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by xhevahir 4y ago
The obscurantism is typical of the discourse surrounding these machines. The creator, Roger Linn, gives a pretty good interview here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/roger-linn...
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by xhevahir 4y ago
It's much better to play go against human competitors; there are several servers where you can do that. The best place for tips is probably the Sensei's Library website.
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by xhevahir 4y ago
> and it's not useful for singing, for example. There's this: http://zeehio.github.io/festival/doc/Singing-Synthesis.html It won't sound as good as Vocaloid, but it uses XML with singing synthesi
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by xhevahir 4y ago
That sounds like a very big and complicated undertaking, both politically and militarily. Turkey has NATO's second-largest army, for one thing.
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by xhevahir 4y ago
> And you don't even border to Russia! The Russian threat to Sweden isn't merely academic. There was even speculation a few years ago that Russia might invade the Swedish island of Gotland in order to better position their miss
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by xhevahir 4y ago
I'm guessing the inefficiency-is-good formulation was chosen for rhetorical effect rather than because OP believes inefficiency is good in itself.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I seem to remember reading that in some areas of southern China the wheel didn't see widespread use until the twentieth century.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
The best swipe-typing I've ever used was on my Windows phone of five or six years ago. GBoard is so-so, Apple's is terrible, and--what's really odd to my mind--SwiftKey is pretty bad, too, despite belonging to the same compan
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I've read stuff before about Shopify's use of Nix. Since this post doesn't mention Nix, I take it they don't use it in this department of the company?
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by xhevahir 5y ago
There's also his antisemitism and what you might call his Christian (specifically, Russian-Orthodox) chauvinism, and his hostility to Western culture. Like the bloggers say, he's not very consistent in his positions, at least when
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by xhevahir 5y ago
While I agree that this action sounds ridiculous, Dostoevsky has other marks against him than his merely being Russian. Some Dostoevsky scholars published a statement here: https://bloggerskaramazov.com/2022/02/28&
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Some of Stalin's poems, credited to "Anonymous," used to be included in anthologies of Georgian poetry and memorized by schoolkids.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
This is more of a general comment on the subject, but I don't agree with the emphasis on the Internet's role in American political polarization. The Internet definitely has exacerbated the problem, but I think the writing was on t
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I can't get past the paywall to find out whether they mention Chrome Flex, but this article talks about Google's policy on using Flex with old Chromebooks: https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/chrome-os-flex-
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by xhevahir 5y ago
"...Erdogan's "Southern stream" into 4 directions and thus began Syria, and this was after Soleimani..." I haven't paid much attention to this stuff in recent years, so I googled these and found an interesting
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by xhevahir 5y ago
This reminded me of a quote by Kissinger: "What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to justify. Popular literature and films often depict the opposite – policymakers as the helpless tools of intelligence experts. In th
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by xhevahir 5y ago
>when it's all ~70F US (i.e. Los Angeles), farming there isn't hard, maybe the soil is bad,whaha... You don't mention the huge, state-managed infrastructure needed to bring water to those places(which seem to be close to e
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Do you mean TornadoFX, or some other kind of JavaFX-with-Kotlin?
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Is this tendency consistent over several years, though? Because there are some pretty stark differences between the Trump foreign policy and that of Biden or Obama. I don't imagine that many normal users would be inclined to echo the w
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I came here expecting to read lots of discussion about why this might or might not be the case. Oh, well.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
"Benevolent junta," maybe.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
You're a lot more pessimistic here than in your blog post!
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by xhevahir 5y ago
We don't do that because business lobbies have managed to prevent it.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Fair enough. Although I still think people should not have expected so vague an ethos to survive the transition to a huge, publicly traded company.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
"Don't be evil" is a dreadful credo. Allows a ridiculous amount of wiggle room. The fact that these very smart people formulated their beliefs in such a self-consciously childish manner should have been taken as a warning.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Sounds like this blog post: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
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by xhevahir 5y ago
The funny thing is, when it comes to books and tutorials and such, there's way more material available at the beginner's level than at the intermediate or beyond. Seems like after a certain point you're expected to understand
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Seems like the kind of thing that's a lot more feasible in a functioning welfare state like NL.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
> Music theory is, in my experience, typically taught as a list of facts to remember. Yes, but accompanying those facts is a set of phenomena that you're supposed to experience physically.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Does it really work so well in politics? I've read in various places that a lot of political advertising in America functions basically as a means for channeling donors' money to a few K Street firms belonging to party insiders.

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