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by wegs 6y ago
I'm more than happy to step up in price/power. I'm not sure if a more expensive device would act as a webcam, though.
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by wegs 6y ago
I'd want OBS running. I'd love to offload OBS from my computer to a Pi. It'd be nice if there were some docs about how this works and how to hack it. Key thing with tools like OBS is you want a dedicated CPU. It's not su
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by wegs 6y ago
Someone within US jurisdictions ought to be liable. As far as I can tell, that's the company who imported and sold it. If Amazon and Walmart are liable, I won't need to worry about fake Sandisk memory cards, fake medicines, fake c
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by wegs 6y ago
In my town, if a child receives a positive test result, the whole classroom is under quarantine. So it's not pointless in that sense. You know who might have been exposed. It's also not pointless for monitoring spread.
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by wegs 6y ago
YES in Poland. I know people in Poland who avoided getting a COVID19 test because they knew they would have to quarantine if they took the test, and would not have to quarantine if they didn't. That's perverse incentives for ya&#x
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by wegs 6y ago
For the past few years, an older OM-D mirrorless was by far the best, cheapest camera on the market. New-old-stock or used.
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by wegs 6y ago
I recommend RAW+JPEG. I hate editing RAW files, but in 30 years, I'll still have them and might have a use for them. In 300 years, my ancestors will have them. Seems like image processing algorithms might advance by then. I once reran
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by wegs 6y ago
It's not a test of grit. git happens to exemplify -- as well as any system I know -- many aspects of good data engineering. If you're into data and ML, those are things you ought to know too. For a data/ML position, in most c
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by wegs 6y ago
With that attitude, I would never, ever, ever, hire you. As a footnote, I would expect you to be able to understand things like SSD performance and reliability, and how it's affected by complex algorithms in the drive controller (e.g.
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by wegs 6y ago
You want simple internals, and one would expect programmers to understand those internals. You want the userspace to do obvious things with those internals. You don't want magic in between. Understanding internals is a feature, not a b
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by wegs 6y ago
There is a minimum bar for programmers I'd want to work with. Fully understanding git, for me, is part of that bar. The problem is that many programmers don't know how fundamental git is: 1) It's like understanding the basics
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by wegs 6y ago
I don't think so. If people live 100 years, you have 1% of the population die each year. In the US, COVID has killed a quarter-million, which is just under 0.1%, so an increase of under 10%. You'll barely see a 10% increase on a n
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, the low point seems to be 1992 at $88. Which sort of matches my experience. I think it's misleading to just look at Canon SLRs. SLRs are dying. Looking at the most modern mounts from all companies: * Canon 50mm f/1.8 R-mount
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by wegs 6y ago
350MB is clearly excessive, and so is 175MB. Neither helps make a point about the other, though. It's about what's transferred, and about permission. What I want now is an open source Android device where I have controls. The #1 t
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by wegs 6y ago
No, companies do change behavior. The public interest argument is: 1) Companies can make a lot of money skimming $1 each off of 100 million people. 2) Federal enforcement agencies don't have time or energy for that. We can outsource th
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by wegs 6y ago
Yes, and no. Management teams have different specialties. You can't be an expert at everything. A big part of doing management well is understanding what to do yourself, what to delegate internally, and what to outsource. There are ple
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by wegs 6y ago
I've only downloaded works with youtube-dl where I had permission of the copyright holder. The whole point of youtube was to make it convenient for decentralized content creators to share things. Most WANT their stuff being downloaded.
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by wegs 6y ago
Which was a completely duplicitous PR stunt. Nat: * Complied with a DMCA take-down request which he had no legal reason to comply with. DMCA takedown requests are for infringing content. DMCA bans anticircumvention measures, but that's
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by wegs 6y ago
The AC700 does have a developer mode. That doesn't mean there's any Linux distribution which will install on it. For a while, there were, but they disappeared, and now it's a web of 404s and obsolete documents. Most recommend
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by wegs 6y ago
My (limited) experience is that with most organizations, the fault is neither with the rank-and-file, nor with the boardroom table, but either with the organizational design / incentive structures, or with the corporate culture. Tech i
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by wegs 6y ago
Most of this isn't about high-performing individuals so much as about organizational structures: 1) Organizations build up capabilities over time they don't need. For example, there might be a purchasing department with a complex
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by wegs 6y ago
Believe it or not, a big part of FFG is trimming out middle management. One of the goals is to decrease number of layers. They describe a process by which layers accumulate over time, often unnecessarily.
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by wegs 6y ago
There's a bias there. You often hire consulting firms to do specific things. If you're hiring PWC to do a Fit For Growth Transformation, that means you believe you need layoffs. The symptoms of are usually obvious: you're bur
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by wegs 6y ago
I'd pay a pretty penny for a decent, stable, well-supported open GPU. It'd need to cover the corner cases well. Multimonitor setups. High res. Etc.
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by wegs 6y ago
It's called Aliexpress. I've been gradually moving from Amazon to eBay to Aliexpress. Ironically, this happened because I got scammed on Amazon a few times. I figured if I was gonna get scammed, I might as well save a bit with eBa
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by wegs 6y ago
Then you paid a fixed quantity for a lease of unknown duration. Congratulations! If the model number doesn't have a typo, it might be expired. Most of the ones not listed tend to be expired, and many vendors sell expired ones. Oh ohs!
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by wegs 6y ago
You can do this on SOME Chromebooks. It'd be great if you could do this on any Chromebook! There's a whole pile of AC700 Chromebooks around, with no upgrade path as far as I know, at least if you don't want to be p4wn3d.
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by wegs 6y ago
It's not disabled, but if you keep using it, but you get a scary warning from Google. If you do keep using it, it will be 0w3nd, and your data will be held ransom for bitcoin. I guess it beats Android, where the same happens, only with
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by wegs 6y ago
A Chromebook isn't your own laptop. It's a lease from Google for 0-6 years, after which they effectively disable it. You can look up when your lease ends here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer&#
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by wegs 6y ago
I wonder how Brexit fits into EU regulations.

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