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slowmotionyon Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

Is it possible to have this tool run locally and use it for myself? I don't see any instructions on the Readme, all I see are ways to set it up for development and ways to deploy it to some 3rd party cloud solutions.

slowmotionyon Helsinki hospitals severely overcrowded, emergency rooms full to capacity

Well yeah, that's exactly the case. There might be a shortage of affordable homes in big metropolitan cities, but there's certainly no shortage of houses in general.

slowmotionyon Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?

I've tried both Liraglutide and Semaglutide. It definitely works, but it takes a while to dial in the right dosage that lowers your hunger but doesn't make you nauseous and miserable at the same time.

slowmotionyon Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York

Who decides what is useful? There's gotta be millions of people playing video games on their 600W RTX builds - how about we ban it as they're obviously not producing anything useful?

slowmotionyon Improve your turning

You guys know why they call it the Xbox 360?

slowmotionyon Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?

OP: Hey guys how can I learn to write a simple vanilla webpage?

HN: No problem, just deploy a container, set up nginx, use Express, VueV3, run the Esbuild Go tool, leverage the MVC pattern and get the dependencies with Webpack, then you need to use a web component wrapper on top of bootstrap and style it with SaSS compiled to CSS - easy peasy!

slowmotionyon ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M

I don't have the login to the bank's backend Oracle database so I can't check anything in it. With blockchain, anyone can see and audit the entire trading history.

slowmotionyon Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

Yeah I mean just imagine the horror if you allowed people to take a train without a mask. It would be like literally all the other countries in the EU. Isn't that horrific? I can't even imagine it. Thank God for the mask mandates, the benefits are evident!

Oh and the fact that airplane mask mandates were abandoned after over 2 years, just days after Scholz got his photo leaked? Total coincidence. Yup. Unsubstantiated. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ma...

slowmotionyon Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

2,2 trillion dollar company to be precise

slowmotionyon Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

Here in Germany people still freak out about it, you still need masks on public transport for example. You had to wear them during air travel as well, at least up until around a month ago when someone leaked a photo of government officials maskless in an airplane so this rule is no longer enforced. :-))

slowmotionyon ExtensionKit

I still don't get it. Can anyone provide an example how this could work in practice? Is there something like this in Android already?

slowmotionyon Kanye West is buying Parler

Oh no, not cultural appropriation! How absolutely dare she!

slowmotionyon Why modern software is slow

Funny enough, if you read the guidelines for Metro apps (or Modern apps, or UWP apps, or whatever the hell they are called now), Microsoft specifically says that you should offload all expensive operations to an async thread and keep the UI thread free so the interface can be quick and responsive. When I was making my first apps in university, they would routinely reject them from their app store saying the UI is not responsive enough. You'd think they actually care about efficiency and responsiveness.

But then they hardcode a whole Documents directory scan right in the UI thread in their own damn voice recorder app. Unbelievable.

slowmotionyon Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)

It's discoverable but you can't post comments in old threads, after a few months they get "archived" and you can't reply any more.

slowmotionyon Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email

This post is so out of touch with regular people I don't even know how to answer. It's just ridiculous.

slowmotionyon One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure

20% of business accepting bitcoin is just crazy high. Living in Germany it seems that 20% of business don't even accept regular credit cards yet.

slowmotionyon The Big [Censored] Theory

You could just simply choose to avoid those things for yourself and live that perfect harmonious happy life you envision, but maybe you could just leave me and other people alone and let us watch whatever we want to watch?

slowmotionyon Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate

In my country in Europe the guys who put bathroom tiles make more hourly than java developers.

slowmotionyon Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate

These $300+ guys must be COBOL programmers

slowmotionyon How far can you go without a message queue?

We use IBM MQ at work and I wouldn't exactly call it simple.

There's sender channels, receiver channels, xmit queues, local queues, remote queues, dead letter queues, topics, subscriptions and all kinds of other things to learn about. Add that to the crappy IBM tools and their documentation that is full of dead links and you're in for a lot of learning through trial-and-error.

slowmotionyon Java in the Browser

We still use Java applets at work. For example the IBM Host On Demand is used by the cobol/mainframe folks in a lot of banks and other financial institutions. I hate it so much.

slowmotionyon Color has been disappearing from the world

"Sites which allow you to use the back button are disappearing from the world"

slowmotionyon Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?

Maybe it was like in my company (big investment bank). The CEO wrote a global mail asking everyone to start coming back to the office - that was 3 months ago and the office is still empty, seems like everybody just kind of ignored it. :-)

slowmotionyon Hacker News moved off AWS again at 10:17 PM PST

I saw that it was in read only mode for a while. Couldn't have been more than a couple of minutes though.

slowmotionyon My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

I feel like this even without replacing my hardware, the software alone updates itself and changes all the time. I feel like whenever I open the youtube app it looks slightly different. See that button? Now it's gone! A week later, it's there again! Few days later, it's gone again, turns out the previous week was just A/B testing.

slowmotionyon Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail

Fully agreed, and same goes for the Autobahn. Foreigners think it’s some super high speed no limit highway, but over 50% of the time you’ll be under a very conservative speed limit due to ongoing construction. Of course, you never actually see anyone working, it’s like they start the project and just leave it for months at a time.

slowmotionyon Emmanuel Macron aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals

You dont have to wonder, I just checked and it's 67€ right now while the taxi is still 120€.

slowmotionyon Emmanuel Macron aided Uber lobbying drive in France, leak reveals

It's like this in Germany. The taxi companies essentially formed a cartel and its illegal to compete with them on price - they all charge exactly the same. This is why a taxi ride from Munich airport to the center is 120€.

slowmotionyon Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

Real progress takes real work, not promises and marketing fluff.

I've never seen a Waymo, Cruise, Rivian or a Ford 150 Lightning in my entire life and I've been in many major cities across the world. You know what I do see on a daily basis though? Teslas.

slowmotionyon Vets today are like doctors yesterday

Which country if you dont mind me asking? I know of many similar stories about doctors typing stuff into google and prescribing paracetamol from the UK, Spain or Germany - but it's hard to imagine such a situation in central europe.