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by brendyn 6y ago
Is that really the case? I couch surfed years ago. From memory I think couchsurfing.com has a reputation system where if people stay at your house, you gain points that give you priority when staying with someone else. so it's kinda l
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by brendyn 6y ago
I had a totally bizarre experience when I tried learning dvorak and gave up halfway. I found that it temporarily broke my ability to type at all and I became computer illiterate for a day. It was quite surreal. Some months later I learnt Co
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by brendyn 7y ago
Presumably because using it is terribly reckless. It doesn't even contain a standard disclaimer preventing the user from suing the distributor or copyright holder.
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by brendyn 7y ago
When they do that, they are focusing on the English subtitles and effectively filtering out the Japanese. If they tried to hide the subtitles and only glimpse at them occasionally they would start to see gradual improvement. Many people won
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by brendyn 7y ago
I saw a demo of the test board on video and the touch interface latency was very high. is it the hardware or the software? has it improved? It was quite frustratingly slow by the looks of it.
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by brendyn 7y ago
Perhaps LPCnet may be of use to you. If is a neural net for generating speech based on google's research. The demonstrate using it to intelligently slow down or speed up audio. perhaps you will find 3x audio more natural with it. maybe
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by brendyn 7y ago
I'm inclined to agree about reproducing knowledge, however I've spent the last few years learning languages and learning languages is the exact opposite, where the majority of learning is done through simply inputting language. Fo
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Life Story of Nathan Rich: From child scientology victim to successful hacker(youtube.com)
1 points by brendyn 7y ago|0 comments
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by brendyn 7y ago
Some pro-beijing opinions from a westerner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCokRDKR89c
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by brendyn 7y ago
https://www.softwareheritage.org/ "We collect and preserve software in source code form, because software embodies our technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it. Software is a
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by brendyn 7y ago
You've presented yourself as a great example of the unfortunate misunderstanding that has come from people mistakenly calling GNU+Linux distributions Linux distributions. You were not able to recognize that this was a GNU distribution
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by brendyn 7y ago
Consider running Icecat. It's most convenient to use it by installing a fully libre distribution such as Parabola or Guix System. Distributions which respect the FSDG don't just exclude proprietary software, but actually take soft
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GNU Guix 1.0(gnu.org)
478 points by brendyn 7y ago|126 comments
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by brendyn 7y ago
I've heard from Chinese people about these experiments too and that they were not particularly democratic, for example people would sell their vote. Do you know much about it. You say China must become democratic. It gives a me a feeli
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by brendyn 7y ago
I was silly enough to sign up without looking in to it because it was recommended on HN. Then I realised they need this bridge software to connect. I asked about it stating I'd like to build it my self and confirm it is libre software.
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by brendyn 8y ago
Something like this should do the same thing, I think?: seq 0 3 | parallel "./ad-hoc-operation > out-{}.log" https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
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by brendyn 8y ago
I think you are right, which makes me feel quite stupid. I think what tricked me is that I must have logged in to gandi at some point and then come back to look at my cart I'd made while logged off and it switched to AUD, which also us
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by brendyn 8y ago
I remember reading in the past that Microsoft had corrupted the ISO standards body to publish essentially fake standards that were different to what MS Office actually produced, so software like Libreoffice would output files that didn&#x27
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by brendyn 8y ago
I posted this on the reddit too: I tried to buy a domain with gandi. I left it in my cart for a day and then the price went up $20 dollars. I loaded up the Tor Browser, searched the same domain name and it was back at the normal price. It w
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by brendyn 8y ago
There are some 7000 languages i the world, and maybe half of those even have a writing system at all, let alone libraries full of literature.
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by brendyn 8y ago
I did a little bit of research on what happens to coins when they are listed on Binance, which you can see here: https://paste.debian.net/?show=1033668;lines=0 Roughly, coins would spike hard, then correct somewhat, but sti
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by brendyn 9y ago
I use IceCat which is essentially that. It's based on the ESR releases though since it's hard for the few volunteers to keep up with Firefox's releases.
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by brendyn 9y ago
I'll cut in rudely with my own reply. Sharing files is unbelievably inconvenient. Sharing files to my mum in the other room involves copying files to a USB drive and moving them manually, after I reformat a USB to ntfs or fat32. It doe
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by brendyn 9y ago
It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord
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by brendyn 9y ago
Scott Young self studied a 4 year MIT course in 1 year, although not to such a high level as you discussed: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
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by brendyn 9y ago
True, however, I've not seen an ounce of animosity towards SystemD in the Guix community. GuixSD merely uses GNU Shepherd because it is being developed specifically to work with Guix and is also written in Guile Scheme.
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by brendyn 9y ago
Ludovic linked to this a couple weeks ago: https://ubc.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/GNU-Guix-for-ma...
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by brendyn 9y ago
I've had good fun learning to program with Guix lately. It's easy to start packaging software and get contributions into a real project, But it's also a large system, with complex internals that I'm gradually learning mo
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by brendyn 10y ago
Can the beams be intercepted, maybe if the signal scatters a bit, or isn't 100% targeted? Do they need to be encrypted between satellites?
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by brendyn 10y ago
Σ$0.02: Perhaps a way to contribute to the world would be to figure out how to get rid of Facebook: https://stallman.org/facebook.html Σ$0.04: Mark Zuckerberg mentions talk on the threat of AI as fear mungering, however, h

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