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   by rozab 6y ago

   In some use cases, like OCR, the accuracy of these guesses can be established in a scientific way. And it tends to be very good.
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   by rozab 6y ago

   Why do people still use imgur after all the antipatterns they've pushed? When I tap the direct image links in this thread I get greeted with an extremely slow infinite scrolling page, social media features galore, and intrusive request
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   by rozab 6y ago

   Jonathan Blow has an excellent talk on this topic in relation to software. https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk
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   by rozab 6y ago

   croc is my favourite way of transferring files between computers I control. https://github.com/schollz/croc It's similar to magic wormhole if you've heard of that, but a bit more polished. I think for me it o
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   by rozab 6y ago

   I don't know about you but I am not currently standing in a literal queue for a vaccine... How is time being wasted?
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   by rozab 6y ago

   Perhaps the architects of this station once read the instructions on a packet of toothpicks.
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   by rozab 6y ago

   The GitHub ToS allow users to view and fork the project on GitHub, but otherwise normal copyright rules apply. https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...
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   by rozab 6y ago

   Cloudflare? Wonder if any were pointed at their lava lamps ;)
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   by rozab 6y ago

   Roblox is not a game as such, it's a platform for user generated games. I'm not sure why you have such a strong opinion on this if you don't even know what it is
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Check out Perturbator - Dangerous Days. Synthwave used to be very heavily influenced by metal, both aesthetically and musically, but a lot of that has been lost as the 'chill youtube mix' side has taken over
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    by rozab 6y ago

    They are freakily alien. Hagfish and lampreys (the jawless fish) are in a separate group to all other vertebrates that split off before jaws evolved. Even weird fish like seahorses are more closely related to us than these creatures. It&#x2
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    by rozab 6y ago

    I find the majority of SO questions in search results have been wrongly closed as duplicates
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    by rozab 6y ago

    I think it's not completely inconceivable that this could be regulated some day with music streaming. There are zero technical hurdles (unlike with complex apps like Google docs), and because there is such potential for decoupling the
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Hysterical articles tend to use the word 'ban' when they really mean something like 'choosing not to air' or 'removing from the curriculum'.
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    by rozab 6y ago

    The space shuttle had no escape mechanism, and they also did no substantial unmanned testing.
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Hundreds of species became extinct in the Quaternary extinction event, and wooly mammoths were among the latest casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction#Extincti... Why the mammoth and none of th
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Have you ever noticed how sometimes when you look at your watch, the second hand seems to linger for slightly more than a second? This is due to saccadic masking. When your eyes move quickly, your brain cannot process the visual data. So it
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    by rozab 6y ago

    To be clear, the author doesn't seem to be associated with the alternatives listed at the bottom, although they do have a single line below a divider about a wholly unrelated side project. I don't think there's a problem with
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    by rozab 6y ago

    I think it's aimed at people who say this to themselves (there are plenty in the thread).
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    by rozab 6y ago

    At the very least it would be easy to measure the vaccines effect on severity by comparing the rate of hospitalisations to the rate of infection
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Does anyone else find this research kind of creepy? It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-vBhGk9F4
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    by rozab 6y ago

    So am I right in saying that this money went to other players/farmers, rather than the devs? Did you manage to sell your account in the end? Do you intend to seek professional help about your addiction? From my perspective, it definite
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    by rozab 6y ago

    >Is anyone speaking publicly and/or thinking deeply on this future of everyone in the value chain being able to deny freedom of speech? Yes. Lots of people, all the time, everywhere. Please let it stop.
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Part 4, starting at 18:03, details how UK TV shows can completely bypass the rules. I found it very convincing, and I now think our rules are insufficient.
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    by rozab 6y ago

    There was good conversation about this when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917537 I'll repeat what I said then: that the V-22 set directly funded arms manufacturers and thus was a huge jump past th
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Why would you want to simulate the experience of looking through a small window from a few feet away?
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    by rozab 6y ago

    All major UK ISPs abide to Ofcom's Code of Practice which means you have the right to get out of the contract with no consequences if they fail to reach their minimum advertised speed. This feels like a bit of a raw deal, since they ge
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    by rozab 6y ago

    This page someone noticed is very interesting. https://newshimalaya.com/2021/02/09/%E2%9A%93-t273741-invest... I was sure I'd seen this website before, and sure enough, it's scraping and rehosting a
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    by rozab 6y ago

    I use this feature all the time. Maybe you're getting A/B tested?
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    by rozab 6y ago

    Wow, today I learned that Neil Armstrong took bits of the Wright Flyer to the moon.