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Macha
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It would make some more of the choices of radicals more arbitrary and hurt recall in other ways though
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I mean, if they got rid of kanji, presumably they would introduce spaces. It's not an alien concept, it was used in early computers and early computer games, and still get used in games and books aimed at kids: https://www.f
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IMEs have actually caused the opposite a little in Japanese, because you type the phonetic pronounciation and get a list of possible kanji, then with computer use "writing" kanji really means "recognising" and so people
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1y ago
With 0 kanji, it's such a small subset that it's hard to call that a finished job of learning to read or write as you'll be limited to material like kids books or NHK news easy.
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A spike in pages needing updates for the systemd migration which started in 2012 returned to a more normal level. In recent years, NixOS has probably taken some of their enthusiast base too
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1y ago
call-mm
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1y ago
Ah yes, the “Center-left” party that wants to: - eliminate taxes on farm inheritance and private education - reduce benefits spending by stricter eligibility criteria - reduce immigration by making legal immigration more onerous while also
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The reason the 737 stood out is because it's descendents are still in use today while the 707 and DC8 are largely retired.
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1y ago
One example that was recently pointed out to me: the first 737 was closer in time to the wright brothers first flight than to today
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By 2015 it was no longer even a top level item reported in revenue, in 2014 it was like 5% of revenue. They pivoted hard to ads and media (HuffPost, TechCrunch, etc)
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1y ago
The proportion of Irish Americans among the American working class in the the era of the American civil war _was_ much larger than it is today.
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People were a little preoccupied in the following centuries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_laws_(Ireland) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
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1y ago
Salting already fixed this decades ago, and most modern password libraries will automatically generate and verify against a hash like <method>$salt$saltedhash if you use them instead of rolling your own.
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1y ago
Honestly, VR/AR is a small gaming peripheral business, like joysticks and third party controllers. And their are companies that make that their thing and make money from it, but it was never going to be profitable enough to be the thin
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Computers of course were invented by a state controlled war economy, pretty much the opposite of trickle down. Permeation of technology due to early adopters paying high costs leading to lower costs is not what trickle down generally means.
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People will also use "look society was fine afterwards" as proof the luddites were wrong, but if you look at the fact the growth of industrial revolution cities was driven by importing more people from the countryside than died of
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1y ago
> You must rely on your own internal model in your head to verify the answers it gives This is what significantly reduces the utility, if it can only be trusted to answer things I know the answer to, why would I ask it anything?
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1y ago
My experience is that “text is actually images or paths” is closer to the 40% case than the 1% case. So you could build an approach that works for the 60% case, is more complex to build, and produces inferior results, but then you still nee
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1y ago
Sometimes the characters aren’t even characters, just paths
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1y ago
Personally, it's hard to see outbound calls generated by AI as anything other than robocall spam.
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1y ago
I worked at Yahoo some years later and the process was the same when I was there. Yes, people generally put two and two together when there was a calendar invite with their manager and HR. We were in a European office though, so layoffs are
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Nah, born and lived here my whole life and requests for tips are way up, from just eat to payment terminals asking for 10% for things that maybe would have been untipped in the past.
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Depends on the system, but usually no, a parliament cannot restrict future parliaments. e.g. the law to make changing thing X require a supermajority could itself be repealed with a simple majority here, unless it was approved as an amendme
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1y ago
They have a lot of camera models, including a lot of cheaper models, starting at €180 for the G6 turret/bullet if you want 4k or €80 for the G5 turret if you want 1080p.
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1y ago
No support for RTL or CJK text, IMEs, or accessibility tools leaves it pretty firmly in the "toy" category for me for now, sadly. This isn't meant to bash on the project specifically, basically the only tools that meet that c
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The problem is, unless you're doing green field development, that description of what the existing desired functionality is has to be somewhere, and I suspect a parallel markdown requirements documents and the code with golfed variable
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It's one thing to charge for bags that are gate checked because you knew in advance you couldn't bring the bag. However, another thing that happens is you pay for (or the ticket includes) a carry on bag but because the airline has
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> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo. Having worked for Yahoo, I have to agree. Acquisitions were always seen in terms of "what can they do for the Yaho
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I know in the case of some airlines, it's because their luggage fare structure encourages people to use carry on rather than checked luggage, which results in the overhead space being oversubscribed. Even if each bag technically fits w
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So let's pretend this only paid for employees. 5-15 employees depending on where they live. Let's assume 1-2 admin and 13 devs. A quick eyeball of the projects list looks like about 100 projects: https://projects.apache
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