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by nospice 10mo ago
I honestly don't understand what you're saying here.
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by nospice 10mo ago
"Flat" is a bit of a misnomer in this context. It's not flat, it's actually a logarithmic ("log profile") representation of data computed by the camera to allow a wider dynamic range to be squeezed into traditi
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by nospice 10mo ago
> A better discriminator might be global edits vs local edits, Even that isn't all that clear-cut. Is noise removal a local edit? It only touches some pixels, but obviously, that's a silly take. Is automated dust removal stil
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by nospice 10mo ago
It almost certainly is LLM-generated. It has all the hallmarks of such content, stylistically and in terms of a remarkably shallow thesis. But more to the point, the author overtly uses AI for writing on that site. His pre-2023 writing is c
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by nospice 10mo ago
The irony of another article about AI that appears to be written by an LLM...
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by nospice 10mo ago
Could be that the mushroom just temporarily interferes with the substances the elves put in our water supply to keep us in the dark?
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by nospice 10mo ago
Strictly speaking, you can put any protocol on top of UDP, including a copy of TCP... But I took parent's question as "should I be using UDP sockets instead of TCP sockets". Once you invent your new protocol instead of UDP or
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by nospice 10mo ago
...which are playing back video, so they're likely blowing most of their power budget on the display and on radio. I guess my threshold of "amazing" is different. Again, I'm not denying some incremental utility in specia
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by nospice 10mo ago
But why would it be amazing? The alternative right now is that you do it in software and just dedicate a couple of cores to the task (or even just put in a separate $2 chip to run the decoder). Like, I get the aesthetic appeal, and I acce
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by nospice 10mo ago
To folks who wax lyrical about FPGAs: why do they need a future? I agree with another commenter: I think there are parallels to "the bitter lesson" here. There's little reason for specialized solutions when increasingly cap
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by nospice 10mo ago
So who pays the tax? I mean, California already has some of the highest income taxes, corporate taxes, extra capital gains taxes, sales taxes, etc, etc. If you want to lower the cost of electricity for tens of millions of people without add
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by nospice 10mo ago
That's more or less the system that exists today? You pay a lower rate up to a certain threshold and then a higher rate kicks in. The problem with PG&E isn't the rate structure, which isn't all that different from utiliti
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by nospice 10mo ago
So? There's no rule that the internet is limited to a single explanation. Find the one that clicks for you, ignore the rest. Whenever I'm trying to learn about concepts in mathematics, computer science, physics, or electronics, I
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by nospice 10mo ago
> Programmers had a lot of labour power back then. Huh? Back then, there was very little glamor to software engineering. Computing just wasn't serious enough. There was relatively little competition, salaries were unremarkable, and
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by nospice 10mo ago
If you design your career, you will almost certainly get the same outcome too. I've managed people for decades and this has been a common pattern. I'd have people come to me with their plans to be in the C-suite in five or ten yea
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by nospice 10mo ago
> I think the internet would be a lot nicer place if people were held accountable for the things they say and do. Then I think you've been very fortunate (or sheltered). It's really not about accountability in any rational sens
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by nospice 10mo ago
I think it does. Internet death threats are upsetting but you also learn they tend to be toothless 99.9% of the time. Most of it is just internet tough guys hundreds or thousands of miles away. A lifetime of small positive outcomes can easi
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by nospice 10mo ago
If you're on the internet long enough, I think you learn that openness has plenty of downsides. You indirectly interact with tens of thousands of people and in that set, there will be people who don't wish you well, sometimes for
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by nospice 10mo ago
> So, his experience is probably well outside the norm. Absolutely not. I've been a minor OSS celebrity for a while and even on that scale, it attracted a good number online stalkers and harassers. Basically, if you're ever &qu
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by nospice 10mo ago
> most artists dont really care about streaming or selling their music. most of their real money comes from touring, merch, and people somehow interacting with them. I think you have it the wrong way round. I'm sure that musicians w
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by nospice 10mo ago
People legitimately sell egress. It's "free" money. But of course, if you have a botnet, you can sell that through the same channels, no one is looking too closely.
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by nospice 10mo ago
I'm on the free tier, but I also watch my logs. The vast majority of the traffic I'm getting are scrapers and vulnerability scanners, a lot of them coming through residential proxies and other "laundered" egress points.
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by nospice 10mo ago
I'm surprised you can do this with a relatively modest corpus of text (compared to the petabytes you can vacuum up from modern books, Wikipedia, and random websites). But if it works, that's actually fantastic, because it lets you
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by nospice 10mo ago
It makes its creator the money they can spend buying the products they see in TV ads.
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by nospice 10mo ago
A good portion of it is just pure chance. There are relatively few people patrolling new submissions, and if something doesn't get a couple of upvotes in the first hour or so, it just disappears down the memory hole. So, you'll so
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by nospice 10mo ago
I mean, yes and no. The default Reddit experience is absolutely overrun by fake content. Or, there are tens of thousands of real people who have nothing else to do in their life but to go to /r/news or other "front page"
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by nospice 10mo ago
> The price isn't right for small businesses. These trucks are quite expensive So are RAM trucks and I don't think they're hurting for customers. I think there are two fundamental issues. One is that pickups are a weirdly-
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by nospice 10mo ago
That's not how it reads to me. I think it's more that they feel they can't share enough information to make it useful without compromising their operating methods. Which is an eternal struggle with stuff like that: the bad gu
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by nospice 10mo ago
You're too generous here. This has all the hallmarks of an AI-generated article, and HN is once again duped into passionately arguing with something that took zero effort to produce.
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by nospice 10mo ago
It is. The polio link was suggested for DDT, which was a controversial insecticide. But it was probably bunk, as were most other concerns about DDT: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-polio-vaccine-ddt-pest...

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