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by ridaj 5y ago
If we're going to think about gradients at that level, we should also think about perceptual nonlinearities that create all kinds of distracting visual artifacts... See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20754364
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by ridaj 5y ago
I mean the sad thing about this one is that of all the vox pop content producers, Asian Boss doesn't do nearly the worst manipulation or selective editing. (The worst ones make people sound like idiots, which is unfortunately pretty ea
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by ridaj 5y ago
I don't take this vox pop crap for more than what it is either, but this is about as honest as some China-based channel arranging an interview with Alex Jones in a random park and passing it off as the voice of a random American man of
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by ridaj 5y ago
Some aspects of Chinese culture remained through the cultural revolution, but some previously important cultural features, like those related to music or Buddhism for example, were nearly wiped out. Maybe as a result, to this day some of th
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by ridaj 5y ago
I'm aware of solutions that can help prepare for a backup. I don't think most people should trust themselves to handle backup responsibilities. Speaking as someone locked out of an encrypted disk full of old photos that I carefull
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by ridaj 5y ago
Another thing, this makes things harder to reverse. Some engines have join-order-dependent performance, so there are instances where you would want to write ``` FROM orders LEFT JOIN customers USING (customer_id) ``` and others where you&#x
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by ridaj 5y ago
Use authenticator app for 2FA, not your phone number. But be really sure you want to do this. The main reason I would not recommend ordinary consumers do this, is that if you lose your SIM (eg, stolen or lost phone), you can go to a mobile
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by ridaj 5y ago
Curious what API limitations are preventing you from doing the transcription device-local on Android?
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by ridaj 5y ago
Well in that case I guess you're not banking on the phone even if they solve the spam call problem...
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by ridaj 5y ago
US telcos know at best two things at this point: keep the network up and collect rent. They cannot solve complicated social problems like spam or internet security. They just don't have the skills or the willingness to invest. We will
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by ridaj 5y ago
I think it's likely that some banks will start building better communication features inside their apps because of this. IMO the telecom companies in the US lack not just the incentives but the skill to fix the spam problem, so people
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by ridaj 5y ago
Can you share names? Asking for a friend ... Although if they are small companies, I would be wary of anecdata... The narrative sounds good but small companies are more likely than large companies to exhibit extreme behavior in any metric,
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by ridaj 5y ago
Seems like every company in tech is losing engineers left and right at this point
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by ridaj 5y ago
Yes, the solution sounds excellent if we take that premise at face value, but I do wonder about the premise.
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by ridaj 5y ago
I wonder if the low level production assistants tasked with putting together the credit lists cost enough to justify the work going into this.
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by ridaj 5y ago
No, it acknowledges that common practice varies such that there is no canonical ordering, and tries to get at an ordering that, when applied, minimizes difference with common practice.
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by ridaj 5y ago
Those guys can probably crop at the projector though and not lose too much? Last I played with projectors was around 2010 and back then crop controls already came standard
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by ridaj 5y ago
I'm not saying it's malicious, I'm just saying it's a trade-off. Fwiw I understand the trade-off and it makes sense to me even as a Mac user.
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by ridaj 5y ago
This is desktops creeping towards an attitude, familiar on Apple's phones, in which the user is essentially untrusted to make security decisions. Because let's face it nobody seriously audits the security of software going onto Ma
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by ridaj 5y ago
Small producers spend lots of money on equipment in that range of cost, even for ancillary things like lighting and cables. I think it's a great recommendation.
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by ridaj 5y ago
I think a better employer only looks at history insofar as it's a predictor of future potential. Gaps in employment history that relate to personal challenges, be they medical, family related, or motivational, shouldn't be seen as
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by ridaj 5y ago
I've had this happen to a friend. After some years toiling in obscure startups, he made his money, stopped working, bought a nice house, a nice car... And within two years was bored senseless. He joined a big company as an entry level
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by ridaj 5y ago
Prime whataboutism. But anyways, just as one example, the Tulsa race massacre was the subject of a major recent TV series (The Watchmen). Mere mentions of Tiananmen square massacre, observing quiet vigils, etc. could get you jailed in China
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by ridaj 5y ago
I don't know if you've lived through an industry downturn but that's a risk you might want to hedge against. Software/tech has had so much growth that it hasn't really had a bad year yet. Long term, even the dot com
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by ridaj 5y ago
... or why your next design review should probably ask "is this input format a Turing-complete language?" This shows how un-theoretical that question is.
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by ridaj 5y ago
Thanks, that explains things. I guess I was confused by it being called here and there a "zero-day" - if it's the patch that triggered exploitation, then at least it was already fixed at head by the time it got exploited.
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by ridaj 5y ago
I'm curious about the disclosure of this vulnerability and why it seems that no prior notice appears to have been given by the researcher who published it. Is it because it was already being exploited in the wild?
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by ridaj 5y ago
I believe the correct package in this instance is `condolences`
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Ask HN: It's 2022, who still uses faxes?
12 points by ridaj 5y ago|28 comments
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by ridaj 5y ago
Yes, the new thing is the emergence of mega corporations that profit from platforms that are essentially manufacturing workaholics. Freewill notwithstanding, exploitative incentives are a real thing...

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