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by sbf501 4y ago
I think what the commenter is referring to is this: " I often get so bored it's hard to pay attention because either 1) they left something out that I wanted to ask about so I can't follow what they are saying, or 2) I alread
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by sbf501 4y ago
I could have worded that better. I think it is in indication that burnout is headed your way. When you don't want to a do a job anymore that you used to like doing (bored if it) and you are being forced to continue doing it, burnout is
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by sbf501 4y ago
Burnout always happens, in every job. Solution? Well, first, not everyone has the privilege to do something about it, but you're in tech so: Vacations. Sabbaticals. Gap year. Change jobs. I've had 35+ years in tech and done all of
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by sbf501 4y ago
I don't see a FIPS certification for it? I mean, at least show us some NIST 800-22 results. We already have a DRBG RFC to account for poor-entropy systems that has considerable research behind it. This seems pointless.
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by sbf501 4y ago
For me, lower cost: I'm already paying for an EC2 instance so the incremental cost of the routing bandwidth is negligable compared to the cost of a new ts/wg service.
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by sbf501 4y ago
FYI: After reading your post I installed it and found this AWS how-to: https://github.com/jameswmccarty/aws-socks5-proxy ...since I'm already using an EC2 instance for my own personal stuff.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Whenever I get bored (rarely these days) I like to write path-finding & annealing algorithms. I start with a super simple ray-tracing framework I first wrote in the 1990's for visualization, and then I play around with things like
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by sbf501 4y ago
These are far more satisfying than dot matrix or laser printers. I used to draw stage lighting plots with them in college in the mid-80's. So much fun to watch them work.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Ah, that's a great example!
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by sbf501 4y ago
This sounds like the start of a chapter in "Weapons of Math Destruction", but the "and then this bad unforeseen consequence occurred" half of the chapter is waiting to be written. I agree that AI "could" help r
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by sbf501 4y ago
Why the concern of these people? Someone might get credit who doesn't deserve it? There are bigger problems in the world, and life is about getting fucked out of things you do deserve all the time. Meh.
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by sbf501 4y ago
True. I should have been more clear because NPM =/= FOSS.
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by sbf501 4y ago
That is far, far less likely than a package being abandoned. What happened to your project? What "commercial interest of foreigners" went under that doomed you so?
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by sbf501 4y ago
I think this argument is about free vs. not-free frameworks. Frameworks that are supported by a company and actively developed are far superior to the state of NPM open source right now (thinking of Qt vs Electron and my 7 year battle with
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by sbf501 4y ago
Steve Reich did a number of pieces that are loopy and programatic in the 1960's and 70's, but with analog instruments. Kind of like Javanese Gamelan but more western style. Music for 18 Musicians The Desert Music Drumming I think
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by sbf501 4y ago
If you like electronic music, check out "Sisters with Transistors", a documentary about women in electronic music going back to the 1920's. https://sisterswithtransistors.com/the-pioneers Something like Eno&#
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by sbf501 4y ago
Ah, good point. Didn't know that. The second paragraph still holds tho: mixing two arguments.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Here are the models it downloads (in webcam.html) var cascadeurl = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nenadmarkus/pico/c2e81f9d23cc11d1a612fd21e4f9de0921a5d0d9/rnt/cascades/facefinder'
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by sbf501 4y ago
This may have been true 12 years ago, but years later OkCupid added "last active", which was a search criteria to weed out old profiles. At least, was there in 2015 when I met my current partner. The gist of the article seems to b
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by sbf501 4y ago
That's a damn shame because DJI drones are years ahead of every open source project I've used: iNav, Beta/Butter/CleanFlight, PX4*, Ardupilot... Nothing compares to the stability and ease of use of consumer DJI drones. I
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by sbf501 4y ago
For this statement to make sense, the reader would need to assume that I think I'm the only one who didn't know this. Since I stated I didn't know this in my actual post, and since I assume you read it, I honestly wonder what
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by sbf501 4y ago
Except for the 10 other techniques we don't know about. Did you know about this before the HN post (or original post from 2021)? I sure didn't, which means there are other tricks hiding out there.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I'm wrong by quite a bit (+50%), it is 80K: https://moviemadness.org/ Lots of their DVDs are in sleeves in filing cabinets/boxes.
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by sbf501 4y ago
According to wikipedia this was before x86, so I don't think they were trying to "move away from x86" with this, since x86 didn't exist yet.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I wouldn't say "move away", I would say "augment their product line". What are the three? I can only think of two: IA64 and i960, but those weren't departures. I worked on Itanium (and McKinely, and Madison). T
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by sbf501 4y ago
I ditched all my subscription services a year ago and now use the DVD rental place on the other side of town. It has 120,000+ titles, including TV shows. Sure, I don't get to watch the latest trends, but it is superior than streaming f
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by sbf501 4y ago
I went on six flights this summer and on each one at least one person was talking on the phone during takeoff. The flight attendants didn't even say anything. I think this request has passed.
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by sbf501 4y ago
So ultimately this is a service-provider problem? E.g., signal with server issued ID?
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by sbf501 4y ago
Agreed. Think of all the other things we have come to take as normal. Carrying car keys (or a fob) House keys. Wallets. IDs. They all require some mental effort.
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by sbf501 4y ago
After reading this thread, it seems like a necessary paradox. Some quotes in here claim that to use some other number doesn't really allieviate that risk since it is effectively transferred to the signal servers. E.g., there's no

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