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by swores 1y ago
Even if it couldn't be perfectly replicated, I'm sure it could've been done in some way before - after all, it's almost 20 years since someone set up a telnet service which broadcast football World Cup games as converted
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by swores 1y ago
They're sometimes used as scare quotes, but they're not scare quote marks they're just quote marks. If quoting a part of somebody's comment to ask about it you're supposed to use them. (That said, I don't know
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by swores 1y ago
Yes, absolutely!
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by swores 1y ago
Anecdotally, I played football (soccer) as a kid, and multiple coaches taught me that it's better to rest with weight on balls of feet rather than heels for the benefit of being able to quickly move in any direction rather than being p
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by swores 1y ago
There is rainforest in the UK... it's just temperate rainforest, not tropical. (And it is as under threat as tropical - https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/ha... )
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by swores 1y ago
Thanks!
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by swores 1y ago
Thanks!
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by swores 1y ago
Thanks!
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by swores 1y ago
Sure, but if they get to keep $x per item for both own brand and other brand products, but have zero expenses for other brand products vs. having to pay to create/ship/etc. the own brand versions, you wouldn't talk about what
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by swores 1y ago
I'm talking about historic choices rather than current options - but yes I agree that even if they wanted to, they'd face legal trouble if they tried now to replace Safari with an exclusive deal for Chrome to be the only browser.
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by swores 1y ago
I think it's a bit misleading to call Safari a "high margin product" based on that logic, considering they could have made even more profit by not making it at all and just charge Google the exact same money to let them ship
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by swores 1y ago
The best AI voice generation is already much more realistic than the typical TikTok robotic voices, and they're only going to get better. It won't be long before the only reason anyone will generate artificial voices that are obvi
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by swores 1y ago
Having just found myself in a similar situation to the one you were complaining about, I'd like to withdraw and apologise for my previous comment :D
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by swores 1y ago
Am I right to assume that it's easy to locate the source of ham radio signals? i.e. if there's a blanket ban, can you use your radio hidden in your house or can the government easily find out that the user they've noticed on
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by swores 1y ago
> " It still basically should be, so long as well-designed sites... " I believe that their point wasn't that "the web" has intrinsically changed, it was that too many sites are not well designed in this respect.
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by swores 1y ago
Question to people talking about the various alternatives that already exist for this: does anyone know if there's something like OpenRouter that's open source and that, either as the only interface or preferably as an optional al
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by swores 1y ago
I'm talking about calling it a loan, not officially getting rid of it. Who would take them to court to argue that it's actually a disposal rather than a loan?
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by swores 1y ago
If the museum were to argue that it is more in students' interest to see a poster explaining the importance of loaning something back to the country it came from (along with either a photo, or for anything where it's feasible even
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by swores 1y ago
Surely there's no legal reason why the British Museum couldn't, if they wanted to, "loan" things out for a pittance in return, and indefinitely? The law may prevent them from saying "we are giving these back to Gree
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by swores 1y ago
I... don't believe that's the case? Though happy to be proven wrong. Unless perhaps you mean a moderator of a different forum, though that wouldn't really be relevant to their reading a thread of HN comments on a subject that
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by swores 1y ago
It's human nature to want to guess at possible explanations for things that are unusual and unexpected. If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing you to read through comments on a thread of people making them! (I hope - so
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by swores 1y ago
Would the result (a fine of that amount) have been identical had the document been prepared by a paralegal or junior lawyer, who with no use of AI accidentally left in a "John Doe vs I Hope I Can Find A Case Like This" citation? (
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by swores 1y ago
I definitely hope so! (And hope it won't take that long, but it wouldn't surprise me.)
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by swores 1y ago
UK used to do it the European way, but has adopted American way since (IIRC) about 50 years ago. As a Brit I wish we still used the traditional way. (And despite Brexit, UK still is a European country!)
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by swores 1y ago
> "Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?" You say that like you're unaware that huge numbers of people (I doubt anywhere near a majority, but significant numbers certainly) DO think that he
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by swores 1y ago
You're replying to a quote about where their skill falls compared to others, and then saying it's wrong based on their contribution to the company. You're not wrong that it means they aren't top 1% in terms of value as a
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by swores 1y ago
I don't know about the person you're asking, but I have known many people (both programmers and consultants in other areas like marketing, game design, etc.) who billed at more than that hourly rate, here in Europe (where salaries
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by swores 1y ago
Isn't the idea of brain size being a useful proxy for intelligence quite outdated? Partly because there are animals with larger brains which we now know are not very intelligent, with no assumptions needed, and partly because some of
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by swores 1y ago
Ah, OK that does now make sense to me, thanks. I think I didn't manage to see that meaning because the comment it was replying to had nothing to do with humans thinking orcas want to eat them, it was about orcas bringing food (like dea
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by swores 1y ago
Killer Whales, aka Orcas, actually are dolphins! And they got their name as a mistranslation into English - if I remember correctly they were originally named in Spanish as "killers of whales" or "whale killers", becau

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