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by umvi 2y ago
I'd use this to do a quick and dirty localization, but quality localization is hard and expensive even for skilled humans. For example, see Super Mario RPG for SNES's localization which had a bunch of idioms and references to othe
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by umvi 2y ago
"AI powered algorithm" or just plain old Fourier Transforms?
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by umvi 2y ago
I'm demanding more/better code-completion style AI for sure. It's an invaluable part of my workflow now and I'm happy paying a monthly fee for the service.
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by umvi 2y ago
It's already not easy for billionaires to become president. Ross Perot tried and failed miserably.
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by umvi 2y ago
Seems like the alternative is equally dystopian though. If ex-presidents don't have immunity for their actions in office, then every ex-president will have to fend off a flurry of lawsuits and prosecution attempts by the opposite party
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by umvi 2y ago
Framed another way, anyone crazy enough to run for a position in which your opponents will comb through all of your actions with a fine tooth comb to imprison you after the position term is over likely won't plan on their term ever bei
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by umvi 2y ago
So the US has to declare war on Russia and China in order to support Ukraine and Taiwan? Declaring war on those superpowers would be a serious act of aggression and start WW3.
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by umvi 2y ago
It means: On the one hand: if you are president and you authorize the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima to get Japan to surrender without further loss of American life, you won't later be prosecuted for war crimes when your po
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Ask HN: Have I lost my search-fu?
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by umvi 2y ago
This article seems like a rehash of the recent Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akmv1bsz1M For example, compare the picture of Karl Schwarzschild in the article to 7:54 in the Veritasium video. Just a coin
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by umvi 2y ago
Probably a dumb question, but... is it basically proven then that gravity doesn't exist (it's effects are just a result of spacetime's geometry?). Because it seems like these gravitational waves experiments show that spacetim
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by umvi 2y ago
Seems to have worked for gluten, at least. i.e. Consumers look for "gluten free" labelling rather than "This product contains gluten" labelling. If I were the FDA I'd standardize the nutrition label to have a clearl
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by umvi 2y ago
At this point it seems like it might be more effective to mandate the opposite: labels that indicate that the product is allergen free for X class of allergen. That way the default (no label) = might contain allergens, and the presence of t
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by umvi 2y ago
I wonder if most of the dangerous levels of kinetic energy in the potato would have bled off from air resistance though by the time it reached your ship. Sort of like how you can shoot a shotgun at animals that are way off in the distance w
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by umvi 2y ago
"The western-US example in the OP [2] has no 4-clique, yet it requires 4 colours." It has something very similar to a 4-clique that can be simplified to a 4-clique for the purposes of the coloring exercise: https://imgu
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by umvi 2y ago
Seems easy to intuitively prove that 5 colors is impossible. In order to need 5 colors, you'd need to construct a graph with 5 nodes where each of the nodes connects to all other nodes, but without any edges crossing : https:/&#
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by umvi 2y ago
> If 2 black holes collide - they join together. Presumably though some of the matter "escapes" as energy released during the merger, in the form of gravitational waves.
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by umvi 2y ago
McAfee/Norton/etc. could license signed "scarecrow" versions of their products for use with something like this so that it's impossible for the malware to distinguish a scarecrow version of MacAfee from the real thi
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by umvi 2y ago
Sorry, I guess being in my 30s makes me old because I have no idea what "based" means even after looking it up. I originally thought it was a typo for "biased", but then I see other people using the word in the same thre
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by umvi 2y ago
Thanks, my mistake, this is what I was referring to. Apparently "Bud" would brag about "rolling" B-52s ( https://www.historylink.org/File/8716 ), but the fatal crash was actually just a low-altitude s
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by umvi 2y ago
Not as scary as flying upside down which is what I originally thought based on title alone. Most people are familiar with "barrel roll" but by comparison this just looks like wiggling. Counterintuitively though my understanding is
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by umvi 2y ago
I personally am against changing of last names at marriage and encouraged my wife not to change hers. But to directly address your point... the main difference here is that "dead names" and "dead pronouns" are considered
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by umvi 2y ago
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree. I personally think it's simpler to continue to refer to "Chelsea Manning" as "Bradley Manning" with he/him, even if they decided later to completely c
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by umvi 2y ago
Yes, it's simpler because it's immutable. It's the mutability of identity that causes so much confusion and complexity. In Lynn's case she was a man the first 30+ years of life and even married and had kids. Then later s
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by umvi 2y ago
I think it's possible to have a simpler social classification system without treating trans people poorly. There are many other rare mental issues that we can't treat well and that we don't bend all of society to try to all
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by umvi 2y ago
> There is a known, massively complex, relationship between sex and gender but it's not 1:1 You could argue though that it's only complex because we (collectively) decided to complicate it in order to accommodate the preference
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by umvi 2y ago
> A persons right to exist is not political I don't think anyone disagrees with that, I think the disagreement comes from the way that activists insist that the best solution for treating [gender dysphoria, etc] is to "socially
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by umvi 2y ago
I thought it was just that you get hit with fines if your vehicle doesn't have a minimum mpg fuel efficiency and it's hard to make smaller trucks and SUVs with enough efficiency to avoid the fines
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by umvi 2y ago
5,000 repositories? Wow, NYT has a lot more software projects than I would have guessed. I've worked at some medium sized software companies (if FAANG is considered "big") that didn't have near that many repos.
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by umvi 2y ago
This guy is great. My favorite of his videos is the one where he has an NES playing SNES games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0&t=142s

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