davidf560

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by davidf560 5y ago
The whole story as presented in the article and comments here is a bit misleading. None of these buildings were "abandoned", at least not in any practical sense. The buildings documented here were old (from the 70s I believe) and
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by davidf560 5y ago
I suppose it depends on how you define "downfall", but Motorola stock this year is at an all-time high, even higher than its peak during late 90s during the run up to the dot-com boom and when Motorola cellphones were king. There&
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by davidf560 6y ago
DirectShow (the API for video capture and other things in Windows) has long had the concept of a filter which can be plugged into the video pipeline[0]. I'm not certain if that's the reason that the term is commonly used for effec
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by davidf560 6y ago
They appear to be using Pfizer in at least some locations in Illinois, FWIW.
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by davidf560 6y ago
I've played with Jami several times because it sounds good on paper but it just flat out failed to work a lot of the time. Messages sent but never received, no indication of why or what was going on. For my uses anyway, IM needs to be
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by davidf560 6y ago
Two sentences after the part you quoted it says a belt was around his neck. Later on it mentions that he hung himself from the doorknob.
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by davidf560 6y ago
There's been plenty of healthcare workers splashed all over the news taking it already. More importantly, we're a long long way away from the general public even getting to decide to take it or not. If hesitation is still a concer
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by davidf560 6y ago
New York's plan: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-unveils-draft... Phase 1 says "Healthcare workers in patient care settings " Tennessee's: https://www.tn.gov/con
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by davidf560 6y ago
> Why should residents who are young and very low risk be a high priority? Maybe they shouldn't be top priority, but if they're dealing directly with covid patients they sure as heck should have higher priority than a VP or adm
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by davidf560 6y ago
> It is ridiculous there aren't much more clear/specific guidelines, and in some cases enforceable policies/regulations, from the federal government. It's like nobody's driving the bus here. Why is this not Calif
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by davidf560 6y ago
> I can name 3 other local hospital systems in my city that have vaccinated administrative & C-suite/VP level staff I don't understand why society is putting up with this. Right now if you're not in a daily COVID-facin
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by davidf560 6y ago
The FDA announced early this morning that they were definitively going to authorize it[1], but they didn't actually issue the authorization at that point, with people telling the press that authorization would come "in the next fe
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by davidf560 6y ago
> that works out to a 500 Mb/s link per building, which seems pretty modest for a institution We're talking 500 Mb/s of upload 24/7 though, which can't be used for anything else (i.e. you need capacity beyond tha
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by davidf560 6y ago
> That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure this specific case matters? Are there things a person speaking to a police officer has any expectation that the officer may not relay as said to them? I would rather have it alway
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by davidf560 6y ago
Now calculate how big of a data pipe you need to AWS to upload 400 terabytes of video each day and how much does that cost?
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by davidf560 6y ago
> If you're concerned about writing potentially sensitive video to non-volatile storage, that can be solved via technical means. Just encrypt the video with an ephemeral key kept in memory, then store the encrypted video on non-vola
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by davidf560 6y ago
> It's cultural to the institution of policing. It's not just culture, it's the police unions as well. Any new tech (like auto-recording when the weapon is drawn) generally has to have union approval. Unions are frequently
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by davidf560 6y ago
Cameras now are starting to include technology where the camera is automatically activated as soon as the officer draws their weapon.
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by davidf560 6y ago
> Why not buffer 5 hours by default? Because then you end up with recordings of things that you shouldn't have, like the officer using the restroom or a victim who has asked not to be recorded. Also, several minutes of buffer fits n
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by davidf560 6y ago
"This guy" was recently named to Biden's Coronavirus Task Force, FYI. The average age of COVID19 deaths is in the 80s. It will be interesting to see how he applies his views on old age in that role.
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by davidf560 6y ago
I keep wondering what unintended consequences our nearly-unprecedented efforts on non-pharmaceutical interventions ("lockdown", social distancing, masks, etc.) might end up having on the virus - for example, could all our isolatio
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by davidf560 6y ago
Believe it or not, I have no interest in living in the bay area - even if the costs were the same. I personally would like somewhere that didn't get quite so cold in the winter but still has 4 seasons. I can honestly tell you that out
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by davidf560 6y ago
Software developers simply do not get offered pay anything close to SV wages pretty much anywhere else in the US (maybe NYC? not sure on that one) - as far as I can tell. It's not really in dispute that SV software wages are significan
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by davidf560 6y ago
My point is there is no such thing as a "$500K engineer" anywhere but SV (and maybe Seattle), and thus no such market exists elsewhere. Honestly even writing "$500K engineer" sounds so absurd to me because it's so f
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by davidf560 6y ago
> you should be paid according to the value you create for the company, and nothing else But, you need to subtract your pay from the value you create. If you create $1MM value but cost $500K, and someone in the Midwest can create that sa
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by davidf560 6y ago
Maybe this is overly simplistic, but won't this all work itself out over time? More companies refuse to pay inflated SV salaries (note: most companies in the world already do not employ people there anyway), so some of the concentrated
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by davidf560 6y ago
There's another aspect too: when kids are in a classroom together, there's a peer-pressure effect. If all the other kids are listening quietly and doing their worksheets, the remaining children are likely to fall in line (not 100%
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by davidf560 6y ago
What's happening in Illinois seems to be like a smaller version of what happened in the US. The northern part of the state near Chicago got hit early on in March-May, and that has quieted down a lot. Now the downstate areas closer to S
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by davidf560 6y ago
The built-in generator options don't output any more power than a generator that you can buy at any home improvement store for several hundred dollars. Sure, having it integrated into the vehicle might be a nice feature, but I don&#x27
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by davidf560 6y ago
If you're referring to where it appears to hit his head, he actually has on a "helmet" of sorts that's made out of rows of thin wire, so the arc is actually hitting that. The suit is not just for show - my understanding

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