bayouborne

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by bayouborne 11d ago
I have the $8/month ChatGPT 'GO' plan. I generally use it in the traditional 'text query'/'text response' type format, but yesterday I was driving back on the freeway from another state and decided to
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by bayouborne 3mo ago
What about VLC's own built-in versions of decoding libraries (I think, from the FFmpeg project)? Is there a scenario here where we may have to deal with malicious MP4 files?
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by bayouborne 3mo ago
Opposing counsel is also being called out by the judiciary for not recognizing that multiple citations counsel has put forth are not only not real, but actually counter to existing law.
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by bayouborne 7mo ago
"As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data." Three hundred thousand drives. That figure seems insane. Google and AWS must have truly staggering amounts.
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by bayouborne 9mo ago
Same score. The honesty check for 'Invidious' seemed to not provide a particularly appropriate definition option. I see it mostly used when paired with the word 'comparison' ('Invidious comparison') In the sens
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by bayouborne 11mo ago
Expanding on your point, a while ago I read a great book on 747 development (by Joe Sutter, who was the lead engineer for the 747) and one surprising thing for me was that Boeing was very much into the supersonic race at the time. The SST p
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by bayouborne 11mo ago
It's hard to over-estimate the tectonic impact the idea of spreadsheet had on the microcomputer scene at the time. Overnight 'programming' came to the masses. Someone with a problem (almost any kind of problem, scientific, fi
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by bayouborne 11mo ago
I am such a fan of Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series of books that I could not let myself even consider the possibility of listening to audio book narrated version. I felt O'Brian's prose voice on
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by bayouborne 11mo ago
The most shocking thing to me about Blue Origin's New Glenn launch is that it didn't blow up. This isn't commentary on my opinion concerning Blue Origin's engineering expertise, just that I was expecting anything that bi
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by bayouborne 1y ago
In March of this year, an Apple-1 sold on the same site for 375k usd https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/34999140714600...
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by bayouborne 1y ago
I'm 66, and when I myself was 10 or 11 my friends on my street and I were completely obsessed with the Estes rocket and Cox .049 U-control scenes. Most of us were lucky enough to have engaged fathers and once the standard craft were as
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by bayouborne 2y ago
"“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday." https://www.wired.com/s
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Interesting. It's hydraulically controlled - https://youtu.be/kWiilCH1AO0?si=PxE3UuB9DE9sB0Hq&t=124 Norway's Rjukan seems to have implemented it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PbAsci1D
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Start masking up w/a consistent alterface now, because once everyone gets base-lined, then you're going to be stopped because you don't look like you.
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by bayouborne 2y ago
I'm not aware of how Eichenwald got access to the communications he uses in the book, but in addition to, yes, the highly complex, dare I say innovative structures they created to temporarily satisfy Wall Street's demands, he also
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by bayouborne 2y ago
I'm in the middle of reading Kurt Eichenwald's 'Conspiracy of Fools'. When Enron management described all the innovative ways they were 'making money' they weren't kidding. They were creating it out of thi
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Star Trek's McCoy delivers a grim description in "The City on the Edge of Forever", about how primitive 20th century medicine once relied on crude and bloody procedures. I think once lab-grown proteins are common in markets a
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by bayouborne 2y ago
I immediately got it. Understanding that the typical reader in this space is generally atypical “find the next best thing” would likely mean "look here to find the thing that's better than the current best." I guess it largel
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Indeed, one of the more memorable set pieces in chapter 1: "He traveled to a city, which was located, he would only say, somewhere in America. He walked into a building, just as though he belonged there, went down a hallway, and let hi
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by bayouborne 2y ago
“I am going to a commune in Vermont and will [In my mind I've always heard a 'henceforth' inserted here for some reason] deal with no unit of time shorter than a season” One of my favorite quotes in the book - when an overwor
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Highly efficient Mini-split heatpumps are becoming simpler for the moderately technical homeowner to install everyday. 5-6 years ago installation typically involved a vacuum pump, a gauge set, sometimes a flaring tool to re-dress factory te
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by bayouborne 2y ago
"Smartphones are substitutes for a lot of things: playing football with a friend; human ad-hoc conversation at a bus stop; playing Candy Crush instead of reading newspapers on your morning commute; entertaining yourself and your date a
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by bayouborne 2y ago
It's variation on a tired joke - If you've been rear-ended, chances are the person behind you wasn't a very good driver. If you've been rear-ended 7 times, chances are that you are the person who isn't a very good d
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by bayouborne 2y ago
"..the nine-year veteran of the force.." 11 more years is a long time to spend as a pariah. Then again it took a strong belief in ethics to do what he did, and he had to have chosen to go in this direction with his eyes open. Hop
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by bayouborne 2y ago
re: Steady-state pumping - I wonder if we'll discover that the physiology of body has evolved to prefer (at least in the long term) pulsed blood pumping. That the change state from no velocity to high velocity has some beneficial scav
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by bayouborne 2y ago
So does that mean it's possible to develop a magnetic 'figure-print' for gold?
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by bayouborne 2y ago
quick typo correction, 'Truth, Lies, and O-Rings'
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by bayouborne 2y ago
It's clear OpenAI badly wants to get to a place where the Support and R&D departments of big companies can dump every disjointed scrap of info they've been collecting for years, into a massive bucket, let OpenAI's servers
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by bayouborne 2y ago
Considering the launch tempo that NASA had signed up for, and was then currently failing at? Yes, a single 'no-go' on the cert chain could easily result in someone being shunted into professional obscurity thereafter.
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by bayouborne 2y ago
I doubt in a bureaucracy as big and political as NASA saying "no" is never easy or safe. In an alternate timeline (one where the Challenger launch succeeded) it would have been interesting to track McDonald's career after ref

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