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It’s good to have something like this. Last time I worked with libav the only available good documentation was the official examples and the ffmpeg (the tool) source code itself, a…

Yep. Animals are the most common way that diseases are introduced to humans, and industrial animal agriculture brings these animals into close proximity with themselves and us. Rem…

An interesting side point is that the graph optimization approach used here is somewhat similar to modern graph-based visual SLAM The graph in the article can be seen as a factor g…

This is a good list of the incidents precipitating this event, if you don’t have time to read the thread: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Camerfirma_Issues

> impersonating Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application. This is not a bug, it's a part of how Git fundamentally works. If you want to mitigate it you have to sign your co…

Joe Barnard (the guy behind BPS.space) has some great videos behind the controls involved in this project on the BPS.space channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXI…

I agree that they’re liable for some things in the court of public opinion (which happens to have a very short attention span and limited agency), but I don’t see how they’re legal…

+100 on this. A social environment that encourages this is a huge motivator. A good FIRST Robotics team is one way that you might get this (not all teams will have great student ex…

The thing is that this is not a huge issue in practice. I stick to uniform initialization in 99% of cases and it works out pretty well. I have far fewer bugs from initialization sc…

Most of your reply isn’t really correct. > A vaccine is also an attenuated version of the virus so if becoming immune from the virus doesn't last long it won't last long from a vac…

Google bullies you with Captchas if you have `privacy.resistFingerprinting` on.

Sounds like a good public service. I’d much rather have my data deleted until it’s secured than have it stolen by someone else.

Out of curiosity, is English your native language?

> Our word used to mean something. > But now? How can we hold a higher ground than China when our own police forces use the very same tactics against our own protesters? How can we…

> how are the people living in the white neighborhoods to be blamed for that? They aren’t necessarily to be blamed for that. This blog post isn’t really assigning blame to white ho…

> Basically everyone who isn't an outside agitator, but if you don't already believe me I doubt I'm going to change your mind. Trotting out a nebulous, totally unsourced claim and …

> The real reason the situation can't improve is the people angry about police brutality are misinformed and don't want to learn. What information are the people angry about the cu…

> US cops work in a dangerous environment In the US policing doesn’t even make it in the top 20 most dangerous jobs by fatalities [1] or injuries [2]. [1]: https://advisorsmith.com…

Amusingly, I got: "nonhumanoid, adjective; not having life". It appears that the model would describe itself as lifeless.

This reply is a little late, but I work on things in the robotics space where there are much more robust libraries for C++ than in Java, and some little extra features (e.g. operat…

In Washington state where I live, voter registration includes soliciting a signature, which can also often be checked with drivers license signature on file. You have to be ignoran…

States like Washington do mail-in voting quite successfully. Vote-by-mail is cheaper (no polling places to run), increases voter turnout (which is why it’s universally opposed by t…