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Comment · 2 years ago
"Voice Isolator costs 1000 characters for every minute of audio." - can someone expand on this currency for someone out of the loop?
Comment · 4 years ago
>"Also, consider that if you can only read at 100 MB/s off a mechanical drive but your CPU can decompress data at ~500 MB/s then the mechanical drive is able to provide 5x the throughput you'd otherwise expect thanks to compression."

I'd not really thought of that aspect before... My old brain is hard-coded to save cpu cycles ... Time to change my ways :)

Comment · 4 years ago
I feel the pain. People here will recall the heyday of Paper Prototyping i think. It sounds silly in the 21stC to even suggest such a low tech step, but it's saved my a$$ in the past.... and given me a solid basis to renegotiate a price if/when the feature-creep begins! Anyone else done similar for a client who doesn't _really_ know what they want? ;)
Comment · 5 years ago
greylisting was a fun time. And yes i too have absolutely been that person :)
Comment · 5 years ago
a number of the channels i follow have a regular set of porn bots that post links, and also there are also obvious (to a human) machine generated comments.

I assume (without any evidence) that YT has a programmatic / ML approach to attempt to minimise this sort of crap..

I note that in this case the problem seems to be a particular word, but i don't see this as malice on YTs part.

I no longer post links as references for answers etc even when the channel creator allows them, after having one YT account permabanned for spam based (as far as i can tell.,) on links posted...

(anecdata is notoriously lacking in peer review)

Comment · 5 years ago
i use ffox on android because (for some reason) it's the only one I'm aware of that has ublock origin addon...( happy to be proven wrong :)

I also used to use reader mode once in a while...

Comment · 5 years ago
well, to be fair to these guys they wear their agenda pretty proudly on the home page:)

"Our mission is to drive impact around the world through great storytelling. Our platform is free, funded by carefully chosen brands dedicated to committed sustainability agendas over the next decade. These companies are vetted extensively by WaterBear to avoid greenwashing, and join the network to develop integrated partnerships over the long-term"

Comment · 5 years ago
respectfully, that article simply repeats variations of scenarios tom brings up in his video;)

pick any part of the process in that article and ask "how do you know that the black box is trustworthy?" , in the context of assuming that some nation states have a vested interest in messing with the process...

Comment · 5 years ago
i still refer people to this also. He neatly summarises the core issues. People watching other people count marks on dead trees works great.
Comment · 5 years ago
fellow kdenlive user here, would really like to hear your findings...

for some reason recent kdenlive releases seem to have inordinately slow render times on my laptop (no GPU ;) so I'm open to alternatives..

ps don't take this as an assault on kdenlive,please!! It's been good to me,,

Comment · 5 years ago
i respect your view. But IMHO for low speed home-to-office commutes there is a market for 100% autonomous cars that can free a person up for productivity tasks or other activity rather than have to drive the same route over and over.

OR say the trip to the supermarket past school zones.

Maybe not in my driving lifetime (I'm an old fart) , sure :)

Comment · 5 years ago
mick west posted a pretty convincing case for this being "bokeh balls" created by presumed (but unproven) tape anti-glare measures on the front on the lens.

Extraordinary claims and all that.....

Comment · 5 years ago
i'd love a pocket-sized "real" camera that could make calls, check messages and do basic social media :)

8-800 mm zoom not essential though ;)

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