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by mackwell 2mo ago
Perhaps not quite what you're looking for but related - I recently made this modernized Rust / WASM version of RIES, which finds algebraic equations from their solutions: https://maxwellsantoro.com/projects/ri
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by mackwell 5mo ago
They have, it’s just difficult to have it catch on. Bitcoin being the prime example… but the compute is basically burned for no useful purpose beyond security of the network itself. Because that is the main concern - security of the blockch
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by mackwell 6mo ago
100 tapes is quite a mountain to climb. I would consider finding a discount code for a service like southtree (or similar) and sending at least some of them to be processed that way. I did most of mine manually but had to throw in the towel
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by mackwell 6mo ago
That’s the biggest issue with trying to deal with dv tapes - the hardware is simply not very robust. Most cameras will either start ejecting tapes, eating them, or get filthy and start reading poorly with dropouts or damage the next tapes…
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by mackwell 2y ago
The articles covering this topic have shown deals where various forms of media were purchased at surprising rates. I’m not looking to start a company around this, my source of media and data are essentially a byproduct of my actual business
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by mackwell 2y ago
Thanks, seeing this before is actually what reminded me to make this post.
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Ask HN: How do I sell unique training data?
5 points by mackwell 2y ago|6 comments
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by mackwell 2y ago
I had a Gateway Destination 36” monitor that I somehow acquired at a garage sale in my room as a teenager. Getting it into my upstairs room required my friends and I to all risk our lives but it was well worth it.
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by mackwell 3y ago
I have an account and half the time when I follow a link from HN to Twitter / X it just throws an error that something went wrong / can't load the tweet. And video content works even less often than that. The site seems like
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by mackwell 3y ago
Let’s not forget Reddit
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by mackwell 3y ago
It definitely would. And probably some that are not damaged when something gets jammed or the environmental conditions change and react with the paper. But if you’ve got a mountain of books to scan and you can do the bulk of them with a mac
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by mackwell 3y ago
Probably true for many. But there can also be the other side of things where you just need to fly a lot and you want to keep those costs from adding up over time. For instance, needing to fly back and forth from home where you work to visit
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by mackwell 3y ago
I’m pretty sure that Mac sales have been doing just fine since the release of the M1.
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by mackwell 3y ago
Crash every 30 minutes on a clean install sounds like a hardware issue. In my experience an Ubuntu install is able to run continuously for long stretches without issue. Whether you enjoy switching to Mac OS is going to depend on what you us
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by mackwell 5y ago
I wish it worked that way too, and we could all just care about ourselves. But others refusal to vaccinate / take precautions when necessary allows it to continue to spread (killing innocent immunosuppressed people along the way) and u
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by mackwell 5y ago
My Dad invented one of the products advertised in these. Imagine my surprise the first time I saw a collection like this pop up.
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by mackwell 5y ago
Great work and a good reference. I wish I had this to read when I went through a similar process after growing tired of storing a couple hundred miniDV tapes I had recorded as a teenager. Unfortunately I was not yet skilled enough to dive i
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by mackwell 5y ago
Never have I read so many words and taken away so very little useful knowledge.
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by mackwell 5y ago
Why?
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by mackwell 5y ago
I think for the purpose of this discussion, explorer IS Windows. It is the UI that we all wish didn’t have these issues. I like using the command line / powershell when I’m on Windows for large file operations, but sometimes I still go
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by mackwell 5y ago
My anecdotal experience: Me in an incredibly dull Java class in college: This is awful! I dreamed of making computers do interesting things, but it turns out programming sucks and is mind numbingly boring to learn! (I eventually dropped out