Laforet

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by Laforet 10y ago
Well, even languages with no defined tones such as Japanese have some intonations to distinguish homophonic words in context. And English speech synth still sound robotic because it lacks the full tonal range of a human speaker. The simplif
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by Laforet 10y ago
Taking the path of least resistance of course, it is easier to extort the person on their file than getting out of their way to find the real culprit.
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by Laforet 10y ago
For resilience testing I highly recommend Clumsy even if it only runs on Windows: https://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
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by Laforet 10y ago
This is a good point. I've always wondered why PC components have always been priced with total transparency and razor-sharp margins unlike most other kinds of tech.
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by Laforet 10y ago
XP2 is a dye-based film for C-41 process. It can look very different to real silver halide.
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by Laforet 10y ago
One analogy that I don't seem to find agreement is many is that shooting slide film is like saving only in jpeg/tiff on a DSLR: you get an image that is immediately ready to use but subject to the interpretation of a chemical form
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by Laforet 10y ago
The shutter in an X700 is timed electronically and won't work without battery power, a common fault occurs when one tiny capacitor in the timing mechanism fails, preventing the shutter from releasing. I have no idea what the faux shutt
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by Laforet 10y ago
Seconded. I run two small websites with hundreds and sometimes thousands of PV per day on a server I am already using for other things. The only thing I really pay for is the domain which is a drop in the bucket anyway. I might give a rando
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by Laforet 10y ago
Can doctors legally prescribe them without FDA approval? There are many niche drugs currently unavailable for therapeutic use in the USA because no current manufacturers hold an FDA certification.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Boxes are easier to stack and move especially if you are handling Amazon volumes of goods. Quite often the amount of items that can be carried by a truck or plane is limited by their weight not size, so it may not be as wasteful as it seems
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by Laforet 10y ago
On a lighter note, I had a good chuckle when the article mentioned that the director deliberately avoided depiction of cellphones to avoid creating an unintentional period piece[0]. The last movie I watched in the treatre is Clint Eastwood&
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by Laforet 10y ago
Maybe, but in many cases social media accounts are of very little indication of the person behind it. Employers, journalists and private investigators have been snooping around Facebook and Twitter long before State actors did and a lot of
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by Laforet 10y ago
Going off a tangent on this, (paid) fake reviews on the Chinese AppStore is so bad that the official ranking is saturated with random cash grab apps and games, and even publishers with a legitmate following has to pay for brushing if they w
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by Laforet 10y ago
This is kind of parallels what happened with MD5 fingerprints in X509 certificates: for years the writing was on the wall that MD5 collision was imminent with better algorithm and more computing power, yet it took a number of practical expl
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by Laforet 10y ago
>Headaches from too much sodium Not to say this is a myth like Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, but there is honestly a lot of evidence either way so we can't make establish a causative relationship for everyone. It is quite possible fo
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by Laforet 10y ago
Unlike software, we don't need more nutrients than the baseline to function lest it is prescribed to treat an illness and eating more of the same thing don't magically makes you more healthy. For example, 10mg of vitamin C per day
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by Laforet 10y ago
Indeed. Glycemic index is fairly idiosyncratic (varies from person to person) and generally a poor indicator of insulin response anyway, especially the overall amount of calories consumed ia not taken into account. It's just another po
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by Laforet 10y ago
Your history suggest you are pretty well informed on this front so I will go straight to the point. First, adaptation != evolution. The ability to digest and use sugar has been with us for many millenia. There are ways where our body is not
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by Laforet 10y ago
If everything else is controlled for then yes, they should be able to attain a similar level of health and quality of life despite dietary differences. The only proven harm of sugar is that it ruins your teeth. Tooth decay is relatively rar
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by Laforet 10y ago
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla... They are equal, as anybody with rudimentary knowledge of biochemistry can tell. Modern processed food have the added benefit of micronutrient fo
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by Laforet 10y ago
The human body have an amazing ability to adapt to the environment and we will survive as long as energy intake match energy expenditure. The only category that need some attention is protein where having too little or too much can lead to
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by Laforet 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by Laforet 10y ago
The absence of SD card slot and general lack of periphery ports is universally lamented by AV professionals. There are also reports of poor battery life although I suspect it is a side effect of a brighter backlight.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Thank you for the information, most informative reply in this thread
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by Laforet 10y ago
Most VPS providers already limit the options to run Tor nodes or SMTP servers in one way or another. However forbidding things like IRC and audio streaming is quite unusual and I wonder how oversubscribed their bandwidth must be on these ho
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by Laforet 10y ago
The click farms are a bit more sophisticated than that. Follows and likes are priced based on the level of human intervention: simple bots are cheap but less persistent since they are easy to distinguish from organic traffic. Fake accounts
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by Laforet 10y ago
I remember some solid refutation on why the USC/LAT poll was biased since it was a tracking poll with a biased sample and gave a couple of voters on niche demographics too much weight, etc etc. Turns out they were pretty much right whi
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by Laforet 10y ago
Depends on how the workload is split and such. Using AWS for video encoding is actually quite viable as long as Amazon don't charge for incoming bandwidth and dirt cheap spot instances could be found at the right time of the day.
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by Laforet 10y ago
If we did not abandoned the gold standard then maybe. So far the only ruling regime that made a serious argument for a return to gold standard is ISIS[0] [0]: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-currency-new-video-shows-islam...
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by Laforet 10y ago
I was actually expecting criticism from the other direction since the presenter unequivocally blames the upper and middle class for their role in the ongoing crisis and see the Chavista government as enablers of continued plundering of Vene

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