pietroglyph

7 ms·

1.
by pietroglyph 5y ago
It’s good to have something like this. Last time I worked with libav the only available good documentation was the official examples and the ffmpeg (the tool) source code itself, along with the comments in the headers.
2.
by pietroglyph 5y ago
Yep. Animals are the most common way that diseases are introduced to humans, and industrial animal agriculture brings these animals into close proximity with themselves and us. Removing animal products from our diets not only mitigates this
3.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
An interesting side point is that the graph optimization approach used here is somewhat similar to modern graph-based visual SLAM The graph in the article can be seen as a factor graph. VSLAM systems usually have a (kind of bipartite) facto
4.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
This is a good list of the incidents precipitating this event, if you don’t have time to read the thread: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Camerfirma_Issues
5.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> impersonating Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application. This is not a bug, it's a part of how Git fundamentally works. If you want to mitigate it you have to sign your commits. GitHub could only attribute commits in
6.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Joe Barnard (the guy behind BPS.space) has some great videos behind the controls involved in this project on the BPS.space channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg He also has a ton of other re
7.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
I agree that they’re liable for some things in the court of public opinion (which happens to have a very short attention span and limited agency), but I don’t see how they’re legally liable unless you’re implying that the EULA would be foun
8.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
+100 on this. A social environment that encourages this is a huge motivator. A good FIRST Robotics team is one way that you might get this (not all teams will have great student experiences, but they’re probably your best bet for this typ
9.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
The thing is that this is not a huge issue in practice. I stick to uniform initialization in 99% of cases and it works out pretty well. I have far fewer bugs from initialization screwups than from other things.
10.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Most of your reply isn’t really correct. > A vaccine is also an attenuated version of the virus so if becoming immune from the virus doesn't last long it won't last long from a vaccine. A vaccine can be an attenuated virus, or
11.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Google bullies you with Captchas if you have `privacy.resistFingerprinting` on.
12.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Sounds like a good public service. I’d much rather have my data deleted until it’s secured than have it stolen by someone else.
13.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Out of curiosity, is English your native language?
14.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> Our word used to mean something. > But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we accuse the other side of building concentration camps
15.
Realtime simulation of aquatic feeding frenzies(roberthodgin.com)
1 points by pietroglyph 6y ago|0 comments
16.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> how are the people living in the white neighborhoods to be blamed for that? They aren’t necessarily to be blamed for that. This blog post isn’t really assigning blame to white homeowners.
17.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> Basically everyone who isn't an outside agitator, but if you don't already believe me I doubt I'm going to change your mind. Trotting out a nebulous, totally unsourced claim and then implying that anyone who questions yo
18.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> The real reason the situation can't improve is the people angry about police brutality are misinformed and don't want to learn. What information are the people angry about the current situation missing? > It's not abo
19.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
> US cops work in a dangerous environment In the US policing doesn’t even make it in the top 20 most dangerous jobs by fatalities [1] or injuries [2]. [1]: https://advisorsmith.com/data/most-dangerous-jobs/ (or
20.
Road Zipper Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pietroglyph 6y ago|0 comments
21.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Amusingly, I got: "nonhumanoid, adjective; not having life". It appears that the model would describe itself as lifeless.
22.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
This reply is a little late, but I work on things in the robotics space where there are much more robust libraries for C++ than in Java, and some little extra features (e.g. operator overloading for linear algebra libraries) really make a b
23.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
In Washington state where I live, voter registration includes soliciting a signature, which can also often be checked with drivers license signature on file. You have to be ignorant or deliberately acting in bad faith to say that signatures
24.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
States like Washington do mail-in voting quite successfully. Vote-by-mail is cheaper (no polling places to run), increases voter turnout (which is why it’s universally opposed by the Republican party), and actually reduces fraud risk becaus
25.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
I got in. Looks like the final site has an XSS problem.
26.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Sounds like a cool project! I prefer C++ to Java, but I think there’s absolutely a niche in the US educational market because the AP Computer Science A test uses Java. It could be pretty nice to have a Java-compatible MCU for the high schoo
27.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
My (slightly more recent) US high school experience had nearly all students cover the calculus you described by the end of high school, and about 1/5 of the students got fast-tracked to the point that they studied linear algebra and mu
28.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
It’s interesting you say that, because I find myself to be quite productive in GIMP. I think the basic set of tools are pretty easy to use, and the one or two other windows you need open (like the tool-specific settings) are also pretty und
29.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
Mentor involvement really varies team-to-team. I’ve seen teams where the students don’t do a lot on the software side, but the majority of teams I’ve seen as a “software helper” volunteer at events (and talking with other teams) have had si
30.
by pietroglyph 6y ago
This is how I teach middle school and high school students basic controls. They implement and tune a proportional controller, then the derivative part, and then I give them a feedforward model for the plant (usually a brushed DC motor.) The

More ›