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by kranner 6y ago
Tesseract 4 has switched to using a deep learning engine by default.
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by kranner 6y ago
Try https://screenotate.com/ (no affiliation, just a user)
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by kranner 6y ago
The meaning of "GW" is controversial according to the Wikipedia entry for GW-BASIC [1]: > There are several theories on what the initials "GW" stand for. Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee who developed the sta
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by kranner 6y ago
It is spelt "lakh" or "lac" in Roman script.
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by kranner 6y ago
As always, the problem is money.
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by kranner 6y ago
Enforcement is done by threatening the owners of the company with jail for non-compliance by their employees. It works to some extent.
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by kranner 6y ago
It is now mandatory for both public and private sector employees.
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by kranner 6y ago
Finally a use for old smartphones that no longer boot.
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by kranner 6y ago
FWIW this particular type of eel supposedly has excellent eyesight (if I have the right eel). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroconger
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by kranner 6y ago
[Read in Nat's voice] I'd bung in the garam masala at the end, champion (after turning the heat off).
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by kranner 6y ago
Amazon has said this is rolling out (only) to "eligible customers", so it may be restricted to the middle class. The people that are facing starvation are not Amazon customers in the first place; they are mostly migrant labour tha
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by kranner 6y ago
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200432 Sorry, I should have qualified that fully. I meant clinical sensitivity for RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 for samples drawn from throat swabs, specifically. I know that
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by kranner 6y ago
GP did say that they lived in 1) the fifth biggest city in India, and 2) the case count was currently 570 in their city. The fifth biggest city in India population-wise is Ahmedabad but its case count is 2378. The fifth biggest city in Indi
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by kranner 6y ago
The RT-PCR test apparently has a very high false negative rate; I've read up to 30% or even 40%. Also, they had all the other symptoms as well including fever and shortness of breath. One arrived in India with respiratory distress. The
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by kranner 6y ago
Apologies, I read that as extrapolation. Also assumed Hyderabad as that is the fifth biggest city in size, and cases are around the same in number.
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by kranner 6y ago
In the state of India that I live in, at least three people have died in the hospital of very Covid-19-like symptoms, but they were not counted as Covid-19 deaths. Two of double pneumonia, both with travel history, but their tests came up n
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by kranner 6y ago
I'm guessing you live in Hyderabad. Clearly your street is not a hotspot, and you really shouldn't be extrapolating from it to the rest of India. As far as people having it while being asymptomatic, that is unfalsifiable until the
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by kranner 6y ago
If it is absolutely obsolete, why is it still present on Apple's laptops?
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by kranner 7y ago
> People want to spend money and they are desperate for places to do it. This will likely change if people start losing sources of income.
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by kranner 7y ago
For full-text search over all history, History Hound ( https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/ ) works pretty well if you're on macOS. [No affiliation, I'm just a user]
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by kranner 7y ago
It is not always redundant. It can be used to politely signal that you may be wrong about something you are asserting, even when you are sure about it and everyone knows you are sure. This is especially helpful when you have visible authori
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by kranner 7y ago
Nope, there is no such precedent.
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by kranner 7y ago
It is being used correctly here (as on Mingyur Rinpoche's Wikipedia page). As long as they don't call him Mr Rinpoche...
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by kranner 7y ago
> At it's most basic, it's about clearing your mind and practicing keeping it clear over some interval. If there is one thing I have seen meditation teachers agree on, it is that meditation is not about clearing your mind. You
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by kranner 7y ago
The touchscreen matters when you want to type in notes. The Kindle makes it difficult with missed/adjacent letters and no or useless autocorrect. Also the Kindle is not usable with PDF files. But the e-ink screen and battery time are d
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by kranner 7y ago
The iPad and iPad Mini are the best ebook readers for most users. Fantastic screens, massive storage, speedy CPUs and unlike Kindles, a touchscreen that works perfectly on every touch and swipe.
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by kranner 7y ago
> Note taking for long term retrieval doesn't make sense in a world of internet and machine learning. In the future, you will just enter a question in a text box and algorithms will search inside billions of documents, deduce facts
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by kranner 7y ago
Hard to imagine how that could be the case, other than with messed up circadian (and diurnal, etc) rhythms.
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by kranner 7y ago
This is the situation with Kindle books as well. Although the Kindle app does work when offline, I can't change the font and what is most important to me: the line-height. Also the macOS Kindle app doesn't render Devanagari fonts
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by kranner 7y ago
Title ("Playboy magazine is closing down") is misleading. They are stopping the print version of the magazine, not digital. > With all of this in mind, we have decided that our Spring 2020 Issue, which arrives on U.S. newsstand

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