kortex

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by kortex 10mo ago
Hilarious! If i didnt already have too many projects and hobbies, this is the kind of thing i'd do. Maybe not a speed leaderboard, that just seems like a challenge to choon heads. But perhaps a "violation count". Also toss in
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by kortex 10mo ago
I dont personally agree but that is a really interesting argument I can kinda get behind. I guess the question is, what if you have footage of a crime being committed, and you would have a great lead if you only had a way to pair a vehicle
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by kortex 10mo ago
I'm fine with license plates being read and parsed. I'm fine with license plates being read, parsed, assessed for violation, and ticketed automatically, or cross-checked for amber alerts. That's literally my line of work. I w
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by kortex 10mo ago
You're 100% correct, and in fact I think you've touched upon partly explaining why fascism and authoritarianism is not just on the doorstep, it's got a foot in the door (without a warrant) and is asking^W trying to force its
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by kortex 10mo ago
Yeah perhaps it's a bit inflammatory and terminally online of me to say. But it's true. Zero crime means zero crime . Minority report levels of surveilance and policing. What stance would you recommend? You're one of the fol
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by kortex 10mo ago
Noted. But I'm trying to make people think about their cognitive dissonance. I'm not a politician. I'm a systems thinker. If someone can't reason their way through what a "zero-crime world" actually entails, I
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by kortex 10mo ago
> but criminals are getting bolder everyday it feels like. Might feel that way, but objectively, violent and property crime are on the decline in the USA. I've also heard many stories where a person gets high def footage of someone
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by kortex 10mo ago
You genuinely don't think that's ripe for abuse?
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by kortex 10mo ago
It seems inevitable that cameras will proliferate, and edge compute will do more and more inference at the hardware level, turning heavy video data into lightweight tags that are easy to cross-correlate. The last thing I want is only a few
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by kortex 10mo ago
Does anyone else find it painfully ironic that the one CO cop said "You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing," [0], in light of the George Floyd BLM rallying cry "I can't breath
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by kortex 10mo ago
Order and peace sounds great! But that's just road crime, why stop there? We have so many wifi enabled nodes and cameras. Lets put alpr on every Waymo and Tesla. Gait detection and face recognition on every Ring. Triangulate every cell
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by kortex 10mo ago
This is why I love this site. You get input from so many specialized folks! I appreciate you contributing your expertise and I also appreciate you calling out the limits to that knowledge. Two points I'm hoping you can help clarify: &g
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by kortex 10mo ago
The python implementation I use doesn't do this quirk. It's just timestamp + randomness in Crockford Base32. That's all I need. Sure it doesn't fully "comply with the spec" but frankly the sequence sub-millis q
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by kortex 10mo ago
I've been using ULIDs [0] in prod for many years now, and I love them. I just use string encoding, though if I really wanted to squeeze out every last MB, I could do some conversion so it is stored as 16 bytes instead of 26 chars. In p
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by kortex 10mo ago
As long as the key has sufficient entropy (i.e. not monotonic sequential ints), that ensures the keyspace is evenly distributed, correct? So UUID>=v4, ULID, KSUID, possibly snowflake, should be fine for the sake of even distribution of t
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by kortex 10mo ago
That's totally fine, because many CLI tools are organized like `mytool subcommand --params=a,b...`, and breaking out those subcommands into their own modules and lazy loading everything (which good CLI tools already know to do) means u
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by kortex 10mo ago
You should look at the self-executing .pex file format ( https://docs.pex-tool.org/whatispex.html ). The whole python program exists as a single file. You can also unzip the .pex and inspect the dependency tree. It's too
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by kortex 10mo ago
"I conducted an experiment where I instructed experienced drivers to follow a path in a parking lot laid out with traffic cones, and found that we were able to predict the trajectory of the car with greater than 60% accuracy. Therefore
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by kortex 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
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by kortex 10mo ago
That ship has sailed, traveled around the world, and docked in a foreign port at this point. Including headers isn't remotely "simple". There's so many considerations in linking, .SO version compatibility, architecture a
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by kortex 11mo ago
I tried this and it basically said, "your entire premise is a false dilemma and a contrived example, so I am going to reject your entire premise. It is not "better" to use a racist term under threat of human extinction, becau
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by kortex 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by kortex 11mo ago
Counterpoint: Can you name a societal system that doesn't create or potentially create existential risks?
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by kortex 11mo ago
SunOS, clearly. 𓇳𓁉𓀃𓀀
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by kortex 11mo ago
1. is true, yup people have been ragging on the python install superfund site problem for years, but the rest of those are entirely 3rd party library issues. It's like saying Windows is not a serious operating system because you instal
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by kortex 1y ago
Ben Eater's "computer from scratch" series is phenomenal for going from that "building on black box APIs" level to "this is what's physically happening in the real world inside that black box" https:
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by kortex 1y ago
Hashimoto is an absolute wizard, but what I find most compelling about him is his absolutely uncanny ability to segment and abstract systems and interfaces in a way for maximum composability and minimal entanglement. He's like the walk
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by kortex 1y ago
There are a lot of reasons you probably would want a Pi over an ESP32 (or in addition to one), e.g. you want GPIO, plus, internet connectivity, and want to run certain linux programs (e.g. full python, not micropython), or need timesharin
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by kortex 1y ago
It might be a cool thing for them to provide some kind of container metadata in the `# /// script` block so that e.g. it automatically runs the script in a container.
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by kortex 1y ago
I had never really considered partying as a reality-shifting tool, but as someone fond of regional burn events, yeah, it totally is. Humans have partied for aeons. It's not just about letting off steam, it's about building social

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