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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Ah, I misunderstood "one sound" as meaning, "these letters only ever produce one sound that is unchanging regardless the word".
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
> I can not think of a single human who has done more to reduce dependence on fossil fuels I'm struggling to see how it's a single human that is responsible when they just invested in companies?
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
> This is why English has combinations like sh, th, ee, oo, ou that each make only a single sound. Struggling with the th and ou here as only making a single sound. Through and rough, both not the same ou as sound. That and Thames, but t
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Revolut/Wise etc. make it quite clear they are not "bank accounts", and therefore their accounts don't come with the normal protections associated with bank accounts. I think there is some form of regulatory protection,
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
I'm not sure where they get the idea that 20mics is a "dose". Microdose perhaps, but I've always been under the impression a modern "dose" of acid is 100mics, so the premise that they're less than in the
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Perhaps instead of that they're shutting it down for creative accounting purposes?
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Just before I left the UK in 2018 there was starting to become this trend for voice verification on some services, in one particular one I had to go through the setup of (perhaps it was Virgin Media? I forget), they had me say "My voi
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
There is no rational thought going into Trump's social media output. I swear he has a set of 6 tiny books just the right size for his hands, each with 6 pages and on each page there are 6 categories of things. He's rolls a dice 3
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Was mildly disappointed that there wasn't a microphone in this project. Still pretty cool though.
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
Alternatively Bitwig has Linux support and wouldn't be such a big jump.
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
{"error":"Computer says no."}
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by richrichardsson 1y ago
> Things like Vue/Svelte where they mash together css and js in the same file if you want kind of turns me off. I personally found Svelte much more intuitive than React. Code first, then markup, then style. React I have always just
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> I don't know how much it matters in a game like this. Probably significantly since it explicitly tells you to disable any blue light filters on your screen. I think the website needs to be more explicit that this is trying to gath
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
The scrolling I didn't find too off putting, but that floating nav bar is beyond awful; I had to Inspect -> Delete Element to be able to read the article.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Perhaps because "A.I." doesn't understand anything, it just makes plausible output based on its training data. LLM is a much better term, because intelligence has connotations of understanding, whereas model does not.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Could just be a muscle-memory typo. Much more likely to be typing 2020 these days than 2002.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> Making music is very easy. Making music people want to listen to is hard, mind-bogglingly so. Agreed, although making music is "easy" once you've put in the hours to learn how to make music, and getting to somewhat profe
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Still suffers the same problem that all Voice Recognition seems to suffer; cannot reliably detect that the speaker has finished speaking. This was almost worse though because it did feel like a rude person just interrupting instead of a dum
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Reducing the problems of Brexit to the Northern Ireland situation is quite blinkered. Businesses (especially smaller ones) have suffered immensely as a result of supply chain issues, lopsided bureaucracy and red-tape.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
I always find it fascinating to discover another banana hater; we are a vanishingly small minority.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significan
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best this is good enough sell for me, and it's like sub 1-in-50 that it's "auto-complete on mushrooms" (again my exper
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> and when I talk, I do not know exactly what I will say before I say it Using voice with Gemini on my phone I've found it to be nearly useless: - it decides I've stopped speaking when there is a small pause whilst I think of t
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Ah, cool. I have a friend who lives there, so knew the name from that.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
What led to the name choice?
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> Open source attracts some of the very worst users I don't think it's even just that, it seems to be something about the price. I work on a piece of closed-source free software, and we consistently get support requests from un
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
What happens when everyone has deliveroo premium? The "priority" boarding on budget airlines is already like that and I'd be surprised if there isn't already a "VIP priority" boarding for an extra fee.
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
Definitely a bit a stretch to include the program counter, status register and stack pointer as "registers". Of course they all are technically registers, but they really can't be used for anything useful the way the index re
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by richrichardsson 2y ago
> just one or two personal vids and then I'm probably done with this for good. I think you're underestimating the skill involved in making the flip book. While you may just have one or two videos to make into flip books, I stro
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YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved(bsky.app)
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