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by smlacy 5y ago
Twitter started giving me that empty, robotic, "algorithmic feed" feeling a month or two ago, so I un-followed everyone and removed the app from my phone and logged out all sessions via the web. I've mostly replaced my online
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by smlacy 5y ago
> Still, for a business with stricter security standards, it would be ideal to do a clean reimage of all new laptops regardless of vendor, and specifically add only the necessary drivers, etc. This is what I've done with virtually e
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by smlacy 5y ago
"Microsoft makes your kids use FAT" would have been better? :)
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by smlacy 5y ago
How does this compare to Artemis?
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by smlacy 5y ago
No list of text-based music systems is complete without the granddaddy of them all: [LilyPond]( http://lilypond.org/ ) Alda seems greatly inspired by the syntax of LilyPond, and in fact, I actually think the musical rendering
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by smlacy 6y ago
The "SF Pro" font family is directly downloadable from Apple and free for personal use. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
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by smlacy 7y ago
Forgot to mention one important detail: How big is the JavaScript source to the BlurHash decoding algorithm? I'm guessing that it's approximately the size of a single image, possibly quite a bit more.
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by smlacy 7y ago
"Utterly private" is a very odd term here. At the very least, Apple knows which sites you're signing into, and has the unique e-mail addresses used at those sites, and has likely issued the authentication tokens for those sit
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by smlacy 7y ago
How does account recovery work?
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by smlacy 7y ago
I wonder if this is actually: "Larry and Sergey resign over cancellation of TGIF"?
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by smlacy 7y ago
So this is just Box 2.0 Signature Edition, right?
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Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++(github.com)
3 points by smlacy 7y ago|0 comments
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by smlacy 7y ago
The real question should be: How much improvement over time in the efficiency of this process could be expected? 1.1x? 2x? 10x? 100x? Every new technology goes through a refinement cycle where costs & resources are reduced, and I would
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by smlacy 8y ago
Fuck this gatekeeping
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by smlacy 8y ago
You'd be better served hosting this content on a traditional blogging / content platform rather than imgur, IMHO. "Picked up without credit" on a platform that provides no attribution whatsoever isn't really a hill
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by smlacy 8y ago
How about a list of all the things that really work great? I've been using Linux on the desktop for nearly 20 years and I'll have to say it's fantastic, despite the occasional headache, which seems to be at a far less frequen
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by smlacy 8y ago
It's even more fun (better?) to encode 1-bin images directly into source code using the Unicode block character set! You can get 4 pixels per character, and do "lossless" representation of simple binary images: (UGH! HN doe
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by smlacy 8y ago
Why am I reading this?
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by smlacy 8y ago
Fails my "WTF is it" test right out of the box. The first paragraph of any software README should answer: What is it? What does it do? Why would I use it? ORCA is a ... that ... and can help you ...
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by smlacy 8y ago
I agree it gets closer, but as is with much of speech synthesis, it still to me ends up sounding like "a male talking in a high-pitched voice" and not "a female". In addition, this would imply that only males can talk in
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by smlacy 8y ago
I meant "text to speech engine" then I guess.
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by smlacy 8y ago
Pondering what makes this sound "male".
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by smlacy 8y ago
Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?
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by smlacy 8y ago
When you say "rest of the hardware" are you referring specifically to Google's Pixel phones? From a hardware perspective, they seem pretty great. Or, are you referring to the phone industry in general, and how they're u
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by smlacy 8y ago
Lots of marketing-speak and broad claims, not very much evidence to support them. Anyone know anything more about this project and what the underlying architecture is?
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Neuton: A “disruptive” neural network framework(neuton.ai)
2 points by smlacy 8y ago|1 comments
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by smlacy 8y ago
Unless the ramdisk (AKA tmpfs in modern Linux) is compressed. Many low footprint Linux installations now include swapping to zram, which is compressed. The net effect is positive since you usually have an abundance of spare CPU cycles.
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by smlacy 8y ago
So?
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by smlacy 8y ago
Is this writing style the new millennial version of leetspeak or something? I find it extremely immature sounding, very grating, not funny at all.
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by smlacy 9y ago
There are no secrets.

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