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3 years ago
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on: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp
gotta do communications over radio, if only cell phones had that access during an emergency situation. i know that would need more power and a bigger antenna to have a radio broadcast mesh network. i know there are issues with that but it’s better than no communication to the outside world especially during a crisis situation, people really should have the freedom to communicate.
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3 years ago
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on: Infinite Stable Diffusion Videos
what if there was a way to “increase frame rate” by adding in some type of logic checker between two generated images? kinda like a comparison between two generated frames that would lead to more generated images that mimic movement? so like a filler between frames that would predict how something got to one shape to another using a set of properties that a generated object has, those properties could be weight, speed, gravity etc etc, it just depends on what object it is conceptualizing or constructing
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3 years ago
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on: EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
bikes honestly should follow pedestrians, a bike is not a car and the person who will be the most amount of injured will be the person on the bike over the person of the car. so maybe have both car and bike be able to see each other in bike lanes, and keep the sidewalks to the cars. there really should be an initiative to expand the shoulders in rural america. lost of places in america are not even walking friendly. america decided to be different and make cars the main focus which is killing us (toxic gas fumes everywhere)
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3 years ago
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on: Migratory monarch butterfly now endangered
i know they really like milkweed which a lot of people kill without thinking of the environmental consequences.
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3 years ago
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on: U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday
it would be nice if they had this for people with substance abuse disorders who have nobody and want to get clean
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
i would like to go even wider and just block all news sites as they tend to push political agendas from their prospective which mostly is filled with speculation that often causes unnecessary stress
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3 years ago
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on: Powering the moon: Designing a microgrid for future lunar base
can they redirect the light beams using solar mirrors that orbit the moon somehow? kinda like a light redirection satellite? technically speaking if there is enough panels and enough wiring to build a grid it could work. the energy would just have to travel via cables once harvested
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3 years ago
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on: Schools should be using open source software
open source learning
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3 years ago
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on: How do you power a rocket engine?
it’s going to be interesting to see personal rockets one day complete with regulations and all the ins and outs of that industry becoming mainstream
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3 years ago
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on: Europe Is Building an International Facial Recognition System
it happens all the time to people of color who get busted for weed in a non-legal state. it’s actually been this way for years in america, a lot of these overextending started from the red scare, terrorism but yeah a large part was based on the war on drugs which largely has been an expensive failure
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4 years ago
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on: Bitcoin’s energy use faces $5M shame campaign from environmental groups
has anyone thought of the cost of any existing banking infrastructure and also the all of the cost from the federal reserve? lots of human resources, time (our most precious asset)
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4 years ago
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on: Flutter is better than React Native in all the ways that don’t matter
i’ve trained on flutter for over 8 months and pushed an from design to app on the app store and built the api in dart as well.
i am one of those weirdos who likes it but nobody is hiring so i am rebrushing back up on javascript and react native. one area i would love to see is json being automatically accessible just like in javascript, also their routing in flutter needs work. it’s not for everyone but it has a ton of potential if some things get change
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4 years ago
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on: Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
wow, and here i am coding off and on since i was nine years old (port scanners, bots, blogs, ezines, chat servers, simple games, apps etc) cd and feeling like an imposter, so i don’t bother applying to tech jobs because i think i am not good enough and yet guys like the guy you worked with are getting all sorts of positions. maybe i should push myself more. having social anxiety sucks
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4 years ago
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on: Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)
if you follow /r/futurology /r/technology and sometimes here throughout the years you will see breakthrough after breakthrough, these small advancements do make it into manufacturing sooner than what people think, one of the biggest challenges was for me was reading about cool tech and waiting forever for it, then giving up on it and deeming it as a probably just a clickbait promise, but not to much sooner after i have forgotten the advancements, they make their way into everyday life proving to me that technology never comes as soon as you think it does, but it comes eventually.
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4 years ago
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on: Banned from Twitter, Trump returns with a new platform
well a changed mind can lead to some interesting enhancements in life.
people are missing out when they shut themselves out completely.
like we’ve all been wrong before, which means someone we disagreed with was at least right about something.
i think the bigger thing people have to be okay with is just letting things go after a certain point.
some people will argue until they are blue in the face
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4 years ago
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on: Hyperloop lays off half of its employees as it pivots away from passenger travel
this idea will one day return, it’s never gone for good. just delayed
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4 years ago
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on: Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
i am a programmer but don’t get paid for it yet. hopefully i can get out there before the crash (if any)
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4 years ago
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on: Inhaled Vaccine Delivers Broad Protection Against SARS-CoV-2
depends on dialect of english
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4 years ago
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on: If Everyone Else Is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? (2011)
well one aspect that is not really talked about is confidence, most wealth gained from people who can present their idea confidently, a lot of confidence comes from security. a lot of americans (my family for instance) we’re brought over on a boat with a promise of a better life if we worked for someone, my family was indentured servants who were scammed into working for free when they got here. a few of us died, many never recovered, my parents at a young age got into a terrible crash so i spent most of my childhood taking care of my father instead of the other way around. being raised in a small town that didn’t value university schooling i resulted to working in construction which ended up as damaging my arm and i ended up in serious depression, pain medicine was given to me and i ended up getting addicted because it was the only thing that made me feel normal after the accident. i started coding at a very young age but was diagnosed with add but was never treated so as time went on, it became more and more difficult for me to focus. later on i finally decided to go to school and the first year i was there i had to drop out because i got my gf pregnant. that forced me to go back to construction but ended up quitting after a bad breakup. so yeah we all aren’t starting out the same, some of us have a severe handicap that is hard to explain during interviews
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4 years ago
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on: The New CGI: Creating Neural Neighborhoods with Block-NeRF
i am really excited about the progress ai researchers are making, this makes me think that virtual worlds could one day be little staycations for those of us on a budget. also the other thing it reminds me of is the first matrix movie, which when it came out i was a huge fan of, very cool indeed
