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by samstave 3y ago
Is this possible to run locally and just have aliases in the CLI? I have a bunch of VHS -> my machine captures of now dead martial arts instructors' seminars - and I have a decades long desire to digitize then mocap them - and I fou
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by samstave 3y ago
Obvious money. At some point though, an objective look at how much these few are going to control in the next 25 years is just staggering. And the world is sycophantic to them, so - I guess the dystopian Cyberpunk Future will just settle in
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by samstave 3y ago
I am sure there are plenty of companies we are not aware of who have been building apps for the platform in partner with Apple Marketing Dollars for some time. If Autodesk and Blender don't have a whole team pointed at this, I would be
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by samstave 3y ago
"Out of face, out of mind", basically. Also, if a company has a fixed cost for their office space, then it makes sense to reduce costs in employees that do not require that fixed space's cost - so you can reduce cost via he
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by samstave 3y ago
I'd be curious to know how quickly they fill up capacity for customers on whatever size DO has deployed? (how hungry is the market for this offering?)
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by samstave 3y ago
I fully believe you and I are both correct. Yours is so "Benevelant Big Brother", mine is the 'Sinister Big Brother' <- Evil twin.
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by samstave 3y ago
Tangential, but you might like this to mutter upon in the shower: > "Ask HN: At what point do the Cloud's datacenters become national security sites? " [0] Its an interesting aspect to think about when taking a high level
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by samstave 3y ago
Full agreement. That's why I think this is really important for everyone - and not just about fake sex tapes - but in how much we control our presence in the world, specifically at the intersection of our Digital existence and our Biol
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by samstave 3y ago
Sorry, actually I wasnt really following what was happening in this case, mostly because I don't care about anything at all related to Taylor Swift - but I do care about how we navigate the laws of AI likeness ownership. Her personal c
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by samstave 3y ago
It matters because she is famous? If this was just some random person, this would be a blip on nightly news - similar to the revengeporn website stuff. It must be really interesting though, to be the person in all of Human History who is
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by samstave 3y ago
"Stealing" https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2022/10/26/the... And those are just the ones that are so obvious the POTUS needed to make a statement. Corporations steal trilli
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by samstave 3y ago
>>> "...increasing use of on-off toggles instead of checkboxes" One of the most egregiously angering thing to me is toggles that self un-toggle: " Disconnecting Bluetooth Until Tomorrow " WHAT? I literally just
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by samstave 3y ago
This is awesome, but this phrasing is FN brutal - This is what it feels like to be abducted, I would imagine: >>> "beach ball-sized chamber so that an animal is simultaneously contained and yet swimming freely in an environmen
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by samstave 3y ago
I have the etymology bug. Interestingly as I have been on meditative trail rides recently, I have been thinking about a desire to compile the etymology of the corpus of words used in tech. And was wondering if there might be an easy way to
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by samstave 3y ago
Yep - Bistek is beef steak in PH. and Bifstek in India is likely due to colonialism. Its amazing that Chicken Makhani was actually invented in the UK.
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by samstave 3y ago
What would happen if the interior of a tube was lined with these, could they move an object cylinder through the tube? What if you have the exterior covered in these, could they move (easily) a donut surrounding it? What happens if you have
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by samstave 3y ago
Social Media Influencers - and the platforms they ~~rode~~ wrote in on.
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by samstave 3y ago
Single Bathroom dimensions are typically standard in housing. Unless you're not in the typical single-family home design, which is basically the GI Bill '40s Military Base housing DNA. And because of this - billions of tubs could
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by samstave 3y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity to create a "Get-shit-done" non-profit... Or even a non-profit-leadership training professional services. Non-profits does not mean "no money" - Don't forget, 503c's are massive and
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by samstave 3y ago
This is wonderful! thank you - I look forward to reading these notes... EDIT: Vid Clips in PDF no longer available :-( You know what would be a really interesting problem in a weird-way related to game-show math, would be crowd flow speci
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Ask HN: Trained LLMs on Network Traffic?
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by samstave 3y ago
I wonder if it glows under UV like Uranium Glass? EDIT: Yep: https://www.naturesrainbows.com/
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by samstave 3y ago
I guess you missed I was pointing to that they put in a whole bunch of meat in the article about the apparent study and they boil it down to a very simple conclusion of "climate change"? That's not banal? (im not being flippa
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by samstave 3y ago
Agreed - I was going to write more about how the imbalances within nature and the ebb and flow between the current state is always changing, just at scales larger than a single human life's observance. Its amazing to me that so many an
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by samstave 3y ago
In almost all Spiritual/Religious teachings - they say " The only constant in the universe is change " - so Its kind of banal to say " Scientists who studied the rivers simply allot it to Climate Change " as if its
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by samstave 3y ago
Here is a video I made some years ago picking locks for Handguns... with a spinning keyway useless cover... You can see that some manufacturers obviously take these items as a joke and its weird that something like these keyway spinner thin
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by samstave 3y ago
>" The only constant in the Universe is change... " Seems obvious now, doesn't it.
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by samstave 3y ago
>>>*"the antenna moves to a flattened state to try to reach a satellite capable of receiving cell communications." Sounds just like what Starlink is going to need for the direct to cell service they just tested! But your
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by samstave 3y ago
Since the frequency can be adjusted based on the amount its stretched - such that in the 'short-squshed state its better for 'ground' users - and stretched for satellite comms -- could one of these be 'Funnel-shaped&#x27
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by samstave 3y ago
For great justice!

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