neltnerb

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by neltnerb 5y ago
The only thing that really gets to me is when the person leading the meeting shows up 20 minutes late as a show of their power. Ten people losing twenty minutes sitting there waiting.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
If you dig into the linguistics for the singing a bit more, it's even more odd. Singing is traditionally done in "High German" so a lot of the pronunciation is as it is supposed to be, but it's not standard modern German
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by neltnerb 5y ago
English is also unusually flexible, something I noticed abroad. In English you can do ridiculous wrong things and still create something that a skilled listener can easily understand. Subject and verb all you know? Eh, I can guess from cont
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Cosmopolitan aesthetics would be the root of the phenomena I imagine, if that word doesn't still apply. I know it was a discussion for many decades about whether a piece of music should be in the original language or the translation. E
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I personally think it's entirely fine to switch between accents to try to match the locals, but I get the argument that it's offensive. I think it's unfortunate that this is the perception because I really really really reall
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This reminds me of the story of the town of Versailles, Indiana. It was common knowledge nearby that anyone who came in and pronounced it "ver-sai" was from out of town. Because everyone living there called it "ver-sails&quot
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I get what you mean and agree with the broad point, but I really, truly do both want to learn more about foreign languages and also feel it is both polite and good culture to try to pronounce the names of long-term colleagues as well as I c
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by neltnerb 5y ago
If you check out the beginning of the video link (I had it fast forwarded towards the end) you can see that it is doing an awful lot more than that, and in 2013. A pick and place is 2-axis movement with a suction cup. This is controlling a
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by neltnerb 5y ago
https://www.mujin.co.jp/en/ This is not manual or bespoke and it has sensors. The videos are incredible and they work in real life already. This one is it moving petri dishes full of liquid without spilling! This is ob
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I don't follow, forests are great but if the farmland you are using gets ruined you need to do something... right now something is usually more petro-fertilizer and pesticides, and occasionally more traditional methods at smaller scale
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sure, I think that would also be a reasonable guess, without a warning. Both are reasonable things for someone to think a company that shields itself in a cloak of magic were to do. Honestly I stopped using USGS maps for moderate hiking and
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This looks to me like an entirely valid hiking route that says to use actual marked foot trails on the ridge. If you have configured it for walking it definitely uses real trails from topographical maps. It wouldn't be outrageous to as
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by neltnerb 5y ago
The main reason I started using a (paid) VPN is because I legitimately don't trust my phone company to not track what websites I go to. I trust a company I pay to not do that much more. I absolutely expect a typical phone company to do
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This is a good question to which we can never know the answer. Every time this discussion happens I can't help but think that the solution is to make patents much harder to get and/or last for a shorter time. Theoretically, withou
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by neltnerb 5y ago
The oldest publication from DeepMind is 2011, just for a post in the ground. Yes, I know neural networks are older than that. It would be a little disappointing if we could even guess how an AI system in 2040 would work, I don't think
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by neltnerb 5y ago
It is very unlikely that they could have even explored the full parameter space if they wanted to, it's such a huge undertaking. It's probably optimized under some constraints, but there's a huge number of things involved --
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by neltnerb 5y ago
If they do this, and improve the program enough, then it seems like a reasonable outcome that in exchange for using non-GPL versions of the code you have to agree to their tracking. And if the people that are now freely contributing code to
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I clicked through to the actual poll, and just for some context the actual poll is from 2018. Not that I think attitudes are likely to have changed substantially, but after the power grid collapses in both Texas and California it is possibl
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by neltnerb 5y ago
They'll just see how bad the complaints are about weird UI choices and privacy, and then release Windows 12 which will be a return to Windows 10 except with less control over your computer. No strong evidence that this will be the case
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by neltnerb 5y ago
At least then the paranoia about taking the vaccine would be legitimate.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
If they're also hitting phones that were only in the state temporarily it must be using cell tower locations right? I use an always on VPN and it still auto installed (without opting in) but I have my E911 address set here so I'd
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by neltnerb 5y ago
My last sentence was a statement of that problem, not a question.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, it's easy to be convinced on either side, the arguments write themselves. Yes, eventually a learning system might learn enough to be indistinguishable from intelligence. Or this might be entirely the wrong path and detracting from
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Making a pipe leak tight to hydrogen versus leak tight to oil is not even playing in the same ballpark. Hydrogen leaks through practically everything, oil is viscous. Plus hydrogen burns much more easily and the flame is transparent.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
As far as I can tell the only actual detail about the development history is the timeline... there's some specs but this is not a history article.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I was never rich enough to own a laptop in that era, but I remember weight being the commonly espoused difference, or at least how it was marketed.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
The much more famous one probably being Liberman single-handedly killing the idea of the government directly providing insurance even if it is in fair competition, and then with Scott Brown briefly being elected in MA (which had Romney-care
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by neltnerb 5y ago
As much as I appreciate this comment, it is weird that it floated to the very top when the article is about location tracking built into Android by Google. Protonmail might have issues, but the threat of some leaked information through java
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by neltnerb 5y ago
A... parody? Of what? I thought it was a fairly straightforward story about the military industrial complex abusing civil rights and losing in the end "because human brains are special", but I was a kid when it came out so I surel
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I'm sorry you've had that experience, where I lived in Oakland nothing like that happened with any regularity. And I did not live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Oakland. But I mean, it is a city. These things happen in ci

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