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by albert_e 3y ago
Wonderful! I have a similar project idea in mind but for a different audience. Purpose: learning a new language (kid and beginner friendly) Idea: - Take a reliable publisher of news stories in target language. (either text or audio) - Grab
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by albert_e 3y ago
What you don't think all married people are admirers of sidearms /s > 7 admirer married > 7 admires sidearm
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by albert_e 3y ago
I believe it was pretty common to see musicians carry it on a shoulder strap and use it as the only accompaniment to vocal performances. Street singers would entertain a crowd thus and earn some money. Found some examples of 'portable&
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is it also possible that MS has a "budget" to promote Edge as the default/only option among its enterprise customers -- you know, supplying the IT departments with marketing material, mailers, talking points, and all sorts of
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by albert_e 3y ago
Thanks for this pointer. For a long time I thought there should be a good open-source project that allows some usage of old phones that fall out of daily usage but still have most of the features working -- except for may be battery life or
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by albert_e 3y ago
Samsung Galaxy S7 -- supports wireless charging. So you can still get full functionality out of the phone if the physical charging port is the only one that is broken.
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by albert_e 4y ago
> Google recently unveiled a voice AI that could fill pauses with the best of them, resulting in more natural-sounding conversation AI, uh ,.. finds a way
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by albert_e 4y ago
Does this apply by default to enterprise installations of MS Edge? Any way to verify this as end user and raise it to our IT folk
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by albert_e 4y ago
I was going to make a similar joke. We already have large legislations that include a lot of sneaked in clauses that no one reads. It is only a matter of time before "As an AI model" ends up in the constitution and laws.
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by albert_e 4y ago
Is there a good lookup list for all opensource projects and their corresponding AWS branded services? Presto/Trino : Athena
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by albert_e 4y ago
Outside the US ... the variables change a bit. India for instance -- A typical kid in many places here (especially southern part of the country) has 3 languages formally taught in school and consumed as popular media daily. Having privilege
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by albert_e 4y ago
Very soon it would be possible to create such content with much lesser talent I suppose? - Moving Carl Sagan's Voice - deepfake audio synthesis - Stunning visuals - Generative AI trained on NASA archives and sci-fi movie footage - Awe-
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by albert_e 4y ago
100% -- I also see this as a big and emerging problem that future researchers and practitioners will have to deal with. Posted some thoughts previously here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32577822 https:/&#x2
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by albert_e 4y ago
May I suggest that the creator of these audio tracks run them through a audio processing tool like Adobe Audio Enhancer [0] to remove the echo / reverb etc? [0]. https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
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by albert_e 4y ago
In the cloud you would just call the start_instance() API method to wake up the instance on demand. Is there a way we will have mass-produced personal cloud devices that use hypervisors with a low-power consumption control plane and use sta
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by albert_e 4y ago
I am a big fan of physical buttons -- in phones, in-car entertainment systems, and other gadgets that we operate with our hands/fingers. And am generally disdainful of sacrifies made to physical controls in favour of virtual ones. I al
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by albert_e 4y ago
So not just traffic shaping but also pretty a heavy moderation of discussion on that topic? Interested to see what justification AT&T comes up with for suppressing these posts on their forum and marking them as 'private' witho
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by albert_e 4y ago
I am not a native speaker of English so maybe that's why. Typically anything that has lots of humor and makes the reader laugh or be amused frequently -- I think of as comedy. Is there a more nuanced distinction to what is usually call
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by albert_e 4y ago
Off topic On mobile (android, chrome) the linked news site forces "full screen" and somehow prevents the native browser address bar and options menu and native share icon etc from appearing. Even scrolling up or down doesn't
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by albert_e 4y ago
On a lighter note this reminds me of the Bobiverse comedy sci-fi series on Audible. Premise of __ We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 __ >> Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking
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by albert_e 4y ago
I believe you, obviously. (I dont go to concerts myself, but pretty sure have tinnitus and misophonia) But on a lighter note this _sounds_ like a setup for a joke that involves hearing loss from earlier experiences resulting in your hearing
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by albert_e 4y ago
Managers with half knowledge and semi sincere attitudes have tried to pull "agile means you need to be flexible" on my team. To force a scope change and brand new stories in the middle of a 2-week sprint. The same folks would not
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by albert_e 4y ago
I read so many good things about spaced-repetition but havent had the discipline to stick with it and make it work for me ... I wil give it one more shot with flashcards on a exam prep I am about to embark on. Is there any gentle kid-friend
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by albert_e 4y ago
Hmm interesting indeed. He also shows that you can use the "bucket fill" paint tool on any part of the maze to automatically highlight and visually "separate" that half from the other half of the maze. Now can we use THI
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by albert_e 4y ago
Thank you - I didnt know. I only watched The Expanse and became aware of GoT later I think. So I had assumed it was the order in which they were produced too.
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by albert_e 4y ago
Wow that's interesting -- thanks for sharing. I grew up in tropical country so this is a very different perspective and an experience I never had. Yes such sound would surely scare me. PS: Though I was wondering in my post about just p
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by albert_e 4y ago
Can we point it to a product documentation website -- with multiple child pages and sections and ask questions across that corups? I am actually interested in creating such a chat dedicated to one product as a example / hobby project -
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by albert_e 4y ago
The more interesting part of this to me is the fact that just reading the phrase / thinking about "fingernails on chalkboard" causes a very clear physiological reaction. We can almost feel the chalk powder getting under our f
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by albert_e 4y ago
Wow. I have no experience with therapy but that sounds pretty personalized and useful. Your articulation is also great. That makes me wonder if in a lot of places around the world the effectiveness of care and therapy is severely handicappe
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by albert_e 4y ago
Open office plans Forced work from office Coworkers who have insatiable need to socialize, look for opportunities to chit chat, party Meetings where people talk over each other People who prefer calling to offline async comms .... On the ot

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