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by thriftwy 2y ago
As soon as it's an MP4 it will have key frames all right. You could add AI upscaling to your encoder. People are making fun of "Just", but I believe I could take apart ffmpeg to add this feature (PoC) in two weeks or less. Pr
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Just run all key frames through stable diffusion and it should be quite good.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I don't buy Photoshop as a heavy exotic APIs user. In many ways it's about pure computations involving images represented as data structures. Perhaps there used to be some USB to talk to cameras but that's it. I believe their
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I imagine they could be donated to local Department of Culture (is it Arts Council in case of Bay Area?) and then staffed by some retiree grannies. Then they will outlive the initial passion. Bureaucratic systems have their disadvantaged bu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Exactly the one I meant under the theme park comment - another one is Monterey Bay Aquarium. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome museums. One thing that caught my attention in CHM is that as you approach the end of century, it becomes
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by thriftwy 2y ago
One thing I didn't notice when travelling to Bay Area is thriving small museum ecosystem. Apparently in the US they prefer to run museums like commercial venues, so either it's a large theme park of a museum, or not at all. I se
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I don't think many of Indonesian communists being killed were colonizers by ethnicity or social status.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Building roads and selling cars, though, also makes an awful lot of money for the vendors.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
For a few years now, you may usually do a contactless card payment - just tap your bank (debit or credit) card. The fare is often higher but so is convenience. Back around 2010 I remember reading these accusations that significant part of r
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Out of curiosity, are there any good introspectors/sidesteppers for browser DRM? The platform is not locked down (in ten years it might as well be), so the only question is which pipeline step the heist will happen at.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
If you lick the positive pole of AA battery while touching the other end you get a sour taste. But there's no taste change when you do the opposite.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> people on the Baltic coast are not Russians, have nothing in common with them, nor have never wanted to be close with them That wording already shows an unexpected amount of agitation that would prompt further inquires. > have been
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The West encouraged Georgia to invade its breakaway former province South Ossetia in 2008. Turns out it was a lousy idea. Why blame Russia for bad voluntary choices of Georgian government?
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by thriftwy 2y ago
How would "dealing" look like? Russian Federation still maintains freedom of travel with most of ex-Soviet republics. Good luck entering Britain without visa being a former colonial subject.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I agree with you, but I was talking about a specific article which does an explicit history dive: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/georgi... Also, this convention of not digging
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Before early XX century most of the globe was comprised of countries who looked like that. > the main language used in administrative affairs was German > to portray Georgia as a mere "province of Russian Empire" is ridiculo
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Soviet nomenclature did consist of Jews to significant extent. At times more, at times less, but it's disingenous for you to mention Jews being overrepresented among the victims without mentioning they were also overrepresented among S
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> any military operation not sanctioned by the target region's people or government counts as an invasion It does not give one an excuse to skip the whole history of the region and start it where it fits them. I wonder if their valu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> and Russia slid into second place I also struggled there, perhaps that's the wording for Russia doing some flagpoling without claiming 1st place at any point of time. There's three awfully huge flag poles in St. Petersburg er
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It's always funny to me how facts about previous allegiance are withheld with impunity, apparently in hopes to confuse a distracted reader. I can forgive people for forgetting to mention that Baltic states were part of Russia for centu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Are these rotation flats variable in magnitude? Would one galaxy have a different curve height than another one? What does it depend on? Update: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully–Fisher_relation But the linear regr
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Imagine what will happen if all that extra cash went into private space exploration instead.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
By growing nitrogen fixers such as peas and beans on the same fields.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Many countries now contemplate being eventually kicked out of US dollar reserve and surviving that.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
As I imagine it, the person who rents out a single apartment for subsistence cannot pull all kinds of tricks that a large landlord with multiple properties will. They don't make the market, merely participate in one. Moreover, a large
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That may be the case because of low baseline wages. Some people end up pooling a single apt between multiple tenants to cope. But the expenses are also low, meaning many people are able to own an apartment eventually, especially with the he
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russia does not have landlords (as a medium business). Virtually all apartments available for rent belong to moms and pops who happen to have a surplus so they're renting out. They usually have just one property which they rent out. Ad
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I believe all kids wanted to become cosmonauts in the socialist period. Polar sailors or jet pilots work as well.
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That's what you do for a living, but not something you want to do as a kid. Unless there are kids with middle-aged mentality.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Why would kids ever want to be assembly line workers? If you find that area of work attractive, why don't you start with yourself becoming one?

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