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by idworks1 5y ago
Five years ago, I've used common software to do this. I had to take hundreds of pictures of a scene, getting as many angles and details possible. Then when you pass it to the computer. Stitching it all together took well beyond 24 hour
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by idworks1 5y ago
When customers picked up their orders from our warehouse, they signed the A4 sized receipt. We made a copy using a photocopier, and kept our copy in a box. Then the following month, we moved the box into a pallet. When the pallet was full o
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by idworks1 5y ago
I like broken systems. Especially those that still manage to generate money. We all want to see clean code, written by sane people. But the reality is that it is rare. And when you meet clean code, there is a rigorous process that makes it
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by idworks1 5y ago
Ah yes, crude indeed. We used to cut a small piece of payer, around an inch. Then fold it into a little square and place it inside that little empty square space on the front of the cassette tape. That's all it took to subvert it. By t
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by idworks1 5y ago
An advantage of RSS is that most companies that remove it, only remove the link from the website. Even bloggers who somehow feel the need to remove it, remove it from the share options but leave the link tag in the source code intact. The l
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by idworks1 5y ago
My brother was the first driver employed in a brand new amazon warehouse. He shook hands with the manager and came home to tell us the good news. He was hired! His start date of the following week was rescheduled many times. In fact, it wen
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by idworks1 5y ago
Here is what you can do. Take an episode from The Simpsons in 2005, then take one that was released this year. Listen. In the 2005 audio, the silent parts have grains. Both the sound effect and voice are almost at the same level. You don&#x
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by idworks1 5y ago
oops, that was a typo. Fixed it.
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by idworks1 5y ago
Anecdata (only because I don't have access to the data anymore). Customer satisfaction is so much higher when they get a one click unsubscribe. In fact, when the friction is so low, the customer is likely to start the subscription back
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by idworks1 5y ago
A good friend of mine has been working on low resources NLP for a couple years now. A few months ago, he joined Mila Quebec AI Institute under Yoshua Bengio. Where it is hard to find transcribed audio, regular audio is just as hard to come
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by idworks1 5y ago
The governor's stance is just posture. "We take these matters seriously". It reminds me of that time, a few years after I was out of college and into a job. My professor contacted me to demo my class project to her students.
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by idworks1 5y ago
On a serious note, the G in FAANG is for Alphabet.
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Design for Stress(idiallo.com)
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Interestingly enough, I watched this growing up in Saudi Arabia. In the late 80s, early 90s there were only 2 TV channels. Channel 1 was in Arabic. Channel 2 was mostly English and had a lot of old school American programs. We watched sesam
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by idworks1 5y ago
> echo json_encode($search_results); This is how I found out how much I, and all other contractors were being paid. And also how much the contracting company was actually charging the clients. All the data was being returned in a json bu
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by idworks1 5y ago
You have summarized my first two months at a new job. I joined as a lead and spend a good deal of time in meetings where they discuss new features and tasks. Before the meeting, I open the company's acronym cheatsheet just to be able t
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by idworks1 5y ago
Seriously, as someone who does not use Facebook because I think it is harmful, I think we should put ourselves in his shoes for a second. There is no right way to answer Facebook scale questions, seriously. What would you do?
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by idworks1 5y ago
In 2003, I was chatting with a schoolmate and I sent him a file. It arrived instantly. Him: Oh my God, that was fast Me: I know. I have super fast internet. Him: Ha, what's your internet speed? Me: 3 MBps. Him: That's literally no
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‘Luxury beliefs’ are the latest status symbol for rich Americans (2019)(nypost.com)
2 points by idworks1 5y ago|1 comments
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by idworks1 5y ago
I feel for everyone who isn't a good writer and doesn't succeed in getting featured on HN homepage. (writing > coding) Realistically, we need automation to handle most cases. But that means false positives. And their needs to b
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by idworks1 5y ago
Before the coup that happened a few days ago, my country was casually known as a dictatorship. You don't insult politicians, not especially on a public place. When you are home, you check if the coast is clear before you call the presi
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by idworks1 5y ago
There is a demo video on twitter: https://twitter.com/facebookai/status/1435733478516133892
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Many-Speakers Single Channel Speech Separation with Optimal Permutation Training(ai.facebook.com)
2 points by idworks1 5y ago|1 comments
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by idworks1 5y ago
I was thinking about this recently when I took an Asus laptop apart. You can get a 720p camera and microphone for $5.00 [1] It weighs nothing, cost nothing. I just have to figure out how to plug it into a raspberry pi for an augmented car e
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by idworks1 5y ago
One of my proudest moment in my career is when I lowered our app processing time from ~8hrs to 17 minutes. When I deployed my first update, it reduced it to 2 hours. The sysadmin immediately contacted me that there was something unusual. I
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by idworks1 5y ago
If they decline, you can't force them. The goal is not to reduce the metric to 0 homeless on the streets. The whole attempt is to help people who are homeless get back on their feet. When you have food, a place to stay, and support the
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Housing First [pdf](hcd.ca.gov)
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by idworks1 5y ago
It's easy to believe that in 2021 we have a unique set of problems that no other generation can relate to. Only recently I read Seneca's "On the shortness of Life." Written two millennia ago, but you can quote it in a Yo
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by idworks1 5y ago
Is there a place where we can find the list of supported countries? If this supports Guinea and Senegal, you got yourself a customer.