Xirdus

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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Well, I used specialized software specifically for solving CAPTCHA on select few file sharing websites. My later experience with general purpose OCR software was just as awful as yours. But it's a product problem, not technology proble
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It already was a major issue in 2010 - home desktop-grade OCRs could easily beat an average grandma on reading heavily garbled text.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I used to have a hybrid job. The company culture was oriented for 100% remote, because it was 100% remote until RTO happened. The office space felt like a coworking space where everybody was a remote worker who just happened to work on the
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
People are breaking into cars because of social media trends. Remember Kia Challenge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> preferably contain the letters Å, Ä or Ö I always thought it's just a natural consequence of using Swedish language, turns out it's on purpose!
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> The discourse also underestimates how much of our health care costs go to our significantly higher salaries throughout the medical system. Well, the salaries of medical personnel only account for about 20% of total healthcare spending.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
PlayStation games had that too - not sure if all, but at least some of them. It was especially funny if the game disk failed to load as a game, but opened just fine in the PlayStation's built-in music player.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It was a selling point. Maybe even intended selling point. But it absolutely isn't the main selling point. Never was, never will. The big thing, the reason people ever started talking about Git outside Linux dev team, has always
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I think you understate what a big deal branching was when Git came out. Back in the early 2000s, branching was hard . Git's predecessors, such as SVN, didn't have branching at all until much later, and even then the implementat
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The biggest benefits of Git over predecessors were branching, 3-way merge, and history rewrites (in particular, rebase and squash). As much as Git fans wanted decentralization to be a major selling point, decentralization has never been a m
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I think it's to combat runaway token usage.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
There are various laws in many countries that ban traditional media from straight up recommending specific candidates.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Unironically, LLM is absolutely amazing at giving you the right answers when you put in wrong input, compared to every other algorithm ever invented.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
TSA are not general workers, they're not the subject of this thread. We mean baggage loaders, ticket booth operators, the people managing the boarding, etc. They're making about as much as they could've made in Amazon warehou
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
The biggest positive outcome of the whole GDPR affair is that people finally believe me when I say that yes, they are selling your data to thousands of 3rd parties, and no, I'm not making these numbers up or exagerrating at all.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
This website contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cookies.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
But then you can't have tracking cookies.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
You get what you pay for. And they're being paid barely above minimum wage.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Everyone* knows how terrible air travel has become. People over 40 know it doesn't have to be that way.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Widespread and systematic lying, cheating and stealing is how every democratic nation in the world describes their own government.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
This. It's worth remembering that not that long ago in western culture, honor meant challenging to a combat duel anyone who insulted you or your romantic partner/prospect.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
There is nothing democratic about CEOs, FIFA, or KPIs.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Needing more people directly translates to needing more energy and money and to having less complete picture. So reducing it to the simple "how much a single person can do" is very useful I'd say.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I specifically picked an example that's super mega deeply ingrained in American cuisine, because this is the level of how super mega deeply ingrained gulasz is in Polish kitchen. About half of traditional Polish dishes - even the famou
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Gravy is super thick. Goulash soup is thick by soup standards but very thin by gravy standards. Goulash is in between gravy and goulash soup. Honestly, I really didn't expect HN of all places to argue about whether goulash soup counts
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
If hamburger can be American, then gulasz can be Polish. It's been hundreds of years, at what point am I allowed to call my great-great-great-great-grandma's recipe my culture? "Jerzynowa" is a funny misspelling. It&#x27
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
I didn't have a problem because the damage that can be caused by doing a little is very limited, and if someone puts too much effort it becomes very visible and they're put under extra scrutiny, preventing them from doing more har
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
You don't even need to define it - you can half-ass it and rely on courts to clarify the edge cases. That's how the vast majority of laws work.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
If it's the police in the streets , people can monitor and have an effect on what they do. When it's the police at a computer inside a secure building , none of that is true.
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It's not about many people vs. few people. It's about a single person doing little with a lot of effort vs. a single person doing an enormous amount with minimal effort.

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