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by mgamache 8y ago
Hardly surprising. JPEG is a very mature technology with deep support and optimizations going all the way to hardware support built into many (most?) cpus. If the real world savings are ~ 20%, it probably won't be worth it.
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by mgamache 8y ago
They already anticipate maximum violence and chaos, I don't think they fear non-prepped mobs hunting them based on an old news article from the non-existent internet. I am not a prepper, but I get the allure. I just need the money :)
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by mgamache 8y ago
These guys (and Women?) are at the extreme end of the economic and social hierarchy. The only thing that might endanger their position is if society collapses. Prepping is sort of an insurance policy against the long odds of society collaps
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by mgamache 8y ago
Balancing safety vs progress is tricky. Additionally, people's perception of risk is also really bad so the resulting choices are sub-optimal.
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by mgamache 8y ago
I work on a telemedicine product using Google Glass Enterprise and the current version of our product was shaped greatly from feedback provided by one early user (physician). It really focused our use cases and made the product much better.
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by mgamache 8y ago
Right, the Russians were sending LEO payloads for < $2500/pound. Event our own old rockets were much cheaper.
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by mgamache 8y ago
FTA: "I think the space shuttle was a serious error. It hardly did anything except have an exciting launch, but it never lived up to its promise," Few people are willing to call the shuttle a failure, but it was. It cost much mor
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by mgamache 8y ago
Right, I think the most common atheist is the agnostic or 'weak' position. Like Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot, a God is possible but the burden of proof is on proving God exists. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by mgamache 8y ago
https://youtu.be/E9RmAo6XVAA?t=178 [David Packman]
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by mgamache 8y ago
I am not sure why I got downvoted. Mark is the oldest of the Gospels. The others, especially Matthew and Luke are just derivative works. They are anonymous embellishments of anonymous writing that was never meant as historical record. They
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by mgamache 8y ago
Richard Carrier has made a decent case against a historical Jesus, but I'm not a scholar. On the other side, Bart D. Ehrman is an atheist who backs a historical Jesus. If he was based on a real person, The Jesus we know is like a Holly
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by mgamache 8y ago
Is that the guy that misrepresents his credentials?
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by mgamache 8y ago
The article makes some good points, but why do I get the feeling like this is a postmodern attack on science? If you dismiss the data, you can dismiss any conclusions drawn from it.
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by mgamache 8y ago
Make sure and test the copies. I used to do bulk copies years ago and the media + writing speed would make a difference. Writing at full speed would technically work, but the disks were sometimes unreadable in some readers. 'Back in my
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by mgamache 8y ago
Normally the Statute of limitations would apply, but it seems like US Law is becoming even more inscrutable in the last few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations
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by mgamache 8y ago
Procrastination has benefits. I am not sure it's a net gain, but I will tell you it's paid off more then I would be comfortable admitting (over 20+ years).
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by mgamache 8y ago
I am running this on AWS. It was a 30 minute exercise and it's only available on the 'core' AMI. This means there is no GUI even if you wanted one. I do like the ability to run regular CMD or PowerShell. I am experimenting
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by mgamache 8y ago
Low latency video streaming in the browser is a mess. it's WebRTC or [insert hack]. WebRTC is kind of a single-purpose black box, so it's difficult to deal with. I Would love to know more about how people are solving this problem
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by mgamache 8y ago
Zoom has to be using h264 under the covers. Did they recompile the OpenH264 into WASM? like: https://github.com/kazuki/mediacodec.wasm It could also be that they are using websockets to deliver MPEG-DASH/HLS segme
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by mgamache 8y ago
Trying not be acerbic but, an article on divorce that doesn't even mention children? Ridiculous and puerile. A divorce without children is a walk in the park. You can sign a few papers, say goodbye, and _never_ have to see that person
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by mgamache 8y ago
Me: That's a Sony Fricken Walkman and intellivision! Son (9 years old): Blank stare wondering how long this 'conversation' will last and he can resume watching game videos on YouTube.
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by mgamache 8y ago
There's more to it then scraping. I would love a deep dive on how he/she was able to get page rank for the sites. Usually these people employ black hat SEO that works for while, but eventually fails when Google updates their ranki
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by mgamache 8y ago
This strikes me as similar to a lot of investor pitch decks. It's not a bad approach, but the 'visionary' parts might be difficult for some sales people.
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by mgamache 8y ago
There are issues with the simple Serotonin model: With SSRIs it takes weeks to see an effect, but Serotonin levels are elevated within days why the delay? (There are theories, but all point to Serotonin as a secondary effect) Also, antidepr
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by mgamache 8y ago
How should I feel about doctors not able to treat a side-effect (addiction) of drugs that they are prescribing in record numbers?
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by mgamache 8y ago
"perfectionism" as it's used here seems like just optimizing your life around a narrow set of criteria.
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by mgamache 8y ago
>Every purported "non-addictive opioid substitute" in history has turned out to be an opioid. I thought Naloxone was non-addictive (and clearly an opioid)? Or am I misreading? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by mgamache 8y ago
No one brought it up so I will, Google has an algorithm which measures responsiveness of a site to adjust crawl speed. Google will adjust the crawl rate so it won't negatively impact performance. It will also crawl your site's pag
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by mgamache 8y ago
I used my IIsi till ~2000 for burning cds. Two things i did to speed it up: 1) I overclocked to 25mhz -- I soldered a new crystal on the motherboard 2) Ran in black and white or grey (the graphics card seemed slow)
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by mgamache 8y ago
PFSense does provide a free GUI interface to OpenPVN. That's useful in many small business applications. Also, don't discount that you can't buy one at BestBuy, that lends (for non-technical peeps) a veneer of credibility.

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