jackhack

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by jackhack 3y ago
The "try for free/generate" button didn't work for me. I uploaded a short video (15MB of White House press secretary) and tried to substitute various voices without success.
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by jackhack 3y ago
Yet, things could be worse. Back in the 80s & 90s it was possible to select a resolution/refresh frequency that would permanently damage (e.g. destroy) a CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor.
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by jackhack 3y ago
I ran a sample through my Apple Newton Messagepad: Iss Martha auf.
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by jackhack 3y ago
Following the "John Deere" style brand lock-in strategy: "Sure the Kubota is half the price and I can fix it myself, but all of my implements work with my Deere." And unless I switch over the tractor, the combine, the ba
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by jackhack 3y ago
How many times must we re-learn "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two"? What's gone wrong, is what goes wrong at most major corporations -- a focus more on "business" (which itself falls victim to fashion/fad such as im
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by jackhack 3y ago
You could absolutely write professional software in BASIC. As a kid I wrote my first "professional" product in Applesoft. My family used to rent videotapes (Betamax!) from a little video shop on the corner. They kept records of wh
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by jackhack 3y ago
This is a very good description of precisely what happened. People forget that Pascal & C compilers were not only unusual/academic, they were also very expensive - $300-$500 or more, and C was not ubiquitous then, pascal was more c
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by jackhack 3y ago
Sadly this book makes me miss what I used to love about programming, and realize just how much programming has stratified into protected roles. The days of one person sitting down with customers, understanding what they need, and then build
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by jackhack 3y ago
it's a fun article, but I would liked to have seen at least a brief mention of power consumption comparison among the four designs.
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by jackhack 3y ago
For anyone that enjoyed LoTR/The Hobbit and thinks this new story might be interesting or entertaining, allow me to assure you it is not. The writing is meandering, unclear, futile expository. In a word "amateurish". Being as
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by jackhack 3y ago
Indeed! Daniel Lanois, musician and grammy award winning producer (U2, Neville Brothers, Emmylou Harris, etc.) uses the Omnichord extensively in his own music. He used it throughout the soundtrack for Slingblade. He even named one of the so
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by jackhack 3y ago
But consider that Sunnyvale, California has the benefit of a very upscale demographic, no gang activity, low organized crime, etc. What works for one place will likely not apply elsewhere (e.g. no one-size-fits-all solution). Organized crim
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by jackhack 3y ago
laughably, transparently poor implementation. While using the gasoline engine, the power accessories (power steering, power brake assist, ABS!) are functional, but when the gas engine is powered off, you'll have none of them? That&#x27
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by jackhack 3y ago
OK, but there are a few questions first. Is this change desirable, or undesirable? What is the correct number of glaciers and are we moving toward that or away from that number? Why? If we are expecting the world to stay the same and never
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by jackhack 3y ago
History repeats itself. I'm old enough to remember when "Cable TV" meant "no advertisements." And then it was just a few between programs. Then during the program, which eventually made it indistinguishable from &qu
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by jackhack 3y ago
That's a great idea to make the recruiter actually look at your profile and ensure it indeed matches the offer. Too many lazy recruiters do a simple linked-in search and bulk email everyone who matches. I had a "great offer - perf
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by jackhack 3y ago
The worst sort of "elephant in the room" journalism -- everything is to blame, but that obvious thing that everyone took leading to an enormous, never-seen-before statistical anomaly. But it's not that thing. We're sure.
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by jackhack 3y ago
J.F. Sebastian? He's suffering from a genetic condition that causes him to age prematurely (ironic, since he's a geneticist who designs replicants and simpler creatures). He failed the medical screening required for off-world livi
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by jackhack 3y ago
"a low-price tools brand" Excuse me, but what? The Craftsman brand historically was a consumer premium brand, priced midway between tradesmen premium brands like Snap-On and consumer "hardware store cheap tools" -- Craft
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by jackhack 3y ago
anyone who likes this will probably also enjoy Blinky - a retro-CRT text editor for osx. https://blinky.en.softonic.com/mac
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by jackhack 3y ago
My mother was a banker. She asked a hypothetical question of me, 30 years ago, that I've never been able to answer: "Name for me one company that was better, for the customer or the employees, after a merger."
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by jackhack 3y ago
> If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good. Definitely not in my case -- sometimes we just stumble over these things. As an inexperienced programmer (around 1989 or 1990?) I foun
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by jackhack 3y ago
It's important to note that "North America" != "United States." It likely means a shift to production in low-cost Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, etc. I'm in the USA. I've seen this s
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by jackhack 3y ago
The best scifi alien short story, ever. Meat https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by jackhack 3y ago
Not just modified vehicles or hummers, but a road filled with SUVs, minivans, delivery trucks, crossovers. Even a "standard" Ford F150 is goliath, and an indestructable frame won't save you. To the contrary, a super-rigid fra
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by jackhack 3y ago
As much as I wanted to like it, I am still just seeing an $8000 upfitted golf cart. (spaceframe golf cart) I didn't dig too deeply, but there seems to be a lot of information missing that would be necessary for a purchase decision. My
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by jackhack 4y ago
starting one's life with the (emotional/financial) weight of "just" $80,000 to $100,000 in debt is not a good strategy, in my opinion.
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by jackhack 5y ago
It looks like Duke University School Of Medicine figured it out. https://physicians.dukehealth.org/articles/dukes-augmented-i... (after I posted this, the title of this story has changed to be EPIC-specific - it was &q
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by jackhack 6y ago
Did anyone else catch the hilarity of their animal choice on that fake book cover? A Lion! (Lyin') I guess a "Bull" relieving itself would have been too obvious?
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by jackhack 6y ago
the difference is that boomers have lived through more than one market cycle and we know an inevitable "correction/crash" is coming. The wise will take action in advance (e.g. move to cash positions) to lock in gains, then r

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