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- ESPN is already partly doing this with "SC For You" [1]. It gives you a personalized feed of sports clips, generated and narrated by AI that uses the voices of ESPN on-air talent.
[1] - https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40378137547796-Wh...
- For anyone interested, ESPN has a HAM Radio club - WE1SPN[1] - and they are live streaming some of their Field Day operations on YouTube[2]. They're not operating overnight, but should be back in the morning eastern US time. If you'd like to make contact the operators are actively monitoring the chat.
[1] - https://we1spn.org/
- I'd like to play devil's advocate for a minute and ask a question:
Does anyone know exactly what the Bosch service sends the dishwasher?
While I agree that connecting a dishwasher to the Internet should not be necessary, it does open the door to an interesting scenario if what gets sent to the dishwasher is not a command to run a mode but an actual program to control the dishwasher. In theory that would mean that Bosch could alter the programs that get sent to improve the dishwasher over time.
On a dishwasher with no connectivity the modes simply are what they are from the factory. But on a connected dishwasher if the Bosch engineers figure out that when in ECO mode using every third sprayer saves water while not altering the cleaning performance expected of that mode, they can update the payload and make the dishwasher you already have even more efficient. They could also in theory create a whole library of modes for specific use cases or scenarios (All glass, hard water, etc.)
Of course, this has potential drawbacks as well. They could change a mode and alter behavior you expect, and it could potentially be a hacker's playground, but if done well it could be a net positive.
- The system I'd love to have a better understanding of is the one TiVo deployed for the transmission of data to their boxes in the early 2000s.
They would buy a 30 minute paid programming in the early hours on cable TV networks under the name "Teleworld Paid Programming". The box would tune the channel, record the show, and then decode the data from the recording.
I always thought there was something interesting there, as the process would need to survive the MPEG encode/decode process on the TiVo itself in addition to whatever they needed to do the broadcast.
- Direct URL is https://bfcm.shopify.com/
I had to run the link through TinyURL because using the original URL pulls up the 2023 HN thread which is entirely different.
- Back in 2022 libtorrent implemented memory mapped IO as part of v2 [1]. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well. Memory usage went through the sky, leading to performance degradation and crashing [2]. The issue is still open in the project to this day, and many programs have stuck with the v1.2 library instead.
It looks like they are headed to a multi-threaded pread implementation now [3] and someone has created a patch to tweak the current mmap fallback that uses pread to perform better in the meantime [4].
[1] - https://www.libtorrent.org/upgrade_to_2.0-ref.html
[2] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667
- One thing to keep in mind is that CR-39 is not impact resistant. They will shatter and can do horrible things to your eyes when they do. Kids should always be put in impact resistant lenses.
If you’re a desk jockey, or impact resistance is not a concern, CR-39 will give the least aberration with the exception of crown glass.
The hidden hack here if you need/want impact resistance is to ask for Trivex lenses. Same impact resistance as polycarbonate but much better ABBE value. It’s often overlooked because it costs a little more than polycarbonate and most people don’t complain about the distortion.
Also, anecdotally, you get what you pay for with progressive lenses. I have a cheap lens in my sunglasses and a higher end lens in my daily drivers and I can easily tell the difference.
- Is it even possible to do this effectively using Mullvad after they removed support for forwarded ports?
- Previous Discussion from 12/05/22 (95 comments): https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=33856942
- Valve - the PC gaming giant and owner of Steam - is very famously a flat organization. Their Handbook for New Employees[1] that goes into detail about how they operate has made its way out into the world a few times as well.
[1] - https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewE...
- It is kind of funny how printers just hop onto the latest marketing trends. Previously it was the "razor blade" model of making the device "inexpensive" and charging more for the consumables, now its subscriptions.
The thing for me is that neither the razor blade model nor the subscription model fit my actual use of the product. For me a printer is essentially a piece of infrastructure. It's not the kind of thing I upgrade or want to pay any attention to. I buy one, set it up, and basically run it until it dies or falls out of support. I only replace them when I absolutely have to, and I would prefer that to be as infrequent as possible.
I'm willing to pay for something that fits that model. Charge me the real cost for the physical printer - including R&D and ongoing support - and in turn come back down to reality on the consumables.
I'm saddened that no one can make this model work, but I understand why. Very few people are going to want to go from $100 printers to $500 printers. Though, as the world becomes more paperless I can see this occurring in the long tail - "Hey, buy a printer. Never know when you'll need it and it's going to last you."
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- I used 3 of these - one personally and two on a BBS - and they were legit. They were just absolute workhorses, and they really were software upgradable to whatever was happening in the industry. My school acquired two via an educational BBS program and they were the only two modems the program ever bought.
At home I started with a Boca 14.4, and upgraded to a US Robotics Sportster 33.6. I got the Sportster early and the modem ended up having a "death spiral" issue where speeds would decrease over the length of a call. Thankfully USR socketed the ROM in the modem so you could login to their BBS, request the new ROM and then replace the ROM to resolve the issue.
After going through the ROM ordeal, and then seeing 56k fracture into two incompatible camps initially (X2 and K56Flex), I really wanted to get into a Courier at home to avoid a likely double hardware upgrade. I eventually got into a US Robotics discount program and was able to make it happen by flipping the Sportster. I ran that modem to the end, and sure enough when 56k was standardized into V.90 it was a simple software update on the device.
- I was more of a Trade Wars 2002[1] guy myself :-).
- Resolved - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolved_(film)
- Follows a high school debate team that eschewed the normal speed and pitch common in debate and instead argued against the structure of debate on the whole.
Class Action Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park
- Covers the history of Action Park, and amusement park which was located in Vernon Township, New Jersey and was infamous for its poor safety record.
The Last Dance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dance_(miniseries)
- Chronicles the career of basketball great Michael Jordan
The Captain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captain_(miniseries)
- Chronicles the career of baseball great Derek Jeter
Andre the Giant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant_(film)
- Examines the life and career of professional wrestler Andre the Giant
6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Days_to_Air
- Follows Trey Parker and Matt Stone as they produce an episode of the adult cartoon series South Park in the 6 days before it is due to air.
The Alzheimers Project - https://www.hbo.com/the-alzheimer-s-project
- A bit aged, but a multi-part series covering Alzheimers disease and its impact on those affected by it and their families.
Alive Day Memories - Home From Iraq - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_Day_Memories
- Interviews with Iraq War veterans about the days they should have died, but didn't.
Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assume_the_Position_with_Mr._W...
- Talks about facts and myths of American history in a comedic view
Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select ;-)
Also can't forget the ,#401 dialing prefix to enable the device to call home over the Internet using a USB Ethernet adapter instead of the phone in the early days.
TiVo's whole approach to commercials in recordings was largely informed by ReplayTV though. ReplayTV took a lot of heat and lawsuits for their automatic commercial skip functionality, which is why TiVo never implemented it and buried 30 second skip behind the code.