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4y ago
"It needs calibration"
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4y ago
> But also right now the quality of the TTS voices is too low in general imo. Most youtube shorts (and I'd wager tiktoks, but I have no idea) have this incredibly irritating generic lady voice in the background. It's definitely
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4y ago
It would help if this didn't read like two people saying what amounts to "yes!" "no!" at each other. Perhaps if you offered some actual number crunching somewhere or a paper, the invested reader could figure out whe
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4y ago
With ads it is not free (because you are paying) or open (because advertising is unsafe and hostile to usability).
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4y ago
Size. You cannot get the quality and size of a TV in a monitor form factor.
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4y ago
> Why would you want to go out of your way to send bogus data to the manufacturer? Because getting a ton of garbage will positively stimulate them to stop trusting this data. That helps everyone.
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4y ago
Your stance that the most competent people are paid the most is the kind of toxic capitalism that got us into this situation. Nobody is helped by this except the egos of the donators and the pockets of whoever is in charge.
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4y ago
Because the term is widely used, but after I wrote it I realised not every single reader might know that it means "to speak as if you have brain damage". So I added some explanation, everyone can participate now and some folks mig
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4y ago
And what organisations, pray tell, actually need the money and would be visible to a normal human being in a country that isn't shattered by war? Most of the large charities have disgustingly paid CEO's and I can't be the o
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4y ago
Honestly the tone of the post and the satirical post matched each other so precisely I think it serves as a useful counterpoint to what was posted. The continuity in tone with a completely different context sheds a new light on how problema
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4y ago
What they did is a crime, going to the police to say "hello I did a crime!" is a legal darwin award.
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4y ago
You can't white hat this anymore, what is described is already pretty dark grey.
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4y ago
It's either that or probably go to prison. I know what I'd pick :)
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4y ago
Journalists are by and large full of shit and even most "high quality" reporting is filled to the absolute brim with nonsense. What is left after you take out everything that deals with facts? Opinion pieces. I can get those talki
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4y ago
If you read what actually happened you can see that all proper internal procedures were followed. Corruption heavily implies that something that exists for other people is (temporarily) removed, or some requirement is waived as a result of
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4y ago
There is a difference between not being able to do any engineering at all (and if you don't test your basic use cases, you did not move past scripting/messing around) and having terrible ideas. The things you list are terrible ide
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4y ago
Timebox your contributions and ensure you work less hours according to everyone. Even it it falls apart, you work for those hours to fix it. Then you leave. Who cares if it breaks more than you have time to fix? Nobody will die (probably) a
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4y ago
> a bug You're trying to tell me they released a feature without even testing the login flow? That's going beyond "oh this is a little accident" straight into almost unbelievable amounts of incompetence. At that point
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4y ago
And for keratin, so nail biting becomes a type of recycling.
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4y ago
> annoying They're not annoying, this is stepping on little people just because you can. It's malicious because the process (i.e. Google as an entity and everyone relevant inside of it) does not care, and quite honestly by tryi
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4y ago
Google makes boatloads of money, but somehow they cannot seem to implement a good people-focused review system for whether or not apps are malicious. "But that doesn't scale", I hear you say. They could simply hire more peo
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4y ago
What I'm hearing is we need two WiFi chips: One for transmitting and one entirely for scanning. /s
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4y ago
I have read articles like this. I comment specifically on this subject because I used to believe them without testing them myself. When I did start testing it myself I quickly discovered these rules just do not hold true where I am (Europe)
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4y ago
I frequently hear this sentiment, yet in my country I struggle to find evidence of more than a few ms of wifi vs cabled connections. Whereabout do you live that this is such a huge issue? Is it a large, dense metropolis like Beijing or Sing
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4y ago
> indulging in pathological behaviors Let us take this lesson from "pray the gay away" camps and other types of "conversion therapy": You cannot take these preferences out of people, it just does not work. At best, yo
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4y ago
We can try this, I will piss in your reservoir and you drink it. Clearly there was some effect.
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4y ago
Yes, if you don't care about privacy or freedom you may as well use Discord. That was the point to begin with, so I'm not sure what we are driving at then. Discord should not be used because it's a walled garden with all the
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4y ago
The alternatives are a corporatocracy, a dictatorship, etc. All of those things will be bad for you to live in, except if you are at the top. If you are at the top now, you should not weigh in here. As such, I have to assume you are not at
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4y ago
> with modern AI Expert systems are classic AI, often with a rule engine underpinning it. It really could not be simpler in context and this is what makes them good. Everything is simple, the knowledge in it (i.e. the codified expert opi
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4y ago
> 100+ years of legal writing tradition If tradition keeps us from inventing something better for normal human beings, it's called oppression and/or rent-seeking.
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