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by waltbosz 4y ago
I used to sell on half.com . My dad was a college professor and would get free sample textbooks from the publishers that wanted him to consider them for his classes. He'd give them to me to sell But my most memorable sale was to see th
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Does anyone have experience with Tinycircuits products? My 9-year-old daughter wants the TV and arcade for Christmas. How hackable are they? I'm afraid it's just going to become a toy she plays with for a day and gets bored. ... O
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> My dad also used to bring home discarded punch cards Reminds me of a story I heard about my grandfather. He was a meteorologist for the USAF. At the time, they distributed the day's weather forecast on these big paper maps. The m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification I think spaghettification is my favorite word, maybe it's tied with defenestrate.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-fashioned_(short_story) An Asimov story about stranded astro-miners who throw rocks into a black hole to generate x-rays with the hopes that they will be spotted by observers back on E
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by waltbosz 4y ago
No I never said that. My intent was never to defend Steve Jobs. I just think the tone of way the comment was mean spirited and inappropriate. I think it's important to call out bad behavior in the HN community.
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I find the personal attacks in this comment to be unbecoming of HN standards.
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Miltivac was the only AI, the other machines were just IO devices.
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> The reality is people vote on feelings and have no desire for fair or equitable outcomes. And this really frustrates me. I try to vote based on who I think could best do the job, but there is no real data source for me to make my decis
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I've been reading a lot of Asimov lately. It's really fun whenever one of his predictions about the future are wrong. For example, in his short story "Franchise" (written in 1955), he predicts that by the year 2008, that
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Wow, I never knew that. I wonder what the family dynamic is in these sorts of families. It must be way different from my experiences of family.
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This is a curious observation which spawns so many new questions in my mind. What is the cost of living in the places of the world where $900 USD is average income of its populace. From which I would ask: in those parts of the world, where
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Also, your public library may have videos games. Sadly, my library system's collection of Switch games is missing the Kibry franchise. But it does have Smash Bros which has been a lot of fun. Also, if you live near the border of a stat
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by waltbosz 4y ago
Yes. Also, my 9-year-old daughter makes the same face when she is focusing.
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I can't recall the make of the speaking monitor. It was an old 13" CRT, probably made in the late 80s, early 90s.
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by waltbosz 4y ago
This post reminds me this video monitor I used to own. When you turned it on, it would beep twice (with two different tones), and then say "O.K." in a robotic voice. I always wanted to take a recording of it, but never found the t
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I'll agree, ffmpeg is super powerful, but here is a situation where I just couldn't get it working: How do I take a sequence of 5000 pngs, apply a 5 frame crossfade between each one, and then output the resulting mp4 ? I spent day
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by waltbosz 4y ago
How long before browsers have a built in setting to automatically tell these cookie prompts "essential cookies only please"?
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In the days of streaming, it is a curiosity to be sure, but in the end, it is just a video rental store. In the documentary, they really up the romanticism of video rental stores. This is just my experience, but I was a kid when Blockbust
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by waltbosz 4y ago
This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say hello and mention that last night I watched documentary about the Blockbuster Video that is still open in Bend, Oregon. On-topic: I used to subscribe to the newsletter from landio.com, which sells
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by waltbosz 4y ago
> There seems to be a current trend in AI circles of mashing up film genres or visualising existent films either within different time periods or with different directors. Out of boredom, I fed the prompt "Fight Club" into Stab
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I'm on the fence about calling myself an "AI artist". I think a better term is "muse to an AI" I couldn't possibly create the images that I get out of Stable Diffusion, so I consider it the real artist. But it
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I had the same idea for a business, but it would just be a photo booth at an arcade.
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I once took an MP4 of Koyaanisqatsi and reversed the whole video sequence. It was quite a joy to watch the film backwards. I also experimented with time lapse videography after watching the film. I am surprised by what does and doesn't
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by waltbosz 4y ago
> when the rest of us futz around with CRUD apps Isn't this so demoralizing, to be working for some company writing boring business apps. I want to be a visionary. I have these Grace Hopper-esque ideas for how to advance developer e
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by waltbosz 4y ago
I've been burnt out from work. I lost interest in coding because I spent so much time coding for a job that made me so unhappy. I've been able to rekindle my passion for coding by finding personal projects to work on. I like to bu
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Who Shot Mr. Burns? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F
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I find it really interesting that today there are individuals who are able to fund projects that previously took the resources of an entire country to fund. It's got to be the invention of the Internet that has made this individual wea
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by waltbosz 4y ago
What if one were to create a laws of physics emulator, and then inside of it, assemble a brain from atoms/particles/etc ? Or would it suffice to create a neuron emulator, and build a brain inside of it? Could you train an AI on br
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I wonder if the key mapping was copied from the original Mac program. It does seem odd to require ctrl/shift to make the changes since it necessitates taking your hand off the mouse.

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