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dsamarin

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dsamarin; my proof: https://keybase.io/dsamarin/sigs/siC6F-_05YPFOWnZ7oMF5QCAaLIxMpfFYPfbQWdH-Bk ]
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dsamarin··on One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
I would be happy to see the corresponding crowd sourcing for more bodycams for ICE and CBP as well
dsamarin··on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
This is believable. I have a personal anecdote regarding "Priority Delivery". This was about 2 years ago. After watching the driver go to another business and house before me, I messaged support and they refunded this priority delivery fee. The driving tip and base pay accusation can be easily verified by testing tip amounts and asking drivers what they are awarded.
dsamarin··on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs
Would using drones nowadays end up being much less expensive but with all the same necessary capabilities for police work?
dsamarin··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
Would you like to work with me to create OurTube?
dsamarin··on Dithering – Part 1
Do you consider the color yellow on your RGB monitor an illusion? (I do)
dsamarin··on Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad
I'm glad they used a real quote from him and acknowledged the use of AI in the bottom right.
dsamarin··on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
Quick self nerd snipe:

I think the area should be scaled proportionally, so the new width and height should be multiplied by sqrt(cents/50)

dsamarin··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
Maybe once we get another architecture breakthrough, it won't feel so slow.
dsamarin··on The Apache Software Foundation's New Logo
To want to cleanse references to "Indigenous motifs or symbolism" as a community value brings about a touch of shame in me. It mostly weakens cultural memory and the ability of later generations to stay connected to the worldviews that these motifs carry. Taking away the symbols is like taking away the memory-keeping. Without them, it's much easier to forget the culture.
dsamarin··on I Don't Have Spotify
I would also support this as a browser extension, possibly with an auto redirect!
dsamarin··on “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”
Modern cryptography solves this by using randomness (IVs, nonces, padding, salts) so that even identical plaintexts encrypt to different ciphertexts, eliminating predictable patterns.
dsamarin··on The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)
I want to see world records get broken
dsamarin··on QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'
We need to decentralize barcodes by treating product lookups as a URL, with metadata as query parameters. This way GS1 can operate much differently.
dsamarin··on Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency
Fun concept. I had a thought about having it optimize in a way where left and right hands alternate for increased speed
dsamarin··on Uber Stock Down 10% Because Waymo Is Expanding to Florida
Will Waymo ever decide to route on freeways? Last I heard the lidar doesn't see far forward enough to meet their safety standards, but they should really figure this out.
dsamarin··on Let Google decide
There were a few things that need to be clarified as to how addresses are recorded. The author says:

> Because of Google, our address wasn’t even present for the USPS

In fact, USPS has its own database of addresses which Google most certainly solicits their data from. I know because I have dealt with customers who have found the same issue. We urge anyone with this issue to direct the issue to the USPS Address Management System Offices to file their address. Other services like those from Auctane (ShipStation, ShipEngine) references this data too.

https://postalpro.usps.com/ppro-tools/address-management-sys...

dsamarin··on Ardour 8.8 Released
I'd classify it more as a digital audio workstation. Very similar to Cubase or Pro logic.
dsamarin··on Were RNNs All We Needed?
The name of the paper contrasts with the paper that spawned Transformer architecture, which itself is a reference to the song "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need
dsamarin··on 52 Factorial
With this, you could invent a very unique magic trick where your spectator well-shuffles a deck of cards, then you can secretly swap your deck with one of the decks from your collection to reveal that yours was shuffled in the exact same way.
dsamarin··on What happens if your CPU gets something wrong?
Are these errors consistent for the same instructions? For example, in the same ALU, will 2+2 always equal 5, or will it spontaneously produce 5 and not happen again for a "long while"?
dsamarin··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve. And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know why not?
dsamarin··on Fake QR codes posted on Redondo Beach parking meters to scam drivers, police say
Yes but where should we put the public key?
dsamarin··on American flag sort
The obvious solution to this is to pre-compile a list of all possible Unicode strings up to the required length, sort them, and create a lookup table using their indices. I wonder for what kind of project this would be useful.
dsamarin··on UK has warmest New Year’s Eve on record as temperatures top 15C
Meanwhile, Hastings, Nebraska reached -30 degrees Fahrenheit, its all-time coldest temperature, and the South Pole shivered with an average temperature of -78 degrees over the last six months, the coldest on record according to the Washington Post.
dsamarin··on Intel plans to take self-driving car unit public in the U.S. in mid-2022
Can't speak for you individually, but once one starts having to rely on it day after day while they notice all of the more important things they have to do (phone calls, emails, late projects, hair, makeup, food, etc) instead of nervously following the road, this will pass.
dsamarin··on Inflation Disproportionately Hurts the Poor
Sounds cyclical.
dsamarin··on The anus is an evolutionary marvel
It depends on the minimum size of the what you will consider a hole. Check out the video from VSauce on YouTube about how many holes a human has.

https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ

dsamarin··on Insurance giant AXA hit by ransomware attack after it stops covering ransoms
Does this have any implications for any of us?
dsamarin··on Every base is base 10
Every base except for base 1 (tallies)
dsamarin··on Unsettling capital letters
Can we calculate how many bits of entropy we are saving in this compressed form? There seems to be (n-2)! ways of writing a word in a different way that is still readable.
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