jan_Inkepa

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by jan_Inkepa 3y ago
https://imgur.com/a/qqxr7JY just to let you know, sometimes the translation is in the wrong direction when I click on words.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I asked once about this - there's IIRC an alternative editor that supports this on desktop, but I'd like it generally. I think some of this comes from some people making really long notes, and some people not - I remember a precur
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I've seen the term 'culturalization' used in the games-localisation sphere to describe the more totalitarian process to fit a game to a particular culture (or the culture of some government). I like the term 'culturaliz
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
This is the commit that added it, with the description "users_dont_suck_but_only_we_suck_and_only_our_tests_are_order_dependent!" https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/6ffb29d24e05abbd9ffe3ea9... So t
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
some software is windows only, especially most games (if not by number, then by feeling if you're in the pc gaming world).
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Depends a lot on the specific community. Different games get different kinds of people, and different developers cultivate different community norms. It can also be substantially more awful than normie software development. Devs can end
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I've been legally threatened twice by a German restaurant on google for leaving a 3 star review on the basis that it damages their ability to do business. Pretty ridiculous... . Google required me to post proof I had been there, but
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
What would your favourite places on the outskirts be, out of interest?
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
For ridiculously-specialist poetry-writing software, the maker of that pretty Classical Chinese programming language ( https://wy-lang.org/ ) people were talking about had also previously made a similar editor for Tang-era
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Companies are trying to move to wireless charging anyway, so innovation would have been expected to be in that direction, and that will not be hampered.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
For the confused, Cork is a city in the south of Ireland where people more frequently than in other places in the world end sentences with "boy".
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
My insurance offers reduction if you pass a basic health check each year. It's kinda nice but also sets up a slightly adversarial relationship with my doctor, which I don't like.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
"Sharp", as in people who are good at articulating words?
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
>This has been really frustrating as a junior developer, it's just impossible to get any critical feedback or have someone take a mentorship role. I've had a situation where I was asking a tall/attractive/charismatic
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Right - there's a negotiation in terms of complexity. The coefficient baggage has to go somewhere. For me I don't want to care which units I use (and I'm rarely inspecting the exact angle as a number) - consistency is most im
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Gottachalk is a hoot to play also. One of the best concerts I went to involved an impenetrable and lengthy Avant Garde work by which time it was over I, in spite of my general openness, wanted to leave, but the next piece was a Gottschalk p
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
For me I've always found running outdoors engaging, but swimming laps becomes quickly tedious. I once as an experiment did a half marathon on a circular sports centre track to see how it compared and it was awful.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Interseting/informative article! I feel like I haven't read actual journalism in a while! It has a strong point of view, and might be itself part of a campaign, but it's still telling me about the matter. I find it interest
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
> I don't know if this applies to this specific course, but there are a bunch of those out there, and highly recommend staying away from those. fast.ai do stuff pretty well. FWIW, I did one of their earlier free courses and, as a ma
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Huh - a random post on a different blog seems to have no mention of robots - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co... . Maybe it's a per blog setting?
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
https://standardnotes.com/plans 2fa looks to be in the free plan now, fwiw. (long-term standard notes user here)
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Interesting PoV! Thanks for sharing :) There are different kinds of interrupters 1 - people who want to let you know they know what you're about to say - might save everyone time. 2 - people who aren't interested in what's be
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
For those who don't know, Thomas Aquinas has a reputation of having tricky to read handwriting https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/mbbjcw/this_is_said_... (I remember trying to find some descrip
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
"Based on an input of human transcriptions – a few dozen pages will suffice – the computer develops a reading model that can be more precise, and that will certainly be quicker, than handing the transcription work out to humans. "
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Wiktionary is great. I use it many times every day - for languages I'm learning, but also for learning more about my mother tongue. I've never been able to figure out the mediawiki API but had success just scraping/parsing
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Ah, right I don't know the story. Anki has similar problems (a competing service with the same name because IIRC Anki didn't trademark its name).
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
https://super-memo.com/ is the software that's being talked about.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I encountered this when writing some scripts for Latin-language text processing (which dealt with grammatical gender). Thankfully the Latin-native term 'genus' passed the Copilot smell-test and I could continue with my work. I f
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I have real problem with colour-perception in LED lighting - board game evenings are tricky when I can't tell the piece colours apart so well. Feels like it's just me though...
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I feel like a lot of national anthems have some bits that people gloss over, or have quietly done away with. Part of the charm innit. The Irish national song talks about the 'Saxon foe' in the English version[1] (the English ver

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