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dapids··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
You can. Contact Hasselblad Aerial Division.
dapids··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
The author also seems blind to the fact aerial photography has been a well established concept for well over 80 years at this point. These companies are not optimizing their optical systems to spy on people, but rather provide a good focus at long focal ranges in hardened systems, has nothing to do with police or their motives, its a general product feature.
dapids··on The AT Protocol
It's still there.
dapids··on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works
This is not some general blanket approach you can take to talking about internal implementations. You are either right, or wrong. There is no middle ground or "I think". If you've signed an NDA around these internal implementations I would wager that NDA came with a clause to not discuss it without consulting Meta, even after your departure.
dapids··on Hertz is still having rental car customers wrongfully arrested, lawsuit claims
Law enforcement should punish Hertz for using an emergency service (in a consistently poor manner) for a "clerical" error they caused. But they won't.
dapids··on Ask HN: Books on designing disk-optimized data structures?
I think most commenters are completely gleaning over the contrived systems which are embedded systems.

Sure, on higher performance systems you will be dealing with bigger demons such as cache and TLB performance depending on data size. But many embedded systems are performance limited for cost and power reasons. There is nothing here cloud will solve, nor anything else than more expensive NAND flashes, which require more power, and money. Hence why designing algorithms for critical data throughput are not as simple as using cloud or a filesystem.

dapids··on Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
Cheap HPs are not elitebooks for one, and two an inspiron is not an XPS. I've used both elitebook and XPS with zero issues.
dapids··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
I think you missed the sarcasm in my post. I was not at all serious and completely subscribe to everything you just mentioned
dapids··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
You think moving to rust will reduce the memory footprint?? Interesting viewpoint...
dapids··on Heap Overflows on iOS ARM64
So you can sign an NDA and away all your findings on their product as they gatekeep the bounty? I don't think so.
dapids··on Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to Unlock Cellphones
You do realize on a zero dollar contract the phone is being upfront subsidized by the corporation contracting them out? This is flat out fraud, no matter how you look at it.
dapids··on FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers
As someone who lives in Vancouver, its quite a different story, and most of those I know, really don't understand where these stats come from. There is not a week that goes by I have someone knocking on the door of our family home asking to buy it. There are four owners left on our street that are the original owners, the rest are vacation homes for Chinese, and completely vacant. This is far from exaggerated.

https://www.fortunebuilders.com/one-third-of-vancouvers-real...

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/prop...

dapids··on Introduction to Apple Silicon
100% this
dapids··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
So, if you don't know the reality, why pretend or even give a shadow of a doubt of good faith? You've lost me man. They can do more to be transparent, but they don't. This is not a technological blocker, its a deliberate decision. Don't act like they can't show the reality of moderation, they simply choose not to. We already established in this scenario they chose to do nothing after manual review by a human. What more evidence of failure do you need. It's not working, period.
dapids··on FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers
He didn't say who. He said for they/them, the company.
dapids··on FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers
a small overall percentage? More than one third of Vancouver Canada's real-estate is foreign owned.
dapids··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
What are you arguing here? That twitter is good at moderation because we simply can't see it behind the scenes?

I can think of hundred different ways this could have affected someone negatively, especially if they weren't able to speak with support in native language.

So c'mon, there is no excuse for this ban to take place, and then continue to be banned after the first appeal, statistics or not.

dapids··on Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
I've seen this quite a bit from dealerships that purchase rental vehicles from suppliers after they've become out of date, or the rental company wants to offload them. The rental company won't bother removing the tracking/remote start bundle, and the dealer will happily sell it none the wiser, or worse, as a added feature.
dapids··on PyPI: Python packets steal AWS keys from users
That's exactly was vscode does for me.
dapids··on I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
It'd be different if they actually accepted them regularly. In this instance I agree with OP.
dapids··on I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
Enlightenment was truly the worst I have even used.
dapids··on A conflict with a manager ended with me being disallowed to work at Spotify
Which is why the professional thing to do is leave. Why continue to work for shit, as you allude to? This whole argument sounds like a strawman. Especially given the fact he is a contractor and not just an employee. You make your own bed as a contractor, and you will lay in it.
dapids··on Keysight UXR 110GHz Oscilloscope Teardown [video] (2018)
That's because its not a hobbyist scope.
dapids··on Barriers to Business – How cities can pave a path to entrepreneurship
There is no sarcasm, this person has a track record of not understanding crypto, for example thinks "blockchain replaces BGP". The boy is lost.
dapids··on Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
Did you really need LinkedIn to begin with? Possibly the worst service I have ever used.
dapids··on Barriers to Business – How cities can pave a path to entrepreneurship
How?
dapids··on Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo
So basically you have no idea.
dapids··on SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD
Ahh gotcha
dapids··on Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor
I could not disagree more. These were highly reliable and effective systems long after their expected design lifetime. The F14 CADC is one example, as well as earlier ADC's.
dapids··on Constraint-based geometry (CAD) sketcher for Blender
Thanks for the insight.
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