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by wraptile 5y ago
> now spending years discovering why we have regulations, laws, contracts, courts etc. Which is funny as for the longest time crypto's argument was that FIAT regulations/manipulation only protects the rich, not individuals. Wel
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by wraptile 5y ago
You just keep appending spaces until commit hash sounds human! Check out latest release: h0rs35l0v3b4tt3ry4cid5! Eventually people will start random commits like "random commit to change hash" when commits accidently result in rac
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by wraptile 5y ago
As someone who did a fair amount of traveling Uber/Lyft/Grab (or whatever local app) is by far the best thing that has happened to tourism/travel in the last century and I'm not over exaggerating. The ability to go anywh
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by wraptile 5y ago
I have a rather weird question: can Elementary be tiled and keyboard driven (at least for windows)? I like the general app visuals and their GUI philosophy but floating windows are so passé.
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by wraptile 5y ago
> Surely it implies an ability to count incrementally Not necessarily. It could be just ability observe scale not individual numbers. i.e. 3 bags look big enough amount of bags for a walk not that there are 3 bags. Would the dog not come
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by wraptile 5y ago
There are lot of alternative youtube apps too though I can't imagine it being a big chunk of the market.
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by wraptile 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm surrounded by an algorithm bubble but content on TikTok is just so wholesome. It's really refreshing!
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by wraptile 5y ago
> but I feel like they all have a "neural net" quality to them it is getting significantly better though! The first AI art generators were just dreams now we're getting decent stuff as long as you stick to nature concepts.
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by wraptile 5y ago
My first one turned out to be pretty great! https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/70lx2Il45nK1rmcE1D... I've been playing around with AI art generators for a while now and they are always great fun. Though it
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by wraptile 5y ago
because Macbooks aren't great machines: - expensive. - unergonomic. - locked in. I need macbook for work but I use Linux personally. Would be great if I could have native toolset on both. Also there are hundreds of perfectly valid reas
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by wraptile 5y ago
> but I can't really claim the esteemed mantle of true open source because it's AGPLv3 isn't it? Copyleft _is_ considered to be true open source by most people AFAIK!
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by wraptile 5y ago
That's not true at all. There are plenty of cheery vaporwave songs mentioned in the article itself: saint pepsi [1], macross 82-99 [2] etc. all early vaporwave entries based on city-pop which is as cheery as you can get! In fact tha
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by wraptile 5y ago
The solution to tyranny of the majority is NOT to hide down-voted comments and provide sorting options. Big problem with reddit is that it hides comments below certain threshold essentially silencing minority opinions.
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by wraptile 5y ago
> Google's big insight is that how other people talk about a website is more important than how the website talks about itself, and its ranking algorithm weights accordingly. I'm having trouble believing that seeing how top res
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by wraptile 5y ago
> Bummer the charging port is on top. That's inconvenient if you're playing and charging at the same time. I'd argue it's the opposite. I always struggle with my switch as the cable get in the way or smushes into my b
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by wraptile 5y ago
What does this do that Anki doesn't? I really don't get the thought process if releasing a product that competes versus free software and does _less_
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by wraptile 5y ago
Anki is free software - this is far from being a replacement. Also anki3 is the replacement. Its rather modern and python base is well written and documented.
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by wraptile 5y ago
it is absurdly ironic that OpenAi is turning out to be one of the biggest opennes perpetrators in the near-future/present.
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by wraptile 5y ago
We kinda have to accept that - we don't have to accept this. You can't interface with humans but you can interface with one of the biggest corporate tech giants straight up leeching from explicitly public and free work for their o
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by wraptile 5y ago
> The case debates the legal right for Google to use copyrighted books in its training database in order to train its Google Book Search algorithm That's not even remotely the same thing.
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by wraptile 5y ago
> Proof-of-stake is basically an oligarchy though, those with funds call the shots How is it different from proof of work? People with access to ASIC miners and cheap electricity call the shots, guess who those people are? Proof is stake
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by wraptile 5y ago
I seriously don't understand "bitcoin has no tech" argument. These people must be very priviledged and stationary if they never encountered issues with current banking systems. At some places transfering money at local level
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by wraptile 5y ago
That's not true everywhere. My transferwise from EU to Asia takes a good week to arrive and still costs more than Bitcoin and significantly more than any altcoin or lightning network.
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by wraptile 5y ago
Reading material is laughably bad and as far as I remember is not even available in the mobile app (or at least was for the longest time). So people are just randomly guessing grammar rules and forums are constantly spammed with the same ex
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by wraptile 5y ago
I gave it a go and it's realy primitive. Just random sentence flashcards with no structure, learning material, spelling romantization and other features you'd expect. It does have audio but it's machine voice that goes extrem
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by wraptile 5y ago
There's an open source duolingo alternative Librelingo: https://github.com/kantord/LibreLingo Duolingo's material is basically crowd-sourced, why not contribute it to a _free_ community project instead?
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by wraptile 5y ago
Generally app/website courses suck because of conflicting business models. You need to seriously read and understand grammar to learn language and employ spaced repetition memorization. The apps usually do the later not the first one b
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by wraptile 5y ago
Seems like low level programmers finally getting an enjoyable, modern, free language and are getting a bit loose with it!
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by wraptile 5y ago
How do you think bank accounts get hacked? It's much easier to yank a password/credit card number people use daily. The benefit of private key is you only need to use it once. Then store it away in a safe or _bank_. More UX will d
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by wraptile 5y ago
You don't go your shop with gold bars either. You store them in your bank account and use 2nd-layer currency (fiat used to be tied to gold). Same way you store bitcoin and use 2nd-layer currencies like lightning-network. I'm not s

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