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by latexr 2mo ago
Project reasons aside, macOS has perfectly capable, local, native OCR that you can access programmatically, without having to install something else.
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by latexr 2mo ago
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
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by latexr 2mo ago
There is a big difference between being unable to grow and being uninterested in it. I sincerely doubt most people open a small coffee shop dreaming of expansion. Small coffee shop owners don’t want to be Starbucks. Being small and wanting
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by latexr 2mo ago
Let’s bring your example into the physical world: “That is like hating a thief who robs your home which has an old lock and a window you forgot open. If there is an open window in the house someone will eventually climb through it, sure not
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by latexr 2mo ago
> You should do your own research Sure, but you should also understand that “look it up” is the escape words of every inane claim. “The Earth is flat, look it up”; “Reptilians are controlling the world, do your own research”; “Bill Gates
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Please look it up You’re the one making the claim, so please provide sources for your fantastical scenario. By your logic there should be no small coffee shops across the EU, yet this is verifiably and patently untrue.
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by latexr 2mo ago
That’s a cop-out. It’s the most powerful “players” who are making the “game” what it is, and they make the rules be whatever benefits them. It would be pretty reasonable to hate the player who brings a machine gun to a stadium, kills every
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by latexr 2mo ago
I hope that’s sarcasm or that I’m misunderstanding what you mean. Have you looked at the front-page of HN? At the new submissions? Social media? Newspapers? YouTube videos? It’s bonkers to me anyone could claim with any degree of seriousnes
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Indeed, no hard disagree, merely details :) Hard agree! Though the discussion was short, I thank you for it. Good start of the week, I wish you a good one.
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Just one example That post has barely any points and comments. It’s not a good indicator of general sentiment, it’s just an indicator of people who were on HN at that time. > Maybe you need to enable "Show Dead" or somethi
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by latexr 2mo ago
No wonder the state of everything when 17 year olds are getting pressured to be “enterprising” and “get a competitive edge”. How about learning to be empathetic, respecting your fellow humans, caring for the place you live in, enhancing the
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by latexr 2mo ago
> I can't recall or point out exactly when, but there is a stark before/after moment where the opinions of anything pg went from "Interesting and maybe true in some ways" to what we see today, lots of knee-jerk reacti
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by latexr 2mo ago
Text-only version: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5925350
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MacStories is posting on Twitter again(mastodon.macstories.net)
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by latexr 2mo ago
I’m not the person you asked and the technique I use is different (though also from an HN post). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464664 I think I may prefer that one, because it also allows me to figure out people’s
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by latexr 2mo ago
That second one is a bible verse. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians...
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by latexr 2mo ago
> This reminds me how I've had to tell people to try to type better and nt us wird abbrvs, even if it means they can type it faster. You can also teach those people about text expansion software. macOS and iOS have it natively, thou
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by latexr 2mo ago
> There are also examples of US people being offended by scenes considered harmless in other cultures I’m not going to be able to find this, but I remember some piece of news having to do with a woman and a photograph of her with naked b
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by latexr 2mo ago
It might sound silly to censor an album cover, but on the other hand why risk Google locking your whole account due to some automated check from which you have no recourse? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022&#x
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by latexr 2mo ago
Poisoning an LLM doesn’t take billions. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt... https://www.nature.c
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by latexr 2mo ago
So, your alternative to ads is… Ads? If you’re making a YouTube channel to promote your product, that’s still an ad. It’s just taking you longer (and probably more money) to get it out.
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by latexr 2mo ago
Now show Seth’s audience (which has been accumulated for a long time) your explanation and theirs. I’d wager most people would be scratching their heads and rereading yours, while they’d breeze through Seth’s. In other words, your take may
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by latexr 2mo ago
This case is even worse than the restaurant parable, because in that one the customer is already pretty much guaranteed and the coupon will give them enhance satisfaction that makes them more likely to come back. In Godin’s case, the custom
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by latexr 2mo ago
The study: https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/pes/38/3/ar... From an initial glance, it looks like the results are all based on self-reporting and that over an eight year period there
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by latexr 2mo ago
Ah, sorry, I didn’t realise I was the sole arbiter of private property and it was within my hands to abolish it. I’ll get on that first thing tomorrow, send me the papers.
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by latexr 2mo ago
It would be nice to have this accessible in a repo, so we could track changes and submit corrections/new sources.
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by latexr 2mo ago
> If you believe it possible to build a company that serves real humans rather than the accumulation of capital and the extractive nature of corporations, you will try that instead. No. That is wrong. Saying it is possible to generate le
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by latexr 2mo ago
I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Why would Bezos be spending money to make me believe it is possible for small companies who can treat their employees well, all the while making me think even worse of him for how he treats his o
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by latexr 2mo ago
> the people who are annoyed at FLAC vs MP3 What’s the story there? I didn’t know that was a thing and I’m curious to learn more.
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by latexr 2mo ago
> It's crazy how some non-tech people have become so LLM-brained (…) Remove the “non-tech” qualifier and your assertion remains just as true.

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