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by nmstoker 2y ago
Some interesting points but he seems a bit less polished and confident than usual.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
It's an interesting question as to whether an adopted word gets to be overridden by the preferences of the target! Suppose the people of Edinburgh didn't happen to like Ee-dan-borghh as the French say it, that doesn't make th
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I agree it's heavily accent dependent and I suspect the original compiler wasn't that aware of non-mainstream US accents. It's interesting that many of these are only the same (initially at least) if you've been sloppy&#
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Interesting. Also, the article mentions the AGA chip with no introduction of it. Some sort of editing mix up?
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by nmstoker 2y ago
You're right in the short term but look how quickly the required outcomes from United States v. Microsoft Corp were relaxed and eventually ignored.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
They don't do so badly in the UK with non-technical types (eg the elderly) especially where a full computer isn't safe or supportable.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
>> I feel like other search engines are worse that Google even though Google's results are nearly unusable. Give Kagi a go - the usability thing is superb, as you can down rank common awful sites so they never appear in the resul
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I'm just like this too - you end up aware of all sorts of things you definitely don't want to know/care about in the environment, be it a coffeeshop, library, office space etc.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Wonderful news. I get the value of touch screens for appropriate cases but it's excellent to see common sense return. Countering the hidden/inaccessible nature of touch screen buttons is the obvious point but also the return to ph
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Can't say I've missed emotions in Google Search or Excel. In chat from something designed to help you, there's a fairly narrow range of emotional cases that are relevant and useful: - Confidence/confusion: if the bot thi
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Remember, this is Microsoft! A friend told me of a fairly major corporate firm that found MSFT had arbitrarily pushed an AI tool to run on their SharePoint, scooping up site data outside of any formal agreement to do so. MSFT are no doubt c
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by nmstoker 2y ago
It's unfortunate the article accepts the questionable argument about apps being more secure - companies say that to soften people up to handing out personal data access that apps enable.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I recall it was reported in the Sunday Observer in the early 1990s but I have struggled to find any references
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by nmstoker 2y ago
This is entirely inaccurate (patently so!) A couple of 30 second Google searches would show how their invention pre-dated the prevalence of big companies by centuries.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
What if they simplified it so commas were ignored and thus optional. Then they are purely for readability, allowing for whichever approach a project preferred as their standard (no commas, traditional SQL, with leading commas, with trailing
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I'm in exactly the same situation as you. I would really struggle going back to not having bad sites suppressed in search results!
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Very impressive but I don't follow how the author can license it under MIT terms when they've trained it using material only licensed for research purposes. Wouldn't research purposes be non-commercial and therefore be incomp
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Presuming they also combine this with foreign post abuse too? ie where one country's post office takes the mail at a knock down discount and then rely on the deal that post offices take on foreign sourced mail delivery for free, meanin
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Yes, skimming the repo on GitHub it looks like it has gone off the boil distinctly since early 2024. Shame as it looks impressive.
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I like much of it currently but I would ideally put "hide" and "flag" somewhere less accessible. In the main view pretty much all the details are useful but I'd be fine to drop the name of the poster of an article (
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I would prefer something between this and current HN, simply because the number of mis-taps on HN is still annoyingly high with everything being so close on a mobile, but I agree the design here is a touch OTT for space
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Same problem on Firefox Nightly on Android
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I'm not up to speed on the California court system, but is there some way to establish if a case is sealed? Wouldn't such a form of lookup, in itself, defeat the point of trying to make it secret?
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Except this is a pretty good case for using an SBC: 1. they're fairly low power and 2. the LLM speed is less of an issue because SMSs like this don't warrant an instant reply anyway so if it takes 2 or 3 minutes to generate that&#
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by nmstoker 2y ago
This would be worthwhile for the individuals too - you often find a recurring pattern with all / most of their raised issues and with basic guidance they might up their game (or give up)
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by nmstoker 2y ago
I wish they would build features to defend against those near-spam type comments where someone is lazy and appends their clearly unrelated issue onto an existing one that maybe shares a few keywords but nothing substantive. It's not qu
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Based on this list, it was 34 fatalities from three duck boat sinkings: https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/injury/dangerous-waters-a-s... There were other fatalities but in different circumstances, mainly on land. A
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by nmstoker 2y ago
How about Vision Language Models (VLMs)? They could easily take in a camera signal plus some basic hand sensor state and give structured output that would fit the bill here. https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms
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by nmstoker 2y ago
Agreed. Whilst we should aspire to language beauty, it's usually trumped by practicality. Python is massively practical: - the easy on-ramp (often reads like English, indentation is something beginners can innately pick up) - batteries
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Spectrogram Art: musicians hiding visuals in their tracks (2022)(mixmag.net)
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