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by scandox 6y ago
Well you should evaluate ABBYY to see how well it performs as it is one of most widely used commercial applications for OCR. I used it for years to scan our bank statements (before our bank could export data). It was the only thing I ever f
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by scandox 6y ago
Do you mean "copro" as in shit? Or "corpo" as in corporate?
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by scandox 6y ago
I guess it could fit in 5.25"?
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by scandox 6y ago
Tech workers have a much stronger hand with their employers than many other groups. As a result I think we often don't see the kind of power imbalance that is going on and how hard it is to simply "do the rational thing" whic
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by scandox 6y ago
I'm based in Ireland. I think your view is a bit one dimensional in terms of the employer-employee relationship. A lot of soft pressures exist for employees even when their actual employment is secure.
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by scandox 6y ago
Flexibility sounds good but what I have seen over the last year is that all boundaries in terms of when and where work begins and ends are being eroded. This started accidentally but it is now being actively exploited on an unprecedented sc
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by scandox 6y ago
How people handle this level of disaster is always very revealing. In every case I've ever experienced someone kept their head and a solution was found. Usually there was reputational damage but surprisingly most times the actual busin
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by scandox 6y ago
I think is a fair comment. The people involved probably wouldn't give the steam off their coffee to the someone struggling right in front of them.
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by scandox 6y ago
Description is not advocacy
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by scandox 6y ago
> Being judgmental about how others use energy they pay for reeks of hypocrisy, virtue signaling and holier-than-thou attitude. No it's just a value judgement. We all have to be able to make them. - Premise: Bitcoin is not important
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by scandox 6y ago
Connecting flights used to be quite a casual affair from what I can make out. My father fell asleep on a flight to Portugal in the 1970s and woke up halfway to Brazil. He then spent 3 months in Brazil just for the hell of it.
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by scandox 6y ago
> Everything involved with email is pain. Wish I'd seen this comment 4 years ago.
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by scandox 6y ago
I would have certainly felt the same way until recently but the timeline laid out in Shoshana Zuboff's book on Surveillance Capitalism made me re-evaluate that.
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by scandox 6y ago
Slightly OT but the significant thing about "Don't be Evil" is that Google had already taken the fundamental choices that were evil. The slogan itself is blatantly self-conscious - an acknowledgement of the insane power that
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by scandox 6y ago
Talleyrand related a story about Bourienne, who missed out on becoming the Prefect of Police of Paris and 200,000 a year because he travelled from Hamburg in a broken down carriage and lost 24 hours reaching the city to grab the opportunity
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by scandox 6y ago
In Ireland sadly we have a Landlord culture and many landlords move people on regularly to ensure they don't get any rights or simply get too comfortable.
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by scandox 6y ago
I saw this at its first run at The National Theatre in 1993. I certainly enjoyed it a lot but even at fifteen my feeling was that it was a kind of imaginative con job making people think they had understood something complex when in fact on
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by scandox 6y ago
Another one to avoid is using a CNAME in the MX. It will work until it doesn't.
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Coronavirus in Slovakia: What Is Going On(spectator.sme.sk)
4 points by scandox 6y ago|1 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
I hated most of my schooling and I have no illusions about that. But the OP has a kind of reverse nostalgia which is just as deceiving as it's positive counterpart. Many people enjoyed school. Some people had better or worse school cul
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by scandox 6y ago
I think they mean mathematically how could it lose more than 100%.
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Silver Thursday(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by scandox 6y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
I always remember as a child my Father explaining how these two lads in 1980s tried to corner the market for Silver but found out ... There's always more Silver. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
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Silver prices soar as GameStop retail frenzy moves on to metal(irishtimes.com)
1 points by scandox 6y ago|2 comments
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by scandox 6y ago
So is analogic signal processing inherently more efficient then?
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by scandox 6y ago
> Digital signal processing is computationally intensive, so you’ll probably need a dual core processor so GRC runs smoothly. Can someone explain to a radio layperson how come there are plenty of cheap, tiny radios if DSP is computationa
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by scandox 6y ago
To a caveman your desire to eat regular meals, live past 45, sleep in warmth and not have to fight to stay alive each day would seem "coddled". As a society we get to decide what is a reasonable level of comfort and protection and
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by scandox 6y ago
This was always true for female actors, but up to about the late 1970s male actors - even leading ones - could have any kind of head on them ... Some wonderfully charismatic ugliness going on. I think the pendulum will swing back eventually
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by scandox 6y ago
Ok. Well I stand educated.
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by scandox 6y ago
Are you comparing political suspensions with Habbo preventing child grooming? I think that is how it could be interpreted by someone that only knows Habbo for that.

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