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sdwisely··on Is the podcast bubble bursting?
there certainly are, I re-listened to an episode of a podcast last night with an ad targeted at my state.

My partner fell asleep the night before during and I wanted to point out the ad that hilariously missed its target audience and it was a different ad the second time we streamed it.

sdwisely··on Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
we've had really great results with TD tops into madmapper (via syphon/spout) on some installs 6000+ too.
sdwisely··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
tried calibre (foss ebook management software with kobo support) and the pocket plugin? I believe it converts them to epub rather than using the built in Kobo pocket app.
sdwisely··on Keybase Exploding Messages
if someones determined they'll root their android and capture them anyway.

I think it's a great feature if you think of it (exploding messages) not as an assurance against someone who shouldn't be trusted, but that they won't forget to clean the trash.

sdwisely··on Nvidia creates super slow-motion video smoother than a 300K fps camera
kinda the direction Lytro were trying to take
sdwisely··on Id Software
It's certainly not forgotten in the music world. It's still a fantastic midi sequencer. I've definitely used mine within the last fortnight.
sdwisely··on Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio
I use org-web-tools for similar functionality.

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools

sdwisely··on The Many Uses of Org Mode
I haven't tried them, but there is org-jira and org-trello for sync.
sdwisely··on Eul – The language
there is a libnanovg.a homebrew formula for now.

https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/83#issuecomment-3844554...

eul only supports twitter, slack and skype atm and the rest say they're coming later in march. The roadmap shows may-june.

sdwisely··on Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
I'm the same, if email registration isn't available I'll first greatly reconsider how much I'm interested in what you're offering.

If I'm VERY interested I'll consider google or github or something, no matter how interested I am I'll never use facebook or twitter etc.

sdwisely··on Learning to program is getting harder
perfectly normal - it's quite overwhelming to think about how much computing has changed in the last 30 years.
sdwisely··on Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine
cmder is quite nice, reminds me of terminal.app
sdwisely··on IOTA: A tangled mess
disclaimer: I own some of these so I'm not without some bias.

Thus far I've been pretty impressed with Raiblocks (XRB). Near instant (1-5 seconds depending on the wallet in my tests so far) and fee-less.

I'm pretty keen to check out the other DAG projects after this one.

sdwisely··on Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?
it would and it will imo. I just don't think bitcoin is it.

It has however bootstrapped a few potentials. Until its decided which that might be, bitcoin kinda serves its purpose.

sdwisely··on Amazon’s Australian Launch Brings Excitement, Dread and Defiance
Australians are definitely loyal shoppers, but Amazon are certainly moving into markets that have screwed Australian shoppers for a long time.

I wouldn't be sweating it much at the moment if I was for example a local bookshop. OTOH an electronics retailer...

sdwisely··on All You Need to Know About Bitcoin's Rise, from $0.01 to $11,000
do you mean society is what's wrong with Bitcoin?
sdwisely··on Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards
screwed my face up at this, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and and assume he chose his words poorly and meant that 6 were not the party leader at the time of the election.

It's a shame because there is some interesting opinions in this that wind off into almost stream of consciousness.

If he had stuck to making his point with data and scrapped the anecdotes it would have made it an easier read.

It really need an editor and fact checking.

sdwisely··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
Thanks for sharing!

If it gives you any sense of hope, I was actually paraphrasing Carmack himself as part of the source of "we already know how". I believe from a Quakecon Keynote (I'm not sure what year unfortunately, the context was PBR and approximations).

The real thing I'm not certain of is do we want to live in a world where we have the ability to create in realtime video content entirely indistinguishable from reality.

The entertainment and simulation benefits would obviously be amazing. The ability to recreate phenomenon we can observe in science but can't see, etc.

But there is also the possibility to weaponize that. Seeing is believing and what do in a future where we can't trust anything we see.

Part of me is glad we don't have to ask ourselves these questions yet.

sdwisely··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
> (To be precise: no one has ever created fully-simulated video capable of fooling human observers anywhere close to 50% of the time. The video has to be reasonably long (>30sec) and complex. But in a double-blind test, almost any nature video will handily beat any synthetic video.)

Out of curiosity is this from something? it sounds like you're citing something and for realtime I'd agree. I think people are fooled everyday by raytraced images (movie cg etc).

> no one knows how to make any fully-simulated video look indistinguishable from reality.

I'd say we know how to do it, we don't know how to do it fast.

sdwisely··on IGN acquires Humble Bundle
also been subbed since first monthly and will be cancelling. Humble Bundle had earned plenty of good faith from me where IGN has none.
sdwisely··on Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry
we had them all memorized as kids, until we realized there was a key combo that skipped it.
sdwisely··on Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
They provide a tor hidden service.

3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion

sdwisely··on Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33
compile times are fast enough now that if the tools were friendly enough I don't know it would be so inconvenient to the end user anymore.

is there any distros out there now that are source based like Gentoo with more friendly defaults?

sdwisely··on Blender 2.79 released
compare in what area?
sdwisely··on Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
I'd imagine it's a fairly common replacement. I've seen event photographers do it quite a few times putting their cameras near lasers.
sdwisely··on Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer
Thanks for providing more context (and everyone else). I'm honestly speechless after reading that.
sdwisely··on Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer
context appears to be: Cloudflare removing The Daily Stormer, some kind of far right website?

note: not particularly keen to research what it is, just going off what I can gather from the twitter comments.

sdwisely··on Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
> But there's just no way insurance companies aren't using this kind of invasive data already.

I declined an offer for a role exactly like this. Disgusting stuff.

sdwisely··on Wasabi – Simple storage solution
Thanks for Arq, it's a fantastic product. Any chance of an option to migrate from one source to another?

In the process of moving from one provider to another and it's pretty tedious getting it all in sync while I manually move from one to the other while still backing up to the previous provider until the move is complete.

It's going to be a bit of a process over the next few weeks :(

sdwisely··on How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
For some reason that animated underline makes me feel like I can only read one word per minute.
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