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by rapjr9 4y ago
Pluraleyes software does this using the audio recorded by each camera: https://www.maxon.net/en/red-giant/pluraleyes If you filtered the audio to exclude all but the 50Hz/60Hz signal then it might also work b
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by rapjr9 4y ago
The Weather Warlock at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro, Vermont uses weather sensors to drive an analog audio synthesizer: https://www.epsilonspires.org/permanent-installations There are a few other Weather Warlock installati
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Eliminating the pilot lets it carry another passenger instead of the pilot. They still have to pay the people at the base station to monitor and potentially take over the flight, which means they probably have to be pilots, unless they&#x2
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Russia got chips despite previous export restrictions. The entire global industry is going to have to go through some reorganization if big countries want to get serious about export controls.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Ditto the gunshots in rural Vermont. A neighbor a mile away likes to try his bump stock once in a while and there were occasional paintball wars on the hill behind my house. The middle of nowhere is fantastic though if you want to make no
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by rapjr9 4y ago
There is another area that computer scientists are not studying much and namely new architectures for computers. Is Von Neumann the best and only option? It seems so called computer scientists are not really studying computers at all, th
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by rapjr9 4y ago
You could actually get more than 4096 colors. One of the popular 3D computer graphics programs for the Amiga used assembly language and interrupts to swap the colors available on the fly (per scan line I think) which allowed for smooth sha
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by rapjr9 4y ago
The US and other militaries have been trying out autonomous killer robots for a decade or more. Some types of missiles, once launched, are completely autonomous and will choose a target. Do a search on "loyal wingman", these are
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by rapjr9 4y ago
There is some research saying 222nm is safe, yet still disrupts viruses and bacteria. And you can buy lamps at that frequency on Amazon (for like $1700). However it's not like it's been proved safe by a decades worth of testing
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Putin would never leave Moscow and himself unprotected. There have always been missile installations and mobile missile systems near key infrastructure in Russia, and those have not left the country. There are forces guarding the Kremlin,
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Personal speculations, but it seems obvious that the raw amount of energy available to civilization would increase dramatically in the long run. What are the consequences of that? They are not necessarily all good.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Sure, but how much heat would it take to tip an ecosystem into collapse? Someone could build a fusion plant that just creates CO2 for a decade out of seaweed or something. What I'm saying is that the scale of power available to us wo
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by rapjr9 4y ago
I guess an alternate view is that Putin may use nukes as an instrument of terror. The Japanese surrendered in WWII because of the terror of a new large scale unknown weapon being demonstrated. Using nukes against Ukraine's larger cit
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by rapjr9 4y ago
There are some potential down sides to fusion power. One is that it may make huge energy releases possible. Think releases of heat that physically warm the planet (instead of messing with the atmosphere and causing heating indirectly). A
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by rapjr9 4y ago
This really sounds to me like CEO's preemptively torching their companies, thus creating a recession. Good luck getting all those employees familiar with the product and culture back now that they feel betrayed. Get ready to train so
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by rapjr9 4y ago
A lot of CS departments only teach big computing systems, not tiny ones. No microcontrollers, embedded systems, internet of things end point devices, etc. You can often take an engineering course in those things, but it seems like few peo
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by rapjr9 4y ago
There is a lot of over land infrastructure in all countries that is very vulnerable. There has been an attempt to start to bury some of it underground which helps protect it but a lot is still exposed. Oil, gasoline, diesel, propane, meth
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by rapjr9 4y ago
What range of EMP effect can you get from a tactical nuke lofted to the height a howitzer can send it?
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Everyone seems to assume that memory capacity is infinite, what if it is not and our brains fill up and can not function as well after that point? Or maybe in order to store new memories you have to give up older ones by overwriting them.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Sounds like the US Army's Human Terrain System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Terrain_System which was being promoted around the same time.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Wow, this guy is proposing the use of neurotoxins and biological weapons in warfare. Not to affect populations but to alter the thinking of specific individuals (for enhancing soldiers or degrading enemy soldiers, diplomats, and politician
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Just from casual observation it seems hurricane predictions are getting less accurate also. The forecast for Ian changed a lot, several times in the last week, which resulted in some people not realizing the prediction had changed and put
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Most of the industry people I worked with while supporting research in CS were in research labs in industry. A few collaborations were with companies who wanted something specific developed and assigned one of their group to work with us,
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Interesting, thanks! Seems like there are a few areas where bootstrapping has been applied. CGI and camera control in the film industry for example. Or software tailored for business management and operation. CAD tools certainly do have
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Where is his source code? I'd like to see the implementation of all the ideas he says were never realized.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Pihole blocks ads for an entire network, so why does a content blocker have to be built into the browser? Can't it just be a separate app you run, outside the browser? Even if the browser is using HTTPS the URL and IP address for eve
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Security and privacy will be the next big thing or else no one will use computers in the future and there will be no computer science.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
Maybe EV's won't but it seems like moving to heating with electricity will.
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by rapjr9 4y ago
If you find dialog is difficult to understand you might try adding a sonic maximizer (for example Behringer Sonic Ultramizer or BBE Maximizer), a sonic exciter (Behringer Sonic Exciter or Aphex Aural Exciter), and maybe a little compression
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by rapjr9 4y ago
This is a really flawed analysis, it ignores things like the cost and disruption of transition (both internally and to customers), the constant R&D needed to continually improve the compute base hardware and software architecture, the p

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