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by grkvlt 8y ago
I suspect most of the time the agents hate the systems like you describe as much as the callers. They are actually trying to make things work better and faster by asking for this info, so when you have to repeat it it's a failure rat
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Wait, is that true? Fewer organisms in air versus water? Is that due to the huge amount of e.g. zooplankton maybe? Curious...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
To let all that radioactive heat go to waste? Although maybe that's just the primary coolant circuit - is the water they use from rivers/the ocean made radioactive, or just heated?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
What? You really imagine that they would delete private repositories belonging to competitors, to attempt to gain an advantage? If Microsoft did that they would be sued so quickly, and for so much it would be unreal. Additionally, there w
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No, response: "Cool, why don't you send all the e-mails you've received this year to the police, then?"
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by grkvlt 8y ago
It turns out that people react irrationally when rare bad things happen to them; that is, they over -react, generally...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, but how old are you and your friends? I think eventually most people grow out of this sort of immature 'pranking' and just find it a bit boring...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Potentially deadly? Maybe, sure, but at low speeds, up to 10 mph say, it is incredibly unlikely that falling off a bicycle (even with no helmet) will do more than cause bruises and damaged ego.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
This is the kind of argument that seems really common and I find very annoying. So 'indoor plumbing' is obviously used to provide us with clean water, but the convenience aspect is the indoor part - you can have clean water fr
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Or just a bug.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Sure. Have a look at Snips [0], Mycroft [1], Jasper [2] or Adrian [3] which are all open source home assistant devices with voice activation, although some do use Googles NLP cloud APIs for speech processing. Snips seems the most interestin
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Exactly. And, similarly to fractal rendering, it's also the fun of using what is essentially pure mathematics (3-D geometry, algebra, matrices, etc.) to generate pretty images.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Exactly. A good typesetting system will leave more inter-sentence space than inter-word spacing, but this has nothing to do with the number of ASCII 0x20 symbols after the full stop (period) at the end of the sentence.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
FYI, the PDF of the source paper is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07389.pdf
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I watched this, and it was only half way through I realised she didn't have the music in front of her ... Impressive!
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by grkvlt 8y ago
If you can save USD 2M in ten years, and buy a house outright then you are in a position to get a mortgage on said house in a much shorter timeframe.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
And in business or first class, always go for the rear facing seats...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
But the tables are designed to stay flat, even when the seat is reclined - often by being physically disconnected from the reclining part, or via a system of linkages. I'm six feet tall and haven't ever had a problem when I'v
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, I realise that, but what if there was a link to a binary with those bits, etc.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I remember watching the Metropolitan Police (bringing you Institutional Racism since the 1950s) checkpoints at the 'ring of steel' in the City of London during my smoke breaks - I can't recall any time they stopped anyone whi
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Mastodon/GNU Social/Quitter right now is a thriving social network I'm going to have to disagree with this. Compared to Twitter, Facebook, even G+, they are miniscule. Are my friends there? How do I know which of these f
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Yeah, I sort of assumed that the Berry paradox was going to be the point too - Anyone who found the shortest bit sequence could never display it on a web page since that would cause its transmission over the Internet, making it ineligible..
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I love how Wikipedia helpfully informs us that 'Biologically, according to studies of the human sex ratio, it is more likely for any one person to be born into the male sex than the female sex.' as though it is somehow relevant or
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Oh great; an immortal Peter Thiel, just what the world needs...!
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I _think_ you could set up a direct debit, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm although this was almost ten years ago, i think the protections are still the same.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I think there's some rose-coloured reviewing going on here. > It was fast [...] easy [...] you were in control [etc.] Not that I recall. It was slow, and could take from hours (local organisation or same city) to days (rest of the w
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by grkvlt 9y ago
One of the scariest moments for me was when I wrote a poker playing bot back in ~2005 and placed most of my months salary in its trading account before switching it on. Even though I knew I had written money management routines, tested them
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Although the voice acting is terrible - the engineers speaking about what they are doing are incredibly stilted and unnatural: "Yes Bob. I was moving it the. Wrong way. I am moving it. In the correct direction. Now. Bob. Thank you.&q
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> with no other information we can only plump for "in the middle". This is because the derivative of e^x is e^x, so when undergoing exponential growth the rate of change tells us nothing about where we are on that curve. And th
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by grkvlt 9y ago
You can buy an HP zbook x2 with i7-8650U and 32Gb today, if you want? And there's even a mobile Xeon laptop from HP that supports 64 Gb...

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