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dapids commented on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage   lav.io/notes/the-zooms/... · Posted by u/jbegley
throwaway_ars · 3 years ago
Wow, police helicopters have high-definition, gyro-stabilized cameras that can zoom in far enough to see people's faces? If only we could get that tech in private industry, then we could start the field of aerial cinematography.
dapids · 3 years ago
You can. Contact Hasselblad Aerial Division.
dapids commented on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage   lav.io/notes/the-zooms/... · Posted by u/jbegley
i_like_apis · 3 years ago
The videos are interesting. It’s a really cool interface. But the commentary seems from left field:

> It’s a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place

I don’t like cops. But to say their existence isn’t needed is not sane.

dapids · 3 years ago
The author also seems blind to the fact aerial photography has been a well established concept for well over 80 years at this point. These companies are not optimizing their optical systems to spy on people, but rather provide a good focus at long focal ranges in hardened systems, has nothing to do with police or their motives, its a general product feature.

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dapids commented on The AT Protocol   atproto.com... · Posted by u/agd
whoopdedo · 3 years ago
Which still lives on today in cellular networks. At least up to LTE, I haven't looked lately to see if they're sticking around for 5G.

https://www.rfwireless-world.com/Terminology/modem-AT-comman...

dapids · 3 years ago
It's still there.
dapids commented on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works   blog.nindalf.com/posts/xc... · Posted by u/nindalf
nindalf · 3 years ago
I think I’ll be fine.

My reasoning is two fold - I haven’t shared anything that could be exploited by anyone. And second, Meta and others in the industry try to share information about how their integrity efforts work so we can learn from each other.

dapids · 3 years ago
This is not some general blanket approach you can take to talking about internal implementations. You are either right, or wrong. There is no middle ground or "I think". If you've signed an NDA around these internal implementations I would wager that NDA came with a clause to not discuss it without consulting Meta, even after your departure.

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dapids commented on Hertz is still having rental car customers wrongfully arrested, lawsuit claims   thedrive.com/news/hertz-i... · Posted by u/mikece
dapids · 3 years ago
Law enforcement should punish Hertz for using an emergency service (in a consistently poor manner) for a "clerical" error they caused. But they won't.

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dapids commented on Ask HN: Books on designing disk-optimized data structures?    · Posted by u/memset
dapids · 3 years ago
I think most commenters are completely gleaning over the contrived systems which are embedded systems.

Sure, on higher performance systems you will be dealing with bigger demons such as cache and TLB performance depending on data size. But many embedded systems are performance limited for cost and power reasons. There is nothing here cloud will solve, nor anything else than more expensive NAND flashes, which require more power, and money. Hence why designing algorithms for critical data throughput are not as simple as using cloud or a filesystem.

dapids commented on Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring   clivethompson.medium.com/... · Posted by u/tonystubblebine
paulcarroty · 3 years ago
Disagree, used to use Dell Inspiron and some cheap HPs, found nothing extraordinary.
dapids · 3 years ago
Cheap HPs are not elitebooks for one, and two an inspiron is not an XPS. I've used both elitebook and XPS with zero issues.

u/dapids

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