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> We had a really nice solution but privacy considerations made it extremely difficult and limited. Would you be willing to elaborate a bit more on those privacy considerations? (I guess what I'm struggling with is how cycling is di
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I agree that Google Maps does work as a navigation aid in certain environments (e.g. dense urban) and certain transportation modalities (definitely cars, to a lesser extent public transport, bike and pedestrian). In my experience it's
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Thanks for that Tim Horton link. I laughed and laughed.
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I don't know whether this actually happens, but it's an interesting thought that removing street names could indeed lead to higher engagement metrics.
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That was about Google Earth, not about Google Maps, right? (I don't know to what extent the tech stack is shared between the two.)
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There are many places in the world and levels of income where sitting down at a restaurant after a long day is simply not an option. Then there are different personalities: depending on the nature of that hypothetical 16-hour workday, I mig
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Agree 100%. For example, in the UK they extend the manufacturer's warranty on TVs to five years and have a reputation for being very straightforward to deal with when things go wrong.
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From what I can tell, what you're describing is exactly my partner's experience: she really can't help it. Try as she might, it comes out anyway. I should learn to better control how I react. (As it happens, she is francoph
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Lol - my (Canadian) better half is exactly like this: can't stop apologising, including for apologising too much. Drives me nuts. :)
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Worth noting that, in some countries, TV guides published numeric codes for each programme. These codes could be punched directly into a video recorder to set up a recording (instead of having to manually select the channel, the date and th
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> been laid off many times How does one end up being laid off many times? Have you had a long career or do you specifically seek out high-risk high-reward jobs? Or just the roll of the dice?
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I'd highly recommended John McWhorter's lectures to anyone interested in languages. I've listened to three or four of his popular-linguistics courses. There's a bit of overlap in material but I found all of them to be ve
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Am I misreading this, or is it really about a 2x2 matrix? (In which case computing the determinant involves just two multiplications and one subtraction.)
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I guess one could argue it's "bring your own screen" rather than "no screen". Also "scope" (ancient Greek σκοπέω) has a pretty broad meaning of "to look, look at, behold; examine, inspect"[1] (gy
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> more than double (~1.7x) every 2 years To clarify in case anyone else finds this confusing. The linked article suggests a 1.7x annual increase, which compounds to 2.89x every two years.
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What I don't understand - is there anything that would prevent Alice from publishing ChatGPT prompts and outputs for anyone to use, with no T&C attached? Once Alice has done that, is there anything to prevent Bob, who has never agr
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by aix1 3y ago
Just to disentangle this a bit, GP's post was about Gemini and you're responding about Bard. The two are different things. Gemini hasn't been trained yet; it's the next-gen thing that's currently being worked on (
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by aix1 3y ago
You're thinking of the method called '(Swiss) water decaffeination', which does indeed only use water. However, these also exist other methods, some of which do use solvents: https://www.compoundchem.com/2018
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Corona, plus the war. Really, really hard to disentangle.
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Thanks for sharing. It looks very cool. May I ask which Trancy tools are you using and how is it going? I just gave it a quick try and wasn't impressed by the current state of things. 1a. The Language Reactor-style plugin. On YouTube
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Hm, I really don't get Toucan. So it's doesn't appear to even attempt show the grammar of the target language, including the very basics, such as the word order. Even for vocabulary acquisition, how is one going to learn noun
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> The knowledge and the infra needed to serve these huge models to billions of users reliably seems to me to be a pretty serious moat here that no current open source project can compete with. I don't quite follow this line of argum
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> Discord is giving them free content legal protection by proxy Would you mind explaining what you mean by that? Thanks!
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I read your comment as suggesting that this is the norm outside Germany. While systems like this exist (e.g. in London) in my experience they aren't as common as I wish they were.
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> Newer systems don't even need a license plate, they learn the overall appearance of the car. I'm probably missing some context, but what do you mean by this? If you take two cars that are the same model/year/colour
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> For "download", the obvious choice is "downloaded", but instead some people prefer the weird hodge-podge of "down-ge-loaded" Duden lists both "downgeloadet " and "gedownloadet" (note th
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> If you travel to NRW North Rhine-Westphalia? (Don't live in Germany, took me a while.)
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> I checked with some Google friends who told me their contract even makes it illegal to tell anyone that they work for Google (no joke). Which country are they in? Is their employment contract directly with Google, or with some other,
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Even internally at Google/DeepMind, all the cool kids have long moved to JAX.
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Wait a minute, a 24/7 voice chat with experienced team members? How is that staffed? Are you in some sort of huge-team highly-distributed setup with offices everywhere, or does the company expect people to work 24/7? (I'm g

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