ConfucianNardin

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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
It's unfortunate that there aren't any high quality projects for the other way around - text to speech. By high quality I mean something as good as Tacotron 2 [1]. However, I have no illusions of Google ever releasing code or trai
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
They're also squatting the putty.org domain to advertise their software, which is pretty bad-mannered.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Examine.com does NOT sell vitamins/supplements. They collect and analyze available research, and the result of that process is their product (in the form of guides etc).
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
If you're looking for performance, don't go with Vivaldi, at least if you use many tabs. With many tabs (>= 100 or so), it becomes really sluggish. For example, opening a link in a new tab can take approximately five seconds. C
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
I do not find it bizarre to pose that it could be possible to use another set of primitives (than biochemical ones) to create something analogous to the higher level structure in a human brain that produces thoughts.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
No, the issue is with the very premise, then. It is not clear that consciousness necessarily only emerges from a neurochemical process. What was basically said was "We do not know for certain that it is this neurochemical process tha
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
> Even current ("real") intelligence can do that. No it can't. A biological creature's output is not deterministic from its input and can be sensitive to conditions not anticipated at-programming-time. That isn't
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
It seems there were/are a couple of workarounds for setting third party cookies in Safari. One was to send a POST request in a hidden iframe using javascript. This was supposedly what Google used to bypass Safari's blocking of thi
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
For anyone else looking, the parent probably meant 'easystroke': https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke It's likely available from your package manager.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
The problem is that Firefox was the last well supported browser that allowed for power user features. With this change, Firefox targets the lowest common denominator just like every other major browser (tracing the footsteps of Chrome). In
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
That looks like opt-out (it's named "telemetry.enableTelemetry" and has "'default': true").
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
See under the status headline on http://bcachefs.org/ and decide for yourself whether that's good enough for your use case.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
That setting will not work in the final release. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Firefox57#Compat._Table
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
The Tinyx tool mentioned in the paper doesn't seem to be published anywhere. It doesn't help that the name was already in use (by a minimal X11 server).
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
According to Wikipedia, Plan 9 has been using fossil as the default file system since 2003.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Alright then: > Step 1: work crazy hard. Step 2: be better than anyone else. Step 3: work crazy hard. FTFY.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
And the reasoning behind this sentiment usually is that the jokes in the show are made at the characters' expense - people watching the show laugh at them, not with them. Here's an example of a post that explores that topic: http
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
VS2017 opens the correct documentation most of the time, and in the default web browser. For C++, cppreference provides archives of all their docs: http://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:Archives . Of course, that wo
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
The fault for this really lies with Python 2's handling of strings/unicode/character sets, and not UTF-8 itself.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
And this is why many trackers have departed from purely ratio-based requirements. A couple examples: "Required ratio" based on percentage of "snatched" (i.e. downloaded) torrents you are seeded. For example, if you'
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Redacted (like the late What.CD, which it aims to replace) has interviews ( https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html ). Most private trackers requires an invite (from someone who is already a member and has invite privileg
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Windows already has the feature covered in the blog post (in 10 it supports quarters). There are also a number of third party tiling window managers.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
A flag for cat won't help you - it's your shell that does the redirection. You're looking for `set -o noclobber` (same as `set -C`).
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
This will work fine until the day when you mistype >> into >, and all your notes are gone.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
It also significantly changes how you experience them.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Here's the actual advisory: https://www.qualys.com/2017/09/26/cve-2017-1000253/cve-2017-... Most (all?) major distributions (that were affected) have already released patched kernel packages.
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
It's mainly meant for communication between your microservices. Envoy is a self contained process that is designed to run alongside every application server. All of the Envoys form a transparent communication mesh in which each applic
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Official site: https://www.ataribox.com/
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Sadly, not much seems to be happening on that front: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226546 At the very least I'd want something to override ctrl+tab tab switching order (by most recently used instead of
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by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
This will not work with all rm implementations, in which case you can fall back to: rm ./-

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