seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s great; I have a clock that does “auto DST”. The problem is that it does it on the UK dates or the pre-Bush dates. I’m in the US. I therefore have to set it manually 4x/year instead of the 0x/ever as designed.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Sounds like automating personalized sales to me. Marketeers would love to get some kind of AI capable of this. I would personally love to see those “Hi! Any questions about anything?!” bottom-right corner chat dialogues go away forever, but
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
This. These are largely mixing decisions, although it would be kinda weird to have a whispering actor boosted to sound as loud as a train in a scene. The technical term for this is “Dialogue LRA” measured in LU: https://s3.amazon
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s also because producers and directors make more use of the “dynamic range” that theatre sounds systems are capable of today. They paid a ton of money for that music and they’re going to make sure you hear it. In surround setups, most of
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
1. Try passwords until you get locked out 2. Engage with IT to unlock 3. Reset password flow 4. Iterate on new password as the complexity requirements you fail are slowly revealed to you 5. “Password cannot be the same as previous n passwor
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Almost as fun as when TSA uses logic like “we thought you were going to hijack a plane using those nail clippers, but now that we’ve made you throw them away, you can board with no further scrutiny! Crisis averted!”
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
> In 2020, someone bought a used Tesla advertised with autopilot and full self-driving features, which at the time cost $8,000 for the previous owner to unlock and enjoy. Unfortunately, the new owner didn’t get those features, as Tesla d
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
“A rich few” maybe on a global scale. Out of people I know who have one, I think the person with the lowest-paying job is a bartender in the Midwest. It’s comparable to a nice home weightlifting rack. It’s half the price of a budget motorcy
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Also, the info that is exposed to end-users is awful and seems to be getting worse. We have a 2021 Volvo and it has TPMS, but the TPMS info screen on the large infotainment display shows /4 orange dots, one on each tire/ when the
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’m pretty convinced that they’re sandbagging to see what happens and how little they can try to get what they want. They’re definitely playing mental games with the rest of the world. What’s much less clear to me is what the actual goal is
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yeah; the distributed ledger thing was always a funny value prop to me because it was like…so, replace what we already do today and are responsible for the accuracy of due to many various laws with…something orders of magnitude slower, orde
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Distributing drugs is punished much more harshly than individual consumption. > Offering a product is not evil or immoral So weapons-grade uranium, chemical weapons, payday loans, extended car warranties, life insurance, habit-forming p
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
So long as the https://www.eff.org/issues/analog-hole exists, piracy cannot be stopped. The ever-escalating arms race between content and consumers will go on, but there will be no victory, only collateral damage. If y
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
We're using go for some projects at work and I'm not a huge fan. I don't like things like the compiler just exiting 0 when a build completes with absolutely zero output by default. Things like logging feel too complicated for
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
"Religious exception for vaccination or religious excuses for avoiding vaccination" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5141457/
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
>Today truly educated and wise people have no access to public because the signal to noise ratio is too low for most people to be able to pick up. Not just that, but simple inflammatory talking points are easier for people to understand
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Counterpoint: Comcast
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
TIVO has had the ability to skip ads for about 20 years now IIRC. I have a bandwidth cap on Comcast and don’t want ads to count, however insignificantly, against that. I also don’t trust JS and companies from ad networks to respect my priva
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s the same age-old piracy problem that Spotify, Netflix, Apple Music, Disney+, etc have mostly solved. Make a product worth paying for and more convenient than piracy and people will pay a reasonable price for it. Shove ads down peoples
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I know this is rhetorical but yeah; retention games. I’m guessing that many of these places do weigh the brand reputation hit of doing stuff like this but just don’t think it’s that important or valuable. I do. I don’t support companies tha
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Not doing both = money left on the table. Game theory says they will as long as they can, as in the extra $ outweighs the subscriber loss. It’s terrible that the brand damage isn’t weighted more heavily and the calculations seem to be so sh
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
a source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases_...
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
…aside from the flooding in both places that will decrease property values dramatically over the next few decades, I guess. Less of a concern if renting and if you don’t mind the prospect of potentially getting all your belongings destroyed
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
agree; when I look at https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/03/friday-february-e... I don’t come to the conclusion that now is the best time.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
> do people think their corpses are going to be reanimated a la Lazurus Literally, yes. This has some info on it from a company selling cremation services, so obvious bias: https://www.greencremationtexas.com/what-does-th
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Yep; was just reading https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/28/as-russias-isola... this AM.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I've seen a decent number of really sad-looking folks at Michelin restaurants, usually older couples, just kind of picking at their food and not talking to each other, looking around longingly. I remember a couple quite vividly when my
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
This; admittedly I have been eating smaller portion sizes in the past year or so but I've never left a tasting menu meal feeling hungry.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I've found that many of the finer things in life, after a certain point of thing thing serving the purpose well, it's more about variety and taste than one is objectively better than the other. Will a $1000 guitar sound and feel w
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
+1 on novelty / variety; fine dining restaurants also change their entire menus a lot and may only keep a few signature dishes between menus. Part of that is due to availability of things and what is in season, part of it is whimsy &#x

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