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imglorp commented on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras   github.com/roryclear/clea... · Posted by u/roryclear
imglorp · 7 hours ago
Do we still call it CCTV if it's an IP network?
imglorp commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
imglorp · 2 days ago
Memory unlocked. Around 1980, our local, government mandated, public access program for cable TV would loan out the first over-the-shoulder camera he showed, along with the sorta-portable battery VHS recording rig. White balance was always a challenge with those. AV nerds could go out and tape random events that nobody would watch but it kept us off the street.
imglorp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work?   journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
imglorp · 3 days ago
I've come to realize that viewing the world through the simple lens of laundering causes dumb systems to suddenly make sense. Silly rabbit, you thought these industries were there for the normal public?

Gambling: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-gambling-sites-money...

Casinos themselves: https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trumps-businesses-...

Commerce: https://www.wired.com/story/wired-awake-180518

Crypto: https://financialcrimeacademy.org/cryptocurrency-money-laund...

Shell companies: https://newrepublic.com/post/192244/trump-celebrates-destroy...

Real estate: https://www.firstaml.com/resources/5-ways-criminals-launder-...

imglorp commented on Epson MX-80 Fonts   mw.rat.bz/MX-80/... · Posted by u/m_walden
rsynnott · 3 days ago
Ah, yes, the EPSON MX-80. Majestically noisy.
imglorp · 3 days ago
The MX-80 was a wonderful piece of hardware, all function. It was tractor fed but had a regular platen so you could line up letterhead with friction feed. No drama about low ink or something warming up or some bad encoding or another transfer failed. Bytes in, paper out!

We had an Apple II around 1980 and a friend helped us make a parallel cable for it.

imglorp commented on Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans   manchester.ac.uk/about/ne... · Posted by u/gnufx
crowsettastone · 6 days ago
imglorp · 6 days ago
Amazing, I gave it a recording and it gave an analysis.

Do you know how to hear the generated sounds? Pressing the buttons shows a "playing" console message but there's no audio.

imglorp commented on Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis   utilitydive.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/walterbell
Bender · 6 days ago
You know your power will be cut, and you know it will be a certain amount of time, and you know roughly where you are in the schedule.

Knowing when the power will be cut will not help unless I am misunderstanding you. If the data-center loses power for even a minute the generators will all fire up and then every ATS will count-down and transfer in 30 seconds. Battery backup only lasts just long enough to do a quick return to service on a failed generator and even that is sketchy at best. A properly engineered data-center can run on reduced generator capacity.

Some data-centers are indeed on circuits deemed to be critical but I could see regulations changing this so that they are "business critical" vs. "life support critical" and some changes could be made at substations so that data-centers could participate in shedding. I think you are right that they will be thinking about this and adding to this probably filing preemptive lawsuits to protect their business. Such changes can violate SLA contracts businesses have with power companies and Texas is very pro-business so I can not compare it to California.

imglorp · 6 days ago
Texas has shown no interest in life support critical. They prioritized operator profits over uptime. Hundreds died as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

imglorp commented on Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation and exercise capacity in healthy volunteers   academic.oup.com/eurheart... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
kazinator · 9 days ago
20th century Czech runner Emil Zatopek practiced, among other things, interval training with held breath. He could have been training his parasympathetic system just as well as respiration pathways.

It's been my experience in endurance exercise is that if you are inexperienced in it, you overreact to certain signals from your body like rising CO2 or falling O2. After just small effort of a short duration you start gasping for air. Years later, in retrospect, you wonder why you did that.

Another adaptation, in high latitude outdoor runners, is the adaptation to inhaling cold, wintry air. The unbearable burning that feels like you're inhaling alcohol somehow goes away. The interesting thing is that it appears to be permanent. Even if you're out of the game for few years, that discomfort doesn't come back. Could be psychological. If you've been there and done that, you dismiss the discomfort signals and don't pay attention to them.

imglorp · 9 days ago
And before that, maybe the Apache "Mouthful of water run" which among other things enforced nasal breathing when training.

https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/2017/11/apache-runnin...

imglorp commented on The electric fence stopped working years ago   soonly.com/electric-fence... · Posted by u/stroz
imglorp · 9 days ago
For a happy minute I thought we were talking about the malloc() debugger. Such a useful little tool back in the day. Allocation was a disaster back then.

https://github.com/kallisti5/ElectricFence

imglorp commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years   smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx
bayindirh · 9 days ago
Move briskly and kill people?

That's a deadly twist to "move fast and break things" motto.

Seriously, Sig Sauer. You are making weapons, not disposable pens, and the world leading disposable pen company literally uses "standards x 1.5" as their baseline.

imglorp · 9 days ago
> world leading disposable pen company literally uses "standards x 1.5" as their baseline

Curious, what's this referring to?

imglorp commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
codedokode · 10 days ago
When billion dollar companies, which are praised and supported by governments, download pirated material and do not pay, why should ordinary people restrain themselves and pay? I cannot see how one can make moral arguments against piracy now. It makes no sense to pay if others are not paying and not punished for it. People also have a right to train their real neural network for free without paying.
imglorp · 10 days ago
Plus the idea that if you pay someone to "purchase" and "own" (their terms!!) content, then it's yours forever. Unless, of course, they renegotiate something upstream and subsequently remove the content from your "library" or your device. Or perhaps they lock you out of those things altogether. This means it wasn't ownership, it was subscription.

So as they say, “if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2023-12-08...

u/imglorp

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