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by snerbles 3y ago
As long as any actual formal standard contains the term "markdown", John Gruber will find a way to torpedo it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274870 https://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible
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by snerbles 3y ago
While in undergrad I wrote a modular resume script that picked a set bullet points based on the tags I gave them, rendered those bullets into a LaTeX template, and then spat out the customized result with a PDF. With this I could quickly sp
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by snerbles 3y ago
It went from ~20 seconds of freezing on every server request to no freezing at all after adding the exception. That's quite the amplification.
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by snerbles 3y ago
Newer versions of Thunderbird have been rendered completely unusable unless I exclude %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Thunderbird from real-time scans.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Oh absolutely. Many of us remember EEE[0], but many more have forgotten - or never learned in the first place. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by snerbles 4y ago
Some people want to avoid tying their own projects to certain vendors, and this information is helpful to them. See also Oracle, IBM, etc. Microsoft has done quite a lot to rehabilitate their image, a decade ago few would be so quick to def
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by snerbles 4y ago
Eventually these devices will use DoH (DNS over HTTPS) to evade local ad and tracker blocking.
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by snerbles 4y ago
"Pruning" is the main term you are looking for, with a variety of methods to do so. https://blog.dataiku.com/making-neural-networks-smaller-for-... https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774 https:&#x
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by snerbles 4y ago
I'm not going to read while driving. TTS with natural inflection opens up a world of narration to stories with audiences too small for human narration.
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by snerbles 4y ago
How do you handle metadata backups?
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by snerbles 4y ago
> whether the FAA and ATF will throw a tantrum over a remote control weapons platform like that I Am Not A Lawyer, and attempting to build an armed drone without the advice of one one will probably earn you an ATF raid with your dog sho
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by snerbles 4y ago
Here's a good start: https://community.frame.work/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-dual-... See also https://gist.github.com/Informatic/49bd034d43e054bd1d8d4fec3...
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by snerbles 4y ago
A bloated bug-ridden set of plugins behind a $1,000 paywall, but gifted to colleges to lock-in electrical engineering students who don't know any better.
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by snerbles 4y ago
I passed the Windows license through to a VM on mine. Not that I do much with it, but it does activate.
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by snerbles 4y ago
What's your review workflow? Do you pre-generate extra takes? I've played around with doing TTS narration for some webfiction authors, reviewing some of the more wild outputs for Tortoise's occasional demonic weirdness can be
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by snerbles 4y ago
In the US, full-time minimum is typically 12 semester hours (credits) - that is, 12 hours in the classroom per week. In practice students often take 12-18 credits, and are considered overloaded at 20+ hours - some institutions require appro
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by snerbles 4y ago
If anything, that smug disdain is a reflection of the perceived elitism of traditional artists. A small culture war that was smouldering long before the appearance of generative models.
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by snerbles 4y ago
In Old Western films the hero would often wear a white cowboy hat, the villain a black one.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Apologies, I forgot the rest of the question. The end customers generally only interacted with the Cognex cameras via HMI applications (VisionView on panels running various versions of FactoryTalk View), rarely would we hear about their pla
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by snerbles 4y ago
What can I say, I wish I had your customer PMs.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> version control and distribution of updates was a major headache I wound up writing an in-house tool that pulls the program files from each camera on the machine LAN over FTP and commit them to a local Git repo. There was also some fut
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by snerbles 4y ago
As an OEM the ones we deployed definitely saw (and are probably still seeing) production. I can personally confirm off the top of my head that Proctor & Gamble, Revlon, Duracell, Mars Candy, Bausch & Lomb, Pfizer, Gilead Sciences, B
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by snerbles 4y ago
Smaller neural nets are commonly used in character recognition, but typical smart cameras or embedded robot controllers don't have anywhere near enough compute to run deep networks in real time. The Fanuc I was ranting about in this th
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by snerbles 4y ago
Definitely not the case at my old job - we deployed a bit over 200 Cognex In-Sight cameras over my five-year stint there, almost all for bespoke inspection applications for customers. They gave me plenty of swag, but if I wanted to play wit
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by snerbles 4y ago
As an integrator of vision solutions, smart cameras firmly occupy the space of "Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM" Though with recent developments in machine learning, the case for PC-based solutions is a lot easier now than be
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by snerbles 4y ago
More of what they had then. That demo of real-time blob detection and sorting by color filtering was doable in 1998. Earlier than that, even. I've found about 90% of the work in vision applications in industrial packaging is in the pro
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by snerbles 4y ago
You're not wrong, but your comments fall on deaf ears. From the tone of other commenters here, I sense a malicious undercurrent intent on extinguishing rural ways of life - any excuse will suffice.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Pretty sure parent comment was being sarcastic.
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by snerbles 4y ago
There have already been experiments in altering personal biases and beliefs through transcranial magnetic stimulation [0][1]. Direct electrical stimulation will eventually permit a greater degree of control. > We presented participants w
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by snerbles 4y ago
Near-IR aiming lasers (such as the AN/PEQ-2 and AN/PAQ-4) can indeed cause permanent damage, among USAF CATM armorers there was a rumor of at least one idiot burning his retina trying to "see" the beam directly.

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