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PBnFlash··on What makes quantum computing so hard to explain?
https://youtu.be/ZoT82NDpcvQ This video starts a little rough but its my go to explanation video.
PBnFlash··on Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
I found her ted talk, it seems very hyperbolic and doesn't really have much of an understanding of what these systems are.

>I put this picture of a burning house into a image classifier running on my computer and it returned "beautiful" and that sent chills down my spine

These don't strike me as particularly valuable insights, does she have an interesting body of work somewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWkGt33X_k

PBnFlash··on ZFS Removes References to Slavery
This I think is the key issue, replacing a clear label with half a dozen almost synonyms is the dangerous part of this precedent.
PBnFlash··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
A V ONE

AVI is already a container so it would just be confusing.

PBnFlash··on For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earned-Now They Want Bailout
Homogeneity leads to effecency and hedrogeneity leads to resiliance. The stability the fed provides allows them to do what they want in hugely optimized and complex ways, it just turns out what they want to do doesn't align with the interests of the population sometimes. I don't think they would be any less likely to do what they are doing they would just do it less effecently.

The fed doesn't want to use the stick anymore, and business gets a carrot when it throws a tantrum. The insentives are perverse.

PBnFlash··on Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free
Disney recently released some special edition gold fish crackers with the Steamboat Willie design. They are pushing for something.
PBnFlash··on Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
HLS DASH are never going to be as simple as RTMP was with flash. It "just worked" in a way the internet just doesn't anymore.
PBnFlash··on Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
There were dozens of sites dedicated to flash tutorials and getting started for amateurs. It was a highly focused _creative_ environment with low barrier to entry. It allowed and encouraged cross pollination. Flash was a drawing program, Animation, IDE, Game Development, Web development even audio and video editing, with no clear lines between any of the functions.

It was a one stop shop for creative expression with thousands of people learning the program and excited to share their knowledge.

Nothing does what flash did, because flash did everything and everyone was using it.

PBnFlash··on Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
Literally everything about animate. It is hugely bloated and awful to use and crash prone. It takes upwards of 30 seconds to save a file. It has two different kinds of tween to support backwards compatibility. And the "HTML" export is a garbage fire. Flash used a form of vector graphics that were incompatible with svgs.

Adobe has been trying to maintain backwards compatibility with flash (because most studios were still using the last version macromedia put out over 10 years ago) So adobe animate was always doomed to try and please everyone and end up pissing everyone off.

PBnFlash··on Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
Flash MX was super easy to pirate, Toonboom is like 2000$ software with a much harder learning curve.
PBnFlash··on The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
They work as in produce fusion.

They don't work as in produce power.

Teenagers build "working" fusion reactors.

No one has built a fusion reactor that produces useful power.

PBnFlash··on China's super camera can pinpoint specific targets among of thousands of people
Whenever I hear about these kinds of things I always think about when they put a gigapixel camera on a little airplane above Baltimore and flew it around all day every day. Being able to just retroactively track cars and people had such shocking power. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...
PBnFlash··on Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago
Sometimes, sometimes the accounts get deleted for one reason or another. Lot of the old channels seem to be taken over by boots too. One of my very old videos seemed to have gotten corrupted even.
PBnFlash··on Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago
This is neat, I tried to make a video series a while ago where I compared and contrasted what was in the front page of YouTube 10 years ago. This would have been super helpful for that. But I was shocked with how much of the stuff from back then on that site is just gone.
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