jpetso

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by jpetso 5y ago
Higher resolution means higher power consumption. If you follow laptop reviews, you'll see that getting a 4k panel will set you back at least an hour of battery consumption compared to standard 1080p, perhaps two or three depending on
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More or less, yeah. Not just as API for apps, also as offline-capable executable for embedded devices. There's an investors page now, with the PR blurb and an informative webcast: https://investors.soundhound.com/
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Counterpoint, we travelled this year and got two flights for the price of one. The refunded flight from early COVID days literally paid for both. Even after somewhat expensive COVID testing costs, still a significant saving. Sure, now that
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I think Firefox and Chromium are good examples of what direction can be expected of mainstream open source projects that end up being steered by a company with commercial needs. Both got forked a bunch, but the mother project remains the po
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Phoronix is running some benchmarks again which should be coming out in the next days.
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Canada had a more or less total stop to immigration until recently, and despite that Toronto managed to have another crazy housing rally earlier this year before vaccines were widely available. Before that, the 15% Non‑Resident Speculation
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To be fair, Lenovo is now pushing out firmware updates via fwupd, employs at least one engineer to work on Linux support for ThinkPads (Mark Pearson, does he have a team?) and apparently also asks their component suppliers for Linux compati
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There is F-Droid, which is a terrible client app but provides (non-Amazon, non-pirate) open source software such as NewPipe, Simple Notes or DavX.
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My take would be that actively working against both equal opportunity and equality is unethical. By giving your children a giant leg up, you're taking from all of the others. Imho society should be liberal in letting people acquire and
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You must be a fast learner. After one year of learning a new language, I personally would not feel comfortable speaking it well enough to use as examples for others.
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Unfortunately, there's always a trade-off. You want both quality data for your use case, but you also want lots of data so it generalizes well. Those are conflicting goals. Fortunately, splitting models into separate accent-specialized
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You're not wrong, but with so many chips incorporating some sort of dedicated "AI" or "tensor" functionality, perhaps the issue will resolve itself for most portable devices in a few years. Plus there's always
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Which, it must be said, isn't always as bullet-proof as it could be. There's a not insignificant amount of transcription (or pronunciation) errors in those datasets and Mozilla might want to find ways to increase the quality of al
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For Mozilla Common Voice, it looks like even Bokmål isn't listed as dataset yet. Language packs have the advantage that a single dedicated user can come up with the entire thing, but for voice collections you need a large variety of di
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I have high hopes that the apparent future popularity of the Steam Deck will make a serious dent into this shortcoming within the next year.
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Rent-seeking is when profits massively outstrip investment. Perhaps infeasible in practice, but if government protection of licenses (patents, even copyright) could be capped at a maximum that's proportional to money & time investe
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The difference is lack of competition. In housing, that's zoning for single-family houses which limits affordability and provides exclusivity vs. apartments or boarding houses, except in downtown cores which aren't enough supply t
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> It isn't "society" that's absorbed absorbed increased worker productivity, but employers and those who own the automation. What society has "absorbed" is an expectation that stock markets will continue ris
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I love it when company representatives reply meaningfully to all questions of a thoughtful request instead of just cherry-picking the convenient ones. Thank you for setting a great example.
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> Unless you have a strong civic identity that aggressively assimilates and ensures respect of those civic norms, you have an inevitable clash that just becomes a question of scale. I'd like to suggest multicultural cities such as T
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Having written this, I think it's worth pointing out the main flaw that I see in nationalism: it's that it uses culture and nations as a proxy for principles, as opposed to digging for the actual principles underneath. As an examp
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I find that despite my national background, there are tons of people in my country whose ideas and principles I don't share, and lots of people from other countries/cultures that I would team up with anytime. Drawing a line primar
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More important than lives, no. Important nonetheless.
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So you're basically saying that Germany's a sucker and Greece benefited from Germany's generosity. Sounds great in theory, but my impression was that despite all the debt haircuts, it was much less fun to be in Greece than Ge
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On the other hand, if you work fewer days, there's more time for home cooking :P
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My guess would be that this allows developers to distribute applications on Apple's App Store without much of a headache, where otherwise the user has no (LGPL-guaranteed) way to swap out libraries otherwise. IANAL, and haven't sp
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"It's complicated": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#for-python-script-...
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With packaging technologies such as Flatpak and Snap, app makers now have the option to distribute a bundled-everything version of their software to Linux users. This has drawbacks too though, in that it's now up to app makers to take
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Nuance spun out their automotive business into Cerence in 2019, so they presumably have zero business with carmakers right now. There should be conditions not to compete with Cerence in the automotive market.
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Left-leaning European here, I think he gathered enough demerit points that wouldn't usually fly with any review team, except he was a high-profile political leader which made it relevant regardless. Now that he's not POTUS anymore

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