Acrylics or oil?
fingerpainting
Readit Newssmlss_sftwr commented on Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting baldurbjarnason.com/2021/... · Posted by u/caseyross
smlss_sftwr commented on Busting the 10x software engineer myth swarmia.com/blog/busting-... · Posted by u/albertom94
10x engineers most certainly exist, I've had the fortune of being able to work with a few and their true impact isn't in the code they themselves write but in the higher-level strategic/architectural decisions they make that impact the team as a whole. That being said it is also my experience that most self-described 10x engineers are anything but, so if one bases their impression of 10x engineers off those self-promoting cases then I can see how it would appear to be a myth
I'm confused about the suggestion of VC investment into artists. One of the big issues with VC funding is that the pressure an investor can put on a company's direction, pacing, growth, product vision, etc. Wouldn't that be just as bad, if not worse, regarding VC investment in individual artists?
I mean in a sense traditional record labels are already exactly that for the music industry, it's the same financing and payoff model (record labels front an advance to the artist and recoup the advance and more on album sales/revenue share from touring, 90% of signed artists will likely flop but the 10% that take off could become the next Beyonce or Justin Bieber)
I have it on good authority that Joe is currently in the situation room monitoring a DEVGRU raid on the Hamburglar's compound.
MEAL Team Six at it again I see
smlss_sftwr commented on Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model github.com/AsuharietYgvar... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
"it's ok, there's only a 1 in a trillion chance of this happening"
smlss_sftwr commented on Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers · Posted by u/berkozer
Congrats on the launch, a question on the technical side of things -- how much computational overhead does your desktop client incur on the host machine? If you're running CV algorithms locally, would that necessitate higher minimum system performance specs beyond those recommended by Riot/other game vendors to avoid impacting the performance of the game client itself?
smlss_sftwr commented on The Problem with Perceptual Hashes rentafounder.com/the-prob... · Posted by u/rivo
Apple would not be so naive as to roll out a solution to child abuse images that has a high false positive rate. They do test things prior to release…
ah yes, from the same company that shipped this: https://medium.com/hackernoon/new-macos-high-sierra-vulnerab...
and this: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16611756/ios-11-bug-lette...
smlss_sftwr commented on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery ft.com/content/14440f81-d... · Posted by u/alexanderklein
I have yet to deep-dive into the techical details of Pegasus so this is pure speculation, but if Pegasus demonstrates the feasibility of deploying and executing arbitrary payloads on remote devices without the owner's knowledge or consent wouldn't that raise a blackmail vector with this new program? Again I'm not familiar with the specific exploits used by Pegasus, but is there anything stopping another malicious actor from relying on the same exploits to say install a bootloader that downloads images that would trigger a positive scan?
It sounds great, honestly. Sounds like his employees are working more for less pay. I know he's insulting his employees but still pretty awesome if he actually found a better position for his people.
Who doesn't want to make more and work less? I wish I could make money while doing nothing.
Given the tone of the rest of the letter I don't think that statement can be taken at face value, it comes across much more like a backhanded jibe adding insult to injury
Is it just me or Sgt. Pepper always sounded a bit "muffled" to me?
I think a lot of the muffled aesthetic is a consequence of the decisions made in the recording/mixing process, there's a strong room reverb across the recording particularly noticeable on Ringo's drums which combined with the high-end softening of the Fairchild 660 compressor featured on Beatles records gives it a "rock concert while standing in line for the bathroom" color. I could be mistaken but it sounds like a lot of the instrumental parts were recorded in single takes in the same room compared to say Abbey Road where it sounds like they were tracked independently. A consequence of tracking multiple lines together is there can be cross-instrument fuzzing that results in "muffling", it can be an intentional effect though for a more live sound. Just my 2c