mcswell

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by mcswell 5y ago
My gosh, that is the best comment here!!!!!
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by mcswell 5y ago
I've seen that too in Win10, with several different apps with different names. The 'terminal' for example, s.t. some other gizzy (web page? I don't know) instead of the terminal, which I use ever day (so it's not l
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by mcswell 5y ago
I don't mean to derail this conversation, but what the ____ is this aka.ms? I go there and it asks if it can open some app I've never heard of. The app takes forever to open and when it finally does it shows me a minimalist logi
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by mcswell 5y ago
Probably written by somebody who used their computer to play D&D all day. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all the same...
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by mcswell 5y ago
"title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart": Win10 (and iirc Win 7, I never had Win8) are a mix-and-match. FreeCommander XE (the file manager I use) and Thunderbird both have title bars that cha
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by mcswell 5y ago
But...but...but...rounded corners! All seriousness aside, for a decade or more I've kept my Windows task bar over on the left-hand side of the screen, precisely because I can see words to describe what each running app is, rather than
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by mcswell 5y ago
Fighting might be viewed as a useful distraction. I think Putin is thinking the same.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Um...the Lusitania was sunk in 1915. Pearl Harbor was in 1941.
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by mcswell 5y ago
I've started reading a book on this topic, "Hitler's American Gamble." As the title suggests, it's about the fact that after the US and Japan declared war on each other, Germany declared war on the US four days lat
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by mcswell 5y ago
I have a Windows phone that sits next to my bed and functions largely as an alarm clock. But every once in awhile I take a picture with it (it has a very good camera) or look at the weather forecast (more useful than my iPhone's weath
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by mcswell 5y ago
This press release only talks about finding more of proteins that supposedly protect brain function; nothing about whether exercise actually protects brain function. I'd like to think it does (I'm 71 and still run trails and lift
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by mcswell 5y ago
There are (at least) a couple other languages where some local genius saw writing and developed a syllabic writing system: Vai (West Africa) and a language of Southeast Asia whose name I can't remember (the invention was fairly recent)
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by mcswell 5y ago
Good statistics depends on good data. Theirs isn't. See the posts higher up for links to comments at Language Log.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Nuts, you beat me to it; I was going to provide that exact same link, together with an excerpt from a comment: "The LWED database reconstructions just aren't good enough to form the basis of a successful effort along those lines.&
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by mcswell 5y ago
Apparently they (or at least the person you were responding to was "talking" to) also "know" about data they find on the web, which does not need to be in their training data. There was a news article recently about an
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by mcswell 5y ago
Not unlike what people read into the minds of their pets.
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by mcswell 5y ago
"If something is to replace humans at doing a job X then it has to be better than the humans at job X." Only if the something is supposed to replace ALL the humans doing X. The idea of using bots was good; let them handle the
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by mcswell 5y ago
I understand they're even putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in restaurants There was a time when the little girls came running out in short little skirts. Remember them? You pull in and the little girl would come running up. &
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by mcswell 5y ago
I'd like to see the test people try to do automatic numbering in Word. I'm a long time Word user (like 30 years), and numbering in Word has NEVER worked right. A few weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out trying to get simple list
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by mcswell 5y ago
One reason for the complexity in Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) is that language is complex, and FLEx is designed to handle all of the lexical and morphological complexity (reasonably) well. Toolbox, OTOH, has a minimalist structure,
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by mcswell 5y ago
I guess you mean that President Trump closed down CNN because it said so much against him, just like President Biden has closed down Fox News. What? They didn't?
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by mcswell 5y ago
I guess you mean that President Trump closed down CNN because it said so much against him, just like President Biden has closed down Fox News. What? They didn't?
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by mcswell 5y ago
Repeat after me, Mr Robot: Premier Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh. What? I can't hear you!
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by mcswell 5y ago
"You should not have to recompile your document 2 or 3 times... References / bibliographies don't work the first time through..." If you think about it, you'll probably see why. Cross-references can't be set
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by mcswell 5y ago
And since you brought up Word, I'll add that it has never in 30 years done numbering right, whether sections (like legal numbering: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc.) or lists. In fact I think it's worse than it used to be; I was tearing my hai
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by mcswell 5y ago
Prolog was once one of my favorite languages, back in the days of hand-coded rules for AI (and more to my interest, NLP). But AI has gone through several major changes since then. What is Prolog being used for today?
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by mcswell 5y ago
Wake me up when we get there.
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by mcswell 5y ago
More like I can't read it, it wants a login, and I'm tired of providing my data to log in so I can read s.t.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Roman legionnaire in charge of rowers: "Men, I have good news, and bad. The good news is today is Sunday, a day of recreation. The bad news is, the Captain wants to go water skiing." Ramming speed...
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by mcswell 5y ago
Kinda hard to see it growing on your back. (As a kid I got sunburned--mostly on my back--several times, and am therefore at risk.) Also, as one (or at least I) gets older, you get a lot of other skin "things": "age" spo

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