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by kfarr 1y ago
Quick link to a video of one of the No-CPU demos, way better than what I was expecting... https://youtu.be/OXT5MrDdyB8?si=cZChImbAi3JBbFFl&t=49 This also gives me a bit more understanding of how the Video Toaster was po
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by kfarr 1y ago
Totally, the book acknowledges this and provides comparison on usage and explanation of how gambling types differed over time. One of my favorite books ever, it describes social media right before social media became a thing but through the
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by kfarr 1y ago
This seems to be touching on an intriguing concept from a classic book on addiction with machine gambling (Addiction by Design by Natasha Schüll) Instead of looking at gambling addictions as personal failing she asserts they are a result be
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Better Politicians: Weeding Is Fundamental(eatingpolicy.com)
3 points by kfarr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kfarr 1y ago
Funny, this is extremely similar to the now antiquated crypto playbook
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by kfarr 1y ago
For 89 that's screamin! I remember early 90's getting a 50 mhz 8mb Gateway and it was amazing. Even just MS Paint and MS Word kept my sister and I plenty entertained making up stories and pictures to go along with them. Then I fou
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by kfarr 1y ago
Bitter lesson strikes again!
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by kfarr 1y ago
IMHO captions is not "shoe-horning AI" for video -- it's a critical requirement to be competitive with closed source editors and a great use case for local models.
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by kfarr 1y ago
Captions would be a very useful feature and one of the top feature that paid platforms use as a hook for payment. There are enough models that can run client-side to make this good enough for social media captions, for example.
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by kfarr 1y ago
It’s always been politics, albeit to varying degrees. Some orgs lean toward facts and performance, others not so much, but yeah it’s always a factor even if not acknowledged.
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by kfarr 1y ago
That was in plain text in the PR? How’d it get through?
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From low-poly to animated urban design renders using Flux Kontext Pro & Veo3(3dstreet.com)
2 points by kfarr 1y ago|1 comments
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by kfarr 1y ago
I've had a fun time exploring various models for upscaling low poly scenes and finally found a workflow that our users seem to really like, so I figured the HN crowd might enjoy seeing the output as well. It's pretty basic but it
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by kfarr 1y ago
I don't agree at all. I love the product but I have to buy a new pair of airpods every few years very consistently. It's either battery capacity loss, or crackling audio issues, or both to the point of not being usable. The Apple
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by kfarr 1y ago
Hopefully no hobos were injured in the process
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by kfarr 1y ago
See... Television? Social Media? Printing Press? https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/a-history-of-media-tech...
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by kfarr 1y ago
I remember it would always default to book instead of cool
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by kfarr 1y ago
Yes Firebase auth is down and affecting many apps, on Discord and Slack groups tons of others are corroborating. A bit disappointing that there is no post on the status page for nearly 30 mins: https://status.firebase.google.com&
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by kfarr 1y ago
Waymo's pretty good at unprotected lefts
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by kfarr 1y ago
Who gets lost in multi-turn conversations?
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by kfarr 1y ago
My favorite NASA open source project: https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/3DTilesRendererJS
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by kfarr 1y ago
May seem a bit niche but man I wished we had this 20 years ago when trying to start a student TV station on a budget. The pro tools at the time were ridiculously expensive.
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by kfarr 1y ago
I’ve always dreamed of this technology applied to buses, especially trolley buses which have plenty of capacity to supply a power-hungry electromagnetic suspension. If this could convert a bouncy and squeaky bus into a smooth light rail equ
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by kfarr 1y ago
Speed is always a contributing cause to a collision. It's pretty simple to understand, if colliding parties are going slower, they would have more time to prevent collision.
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by kfarr 1y ago
This is great and there’s another area of influence that I’ve heard other traffic engineers discuss: platoon pacing. A platoon is the word that traffic engineers give to a group of cars traveling together. A platoon is most explicitly visib
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by kfarr 1y ago
Yes but same with every other company blog post posted here
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by kfarr 1y ago
More recently there was an iOS 0-day GIF exploit requiring no user interaction: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
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by kfarr 1y ago
Wow thanks for sharing. I genuinely didn’t think this was legal.
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by kfarr 1y ago
I’ve enjoyed firefoo for this
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by kfarr 2y ago
Late nights and not enough sleep

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