neepi

11 ms·

121.
by neepi 1y ago
To be fair people are pretty damn unintelligent when it comes to verifying information. Despite my academic background I catch myself doing it all the time as well. However LLMs amplify this damage by sounding authoritative on everything an
122.
by neepi 1y ago
Have you considered that quality tends to cost the same everywhere as it is fairly rare? It’s not commoditised. The problem is crap people are cheaper in India than crap people elsewhere. And that looks good on the balance sheet. And as we’
123.
by neepi 1y ago
Amazon pricing isn't always that good and they lie about the discounts and retail prices, at least here in the UK. My US colleagues tell me the same is true in the US. I've actually found that general high street crap seller Argos
124.
by neepi 1y ago
Is this a regional thing? I don't really hear phones ringing in the UK any more. They're almost always on silent by default.
125.
by neepi 1y ago
Probably AWS issue. Our production RDS postgres cluster did that a few months back. Just stopped responding on the network. Health checks were fine. AWS support was mostly useless and couldn't work it out in an hour, despite having the
126.
by neepi 1y ago
The point is if you're outsourcing to India you want low cost and are not concerned with quality. That's exactly why you go there. And India has plenty of that to give. No one there wants to work for those outsourcing chop shops,
127.
by neepi 1y ago
Their banking op is a fucking mess as well. Had no end of problems with their card services which were rebranded HSBC.
128.
by neepi 1y ago
Err they were breached most likely through Tata Consultancy's helpdesk apparently which is literally the people they outsourced it to. Their approach was to sell the UK operation to Tata in 2018 and piss everyone off until they leave a
129.
by neepi 1y ago
You have to convert to an archival format from whatever your raw format is. The issue with raw files is that they are compressed so any bitrot in those leads to more than just losing a pixel or two here or there but sometimes the entire fil
130.
by neepi 1y ago
Yeah I'm not even talking about that side of things. I'm talking about after it leaves the camera. When someone shows you something, you should be able to say "I want to see the closest to original image". Humans make a
131.
by neepi 1y ago
Used to work on archival. You want to store your images in TIFF and use FEC if you really care. That withstands significant bitrot. Signing will just tell you that the image is broken but not allow you to recover it. You can do fine with SH
132.
by neepi 1y ago
About the same. The 120Hz on the pro feels very slightly better and has slightly lower latency. This does help a tiny bit for detail work. But you get used to not having it after about 30 mins.
133.
by neepi 1y ago
Yeah. Cintiq isn’t much use when you’re sitting in a field in the middle of nowhere sketching.
134.
by neepi 1y ago
Yeah happy customer here for that combo. There is nothing that even gets close to it.
135.
by neepi 1y ago
I await cryptographically signed photos coming out of cameras. Actually I’ve said that should be the case for the last 20 years. You should be able to follow a chain of evidence towards an unprocessed raw image potentially.
136.
by neepi 1y ago
I would do that but I dislike Cloudflare because they wanted by DNS as well. I keep my DNS / CDN separate. Too many eggs in one basket otherwise.
137.
by neepi 1y ago
Well that's pretty funny, but is it really? Most people within my circles don't use cloud storage any more, me included. This is a combination of being cheapskates, being fucked over on billing issues with no support (Microsoft),
138.
by neepi 1y ago
AWS free tier. S3+cloudfront has cost me $0.00 for the last year. This is incidentally the best price. My (single page) personal site is HTML+CSS (no JS) based on a template generated by ChatGPT because I don't give a crap. Trying to m
139.
by neepi 1y ago
I find it quite amusing. A couple of years back a good friend of mine went to Everest basecamp. That wasn't even the summit. So they have WiFi up there now and I get a message from her. The message was "made it" with a selfie
140.
by neepi 1y ago
No we dug out a faculty statistician and did the analysis and paid them even more money to fuck it off. The consultancy resisted this horribly because the tech lead is a performative bullshitter and it doesn’t look good on his portfolio pag
141.
by neepi 1y ago
Well the problem was that they got a new UI anyway when they didn’t need or want one. I think that was the problem.
142.
by neepi 1y ago
The mainframe terminal user interface was shown to me in all its glory by Italian gate staff at the airport in Rome. Literally hammered through a security check after I was flagged as having two return flights. It was no less than a form of
143.
by neepi 1y ago
This reminds me of something that happened to us recently. So one of the internal things we have is a giant turd that sits on top of some Oracle/SAP mess. The user interface is circa 2001 and hasn’t changed really. Looks like a cross b
144.
by neepi 1y ago
Supposed to be the same thing in the UK but no one cares. In fact most of our students (undergrad mathematics) appear to have HP Prime now which has a full CAS built in. The questions are designed to break the CAS sometimes. Try expanding (
145.
by neepi 1y ago
Don’t count your chickens. One of my former colleagues had the same thing. When he hit 52 he found out he had prostate cancer. After treatment he could no longer work. After a year of treatment he couldn’t afford health insurance or further
146.
by neepi 1y ago
That would assume that the entire world hasn't already tried this a thousand times over. Measurements are standardised communication tools. If you start changing the definitions, things fall out of the sky and on your head.
147.
by neepi 1y ago
No. dB is not a unit. If it's quoted as a unit, then the person using it doesn't know what they are doing. dBx where x is some reference value is a unit and that means dB relative to the reference unit. So dBm/dBv etc are uni
148.
by neepi 1y ago
Sorry but no. Absolutely no one cares about the mathematical purity of a unit like the decibel. It's a hammer that turns log stuff into easy to work with linear stuff. It's x10 because that turns into reasonably easy to use number