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bangboombang commented on Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video github.com/jasonmayes/Rea... · Posted by u/aliabd

Isn't it what "long exposure photography" (and photo stacking in photoshop) is used for ? ;-)

I mean: if there's too much crowd, you have to wait a long time to get every little part of what's behind. So I'm not sure that ML will be useful except maybe to detect "humans" and decide what parts need to be replaced

bangboombang · 6 years ago

Yes! Just take a lot of photos over a couple minutes (depending on how busy your scene is) from a fixed position, or just a video if you're lazy, then use imagemagick and combine them using "median" (NOT average). It's not always perfect but can deliver most of the time. That way even a command line dork like me can do it. :-)

bangboombang commented on Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video github.com/jasonmayes/Rea... · Posted by u/aliabd

lowdose · 6 years ago

Commercially it would be more interesting to do active background removal. If every Youtuber has a professional background like a news anchor they would immediately look legit.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

Green screen? Yes, it still requires some effort (buy and set up the actual screen, proper lighting), but I doubt a proper green screen setup would be outperformed by some AI system any time soon: Got a shitty cam? AI would have to fix that too. Shitty lighting? Still a problem after any background removal. And if you're gonna invest in those two things, might as well go for your green screen.

bangboombang commented on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests github.com/npm/cli/issues... · Posted by u/kerpele

gmemstr · 6 years ago

This seems to be slowly clearing up.

Regardless, can we talk about the conduct in this GitHub thread? I know every community is different but is it common to have memes and jokes posted this quickly and often in a GitHub issue? It makes it really hard to follow and discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

Idk, it wasn't much more annoying than the 400th person chiming in with a "me too" before that. I already might have completely missed a comment explaining the situation between all these.

Actually those animated gifs might have been better than all those "me too", since a text-only post informing about the situation would have stuck out much better.

bangboombang commented on South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux fosslinux.com/29117/south... · Posted by u/bitxbitxbitcoin

rrdharan · 6 years ago

That only makes sense if the total bribe outweighs the investment in building the credible alternative.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

The bribe ends up in your pocket, the credible alternative only serves the general public.

bangboombang commented on Apple's long processor journey liam-on-linux.livejournal... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker

perl4ever · 6 years ago

BeOS seemed really nice at the time. I'm not sure if it would have worked out better in the long run, but it sounded great.

I always had the sense that consumer focused computers should be engineered with real-time capabilities, and instead, they ended up being based on time-sharing systems which seems like it hampers UI and media processing. For decades, and especially presently, I get so frustrated with lags and hiccups no matter how fast the CPU and storage are.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

I think not being a real multi-user OS would have lead to trouble sooner or later, if it wouldn't have felt so unfinished in the first place. This was at the dawn of the internet, so you didn't really think about privilege separation on a desktop OS.

bangboombang commented on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated fmboschetto.it/... · Posted by u/fbn79

cptskippy · 6 years ago

I have a Windows 10 PC with a PCI (not express) slot that I installed a Firewire card in last year to use 15 year old software still available from Sony's website to rip a stack of Digital8 home movies.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

I tackled that project about two years ago. Asked around and a friend had an old laptop with FW port, so I installed Ubuntu on it and copied all my old Video8 and Digital8 Tapes.

bangboombang commented on Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC? · Posted by u/irc_nostalgia

brozaman · 6 years ago

I was born in the 90s so I never used IRC outside work. I used it for work on a daily basis until a couple weeks ago, and I hate it with passion. The vpn drops and you miss messages. You are offline you miss messages, don't want to miss messages? set up a relay (seriously?!).

Now I'm on a team which uses slack, and I miss how lightweight hexchat is, but in terms of being able to use it my phone and having something that just works without any additional effort it only has advantages.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

You still need a VPS or server of some kind, but if the "screen with irssi/weechat" concept sounds too much like 80s UNIX, there is quassel[1].

It's like a relay/proxy/bouncer but actually uses its own protocol between the GUI and core, so you get infinite backscroll, proper sync when running multiple GUI instances at the same time etc. Oh and there is a decent Android client called quasseldroid.

[1] https://quassel-irc.org/

bangboombang commented on Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises in Japan japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/fspeech

makomk · 6 years ago

It looks like the rapid hospital building was basically a PR stunt - once they were "finished" they remained mostly empty despite the region struggling for hospital space, whilst distracting from the problems China was having setting up the makeshift hospitals in existing buildings that they've ended up relying on. This only works in a country like China with a tightly muzzled press because journalists would see through it elsewhere.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

Yeah sure, they waste money on building these things and then not bother to put people in there for quarantine.

Great that these claims always come with no links to any halfway credible source.

Just like a few days ago this guy claiming in another thread that the hospitals weren't actually newly built but just some re-purposed resort facilities, with the construction videos being fake. Suuure.

bangboombang commented on CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries businessinsider.com/cia-s... · Posted by u/edu

_-___________-_ · 6 years ago

Why use Threema when there are alternatives that are not closed-source? You had to begin to use Threema, which presumably carries the same difficulty as beginning to use something which isn't as questionable.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

It was consensus between colleagues/friends. And because you still need to trust open source software as well. I certainly don't have the time to review the code, and the "somebody else will do a thorough code review" fallacy should be well known by know. As said, Threema at least had a name attached to it that I somewhat trust.

Telegram for example doesn't exactly tick the "not as questionable" box for me, not least because it isn't entirely open source either, but also because I always find it weird if someone is pouring money into software that is available for free, with no obvious benefit for them in return.

bangboombang commented on CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries businessinsider.com/cia-s... · Posted by u/edu

cryptos · 6 years ago

The same could happen with Threema. As much as I like and want to trust Threema, but the story could be repeated, even if I think, that it is not used by governments or military large-scale.

Essentially every closed source crypto application isn't trustworthy. Same is true for operating systems.

bangboombang · 6 years ago

Exactly my first thought. I like Threema and one of the reasons I was an early adopter is that the founder worked on m0n0wall before, an OSS firewall that I used for a long time, in contrast to it being just some guy I never heard of. It made me accept the closed source nature. Another big factor was that I indeed consider Switzerland to be a more trustworthy/neutral party in general when it comes to global politics, but this obviously doesn't have to apply to every single individual in that country.

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