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by retrac 1y ago
Controversial in the same way cochlear implants are. Many deaf/Deaf parents want children who hear. And I think absent the cultural consideration, almost all would want children who hear. But you can't ignore the cultural conside
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by retrac 1y ago
Most of them. Static RAM was (and still is) more expensive since it needs more transistors and chip area per bit stored. It it, however, also much easier to interface since it doesn't need refresh circuitry. This is why you see it i
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by retrac 1y ago
The early Macs used the IWM, which is basically Wozniak's 1977 Disk II controller reduced to one chip. The same trick with cycle-exact code, that was used in the Apple II, is also used in the Mac. It's why the cursor stops moving
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by retrac 1y ago
> I can't think of anything from 30 years ago that isn't just a joke today The gold standard 30 years ago was PGP. RSA 1024 or 2048 for key exchange. IDEA symmetric cipher. This combination is, as far as I am aware, still pra
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by retrac 1y ago
Much more sophisticated than you might think given the CP/M heritage. Memory protection and preemptive multitasking, asynchronous IO, networking support, and written partly in a high-level language. Software ecosystem comparable to e
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by retrac 1y ago
Machine translation and speech recognition. The state of the art for these is a multi-modal language model. I'm hearing impaired veering on deaf, and I use this technology all day every day. I wanted to watch an old TV series from t
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by retrac 1y ago
Been experiencing this more and more in the 2.4 GHz band. My hearing aids use a digital streaming protocol at 2.4 GHz. Late at night, I can leave my phone on my desk and walk around the entire apartment without problems. In the early eve
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by retrac 1y ago
As mentioned in passing, it is also an entry to the Semitic languages, which are one of the great language families in historical and literary terms. A lot of the features listed are shared with its most distant cousin Akkadian, as spoken
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by retrac 1y ago
The government of Nova Scotia, Canada used to host its FOIA releases (similar to American freedom of information laws) on a website, with a URL along the lines of server.example.gov.ns.ca/foiadoc?=00031337 They are public and intended
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by retrac 1y ago
Sociolect is the right term for a dialect used by a particular social group. A related idea is "register" when multiple related and mutually understandable standards exist, and are used in different contexts.
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by retrac 1y ago
Language has an inherently recursive structure: I saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who... While our brains have practical limits to how deeply such things can actually be nested, language has a re
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by retrac 1y ago
Mailboxes are bidirectional. If there is outgoing mail in the mailbox your postal worker will take it to the post office. That is what the flag is for. Not sure how well this is adhered to anymore, to be fair. I could be out of date.
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by retrac 1y ago
You can use trademark to prevent someone from calling it the same name. Or perhaps open-source the core library while leaving the Mac specific code under proprietary copyright.
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by retrac 1y ago
My subjective impression is that Mac is the platform where a user is most likely to be willing to pay for a polished Cocoa-integrated Mac-friendly supported build of what is otherwise an open source package that they could build themselves.
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by retrac 1y ago
This is what software freedom means in concrete terms. I wonder if it will be easier to explain the principles of the FLOSS purists to the average person now that multiple facets of their lives are being meddled with by aggressively hostil
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by retrac 1y ago
They do appear to mean emulator. The PDP-8 was hardware replicated many times. In the '80s it was a common final year project. There's a classic textbook that works through designing and implementing a clone of the PDP-8/I
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by retrac 1y ago
But what is the original vision of the author? It may not be possible to fully to fully capture without compromise. For example, many people in this thread are insistent they want a "phrase by phrase" translation. But what if th
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by retrac 2y ago
Just to be pedantic, it is unclear if the Aztecs had "full writing". The notation system in the codices is probably more like a kind of mnemonic and accounting system along with a calendar. They probably couldn't write arbi
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by retrac 2y ago
Registering for push notifications ought to be a protocol much simpler and lightweight, compared to this spinning up a virtual machine and running a downloaded binary for each channel of notification you wish to receive.
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by retrac 2y ago
Canadian here. At least with my slice of media, the intensity of patriotic propaganda I'm getting is novel, and slightly jarring. I have never experienced this before. Every day I'm encountering multiple ads for armed forces re
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by retrac 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by strict. If by "regular and consistent" then, yes. There are a handful of irregular verbs. Everything else is completely regular with suffixes attached to the verb root. Japanese is not unusual
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by retrac 2y ago
Thru the 90s and 00s and well into the 10s I generally dismissed speech recognition as useless to me, personally. I have a minor speech impediment because of the hearing loss. They never worked for me very well. I don't speak like a
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by retrac 2y ago
You're using them wrong. Everyone is though I can't fault you specifically. Chatbot is like the worst possible application of these technologies. Of late, deaf tech forums are taken over by language model debates over which work
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by retrac 2y ago
That's some wacky smooth animation for the Apple II. It's quite a feat to have multiple apparent sprites move so smoothly like that. Apple II high resolution graphics are 280x192 pixels stored in 8 kilobytes at 2000 - 3fff or 400
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by retrac 2y ago
Mama and papa is a whole other phenomenon. Arabic: mama babi. Mandarin: mama baba. Swahili: mama baba. Inuktitut: anaana ataata. English: mama papa. Tamil: amma appa. These languages are not known to be related. The first vowel sound a
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by retrac 2y ago
> we don't eat breakfast Eggs are a traditional breakfast/brunch food. Quite a few people have an egg (or two) every single day.
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by retrac 2y ago
These days it's not uncommon to stack multiple lossy compressors in a chain. Your VoIP phone -> service provider is one codec. Then the phone company to the other phone company - quite possibly re-encoded - then on the other end t
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by retrac 2y ago
That's horrifying but also legally interesting. Here in Canada the birth mother would have been the legal mother and she probably would have won a court case (assuming she had good legal representation). Surrogacy conditions and clau
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by retrac 2y ago
This tracks with what is known about sudden neurologically-involved hearing loss. I have a condition where the inner ear is misformed and the cochlea is, in crude terms, prone to bruising. I've hit my head and gone completely deaf on
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by retrac 2y ago
> Technology could help, but right now it seems to be working the other way. If history does teach us anything, the moral ambiguity of technological progress is surely one of the lessons of the 20th century. I think it might be one of t

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