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by kebman 5y ago
POV-Ray <3 Been a while since I used that. I think it's a shame that they stopped developing it. They say things are better, but are they really? The scripting language for it is really cool IMHO.
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by kebman 5y ago
I think it depends on a few factors. The culture where you're searching. The laws. And the economy. And the available services. Where I'm from the law works pretty well, and there's really only one de-facto site that most peo
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by kebman 5y ago
No it's not. It's a normative opinion. The opinions against it all have horrible repercussions and difficult questions to answer such as "who should be in charge of moderating or censoring?" and "how can we trust th
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by kebman 5y ago
There was a time when most papers in Norway were party papers. And it was totally fine! The reason for it being totally fine was because you'd already know where the paper stood on a certain topic, and with whom. And so when you read a
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by kebman 5y ago
The spam comments usually contain hooks and symbols so that the other bots can latch onto them much easier. Querying for those signs in order to spot possible spam comment threads, with high probability, is trivial, especially considering
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by kebman 5y ago
Most of the spam left over is super-obvious. It should not be hard to remove it. A filter based on Bayesian probability would wipe out most of them with a high degree of certainty (i.e. very few false positives).
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Sure. I've been scammed. It felt really bad. And I consider myself quite knowledgeable. On the other hand, I noticed what was happening before greater harm could have been done. Perhaps that's what distinguishes so-called experts
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by kebman 5y ago
Lyn Alden: She's pretty much a crypto bro.
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First of all you're missing how middlemen eat away at your money's value in the legacy banking system. This means that there's a lot more room for corruption within the fiat system, because it's top-lead and opaque. And
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by kebman 5y ago
If you've got access to a mixer with a 1/4" tape recorder, try giving it a bit of feedback while recording and you get delicious analogue tape echo. Edit: Just noticed that Hainbach has of course made THE video on tape echo.
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by kebman 5y ago
I sometimes teach classes in how to make audio recordings for fiction. When I'm sure they know the basics, I'll usually challenge them to do something really different with the sound. Here's one assignment I often give them:
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by kebman 5y ago
Talking about sound design and engineering: One of the best introductions to film sound design that I've found is the extra material found on the DVD for THX 1138, where Walter Murch talks about his work on the movie. Some of the work
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by kebman 5y ago
So that's why they should be forced to pay for biased reporting that they do not want in the first place? Tell you what, Norway has a proud tradition of honest biased reporting; the party press. It's been toned down now, but I&#
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by kebman 5y ago
Most European public broadcasters have a deep political bias, so much so that many advocate for their privatization. Previously in Norway you at least had the option to not pay the mandatory subscription by claiming that you didn't own
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They're probably still high on their status during WWII. With that said, I think there's nothing wrong in offering alternative viewpoints and news sources to peoples who are being blatantly censored. I think more providers should
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by kebman 5y ago
Not if you're Amish. :)
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You seem to have misread my comment. There is research claiming that videos are bad for babies. (!) Then it makes no difference if they're calmed down during diaper change. Valium is also calming, but most people are recommended to sta
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by kebman 5y ago
I guess that's your one reason to stay on YouTube, since they have an automated transcription service. You may know this already, but in case you don't, just click the three dots below the video to the right, and then click "
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by kebman 5y ago
Just curious. What do you use as a discovery platform?
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by kebman 5y ago
I have an Samsung S7 and it works just fine with my non-jailbroken phone. I use it through F-Droid who keeps it updated. I don't use it constantly, though, and I mostly dl contents that I watch offline later when I'm out and about
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by kebman 5y ago
A lot of YouTube contents is just talking heads or commentary, but for some reason they don't dual-upload so you can get their stuff as a podcast as well... Some do it, but most don't. That's a major pain for me since I'
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by kebman 5y ago
Have you considered to not let the baby see any videos at all? Apparently there is some research that claims that upbringing like that might still create a bad video addiction. The baby should be focussing on you or other people that are ar
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by kebman 5y ago
So time is money... Except it isn't. Instead money is a construct that is very useful for the effective exchange of goods, and not a measure of time. In fact it is just a saying, because wage slaves usually don't see much variance
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by kebman 5y ago
I honestly think the author made a pretty bad point. Time isn't money. Instead money is a construct that is very useful for the exchange of goods. Sure, part of the argument for a price is time, but the agreed upon price is not an expr
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by kebman 5y ago
> most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows Why are they allowed to work on Windows? Even car salesmen are often required to drive the same car as the one they're selling.
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by kebman 5y ago
No, but I still have a soft spot for their article about the outhouse. It used to be bordering on the humorous, but over time it has become pretty dry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse
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by kebman 5y ago
My experience is that it's slanted whichever side of the easel you're one. The evidence is really clear when you measure results between various search providers, and especially when searching up contentious or controversial topic
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by kebman 5y ago
> Every time someone vocally claims that a well-targeted tax won't reduce the effect of something harmful, one can be pretty sure it will - those people would not be complaining unless it directly hit their wallets. The saying goes
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by kebman 5y ago
I might be an outlier, but I usually only add some milk. If not I take it black, no sugar.
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by kebman 5y ago
How much are sodas taxed in Seattle? Maybe I missed something but I couldn't find it in the article. Does the soda tax go towards increasing public health services in the region?

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