the_real_sparky

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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
I don’t ride on the street anymore (not enough fun to be worth the risk - of death via car or losing my drivers license), but I do regularly take my S1000RR to the track. It is capable of doing just over 90mph in first gear, which is why i
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers. Define: k = multiple of 1920x1080 pixel count 1920x1080 ~= 2M pixels = 1k 2560x1440 ~= 4M pixels = 2k 3840x2160 ~= 8M pixels = 4k So now 1440p = 2k, and k becomes meaningful.
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
Maybe Elon can have x.x.x
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
Isn’t it interesting that the more technology people have, the less they understand how it works? The profit motive for business is to make things easier to use, but ironically that also makes it less likely for anyone using it to have any
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
The 2’s adaptive transparency is a huge step up from the 1.
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
I see nobody around me at concerts wearing AirPod Pro 2s, even though they are undoubtedly the best musical experience you can have without destroying your ear drums (in the adaptive transparency mode). I expect that one day I’ll go to a co
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
The costs of outages are much greater than just a few people dying. A lot of effort is put into quantifying the costs of reliability on the electric system, only for you to just hand-wave it all away. At least try to educate yourself at m
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
This is the way - the Direct Primary Care model. Find the smartest DPC doc that you can and you will be free from so much of our broken system.
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
See my nearby comment on Direct Primary Care. It is possible to partially opt out of the system, and fortunately it is the part of the system that you touch most often (or should be anyway).
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
The Direct Primary Care model shows that the overheads for healthcare are definitely a very large contributing factor to high costs and poor patient experiences. Cutting out the insurance company and related overheads from the medical prac
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by the_real_sparky 3y ago
Better Candy Crush than slot machines?
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
The rnnoise filters (or Nvidia’s broadcast / RTX Voice tool) do a great job of suppressing noise. https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/movement/sprin... The Spring Drive is the pinnacle of electromechanical watches so far, and it’s more mechanical than electronic. “if all seven billion inhabitant
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
For a friendly (to UPS) payment of $5.99, UPS America will happily deliver your package to a nearby location. The worst part is that if you just want the package held at the hub in advance then it’s still $5.99 now, even though they didn’t
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
I have been responsible for maintaining many thousands of pages of documentation with a dozen+ staff, and can say that at least for my industry there is often no hierarchy that fits every use case. Then consider that your documentation ref
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
Yep, my only idea so far has been to generically describe the figures in text format. Doing so through recognition in any level of detail will be extremely tough, as often the drawings differ by variations that would be difficult for a mod
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
Looks like it’s making extensive use of embeddings. The embeddings and vector comparisons are dirt cheap. The summarizing / answering functionality when the LLMs get involved is going to be the expensive part.
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
I think the actual interface with OpenAI’s platform is the easy part. Everybody and their dog will have a version of this. Just look at the comments so far - many of us have already been playing with it. If you want a real moat, figure ou
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
The really crazy part is that if it were trained on more domain-specific example data then I think it would give pretty great answers to many of the niche questions in those domains. I fully expect that most businesses / industries wi
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
It is not designed to do math. It only generates a likely text response. If the exact equation (with exact numbers) did not often appear in its training data then you are very likely to receive a nonsensical answer. It can do some math s
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by the_real_sparky 4y ago
And here I am thinking that 287 Amazon returns translates into $1435 in Kohls Cash… if you make the returns on the weekend anyway.
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by the_real_sparky 5y ago
Electric utilities are fairly old-school as well and will lean towards in-person and hybrid work. They will have a few dev / architect / web jobs on the IT side, but definitely not top-tier pay (although an actual 40 hours a week
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by the_real_sparky 5y ago
To be fair, proof of work crypto does impact electric infrastructure, although it’s difficult to pin that on the negative or positive side of neutral because the cheapest electric rates possible include provisions for demand response /
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by the_real_sparky 5y ago
This problem is it’s own special horror in Canbus data. Between endianness and sign it’s a nightmare of en/decoding possibilities and the associated mistakes that come with that.
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by the_real_sparky 6y ago
For #1, you simply mandate it as a requirement. Many things are mandated to generator owners by regulatory bodies that the generator owners would never opt for otherwise. This is no different. The regulatory body should make the decision
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by the_real_sparky 6y ago
There are a couple of important things to note here that I haven’t seen get much discussion. First, assuming that residential customers can understand the pricing dynamics that are going on is a really bad assumption. It is very complex be
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by the_real_sparky 6y ago
rnnoise is fantastic. I use it in an Equalizer APO filter chain on my gaming machine along with an EQ and compressor which are fed from a dynamic mic. I consistently get comments about the quality of my mic setup in-game and on Discord. T
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by the_real_sparky 6y ago
It seems like anyone that had over 50% of the market share of large SUVs and made 30% profit on each one would probably double down and ride that gravy train to the end? https://www.autonews.com/sales/gm-living-large
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by the_real_sparky 6y ago
I think the assumption here is that an educated consumer isn’t going to just buy any $200 piece of junk that calls itself “high end”. They are going to listen to it themselves and/or do research to figure out who is providing true val
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by the_real_sparky 7y ago
Don’t think this has been posted before even though the original article was from February. Here’s the page with PDF download of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05534 “ Abnormal respiratory patterns classifier m

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