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by h0l0cube 3y ago
All for indie producers to be able to self-publish their own CG masterpieces (that's already a thing that happens on YouTube), but they'll probably not use the puppeted likenesses of real people that have been grifted from them by
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> I think there _is_ a scarcity of quality movies that don't follow predictable / mainstream cliches Probably, but quality movies aren't the gumption behind cost cutting at Hollywood studios. If indie movie producers want
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
There’s hardly a scarcity of movies at the moment
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
You might be referring to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, though the timescale for the onset of that climatic event was tens of thousands of years, not hundreds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93E
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> “As we’ve seen in other industries, in the early years, companies will burn through 20-year-olds like fuel to grow whatever business they’re in,” said Andrew. “But after a certain point, you’re going to either run out of people, or tho
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
HN discussion: 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery (2017, 1168pts) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778543
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> especially since Vue already uses a "compiler informed virtual DOM" Not diffing at all against a virtual DOM and instead executing the pre-compiled DOM manipulations is an order of magnitude better in terms of processing. It
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Does the OP article refer to this specific incident? Or is this a larger phenomenon?
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
According to a sibling comment the abstract claims "a mean absolute error of 0.229 °C". According to wiki the normal temperature window is 36.5–37.5 °C and that of a fever is 37.2-37.7 °C or higher, with variations for both of ab
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> the people arrested have a far left ideology, have been to Syria to fight against the Islamic state, own weapons and encrypt all of their communications Is there a place where we can read more about this? The article seems to explain
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The better critique is from one of the authors of the agile manifesto, who recommends a shift in language: > I don’t think anyone could object to a ban on the word when it is used as a noun. That’s just plain wrong. “Do Agile Right” and
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> it uses the phone’s touchscreen and repurposes the existing battery temperature sensors to gather data that a machine learning model uses to estimate people’s core body temperatures > FeverPhone estimated patient core body temperatu
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> that many changes The 'that many changes' in question is a complete rewrite. Many changes across many files, yes, but nothing even approaching a rewrite. > I don't have any particular knowledge of postgres Judging by
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> either be a re-write or buggy A large refactor at best. It will touch lots of parts of the code base, but the vast majority of the source code would remain intact. Otherwise they could just Rewrite it in Rust™ while they’re at it >
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: > They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. Absolutely not what's being proposed for Postgres.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> fixed wing aircraft with engines vs. wings that flap It's a pretty old argument, and a little unfair. The better comparison would be between between bird's wings and drone's rotors, and even then if you wanted to compar
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Has anyone has tried searching for new basic operations, below the level of neural networks? Perceptrons aren’t even a good analogue for biological neural networks. Each dendrite in and of themselves behave something like a multi layer
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Someone accidentally tripped on LSD while cleaning a vintage synth from the 60s https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/1960s-rock-music-s...
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
And applying sunk cost fallacy indiscriminately can itself be fallacious as the rewards may be so unpredictable or intangible as to elude simple calculus
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Exactly. Some of these graphs are really flawed. Like the heatmap for the top 1% which pretty much mirrors the submission heatmap. I want to see what portion of submissions for that time slot reached 1%, not of all submissions. There co
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> like the iPhone did then? To be fair, only one other phone had a capacitive touchscreen, and Apple provided the first OS that could really leverage it. The situation between Apple Vision and the numerous long-running incumbents with s
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Taxes on corporations don’t make sense. They pass it on to consumers. Prices are marked up on costs. Goods and services are sold at what the market will bear. Low margin products would need to be priced higher, but typically they bene
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> olivine coating of beaches promises to be both cheap and effective The problem with all these novel get-carbon-credits-quick ideas is that they are difficult to verify. How do we know that the outputs aren't taken in by some othe
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Elixir also makes this distinction: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/String.html#module-code-point...
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> It’s not the question of being freeform, it’s the weird-ass single-letter command names in an attribute string. > In an XML document which is otherwise self-descripting. This is an odd plaint. M/m is for move, L/l is for
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Yeah, I was confused by that too.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
$250k to sell it > The only way forward, the Couttses say, is to have the 22-ton mural removed, a major undertaking which over the last month has involved “reinforcing it with 12 layers of resin, fibreglass [sic] and five tonnes [sic] o
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> a major fuck up Any experienced programmer knows off-by-one errors are very common. There’s even a joke about it: > There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. The real fu
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Is it? It absolutely is. Timothy brought the company a whole new profitable franchise. Based on that alone it would have been fair to compensate him well. That he was also in the middle of building the sequel under duress made it als
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
A sobering read. It's a shame it fell off the front page without much interest. I think more people should have a sense of what's going on at the front lines in this battle.

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