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by dirtyid 4y ago
I think many heavy TTS users (including myself) slowly train to use higher speeds after which point nothing sounds particularly natural. What I want is trained speech models that remain coherent at high speeds (over 3x). Even better if ther
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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO population "collapse" or demographic "decline" not right lens for unevenly developed country with massive population and high import dependency especially in context of "relative power". TBH it's surfa
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>may be a very good bet Trend last few years is PRC closing gap and approaching parity in indicators like GDP (already exceeded by PPP), % of global gdp / trade, science and innovation indexes, value chain upgrades etc. Even PRC mil
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>If carriers were useless, China would not invest in them. But what does China know? As you mentioned, carriers are good for dunking on low/mid tier powers that can be dismantled and then bombed on budget. Questionable if it's
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> invented and used by the Chinese They're not western inventions, but entire PRC watching circles suddenly popularizing label by formalizing jingoist PRC netizen meme as state department verbiage and have such rhetoric deseminate i
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by dirtyid 4y ago
See Yuen Yuen Ang's model that unbundle corruption, TLDR is PRC bureaucrats are mostly involved in "access money", i.e. elite "exchanges" to get things done (basically lobbying in the west). When aligned with CCP bu
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Rare treat. Probably my "most enjoyed : least amount of videos ratio" content creator on youtube. Here's to waiting another year.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Side note, for some reason my brain is disproportionately fascinated reading ag tech discussions or generally hearing farmers talk shop vs many other subjects that I'm much more invested in.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>interested in how sleep affects my day to day This. That said, the amount of people I know who has successfully modified their sleep habits to increase everyday performance is magnitude lower than people who have successfully dieted, wh
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yes, the west manufactured narrative using the title of a PRC _ACTION_ movie to label PRC diplomacy for merely being assertive in response to western assertiveness. Hence it's a WESTERN label. PRC foreign ministry doesn't call the
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by dirtyid 4y ago
That's a very western reading consistent with the customary MSM/wonk talking points. If west thinks something PRC is doing is counter-productive, it probably means it's working. Wolf warrior has been a relative success, and h
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by dirtyid 4y ago
A lot of developed high latitude countries seem to be climate change winners.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Recent discussion with friends on petrichor, many didn't like it, but most are also city dwellers that mistakenly associates it with wet concrete/building materials. Opinions flipped when explained it was wet nature/soil.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Zero covid worked well for 1.5 to 2 years (most of country side), enough time to roll out vax and build out medical infra. ICU beds doubled from 5 to 10/100k, staffing them still issue since 2 years not enough time to train, but they&#
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> little to no effectiveness to prop up your numbers for the domestic public Citation needed. This is borderline beyond "useful idiot" hot take because even DoD propaganda/analysis or defense wonks do not allege this, and
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>What's a war the US would easily win. Not really, a US/PRC war happening off PRC coast (likely theatre) will also be against PRC land based aviation and rocketry where US is unlikely to win. The numbers game is increasingly fa
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by dirtyid 4y ago
PRC has more proper blue water surface and subsurface combatants than USN currently and has for years. Many of which more modern. Last years count of "ocean going" / blue water capable is like ~350 PLAN vs ~300 USN. PRC also
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Would need time travel for this interpretation to be true. Technically, ROC(TW)/PRC claims came first post WW2 at UN. So technically other parties who claimed after are interfering in ROC/PRC internal affairs/sovereignty, whi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Not to mention these are originally ROC / Taiwanese claims passed down to PRC when UN recognition formally switched, i.e. technically PRC didn't make these claims, but doing the geopolitically responsible / prudent thing of p
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Ctr+f for "refining", 0 results. Extracting is not the PRC rare earth dominance bottle neck, it's the decades of infra and tech built up for processing. This is JP spending 40M on research+trial hoping for some sort of resour
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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO they would for same reason US TLAMs via sea/air or other stand off attacks aren't distinguishable from nukes. US has nuke capable ordnances using just about every delivery method, but US adversaries have to plan game theory &#
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by dirtyid 4y ago
The entire PRC economy slowing down hence need to rely nationalism from west is more projection than reality. Even pessemsitic estimates of 3-5% growth is plenty to maintain visible QoL upgrades YoY. PRC isn't going to be west for the
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Can China afford a slow economic burn while it blockades Taiwan for ambiguous gains? Every year this becomes increasingly the wrong question to ask. Who is going to blockade PRC? US? Entire Malacca dilemma / anxiety / blockade
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Broken and severely lacking. Would be nice for support of AAS/SSA subtitles that enables location placement and typography customization that made watching anime fansubs a hoot. Also glad there's more describe audio these days, bu
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Note, it's one customizable button that brings up basic bluetooth touch screen controls, not as useful as pebble with multiple customizable buttons but it's very servicable since the screen is large. Also note software drama with
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Chinese smart watches with great battery life are glorified fitness bands with limited set of features i.e. no onbard assistance support. Which is enough personally, loved my mibands, upgraded to a huawei gt2 for the occasional voice call a
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Or hook it up with sponsorblock and remove all the non content time stamps
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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO real issue is fitness influencers stuck with "selling motivation to work hard to look like them", when reality is 99.99% of becoming top 0.01% is being born with top 0.01% genetics. Legal sups will give maybe 2% boost, illegal
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I wonder if there fitness influencers in countries where testosterone is legal just straight up shilling their own hormone lines.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> "Last party congress" Article doesn't mention party congress at all. Last party congress was 2022, before that was 2017. Your article from Jan 2012 is almost year before Xi entered office and his anti corruption drive th

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