luxpir

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I want my family back – practical protection from damage caused by Facebook(medium.com)
24 points by luxpir 9y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 9y ago
Part of me thinks the 'why' game is the perfect way to gain the long-term attention of an adult through flattery. The other part of me thinks kids have a lot to learn, and asking why is a good way to get there.
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Digital products are hard to sell – don't be sucked in(medium.com)
1 points by luxpir 9y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 9y ago
Aside: I wonder if two Kindles/Nooks couldn't be rigged up side by side, with some xrandr magic on a rooted device... surely would be done by now if possible? These are fun[0] but no sign of additional screens. -- [0] - https:&#x
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by luxpir 10y ago
The Guardian did a lot of work on pagespeed, made a lot of it public - I wonder if much of this was referenced. Especially given the planned 'masonry' effect shown midway down the page. Good to see major public resources taking th
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by luxpir 10y ago
I think you're right in that everyone should be aware of the scale of the universe. But importance seems to be fractal in the way that electrons are important to protons, salty and sweet food is important to me, stars to planets, galax
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by luxpir 10y ago
It'd be great if a universal sign language became the world's lingua franca . No more accent issues, much less loss of meaning in non-native exchanges. I'm sure some technology will replace language-learning before that has
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Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by luxpir 10y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 10y ago
An alternative to the forums. Even if only a handful of folks pop in, I'll respond to any messages when I see them.
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Show HN: #strappers – an IRC chan for bootstrappers(webchat.freenode.net)
1 points by luxpir 10y ago|1 comments
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by luxpir 10y ago
> Skype has always been a black box I saw a BBC documentary in the mid-early 2000s (sorry, can't cite it right now) about law enforcement and intel having a really tough time with suspects using Skype, only being able to collect me
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Show HN: Linguaquote – Work with professional-level translators, with confidence(linguaquote.com)
2 points by luxpir 10y ago|0 comments
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'Snooper's law creates security nightmare'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by luxpir 10y ago|0 comments
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by luxpir 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's a moral obligation, but you certainly do have some kind of imperative to share those precious records with the world. A simple gallery site that let people contact you for reproduction rights? A publisher? Sub
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by luxpir 10y ago
Definitely post-editing will continue. I was mainly talking about the market itself growing, with the assumption that a large portion of that market will demand high-quality, human translation of marketing copy, instructions and legal texts
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by luxpir 10y ago
I'm tempted to think, forgive me if I'm wrong, but you may be looking at language too mechanically. Not sure if I can explain what I mean in a 2 minute HN comment, but I'll try: The word for word, literal translation, for whi
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by luxpir 10y ago
Not sure if Google Translate is the best research tool for an archaic idiom... Duckduckgo threw up this: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/itadakimasu-meaning/ Thanks for the interesting read :)
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by luxpir 10y ago
The translation industry is $40bn/pa and growing at some 13% pa. Demand for human translation might well rise alongside these innovations as awareness of the benefits and ROI of good translation spreads. But software's a good bet
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by luxpir 10y ago
Sounds like something that needs translating and sharing with the world! Find a publisher, if your family is on-board?
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by luxpir 10y ago
It's absolutely possible to retain idiom, phrasing and even the poetry of a text, all while retaining meaning. Particularly if the source and target languages are culturally and linguistically similar. In fact you have to, as the trans
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Why waiters who don’t write your order down aren’t as amazing as you thought(medium.com)
2 points by luxpir 10y ago|1 comments
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by luxpir 10y ago
Appreciate that, thanks. Will keep up the search for the right trade-off.
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by luxpir 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. I'm not comparing it to the Core-M/iX range though, just making a point that in my situation either of those will be a vast improvement. Despite the fact that the E-350 does what it needs to just fine right now,
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by luxpir 10y ago
Ah, that explains that. Bearing in mind I'm thinking of upgrading from an AMD 350e Fusion CPU, so I know I'll be blown away by the performance of a new machine. It's just picking the right form factor. I can't wait to se
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by luxpir 10y ago
Thanks for that. It's something I've been trying to get to the bottom of, with a very limited understanding of CPU comparisons. I understand clockspeed is not something that can be directly compared, where MIPS might be more of an
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by luxpir 10y ago
Checked this out last night when it was linked to in the HP post. I like the direction these fanless PCs are going in, but as others have said, it's more or less a solved problem. Fanless laptops are where I'm now looking. The UX3
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by luxpir 10y ago
Here's a nice explanation of how they are different in practice, rather than just in theory: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26708822/why-do-vim-expe...
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by luxpir 10y ago
Can you tell us all more here?
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by luxpir 10y ago
Looking back at your comment I take your point that it's surprising that a low speaker-population language might have a decent corpus to work from... unless that corpus is the entire legislature and discussion archive of a pan-European
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by luxpir 10y ago
Thanks, that's really cool. I'll try to make head or tails of the article and look a bit more into the reunification. If that could be carried off, interest levels in the language(s) would potentially rocket. The example I thought

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