built one of these using a kit from Sensebrige. The results were not as good as I had hoped.
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> One of the big complaints I hear about Monsanto is that using their seeds forces farmers to throw away their seeds each year Everyone throws their seed away ever year, because genetic monocultures have a 30% lower yeild than bought-in
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> do we really need the technology? Well, we don't need it in the sense that we could all pay more for food that is grown in less efficient ways, just as we don't really need cars to get to work when we can all ride bikes. We d
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> It's not about the GMOs themselves but if you can grow the same/a sufficient amount of food without using pesticides at all, then why even bother with GMOs? But you can't. For example, organic farming uses much more pest
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> My main criticism of GMOs isn't the genetic alterations themselves, but the way they enable excessive pesticide use, IP law abuses, and monoculture. You clearly know nothing at all about GMOs, because if you did you'd be chee
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by gusfoo 12y ago
> I love the science. It's the non-competitive market I don't like. "Get your seeds from us under any terms we dictate" isn't a healthy state, or in the public interest. But that is not an accurate reflection of
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by gusfoo 12y ago
Python + Django for the bulk of things. But also Perl and C++. Some tools are more suitable for tasks than others.
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by gusfoo 13y ago
> And it's not like that data needs micrometer precision ... But maybe that's the point. Maybe it does need very high precision and that is the unappreciated point of the story.

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