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by kleiba 2y ago
> Gellhorn’s story ran in the August 5 issue with the headline “The Wounded Come Home.” No mention was made of the fact that she was the only female journalist on the ground at Omaha Beach. As it shouldn't, as her sex is hardly re
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by kleiba 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to clarify. All the things you point out were actually clear to me (I was just kidding after all) but I think it doesn't hurt to give some good examples to illustrate the actual underlying issue.
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by kleiba 2y ago
How fun - I have no recollection of that discussion from 12 years ago, but somehow I just found out that I commented on that thread back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3976669#3981000 (Don't click, it'
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by kleiba 2y ago
As a decade long Emacs user, I can not follow: what's the problem with modifier keys?! Just kidding, I know that some people have a hard time typing them, especially when your day job consists of doing exactly that for eight hours.
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by kleiba 2y ago
It wasn't one of those, but yeah. It wasn't an Optimus keyboard either, unfortunately ;-)
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by kleiba 2y ago
You can remap keys on any keyboard layout, no need to get a Japanese keyboard. Many years ago, I was working in a German lab and their keyboard layout is really impractical for programming in C-like languages because all commonly used symbo
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by kleiba 2y ago
Btw, how is Levers and Chests coming along?
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by kleiba 2y ago
Why would you come out with a production vehicle that's - if I understand you correctly - just a development/test platform for future Tesla vehicles?
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by kleiba 2y ago
If you have OCR in the loop anyway, you could have just taken a picture of the file as displayed on the original laptop, no need to do the fax transfer.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Reading this article makes me realize how much I love the 20th century.
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by kleiba 2y ago
> The influence of the Dana Scully character on my generation of girls is known as the Scully Effect. We women who frequently watched The X-Files as teenagers were more than 50% more likely to study a STEM field in college than women wh
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by kleiba 2y ago
Marketing begs to differ.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Ask the marketing team that, they'll explain.
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by kleiba 2y ago
It's necessary for sales.
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by kleiba 2y ago
Well, I am serious, why is that such a surprise to you? I'm not puzzled by the fact that there aren't any explicitly organized "pro-Hamas" demos - I would suspect that most democratic countries would not allow demonstrat
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by kleiba 2y ago
Well, although I've got admit that I haven't spent too much time looking into it, and also that I'm not familiar beyond a basic knowledge with Apple computers, I'm still unsure whether there is a sane way to get software
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by kleiba 2y ago
Are they shutting down pro-palestine protests or pro-Hamas protests? Is that a distinction worth making?
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by kleiba 2y ago
That's easy, man! Ownership is when you buy a movie and then can watch it as many times as you want... until the streaming service goes out of business. Oh, sorry, I meant "book" and "read". No, sorry, wrong again
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The Jaguar and the Fox (2000)(theatlantic.com)
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by kleiba 2y ago
Right. Lots of fun ahead debugging a larger codebase :-)
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by kleiba 2y ago
Corollary: what if the replacement voice isn't actually a voice actor but an AI?
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by kleiba 2y ago
> This order is wrong according to the article, the VA was contracted before ever reaching out to SJ.g Be that as it may, but it's clear that OpenAI had early on considered a her -like voice for their product. According to OpenAI
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by kleiba 2y ago
But is that the point? Here is a relevant precedence, for instance, that may or may not change your mind: Tom Waits is a singer known for his raspy singing voice. Back in the late 1980s, Frito-Lay, Inc., the makes of Doritos, thought it was
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by kleiba 2y ago
Oh, I had no idea. Interesting, thanks.
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by kleiba 2y ago
> Starbucks [...] were an industry leader that understood the impact that providing a *comfortable café environment* had on the experience of spending time within their stores. Sorry, perhaps mine is too European a perspective, but ar
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by kleiba 2y ago
1. It does to me, but then again: 2. Goes down to 15 FPS on my old laptop. 3. The proof is in the pudding: please post the link to your Java code.
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by kleiba 2y ago
It has to do with both and that's why my comment mentions both. But then again, of course there is a reason why terminals (or punchcards) were made that way - presumably because of reading / writing ergonomics (besides technic
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by kleiba 2y ago
Agree. This 80 character limit stems from a time where terminals could only display comparatively few characters in a line, a limit we haven't had in decades as screen resolutions grew. Another argument for shorters lines is that it is
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by kleiba 2y ago
Oh, it's that similar? That's actually really cool then.
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by kleiba 2y ago
I recently made my first Firefox extension and was surprised how simple it actually was (just for personal use: I had to repeatedly copy lots of data which I already had in a spread sheet into a web form - the extension lets you copy a whol

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