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sC3DX commented on The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows   bnnbloomberg.ca/the-barbi... · Posted by u/benryon
zwieback · 3 years ago
I went to see "Past Lives" (highly recommend) and of all the previews Barbie and Oppenheimer were the two I resolved to see. On separate days, though, I can't imagine doubling these two up. Do people do this to save money?
sC3DX · 3 years ago
I don't think it's any cheaper. In the US (and I assume everywhere?) you need to buy separate tickets. Maybe you end up buying less snacks?
sC3DX commented on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser   play-cs.com/en/servers... · Posted by u/philosopher1234
Waterluvian · 3 years ago
I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling.

Funny enough, my semi-pro career (I made $60 total) ended when I abandoned my surround sound when moving out in undergrad.

sC3DX · 3 years ago
audio spatialization has gotten really fancy in games. We can trick your eat into thinking sounds are coming from any direction with a combination of filters, delays, attenuations, etc. Of course it's not as good as the real thing but it is still very convincing (and certainly good enough to be competitive in CS these days).
sC3DX commented on Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says   businessinsider.com/sam-b... · Posted by u/pseudolus
digianarchist · 3 years ago
How did they find the code? Brute force?
sC3DX · 3 years ago
I usually try random codes with the following format: COMPANYNAME15, COMPANYNAME20, etc. Every once in a while (maybe 10% of the time?) I get lucky.
sC3DX commented on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit   reuters.com/world/us/more... · Posted by u/pseudolus
michael_miller · 3 years ago
To give a specific example in this case.. a type rating to fly a Gulfstream business jet is on the order of $100,000. If a pilot works for a few months and quits, the employer is out a pretty significant chunk of change.

An alternative arrangement to direct employment is that the pilot could pay for his/her own type rating, and work as a contract pilot. But that requires having $100k to plunk down, and taking the risk that the job market will be strong after the type rating.

In this case, the employee may prefer the "indentured servitude" route versus having to front 6 figures to get their own type rating.

sC3DX · 3 years ago
Why is the type rating so expensive? I assume someone getting this rating already has all of the pre-req ratings. Do they need X hours in the jet and sims, and each of those hours is expensive?
sC3DX commented on P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators   p5js.org/... · Posted by u/tony-allan
chaosprint · 3 years ago
For art performance in browsers, you may want to check hydra synth:

https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

Here is the live coding performance I did for the Algorave 10th birthday online 24h streaming where I used Hydra for visuals:

https://youtu.be/atoTujbQdwI?t=317

sC3DX · 3 years ago
This looks fun. We played with a lot of csound and max/msp at school but I never made the jump to live coding audio. Now that I have more experience under my belt maybes it's time to revisit this!
sC3DX commented on P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators   p5js.org/... · Posted by u/tony-allan
jonas-w · 3 years ago
Thanks for bringing this up again. This brings back some nostalgia, as i've learned much through the Youtube Channel "Coding Train" which used this library for literally anything. Haven't watched his videos in a while, was definitely one of those people that made me fall in love with programming.
sC3DX · 3 years ago
Stumbling upon the coding train a few years ago is the reason I'm an engineer today. Shiffman showed me how problem solving can be fun! I owe him a lot.
sC3DX commented on CPSC warns consumers to stop using male-to-male extension cords sold on Amazon   cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Re... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
TIPSIO · 4 years ago
Really interesting...

What are people doing with their lights where this would ever come up though?

Edit: From reddit, a use case is found [1]:

> They’re actually used my law enforcement whenever they do a raid and seize a computer. If they turn the computer off, they’ll have to try and get past a password. And if the hard drive is encrypted, they’re basically SOL.

> This can be a real issue for things like drug dealers or CP busts, where they need to transport the computer for analysis, but can’t turn it off. So they roll in a specially designed power bank, plug it into the computer’s power strip, then unplug the power strip from the wall. The power bank keeps the strip hot while they transport it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/livesound/comments/am6308/one_of_my...

sC3DX · 4 years ago
Funny seeing the /r/livesound link.

Worked in live entertainment for a while. One cable we would use a lot is called a 'two-fer', it has one male and that splits to two female ends (so you can plug two fixtures into one outlet or dimmer). There also exists a 'suicide two-fer' that is the opposite, you can imagine why it has that name.

I believe I've also seen some 'suicide' cable setups when we needed to make multi-phase power for a motor controller by using different 120v sources. Can't remember the exact cabling of that but someone did end up grabbing a hot male end in that process and got a nice tickle.

sC3DX commented on A Web UI for Stable Diffusion   github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/... · Posted by u/feross
jrm4 · 4 years ago
So, and this is an ELI5 kind of question I suppose. There must be something going on like "processing a kazillion images" and I'm trying to wrap my head around how (or what part of) that work is "offloaded" to your home computer/graphics card? I just can't seem to make sense of how you can do it at home if you're not somehow in direct contact with "all the data?" e.g. must you be connected to the internet, or "stable-diffusions servers" for this to work?
sC3DX · 4 years ago
What you interact with as the user is the model and its weights.

The model (presumably some kind of convolutional neural network) has many layers, every layer has some set of nodes, and every node has a weight, which is just some coefficient. The weights are 'learned' during the model training where the model takes in the data you mention and evaluates the output. This typically happens on a super beefy computer and can take a long time for a model like this. As images are evaluated the output gets better the weights get adjusted accordingly.

Now we as the user just need the model and the weights!

sC3DX commented on Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles   altilunium.my.id/blog/osm... · Posted by u/altilunium
sC3DX · 4 years ago
i think we are hugging the webserver to death

u/sC3DX

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