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by pndy 3y ago
IPA [ka̠ɡʲi] > http://ipa-reader.xyz/ just set voice to Japanese; granted, it's not human but sounds pretty accurate In case of Szczebrzeszyn [ʂt͡ʂɛˈbʐɛʂɨn] Polish city name this tool does the job as well - sadly th
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by pndy 3y ago
I enjoy both; 2010 is more an action piece wrapped with this period-specific visuals, coming also with burden of the real-world Cold War. While 2001 is a cinematic masterpiece that ended times of this naive pulp-scifi with its metal pointy
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I'm pretty sure that Clarke stated somewhere in the preface that each story in the Space Odyssey series doesn't necessary happens in the same universe and thus that's why there's a difference between places in books Neve
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The Old Polish had some pretty cool sounding terms for describing family relations that become forgotten, changed or dropped in favor of other words dziewierz - husband's brother sounds way more cooler than szwagier imo
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You people are commenting on spam post
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Could be this a part of new Health app feature - mood tracking? Whatever this is and how long it exist, sounds like it will provide a valuable data for predicting customer behavior. Three letter agencies may also benefit from this - in theo
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Looks interesting but I can't imagine my cat wearing this - she'd try to remove it; case is quite big and would annoy her
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by pndy 3y ago
> Now I noticed a couple of popular shops I interact with replaced it with "chat with us" things > I hate it when I have to talk to crappy LLM for 5 minutes to convince it I need a human The lovely self-indulged and intimida
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by pndy 3y ago
related, 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396726
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Damn, it kinda feels like that Clamp predicted future to the some point with Chobits - it just the tech took a different form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobits
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> Facebook's recommended images are even worse. I did log into Messenger (Lite version if that matters) quite recently - while I'm not using site anymore for more than 10 years or so, I do periodically check if people on my fri
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Maybe Gaius but I'm not sure about other guys in that camp
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This isn't "a couple of weeks ago" issue. The enshittification most likely begin when they rolled this modern design and used variety of darkpatterns on existing users to trick them to move into updated interface. This was
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Battlestar Galactica?
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Perhaps some people are so conditioned to paying for optional premium stuff that they feel better doing so and see themselves as above those who don't drop a single penny. You know, it's like showing-off wealth IRL by wearing top
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From my experiences discord servers tends to draw people who are least interested in talking about the project and more about casual talk and sharing memes. Most of the time these places feels like an equivalent of shoutbox feature on old
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by pndy 3y ago
It's interesting they pick Wielkopolska; I don't recall reading that this province was actually consider for the location of NPP, nor any other place in the middle of the country. Building reactors is one thing - we still need a p
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by pndy 3y ago
hn looks fine; not every site has to be embellished with modern design . If you want some fresh looks, check Modern for Hacker News extension - https://www.modernhn.com/
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> 1. Add a way to block users. Along with ability to block whole domains. And perhaps a tag feature that could help to filter out stuff like general news or politics (assuming that tags would be required during submitting) There are paid
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by pndy 3y ago
Last time I read about exorcism in the media here was in the end of 90s when people were crazy about end of the world due to end of 20th century and approaching new millennium. Those were times when such fringe things were all around us on
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by pndy 3y ago
Is this yours account as well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36292957
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If they aim at tech enthusiasts and privacy conscious people then that won't be a problem. But I doubt this messenger will gain any attention among wider regular audience because exactly of lack of user ID system. Majority of people
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The footnote on page contains number of an organization registered in Sweden [1] that points to submitting account. This account has little activity beside this submission, and one comment. And this site contains nothing but charts for thre
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by pndy 3y ago
This @x handle case reminded me that Gadu-Gadu years ago ask my friend to hand over his 4-digit number (1180) so they could use it for Solidarność promotion. He never gave it up but also GG never pester him - case was quickly closed and c
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by pndy 3y ago
I was testing this for a bit after soup.io [1] was closed but recently I've noticed that they most likely deleted my account - I couldn't log in with correct credentials [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by pndy 3y ago
Doubt all people are that bored - most of them were prob too susceptible to marketing these two films had. It's probably mostly an industry test to see how many people will decide to leave comfy environment of their houses and multiple
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It's a mesh network that relies on beaconing to devices with Bluetooth enabled or more preferably Apple devices that are UWB-capable (U1 chip) which in return gives more precise tag localization. You can track tags from your either pho
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by pndy 3y ago
Mozilla in the past ignored the criticism users had regarding UI/UX changes and went with deploying this bulky mobile-oriented interface for desktops. And here we are. This itself is one issue; there are also all sorts of adventures th
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That would be a desirable action but look what happen in the end of 90s to Microsoft. It was about to be broken up and in the very end it didn't. They become dormant and polite only to strike back some 10 years ago with Windows 10, its
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You can head to Wikipedia to quickly check what happen to the company beside browser abandoning Presto and moving to Chromium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company) Personally, I consider this switch to Chromiu

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