I don't really get the hate; work is boring, if some tool can make it happen faster and with less effort I'm all for it. I don't hear the line cooks at McDonalds complaining that they have to use a semi-automated grill that beeps at them instead of an open fire.
After Netflix et. al. cancelled/didn't renew about a dozen shows I was either in the middle of watching, or really wanted to watch I ragequit and decided to funnel all my streaming service money into physical media.
A few years, lots of eBay auctions, and many bluray and DVD rips later, I've got my own expansive library that's just as convenient to watch but the no missed earnings targets can take away from me.
Next on my list is music. I've built a respectable digital library but I'd like to have that backed by CD's where possible. Vinyl is nice for my absolute favourite albums but it's not an everyday kind of listening experience IMO - bit hard to listen to my records while I'm going for a walk!
For anyone getting into physical media I would highly suggest;
- Buying secondhand. In a lot of cases this is the only option anyway, but you can get bulk lots of CD's, DVD's, and Blurays for about the same price as a month of Netflix or Spotify.
- Backing up your physical copies. An old PC with the appropriate DVD/Bluray drive is very cheap, easy to automate, and you get to have the best of both worlds.
One big caveat is that "older" formats like cassette, VHS, and vinyl are not as simple or cheap. But it's not impossible to obtain and back them up, it just takes a little more time and equipment.
> After three years of hearing about AI every day if you've never tested a single inference API then why are you applying to an AI startup.
Devil's advocate; why would I have made an API request if my employer has never used that service? Maybe that lack of interest on their part is why I'm trying to leave and get a job in a field that's of interest to me.
I fully support, including financially, this project. But I worry that it will become what Mastodon has become which is (IMO) a complicated, shrinking, Twitter alternative with HOA's running large parts of it.
> not going around and inflating the price of the other vintage camera stuff I want to buy.
I don't think I've ever seen the vintage camera market this inflated, stuff that would have been <$50-100 5 years ago is going for $400+ and that's if you can even find stock of it. Even film has skyrocketed in price, despite more of it being produced now than any other time in the last decade or two.
It's somewhat encouraging that there's more of an interest and that it's driving prices up. It means there's less chance that film will die completely as a consumer product. You can still afford some professional grade gear that's in excellent condition for peanuts, as long as what you're after isn't particularly trendy. I paid about a hundred bucks for a Canon Elan 7 that's in perfect working order and works with all my modern EF mount lenses and flashes. That's about the price of shooting and developing four rolls of film! Just stay away from the rangefinders and you're generally fine.
1EB with only 30k users, thats a wild TB-per-user ratio. My frame of reference; the largest storage platform I've ever worked on was a combined ~60PB (give or take) and that had hundreds of millions of users.
When experiments are running the sensors generate about 1PB of data per second. They have to do multiple (I think four?) layers of filtering, including hardware level to get to actual manageable numbers.
It depends on which experiment. We call it trigger system. And it varies according to each experiment requirements and physics of interest. For example LHCb is doing now full trigger system on a software side (No hardware FPGA triggering) and mainly utilizing GPUs for that. That would be hare to achieve with the harsher conditions and requirements of CMS and ATLAS.
But yes at LHCb we discard about 97% of the data generated during collisions.
>1EB with only 30k users, thats a wild TB-per-user ratio.
33TB per user is a lot, but is it really "wild"? I can fill up well over 33TB of pro-camera photos in less than a year if I shoot every day. I'm sure scientists can generate quite a bit more data if they're doing big things like CERN does.
I guess I could say I found ogrish or liveleaks traumatizing but it wasn't the site, it was human beings. I felt I had a responsibility to understand what humanity was capable of, because I only had vanishingly-minor hints of it growing up in a nice conflict-free region of the world. Honestly, being exposed to the stuff on those sites gave me a better understanding of what people might do to each other (or to other life forms). It was rough to see some stuff, but I am actually thankful I was able to access that kind of stuff at that age and learn more about what humans are. I don't know if many people relate to that mindset, but I never once had a sense of "I wish I didn't watch that". Each was a learning experience.
