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barnabask commented on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos   github.com/facebookresear... · Posted by u/xenova
vitorgrs · a year ago
"The Firefox browser doesn’t support the video features we’ll need to run this demo. Please try again using Chrome or Safari."
barnabask · a year ago
Same :(

Just a guess, maybe it's the VideoFrame API? It was the only video-related feature I could find that Chrome and Safari have and FF doesn't.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_videoframe

barnabask commented on 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo   ubc-vision.github.io/3dgs... · Posted by u/smusamashah
vessenes · a year ago
OK, I read the paper, agree the results look good, like the idea of better formal grounding for how to choose where your splats are, and ... I still have no idea what that top image is of. Is it the distribution of where they put initial splats for any given 2D image?? Why does the caption mention buildings? I'm really lost.
barnabask · a year ago
It's a video. Right click and click play.
barnabask commented on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/green-eclipse
StarterPro · a year ago
That's, what? Half an hour of operation to them?
barnabask · a year ago
In Finland, speeding fines are based on your income. Can we have that, but for corporations?
barnabask commented on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it   gothamist.com/news/things... · Posted by u/neaden
Fripplebubby · a year ago
Not from the article, but from the comments below it.

> My phone was stolen while I was going through TSA security at JFK and the TSA guy must have been in on it because he wouldn't let me get it even though we were able to locate it using my husbands phone. When we used the find me app later we saw it was somewhere in Queens so definitely wasn't stolen by someone else flying that day.

I had never heard of that happening before. Great, another thing to be anxious about at the airport. TSA does not pay very well, so I can understand the impulse.

barnabask · a year ago
This is 11 years old but relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLxsLbl16IM
barnabask commented on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it   gothamist.com/news/things... · Posted by u/neaden
infotainment · a year ago
> I checked Find My and my phone was indeed in China. It looked like it was in an office building conveniently located around the corner from an Adidas store, about 8,000 miles from me.

You’d think for a police state, China would be just little bit better at cracking down on obvious crime that happens within their borders. But I guess not.

barnabask · a year ago
Misconception: police solve crimes.

Truth: police protect their employers.

barnabask commented on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
barnabask · 2 years ago
If you enjoy Wintergatan’s clever marble videos, check out Ivan Miranda’s marble clock project: https://youtu.be/JLD_Nl12oac. Ivan relies on 3d printing vs. Martin’s emphasis on machining and welding, but they are both charming and instructive creators.
barnabask commented on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
kibwen · 2 years ago
It's a bit of a touchy subject. It's clear that he's a brilliant musician and self-motivated to the brink of mania, but he struggles with perfectionism and his insistence on reinventing the entire field of mechanical engineering from scratch precludes him ever actually finishing the project to his own impossible standards. If he didn't have a huge community of experienced, fascinated, and often frustrated engineers and manufacturers pointing out his most egregious missteps, he'd be sunk. The past near-decade has involved being sucked into fractal rabbit holes due to unknown-unknowns while obsessing over imperceptible details. The second machine was thrown out entirely and he started from scratch in an attempt to fix what he saw as fundamental flaws with it, and while his process with the third machine seemed promising at first, at this point it doesn't seem like he's really any closer to success.

His videos are often entertaining (he's very charismatic and enthusiastic), and you'll learn a decent amount about engineering. But the most important thing that you'll learn are the unstated lessons: the necessity of compromise and the importance of setting measurable and realistic goals if you ever hope to actually achieve a given result. Though if nothing else, I applaud him for being so open with his efforts, especially when things don't pan out like he was expecting.

barnabask · 2 years ago
I enjoyed watching his videos for a few years, but I eventually had to stop because it was so hard to watch what you describe. You put it very kindly; I would have called it a channel documenting a slow descent into madness. Maybe it was my own latent perfectionism that made me so uncomfortable watching him obsess, repeatedly restart, second-guess, overanalyze, self deprecate, etc. It’s a hard thing to relive vicariously.
barnabask commented on Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS   thenile.dev/blog/introduc... · Posted by u/yarapavan
infra_dev · 2 years ago
Nile CEO here. Nile provides tenant virtualization. Each tenant has a group of users within them. Typically, you would choose one location for a tenant. This will be based on your customer location. This would mostly stay the same. The users in a company could travel, but the choice of region is usually decided by where the company is located. Yes, you would be able to change the location of a tenant and the data will be moved to a new region but this usually happens if there is a major decision about location in a company.
barnabask · 2 years ago
How interesting. Does that mean the same is true for deployment_mode? As in, assuming 'customer 2' was originally made 'dedicated', is this how we'd move them back to shared deployment mode?

   update tenants set deployment_mode = 'shared' where name = 'customer 2';
Does that mean some downtime or broken connections for that tenant while data is shuffled around?

barnabask commented on Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight   popsci.com/technology/air... · Posted by u/webmaven
xwdv · 2 years ago
It would fail because people farther from the center of the plain would feel more extreme movement as the plane banks on turns.
barnabask · 2 years ago
Maybe that’s where the luggage should go then…?
barnabask commented on Godot 4.1   godotengine.org/article/g... · Posted by u/freeCandy
weinzierl · 2 years ago
I've heard the Tesla mobile app is made with Godot. Not sure if it is true.
barnabask · 2 years ago

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