philpem

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by philpem 5y ago
I admire your ability to solely wish solace on them. I'd rather the long arm of the law caught up to them.
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by philpem 5y ago
Posted this on the other thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653450 ), I'll copy it here... I don't really know what to say here. I didn't know them personally, but I saw their work and was truly st
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by philpem 5y ago
This has also been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 Although it links to a tweet rather than the Google doc.
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by philpem 5y ago
I don't really know what to say here. I didn't know them personally, but I saw their work and was truly stunned. Most people don't achieve in their entire lives what Near (aka Byuu) did in their comparatively short one. To sa
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by philpem 5y ago
There's not really much more to say - I posted the logs (not much) on Twitter. They're pretty similar to everyone else's. https://twitter.com/philpem/status/1397453537936805895
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by philpem 5y ago
This is exactly the situation DiscFerret has found itself in. We were bridging to guarantee a smooth transition... within hours of changing the topic to point to the new chat, they took over our channels. This scorched earth policy is only
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by philpem 5y ago
Honestly I think myself and Chris (@scarybeast) would like to know too...! We've been learning as we go along. Certainly I'd like to make contact with other people who are working in this area and compare notes... if anyone doing
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by philpem 5y ago
Sounds like "READ RAW". From memory it only works on certain drives - I want to say LiteOn but my memory is hazy.
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by philpem 5y ago
If your "opinions" hurt people then yes, that is something to apologise for.
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by philpem 5y ago
Sounds almost like you're describing high-functioning autism. Yes you can learn by emulation and observing inputs and outputs and looking for patterns, but it's not a perfect method.
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by philpem 6y ago
The spice will flow, and the tech debt will go!
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by philpem 6y ago
"Hello, FBI? This random guy on the Internet is extorting me." FBI: 'Go away and come back when you have a name and address, and can prove the guy is under our jurisdiction.'
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by philpem 6y ago
If he has a majority shareholding, one would assume he can just vote them out... or call for a vote to get rid of them and win by default?
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by philpem 6y ago
I can't wait for the first "your AI stole my original character!!!" furry thread on Twitter. Impressive achievement, I'd love to see the outcome of re-training it with fan-art removed from the training set. There's
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by philpem 6y ago
But then, if you're patent trolling - does it even need to hold up in court? IF cost_of_settlement < cost_of_court_action THEN pay_up(); /* ? */
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by philpem 7y ago
> And there are too many human vectors who can be compromised by bribes Those bribable humans will be just as bribable when they're working in an electronic voting system. Just that instead of tampering with ballots, now all they ha
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by philpem 7y ago
Every man has his price...
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by philpem 7y ago
Needs to be read alongside the follow-up post: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/we-got-a-new-mastodo... They have a new account on another instance.
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by philpem 7y ago
If unfollowing everyone is too much effort (or too much potential drama from people assuming unfollow = no longer friends), then there is another way. Someone mentioned the Newsfeed Eradicator plugin the other day -- it replaces the FB News
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by philpem 7y ago
Good shout. That sounds roughly like a pre-emphasis filter, as is commonly used in mobile radio applications. Rolloff for those on the bottom end is usually around 300Hz (the CTCSS block filter), and around 3kHz (channel bandwidth limit) on
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by philpem 7y ago
muLAW and aLAW are also worth considering, and give a slightly different effect to ADPCM. The LPC and CVSD series vocoders also have a very unique(ly lossy) sound profile.
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by philpem 7y ago
I low-key love that blocking furries is the example here. I used to be a part of that community and it's got a hell of a poor signal to noise ratio and a major broken-step problem. There are some good ones, but all the others ever seem
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by philpem 7y ago
This is gonna sound a bit granny-suck-eggs... but I hope your friend reported it to the police?
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by philpem 7y ago
Judge: "BigMedia, this court finds you made a false copyright claim for Billion Dollar Movie. Per 123 USC 8675309, you must select one item from your catalogue to release to the public domain." BigMedia: "Your Honour, we sele
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by philpem 7y ago
The more likely outcome if a court case found against a convention is that the convention would be rendered bankrupt and simply shut down.
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by philpem 7y ago
That's one heck of a broad church...!
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by philpem 7y ago
I've seen very similar form letters from other conventions. Largely they all lean on each other -- "they don't offer refunds so neither will we" -- but the bigger factor is that the convention probably doesn't have
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by philpem 7y ago
It's a shame it takes a viral outbreak to make convention-goers wash their hands... (speaking as someone who's been on both the attendee and organiser side of the convention 'fence')
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by philpem 7y ago
You've more or less posted my entire Youtube subscriptions list there! Applied Science (Ben Krasnow) is one of my favourites. Cody's fantastic too, for the backyard-science angle. I find Hydraulic Press a bit too "let's
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by philpem 7y ago
Does anyone know of a similar study regarding Twitter usage and its peculiar dark patterns? I'm curious if the findings are "social media in general" or "just Facebook"

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