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Funny, because the same thing happened in Nepal a few weeks ago. Protestors/rioters burned some government buildings, along with the tech infrastructure within them, so now almost all electronic data is gone.


Would this have been any different if these documents were stored non-electronically though? I understand that the whole point of electronic data is that it can be backed up, but if the alternative were simply an analog system then it would have fared no better.


For paper documents, you'd make at least a few copies for storage at the source, and then every receiver will get his/her own notarized copies.

Electronically, everyone just receives a link to read the document.


Paper records are usually distributed both by agency and by locality.


It would have been better if storage was distributed.


One source,

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/world/asia/nepal-unrest-a... ("Many of the nation’s public records were destroyed in the arson strikes, complicating efforts to provide basic health care")


Not sure where you got that info. only physical documents were burned (intentionally by the incumbents you could argue) however the digital backups were untouched


Anti authoritarian patriots?


Happened in Bladerunner too


And Fight Club


on god


Walking is definitely better than sitting down all day, but that shouldn't be the goal. Weight training and more intense cardio are more important.


I walk every morning and hit 80-80% of my max heart rate for parts of it. Walking can be quite good exercise, unless you live somewhere very flat. My V02 max continues to climb steadily 0.1/week like clockwork, and no running yet. Granted, it's got a ways to go, it's just barely above average, but still, walking is working.


If you’re walking at that intensity you are more accurately hiking.


That's a perspective I haven't heard before, though I see that Google somewhat agrees with that being a valid point of view. Though it does suggest higher speed with more intention is a distinction. In my mind, hiking is something I do on a trail. I walk around my neighborhood. This includes a couple of climbs of ~200 feet over the space of about four city blocks. Moderately steep, but entirely normal terrain for the area, and all on paved roads or sidewalks at ~3 mph. Never occurred to me to think of it as anything other than a good walk.


I walk for 1hr on a treadmill set to 4mph and 4deg incline. My heart rate gets up to 150 bpm by the end.

Used to run but was always getting sore knees. Now I walk and it’s very consistent.


Re-reading what I wrote, I meant to write 80-85%


The point is there are those for whom one of the only forms exercise within reach is walking but it isn't thought of as exercise. Not all people are able to do more intense cardio or lift weights. Regular walking can bootstrap the body toward other exercise.

Tai chi actually is another amazing tool - it is a dynamic calisthenics exercise that builds core strength, balance, and stretches connective tissue.


p.s. dancing to underground industrial techno for a few hours is a great way to do calisthenics


push and pull i can understand struggling on, but if you don't know legs that's kinda on you


level 9999 difficulty


Wrong, depending on his priorities.

If he just wants a good website to do the job, sure, genai is uselesse

But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.


>But if he wants to market it, in this day and age, it's practically a need.

No, it isn't. AI content creation is a fundamentally different thing that a video editor. Maybe you can't tell the difference, but I can. AI isn't going to edit the video how I want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit. I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers, I need to edit my family vacation video, or whatever it is I need a video editor for. There's nothing about AI that would improve this as a video editor, at all.

If I could import this project into my existing React-based web app, I will use it to edit clips of content for my specific application, and for that it is useful. AI would just bloat it and be annoying where it isn't needed.


> want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit.

You act as if there aren't a bunch of non-AI video editing apps that try to do exactly that, nevermind AI apps that try and do that.

> I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers

There's more to AI than image generation (and 7 fingers isn't the same problem it was 6 months ago). Specifically, picking out the important part of the clip, adding appropriate captions and music from the AI processing the video.

> I need to edit my family vacation video

Yes. What do you think an AI enhanced video editor would do? Be Photoshop? Editing the family video from hours down to a digestible video for sharing is a time intensive process, and while I'm sure you enjoy it, not everyone does. A "Make vacation video" button for those people for whom that's a chore and not fun, and don't remotely care to be semi-professional video editors is the target market for a program with a feature to find decent photos and snippets of video from a giant pile of stuff, and arrange them into something cromulent.

As far as state of the art for generated content, a cousin of mine used AI to take a still image of the extended family at dinner with their hands under the table, and turn it into a convincing video where everyone raises their hands and waves (with the correct number of fingers, in case that needed to be stated.)

Anyway, to answer your question, the react library backing this for building your own to drop in is called Remotion. If you'd rather a different video editor, https://omniclip.app/ was mentioned as being an open source no-upload video editor.


This post is about a JAVASCRIPT in-browser video editor. Not AI. But somehow AI fanbois insist on inserting their favorite hacky tech into every conversation, like they own stock in it.

No, I do not want AI automagically editing my home videos for me. It does not know the moments that are important to me as well as I do. To suggest that AI will somehow do a wonderful job at that is ignoring how bad current AI really is. It's become a running joke.

I'm glad someone else downvoted your comment because I can't.


Pardon my ignorance, but why not you just wear glasses?


they d1 gooners


I wouldn't say understand, but better understands


Exactly this can be seen here if the discussion is about climate.

Even better understands might be pushing it. “Better tolerates”


It also helps that you need to have a certain _rank_ to be able to downvote on here, as opposed to the default rights you get on reddit.


closest thing we have on hn to being a reddit like comment/remark lol


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