withjive

Joined 15 years ago

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Database software engineer from Canada Clickhouse & Postgres <3
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Comment · 5 years ago
CIA & Pablo. Exactly.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes that is a great of example of reading something on the internet and believing it completely?

You just linked me to a Stackoverflow post about a theory, which turns out to just be completely wrong, while managing to include a few valid facts.

Was a fun exercise, but please don't get your science this way.

Comment · 5 years ago
Sorry, "apparently" shadows do not move faster than light. Since they are... well... defined by light...

I am curious though, as to where you got such a strong notion that shadows can move faster than light...

Comment · 5 years ago
From my perspective of American warfare - shooting a $1 million dollar missile at every $100 drone is how they keep the war going :)
Comment · 5 years ago
You're being down voted because in this case customers are obviously the product. Being sold to Facebook.
Comment · 5 years ago
Seems quite short sighted to assume space manufacturing processes would not improve - or we would not want to improve them.

Cold weld it in space, it's not that difficult with some engineering.

Space X?

Comment · 6 years ago
For small range (few km) you can just utilise LoraWAN for free communication.
Comment · 6 years ago
Similar to how GPT-3 can be applied not only to create Text, but also fill in missing pieces of Images (ie. complete the missing half of a face).

Would the logical next step, use GPT-3 to create a 3D world? :)

Comment · 6 years ago
It's actually quite easy to strip the DRM on Audible using ffmpeg - which I do to keep an archive of all my purchases.

There's a script on github to get the encryption key for your account by letting it sign in for you.

Then from there it's easy to get ffmpeg to turn the DRM aac to a mp3

Comment · 6 years ago
If your doing Android Development with the ARM emulator, then its crazy slow. However, if you use the x86 emulator - then you get native speed.

Xcode/iOS's emulator is actually x86 - which is why it seems faster than Android's default emulator.

Comment · 6 years ago
They go over the effects of compression - which they say only degrades the protection - but at the same time also degrades the identification accuracy of the AI model.

So if your crappy 6 megapixel camera cannot take a clear shot of the cloaked pixels - or effectively applying a blur filter - would also affect the AI detection.

Comment · 6 years ago
They are lucky in this case because compression does defeat the cloak to some degree— However, compression at those levels also defeats the ability of Facebook to accurate identify you.
Comment · 6 years ago
What's wrong with personal projects on a Free private Github repo? (they offer those now).

Previously I would just put my pet projects on Bitbucket because they offered free private repos.

Comment · 7 years ago
As an Android developer during the first G1 era, I feel that Google was really taking advantage of the well established Java developer base.

Having developers already understand Java, was a huge thing for Android when it first came out.

So when you say:

> Wendy’s doesn’t ever use “supersize” in their promotions

IANAL, So I’m not sure Google didn’t do the same...

I also think Oracle is also not happy with that.

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