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sorenjan
5y ago
Reminds me of this story after an expensive mistake: > Boss - "Why do you think you are here, Jack?" > JW - "I expect I am here so you can fire me" > Boss - "I just spent a million dollars on your education
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5y ago
You can also use python and any kind of http download tool (browser, curl). Works well within a local network, or if you have control over your firewall. python -m http.server 8000
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5y ago
The full image is 2048x1152: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/F8F6/production... Anyway, it's still cropped, and in this other version from a different source you can clearly see part of
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5y ago
Yandex supports translation on images, and you can paste it straight from the clipboard. I'm assuming that MacOS has something similar to Windows' Win-Shift-S to take a screenshot a section of the screen, which makes it really fas
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5y ago
Mobile phones use dual frequencies now. Some use the Broadcom BCM47755 chip, but the most common ones are various Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs. https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/gnss-gps-socs/bcm... htt
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5y ago
This is what the payment screen looked like in Fortnite which made Apple ban it. Why shouldn't it be allowed? https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-direct-pay-apple-app-stor... https://www.epicgames.com/fo
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5y ago
What is the legal situation for implementing things from these kinds of papers? Am I allowed to use other's research papers to make features in my own products, or should I assume it's patented? I don't think copyright applie
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sorenjan
5y ago
Phased array ultrasonics[0] and Multibeam echo sounding[1] has been around for decades[2]. This project in particular is an example of what's called an air coupled ultrasonic phased array. It's an interesting project, but it'
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6y ago
I don't understand why anyone would pay that kind of money to get stuck in a proprietary ecosystem with a monthly fee. I guess it's aimed at the gym going spinning crowd and not the cycling crowd, but there are plenty of options i
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6y ago
How much water and energy does it take to manufacture the machine? Mining the raw materials, transporting everything from different countries, etc, Sure it's convenient, but I'm not sold on the environment friendliness compared to
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6y ago
This article is about automatic weaving of the upper[0], combined with a separate 3D printed sole. That's not done by forced or child labor today either[1], the supposed added value is a bespoke upper tailored to your feet by 3D scanni
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6y ago
> The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments. And evolved to walk to walk barefoot. > I su
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sorenjan
6y ago
This seems as overengineered as Juicero. Technology for technology's sake.
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sorenjan
6y ago
You don't have any moral qualms against supporting that kind of government? Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death, women are charged with extramarital sex after being raped, and foreign workers are treated as slaves. There a
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sorenjan
6y ago
A lot of mobile cameras now take high resolution images (108 MP, 50 MP) and downsample them to something like 8 or 12 MP. Since this is done in the same way every time I guess any systematic noise could still be detected, but it will be att
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6y ago
> I’m not sure about mobile phone cameras though. How could they? They have no physical shutter.
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6y ago
Are you allowed to use the VS Code name and logo?
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6y ago
One of the worst tings about this is the kind of protective actions they employed. It seems like they made a filter that automatically banned anyone mentioning a certain name, in order to protect that person from harassment. They didn'
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6y ago
They can work with something else than being an admin on one of the largest social media sites in the world, or a politician influencing public policy, or really anything with power over others. There's plenty of other options availabl
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6y ago
There are hardware implementations referenced in the blog post, and in the linked published paper. > In the early 2000s, Farsiu et al. [2006] and Gotoh and Okutomi [2004]formulated superresolution from arbitrary motion as an optimization
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6y ago
Did you see how Twitch handles copyright issues? They're latest solution is to make it easier for streamers to mass delete all their saved streams ("VODs") to not get DMCA strikes. Compared to Twitch Youtube seem much more co
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6y ago
> Super-resolution is only guessing. Machine learning is educated guessing based on previously seen data. As mentioned by others there are ways to do super resolution that only uses the data available. I can't think of any that can
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6y ago
Google uses it in Google camera. They're not shifting the sensor themselves, but they take advantage of the camera shake users introduce by taking handheld photos. https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/see-better-
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6y ago
Not exactly free. IMPORTANT All SF Symbols shall be considered to be system-provided images as defined in the Xcode and Apple SDKs license agreements and are subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein. You may not use SF Symbols
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Same thing with the Swedish cars. That's why they're right hand drive unlike other cars. https://cdn.arbetet.se/app/uploads/2016/04/09235113/01-Brevb...
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6y ago
But the testing doesn't just take place at competitions. Athletes have to report where they are every day, and failure to do so leads to warnings and eventually sanctions. They can be tested at any time, but maybe various agencies have
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6y ago
> Then use API supported on your target platform. It's not ROCm then. That's the point, ROCm isn't suitable for things outside datacenters or maybe some workstations. Cuda is however, and that's what AMD should be aim
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6y ago
> So ship linux version and let the customers decide whether they want it or not. What if I want to use GPGPU in Photoshop, or a game with more than two users? Or really anything aimed at consumers? > If you are doing server product T
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ROCm has been a thing for four years now, Cuda had been around almost a decade before ROCm was conceived, and AMD still doesn't show any interest in an accessible compute platform for all developers and users. I think they should focus
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Especially since more and more consumer workloads use compute as well. DLSS makes real time ray tracing at acceptable resolutions possible, your phone camera uses neural nets for every photo you take, Nvidias OptiX noise reduction is very i
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