jrussino

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by jrussino 2y ago
I agree with your philosophical stance, in general, but this particular use case is one that I've been wanting for years and where I think altering the image can be in some ways more "honest" than showing the raw camera feed.
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by jrussino 2y ago
Yes, this was updated sometime recently (in the past few years).
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by jrussino 2y ago
Funny, one of my first thoughts upon seeing this article was that the protagonist of the story "There Is No Antimimetics Division" (by the same author) is named "Marion Wheeler" and I wondered if there was an intentional
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by jrussino 2y ago
> when I ran those guidelines by Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Did you mention this to folks running the project? I would think that pasting the "detailed guidelines" from an internal project into a competitor's tool would r
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by jrussino 2y ago
I'd love to have this, mainly so that I could have a single dongle on my keychain for both my and my wife's car. I know others have said that there are issues around rolling codes. But it's possible to get official duplicate
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by jrussino 2y ago
> They are known as “guy rope” muscles and they stabilise the pelvis and thigh bone. The scientific name of these less understood powerhouses are the sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus For anybody else who, like me, had no idea what
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by jrussino 2y ago
> officers deliberately steered Carrick away from anything that would have helped him and towards actions that would have seen the rest of his life destroyed. Now I'm imagining an alternative world where we have a well-funded and de
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by jrussino 2y ago
Interestingly, there was another big shift happening from 1940-1980: - in 1940, the top 3 were: met through family, met through friends, met in primary school. In that order, but pretty much equal - From 1940-1980, two of those three (famil
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by jrussino 2y ago
> if you actually look at the numbers, the average firearm is not used in self-defense Those aren't really the numbers you'd want to look at, right? If you have a community with 1000 firearms and 499 of them end up being used i
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by jrussino 2y ago
Yeah, I think with all major technological advancements we end up with logistic "S-curve" type growth, with a steep rise followed by an eventual plateau. At the start it can look like exponential growth heading toward a singularit
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by jrussino 2y ago
Interestingly, the bias happened in the opposite direction from the one you're assuming. We used to have the neutral "man" and masculine "wer-man" and feminine "wo-man". We still see that "wer-"
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by jrussino 2y ago
Confused by these numbers: Software engineers Search completed: less than a minute ago • 1792 candidates analyzed • stopped after 53 matches found We have analyzed 84 candidates and found 31 records matching the search criteria. The search
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by jrussino 2y ago
How? Is something like this possible on iOS? (My expectation is "no" but if I'm wrong about that this is something I might try)...
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by jrussino 2y ago
Wow I had totally forgotten about this game! Glider (I think I may have played "Glider PRO") was so much fun. I found this youtube video of the game and the title screen music just gave me a wave of nostalgia: https://w
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by jrussino 2y ago
If I recall, they have female port connectors on the bottom and little male prong connectors that mate with them on top. I assume that is mainly for power connection, so you can put a whole stack on a charger and charge them all simultaneou
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by jrussino 2y ago
My first thought for a project like this (grab photos/data from the internet, display them on a device) would be a Pi Zero 2 W or a Pi Pico W, for the reasons you stated. I'm not particularly up to date with the tiny microcontroll
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by jrussino 2y ago
Thanks for posting! I picked up two of these same displays after seeing similar projects here that used them: - "A WiFi color eInk picture frame" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689706 - "Color E-Ink D
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by jrussino 2y ago
I wonder how much would it decrease the battery life to add a screen. Maybe just an e-ink display that refreshes to show the most recent image? I'd love to have a dead-simple point-and-shoot camera for my little kids to play with.
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by jrussino 2y ago
Thinking about this dispelled my last bit of youthful naivete a few years ago. Won't it be great once we have fully self-driving cars? Heck, I could buy a car and then rent it out to other people like a taxi when I'm not using it,
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by jrussino 2y ago
> can’t even conceive of a way to incentivise yourself to care about it A lot of people on this forum came of age at a time when the internet and computers and tech companies built around them were ascendant and seen as a force for good
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by jrussino 2y ago
YouTube video essays? Only sort of joking; I have no idea what the economics of a small YouTube/Nebula channel look like and I suspect it's one of those things with a tiny minority of people whose work ends up being net positive a
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by jrussino 2y ago
> using tech as some sort of Delphic Oracle for human lives (especially the young) may not be in optimal taste. I feel like we have plenty of dystopian science fiction warning us not to go down this path. GATTACA is a personal favorite o
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by jrussino 2y ago
I get the sentiment, but I really hate to see pushback against something like e-Bikes. If anything, we need more light transportation like e-bikes and cargo bikes and electric scooters. If these things are causing problems for pedestrians a
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by jrussino 2y ago
In other news: current random number generators are more creative than humans on number-picking tasks! [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40359736
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by jrussino 2y ago
For me it has to be Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
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by jrussino 2y ago
> There will almost certainly be a collapse of the modern world I hope your certainty is misplaced; this is just about the most horrifying prediction I can imagine. As far as I can tell, we're at a particularly precarious transition
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by jrussino 2y ago
Reminded me of the 2016 dystopian short film HYPER-REALITY, where AR technology is used for exactly the opposite: superimposing ads and a million other virtual distractions over the real world. https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs?s
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by jrussino 2y ago
Something is interpreted as "common" because it is disproportionately talked about, but it's disproportionately talked about precisely between it is uncommon and therefore interesting! Is there a name for this phenomenon?
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by jrussino 2y ago
Take an "Intro to AI" class at any of the top universities, and you're almost guaranteed to be using this textbook: https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Check out that table of contents. There's more to the fie
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by jrussino 2y ago
Pandora was my go-to circa 2007-2009 and I haven't thought about it in years. Looking back, I discovered a disproportionate amount of the music I like in that timeframe... I'm honestly kind of surprised they're still around (

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