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by jval43 1y ago
Slightly OT, but man those Kickstarter fees and "payment processing" fees add up to a lot of money in total. Almost 600$. I should start a payment processor, or something else where I can just take a percentage for not much work
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by jval43 1y ago
Not with a hub-type one. These work magnetically and you basically obly lose the 3-5W of power they produce.
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by jval43 1y ago
I was an active contributor to /r/espresso for a while, but in the process of the hobby I realized I disagree with some of their advice and best practices. Minor stuff really. I would not describe the sub as toxic or anything, but
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by jval43 2y ago
I did not say this study is flawed or that every study is flawed. And I have made no exaggerations or said that you personally look at it the most positive way. Reading comprehension is important, and especially important in a discuss
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by jval43 2y ago
Science is a long game, it's not about sales where you need to sell right now. Extreme results will be attempted to be replicated, which in turn costs a lot of funding. That is money and time, sometimes a whole persons career. This mon
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by jval43 2y ago
Yes because most studies that end on up HN are there because they were reported on somewhere as news. This usually happens in usually these cases: 1. when a paper is extremely good and it's results are groundbreaking, or 2. when a stud
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by jval43 2y ago
Collation rules already differ by locale or language in many programming languages, libraries, and applications. This is necessary because the order of words or characters is sometimes only sensibly defined if you know the language a text i
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by jval43 2y ago
Yes, exactly. That is what I use git for each and every day.
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by jval43 2y ago
Translations suffered a similar fate already a while ago. Some of the results are completely unusable AI gibberish now, sometimes even with invented words. That's for English -> German. What's baffling is that translation is th
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by jval43 2y ago
That's just a cooperative, and those exist in capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative . You can found one today if you want, don't need communism for that.
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by jval43 2y ago
This time around the changes might actually take effect quickly enough for people to feel them during the current administration. Compared to the previous playbook of making changes and then blaming the effects on the next administration. W
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by jval43 2y ago
Even Google ratings are sometimes gamed nowadays. This wasn't always the case, they used to be reliable. Tripadvisor ratings on the other hand were always garbage. I recently had some really bad experiences with some fast food places i
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by jval43 2y ago
Tools like FileMaker, Dreamweaver and others empowered regular people to do "personal computing" and allowed them to help themselves build the tools they needed. It seems to me like that was a golden age of genuine personal comput
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by jval43 2y ago
> It is not rational at all; they would rather buy something shittier for their money than get more value. My grandparents are like that. It's entirely rational. I bought plenty of used phones, and even repaired them myself because
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by jval43 2y ago
I only see plans with 65$/month for 36 months, so 2340$ over 3 years. Which is a lot of money. They even tell you what the actual rate is in the fine print. It's just priced in: 17.49$ over 36 months comes out to 629$. > Monthl
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by jval43 2y ago
This is my experience as well. I answer many such calls from devs as part of my work. I can usually tell at the end of a call which group they belong to. I've been wrong a few times too. As long as they don't waste my time I'
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by jval43 2y ago
https://sequelize.org/docs/v6/core-concepts/paranoid/
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by jval43 2y ago
That video is what made me get a Toyota hybrid. Seeing how simple the whole mechanism is, I totally get why the empirical reliability is so good. Not to mention that the lecturer shows and explains things very clearly.
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by jval43 2y ago
Counterpoint: Recently dealt with a vendor at work and asked their support several highly technical questions together with a bug report for an issue we were having. They not only answered in 1 day, but also provided a real solution /
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by jval43 2y ago
Not my intention. > Doing 120 fps video at 4K so that any chosen frame looks amazing without artifacts is really quite an achievement. Apple silicon is extremely impressive. In this case however dedicated cameras can still do more, whic
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by jval43 2y ago
> when marketing uses AI In my experience when marketing wants to use AI, they will. Regardless of whether it is ML, basic statistics or even just a few if-else blocks. It used to be the way you describe up to about 2-3 years ago, now t
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by jval43 2y ago
Mirrorless cameras nowadays can push as much as 8k60 (twice the amount of data over 4k120), every frame at full quality. All that with better optics/sensors and less "perceptual testing", thus less of an overprocessed look.
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by jval43 2y ago
Your comment makes no sense. Every mirrorless body has a center marking for the middle of the sensor, so the camera can be mounted exactly centered on a tripod. It's actually important for photos to be exactly on axis if you want to do
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by jval43 2y ago
The resolution mostly isn't the issue, the extreme compression and the resulting artifacts are what ruin the experience for me. Take any movie with dark scenes, and it'll look horrible regardless of 720p vs 4k.
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by jval43 2y ago
Yes, and it's wrong in all those cases as well. The rules aren't even universal, tennis clubs, schools, and even countries have different rules altogether, which highlights the absurdity of it all. If you're going to enforce
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by jval43 2y ago
Incorrect information by itself is at best useless. Incorrect information that is thought to be correct is outright dangerous. Objective truth is crucial to science and progress. We've come too far since the age of enlightenment to jus
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by jval43 2y ago
There's a short paragraph on "earthshine" towards the end.
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by jval43 2y ago
Bluetooth on Windows is a nightmare too. Headphones, keyboards, mice etc might work initially, but at some point they don't connect anymore and it's almost impossible to fix. Mac is better in that regard, unpairing and repairing u
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by jval43 2y ago
FWIW that is not a Pixel-specific issue. I encountered this on other cameras (IIRC Olympus and GoPro) as well. It's maddening. The issue stems from the fact that images are written with proper EXIF time and timezone metadata while vide
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by jval43 2y ago
A screenshot or example would help. Interesting idea.

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