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by wybiral 8y ago
> "Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead." That sounds more like a branding g
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Withholding information about military strategy or the operations of an intelligence agency to the press is one thing. Meticulous and widespread censoring of phrases like "rubber duckies" just because it might remind people of Tia
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That's not apples-for-apples. Yes, history and society are subject to shifts and bias. But do you think that there's a hidden branch of US government dictating which books are used or what words aren't allowed, carefully craf
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It's not illegal just because Twitter doesn't allow it on their platform. You can run your own site, tattoo is on your face, say it to your friends... As long as you aren't directly inciting violence against others. That&#x27
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> On the other hand, people in US enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically incorrect topics in public. I can, and do, publicly express politically incorrect (and sometimes downright incorrect) opinions in
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> My country (US) doesn't have a great human rights track record either, but at least we're allowed to talk about it. Exactly. No country has a perfect history but by confronting past mistakes you have a chance to learn from th
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> TLDR: it's asm.js's fault. > In order to meet our performance goals for fast asm.js validation and startup, the WebAssembly engine does not do up-front compilation of Wasm code coming from asm.js. It sounds like the fault
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Wow! I didn't realize that Chrome sent the audio stream to Google. Thank's for the heads-up. Edit: This means that I may have to look into adding the recognition server-side locally. FireFox had a working experimental API at one p
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My plan is to run this on a local device (probably a Raspberry Pi) and add server-side functionality to get around the browser limits. The rationale is that I can write my own commands that better fit my needs and which have access to local
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Show HN: Open Source Voice Assistant for Simplicity(github.com)
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The downside is that they tend to be less reliable in terms of obeying the specs and break unexpectedly. I've been doing reviews of different dev boards on my channel and have had to send multiple cheap Chinese boards back because they
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I've experimented with those ESP32 chips from a few sources on a handful of boards (lots of cheapo knockoffs floating around) and haven't been happy with the performance or reliability of any of them for BLE. So far Nordic nRF52 h
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> Why people continue to put such blind faith in government is beyond me. This attitude seems really misanthropic to me. Government is people. Elected people here in the US. Yeah, there have been mistakes and there will continue to be mi
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But it's excessive to jump to that conclusion so early in situations like this without evidence that it's even a nation state or that it's not a foreign power if it is.
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Or it could have been cyber criminals. There's no indication it's nation state APT or anything. Nice try with the spin there though ;)
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We don't know that it's a nation state at all. Or that they were specifically targeting newspapers. So it seems a bit early to speculate on who it isn't.
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It depends when you're trying to do with them, but the network speed of the Pi is definitely a bottleneck for me. If it weren't for that, the throughput could definitely be used for some cool stuff even with modest CPU/RAM. M
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I don't do any 3d modeling at all but I use Blender for its sequence editor to produce my YouTube videos. Being free open source, Python scriptable, and cross platform makes it better than any alternative video sequence editor for me.
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It's more of an internet culture change. People used to be more into making and curating their own little corner of the web and that's how the early internet felt. Now everyone gathers at the garden between the walls. https:&#x2F
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Neural Network Learns Air Hockey by Watching You Play(github.com)
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I vote we return to the age of late Geocities, forums, and early blogs. Less conformity in design, less "social" by modern definition, but more people who just liked one topic enough to build something about it and communities for
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That's an interesting contrast to the increasingly non-interventionism sentiment around here, but I agree.
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As sentient animals emerging from nature I think the ability to look away from atrocity understandable. It permeates nature to its core. Predation, disease, decay, and death are everywhere outside of our human distraction bubble. What'
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You can also decrease the concentration. I smoked for years and eventually switched to vaping for a few months while decreasing the quantity I was using. The problem with cigarettes is that you have to buy 20 of them at a time and they&#x27
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Qcsimulator: Open Source Quantum Circuit Simulator(github.com)
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> Events like what? Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial. And the fact that it isn't an uncommon occurrence.
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It's interesting how much people still talk about metadata collection (protected behind the requirement of itemized FISA court approval) because "big mean US is evil" while ignoring events like this.
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Pixl.js: JavaScript Embedded Development Kit(youtube.com)
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The problem is that it's the norm in the US. If you have a service job (waiting tables, delivering pizza, etc) that's just how it works. You'd have to change the type of work you do because it doesn't differ much between
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They're related, but computer science has nothing to do with how electrons interact in different materials. Not that it isn't useful for people to know how the lower level components actually work. For that matter, people building

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