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jkern commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video] youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng

redundantly · a month ago

My kids would routinely put in too much powder, which would gunk up the dispensing mechanism, requiring my time and effort to clean it out and fix it. Eventually the dispenser broke entirely and had to be replaced. We since switched to pods and haven't had any problems with the dispenser. The pods are worth every extra cent.

jkern · a month ago

He says that having the ability to tailor the amount of powder for the size of the load is one of the selling points of powder. But I'm guessing most people would much rather waste the few cents of savings in exchange for not needing to think about their dishes even that tiny bit extra.

jkern commented on Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon eukaryotewritesblog.com/2... · Posted by u/freediver

riffic · 2 years ago

like the Mr. Show sketch: "America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon."

jkern · 2 years ago

We're earthlings. Let's blow up earth things

jkern commented on Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth nytimes.com/2023/10/23/bo... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

slibhb · 2 years ago

Same, but I like Kim Gordon's voice

jkern · 2 years ago

Totally agree. Kim's vocals are usually way more interesting

jkern commented on Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth nytimes.com/2023/10/23/bo... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

jkern · 2 years ago

I enjoy Sonic Youth a fair bit, but in the majority of cases find Thurston Moore completely uncompelling as a singer.

jkern commented on Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease phys.org/news/2023-10-rou... · Posted by u/wglb

jkern · 2 years ago

Glyphosate is great for killing the invasive Tree of Heaven which is rampant in my area. Really the only time I've needed to use it personally

jkern commented on How Netflix uses Java infoq.com/news/2023/10/ja... · Posted by u/ivanche

oldnet · 2 years ago

How you will send request to FE and back if you have java in BE?

jkern · 2 years ago

I'm not trying to be harsh, but it genuinely sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about

jkern commented on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have blog.danslimmon.com/2023/... · Posted by u/sbmsr

el_nahual · 2 years ago

I haven't read the transcript of this conversation in a long time, but thank you for sharing it.

The sophistry of his argument is extreme.

Yes, of course there are always "unknown unknowns"-- but the statement "there is no evidence that Iraq is supplying WMDs to terrorists" is not a statement made in a vacuum, in which all permutations of known/unknown are equally likely.

jkern · 2 years ago

It really is jarring that this is about the actual justification for a war, and his response basically boils down to "well we don't know they haven't done it or if they might in the future".

jkern commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent

giraffe_lady · 3 years ago

I think it's a mistake to evaluate his success with it in purely financial terms like that.

He's proven himself thin skinned, egotistical, and capricious, and is easy to provoke into vindictive & retributive actions even if not in his best interests.

I think a big part of why he bought twitter was a sense of grievance, basically that the wrong people were getting positive attention, that people were being mean to and making fun of him and his friends & allies. He wanted to restructure the mechanics and incentives of the platform to better support the people and outcomes he values.

I'm not sure whether he succeeded by these terms either, it's still too early to tell I think. But I do think it's an important factor in evaluating whether he succeeded in what he set out to do when buying twitter.

And from that perspective "make it good or (let it) die trying" may be an acceptable compromise. He doesn't get the musk-adoration platform he wants, but at least there is no longer the musk-ridicule platform he perceived it to be.

jkern · 3 years ago

Bit of a Pyrrhic victory isn't it?

jkern commented on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened openai.com/blog/march-20-... · Posted by u/zerojames

jkern · 3 years ago

Funnily enough I've had a very similar bug occur in an entirely separate redis library. It was a pretty troubling failure mode to suddenly start getting back unrelated data

jkern commented on Ask HN: Can I see your scripts? · Posted by u/fastily

GOATS- · 3 years ago

I used to clip tons of videos for highlight reels, which was made a lot quicker with this snippet.

  clip_video () {
          ffmpeg -ss "$2" -i "$1" -t "$3" -c copy "$4"
  }

Used like so:

  clip_video filename.mp4 start_point duration output.mp4

jkern · 3 years ago

I do a similar thing, except for making gifs:

    if [ -z $3 ] 
    then
        echo "usage: $0 file start_seconds duration [scale=600] [fps=15] [crop]"
        exit 1
    fi

    if [ -z $4 ]
    then
        SCALE=600
    else
        # w=iw/2:h=ih/2 half size
        SCALE="$4"
    fi

    if [ -z $5 ]
    then
        FPS=15
    else
        FPS=$5
    fi

    if [ -z $6 ]
    then 
        CROP="crop=iw:ih:0:0,"
    else
        # CROP="600:ih:250:0" full height
        CROP="setsar=1,crop=${6},"
    fi

    rm "${1}.gif" &> /dev/null

    ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -vf  ${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png -loglevel error
    ffmpeg -ss $2 -t $3 -i "$1" -i palette.png -filter_complex "${CROP}fps=${FPS},scale=${SCALE}:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "${1}.gif" -loglevel error

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KarmaCake day138August 26, 2015View Original