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by pacman2 5y ago
Late to the party but: "Is there anyone on HN with deep expertise in this area who can comment on this article's scientific accuracy?" Yes, I do. But I wont do it since beside me expertise I would have to take at least severa
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by pacman2 5y ago
Hm. I build my Workstation Desktop in 2019 with AMD and nVidia and an Ubunut flavor. Focused a little bit on low noise and a video card supporting several Screens. Has assembling a Desktop become an art in 2021?
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by pacman2 5y ago
"Dell Chromebook 13" I think there are enough Laptops that don't suck. And Ubuntu should basically run on most laptops. Fingerprint reader? I don't care. For the older ones, how about a DELL XPS 13? Or Thinkpad? lenovo c
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by pacman2 5y ago
Pff. That is nothing. Try to run your own mailserver and deliver a mail to a t-online.de address (T Mobile Germany). They basically only accept pre-approved providers. If your have your own domain and infrastructure you have to petition the
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by pacman2 5y ago
Linked in Profile does not exit anymore. But "Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor at the Humboldt University of Berlin." This sounds fishy. I am not sure that you can get an Engineering degree at this University.
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by pacman2 5y ago
That is really odd https://pdf.abbyy.com/finereader-online-end-of-life/ What may drive this decisions?
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by pacman2 5y ago
I have read a comparison about the structure of the Spartan society, basically consisting mostly of slaves like no other culture that used slave labor. Today we know what early experience of violence may do to a person and as far as I now,
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by pacman2 5y ago
Many [German] influencers don't even live in Germany. The German court thinks again it can rule the world with its ruling. Good luck with that.
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by pacman2 5y ago
How well does it perform compared to Abbyy? This packages the tesseract very nicely: https://kebekus.gitlab.io/scantools/ I actually would buy Abbyy OCR but pricing for Linux ist just insane for private use. I just saw
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by pacman2 5y ago
20 years after 9/11, BinLaden still takes money out of your pocket (Airport security, air marshals etc.).
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by pacman2 5y ago
Would you be so kind to elaborate on this? "I use plan 9" You use it for your daily work? Is this possible?
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by pacman2 5y ago
Link to the complete article: https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.352.6285.508
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by pacman2 5y ago
No brainer. Basically all commercial purifiers suck (air), the DIY blow it. Big difference!
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by pacman2 5y ago
"I've only just heard of this, but it looks like it's an attempt by lots of big European banks to beat Mastercard & Visa at their own game!" Not really. Europe has Vpay and Maestro/EC. Online payments can be don
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by pacman2 5y ago
Is she? I love China and if somebody pulls a stunt like that that may blow up in my face I would take action too. Think about if you were in CS and a student of your would post some ISIS shit on the internet and you were threatened with a t
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by pacman2 5y ago
Doubt it. A self build filter basically outperforms all bought systems in tests. The answer is easy: A self build system blows the air through a filter. Nearly all commercial systems suck the air trough a filter. Big difference.
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by pacman2 5y ago
NK too
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by pacman2 5y ago
You app with the chatbot is a bad nightmare. I would never use something like it. Combine a Tamagotchi with your app, have the user "feed" them with his "habbits". At least you would combine two things. With the chat bot
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by pacman2 5y ago
This packages the tesseract very nicely: https://kebekus.gitlab.io/scantools/ Make SURE to select the correct OCR language
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by pacman2 5y ago
You better have a good liability insurance if someone hosts this for you.
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by pacman2 5y ago
ROTFL. This is called "Volkshochschule" in Germany. Hochschule can be translated to University. One guy from former Yugoslavia took an accounting course there, got a certificate and had this translated (to Serbian, Croatian or wha
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by pacman2 5y ago
I prefer alcohol free apple wine. (no, it is not apple juice)
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by pacman2 5y ago
Ivy League to get paid $$$ in engineering.? Really? I got nothing with my top notch STEM PhD. Got hungry, homeless an sick. But as mentioned by a friend. A STEM PhD must never be unemployed. There are always opportunities in the world. Be i
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by pacman2 5y ago
oh no. My free feedity feeds will keep working?
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by pacman2 5y ago
There is an OS based on Rust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox_(operating_system)
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by pacman2 5y ago
I don't understand all the downvotes by idiots. Yes, I am not a lawyer. Never claimed to be one. I have worked with law in two jurisdictions, incl. US. The fields were: 1. Patent law (I am not a patent lawyer either) 2. Regulatory (spe
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by pacman2 5y ago
Thank you, will try it out. Two things I am using: Twitter to RSS: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge Arbitrary RSS feeds: https://feedity.com
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by pacman2 5y ago
You would be surprised what a judge can do in countries with rule of law.
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by pacman2 5y ago
I have several passports. Not a good idea to be honest. My embassies would get involved pretty fast :-)
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by pacman2 5y ago
Easy solution: File with the IRS, ask since you are dead, you don't owe any future taxes, right? Trust me. Things will start moving very quickly. Exceed the speed limit. Reject the fine claiming you are dead. Trust me. The possibilitie

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