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It's not even a question of AI. In the past epoch, when we used to own (rather than rent/subscribe to) software, it was common to use desktop apps such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. They didn't pretend they could do a great job out of the box - the result would be just like you get with Google, Amazon and the rest. In order to get good results, you needed to train it first. It didn't last long, but after that it produced exactly what you said (with exceptions like less usual proper names etc.). I wouldn't ever accept the quality of all these "modern" transcription APIs, they look like a step backward to me.
There's no point in getting uppity about whether the picture frames were used as markers to improve Simultaneous Location and Mapping, the demo was shot from a fixed Point of View, it was too lame for SLAM to even be a factor. You can't call fake on something that isn't there to begin with.

https://youtu.be/OLtDeonCAYE
It seems Google is far big enough to handle its own Linux distro;
So it is very strange why they haven't done it since they even have created their own programing language.
I think "made" is when you're on a few company boards and in the old boys' club, and you can spend the rest of your life patting each other on the back and voting for pay raises for each other.
What would you do in a traditional architecture?
At last someone smarter than me, agrees with me. I've been telling people the same thing since {I didn't invest in BTC when it was $8}. :)
> I'd love to hear why, i'm just curious

Although Ubuntu is a glorified copy of Debian, the components that Ubuntu changes tend to be brittle and unstable, and not adequately justified. If anyone wants an OS that helps them get stuff done, not mess with their work, and not even break between major upgrades, Debian is the way to go.
Thanks for the heads-up, it's been quite a while since I've needed it.

How has this limited your experience so far? I'm not really well-versed on even the expected impact this has on commonly used applications... is there any?
Really? Have you investigated how many countries on the planet tax their citizens and corporations making money in other countries?

The US marginal corporate tax rate is 38.92% compared to the worldwide average 22.5%. Until this recent tax bill passed, the US has had the 3rd highest marginal corporate tax rate in the world, surpassed only by the UAE and Puerto Rico.

The US federal government is greedy for cash not business friendly.
I've found that dist-upgrade in Ubuntu introduces lots of breakages in Ubuntu. Was workaround was to reinstall keeping /home untouched. Once though, because of some UI/UX problems with the installer, I ended up formatting most of my /home before I aborted the install. That was the turning point for me. I went back to Debian and haven't moved away since.
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Really?

Because those are EU countries and Apple has a tax deal with Ireland in the EU.
Ok, sure, but why have the reader try to do the conversion when they, the writers, should "standardize" for the reader so as to let them read on without interrupting their thought processing.
It looks like Texas is going to do 240 miles for ~$12 billion, without public money. Comparable to European rail costs.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/texas-scrapped-toll-...

https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/article/65298/bullet-tra...
Same here on iOS safari.
This is exactly 20-30 minute more than any sane person should waste on a image editor.
Google Play already has the option for manual updates. It will prompt that an update is available and you can press the button to install.
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This critical difference is compensated by another critical difference - that X dollars in the hands of Y people (where Y is comparable in magnitude to Y) are much less effective than X dollars pooled in the hands of a single actor.
> For example, if a British company earns income in Germany, its pays German taxes on its German income.

Or, like Apple have a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/eu-takes-ire...
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> Networks of the future will be strategic assets.

Communication systems and networks were always strategic assets. Disrupting the enemy's communications is a very basic objective in warfare. In fact, one of the main design goals of the internet was to provide a robust and redundant network that could be rerouted if parts were compromised.
It you wanted to kickstart a technology I think it could make sense for shorter periods of time. For example Electric Vehicle tax credits make it much easier for car companies to develop their electric car lines, but the credits expire after so many cars.
KolourPaint is very close. GIMP is great, but simple operations (ie. screenshot-crop-higlight-annotate) get complicated (layers, floating layers, text layers, alpha)
Agreed. I'm to the point in my life where I'm generally liquid to 2x my monthly expenses - but I've set up an auto-reminder system over auto-pay because of failures in the past.

Maybe it's the former poor person in me, but I don't trust anyone else to take money out of my account.
In most European countries it’s paid for by taxes, so you have no ideal what the real cost is.
Unless you’re doing something out of the ordinary, secrets and plaintext aren’t base64 encoded. A variably-timed encoder/decoder will leaks bits of the ciphertext, which the attacker presumably already has.
why would someone pick a guy who did this over an MS grad from Stanford
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Like I said, it wasn't supposed to be directly convertible. The point of these sentences was that the UK and the US produce gigantic amounts of waste. That's it. Who of the two is worse is besides the point, and absolute numbers would only tell part of the story anyway. Since the US is much bigger, we already know it produces more waste.

Edited to add: The sentences also talk about different kinds of waste. Apples to oranges really. There's no point in converting.
I don't get it. They're selling cardboard for 70 dollars.
Japan spent trillions of dollars on constantly building, improving, maintaining vast infrastructure. It gave them among the best infrastructure in the world.

It netted them ZERO economic growth over a quarter century, and ZERO improvement in their standard of living (which went backwards considerably between the late 1980s and today due to the debt they took on, which led to considerable destruction in their currency and savings rate).

Spending hundreds of billions on rail will not necessarily generate significant economic growth for the US. The US has a very efficient and productive economy, with among the world's highest GDP per capita. There's a high likelihood, in my opinion, that spending large sums on consumer rail will do absolutely nothing to boost GDP, and may harm the economy by drowning states like California in debt they can't afford.

Is it better for transportation purposes and the environment? Yes.
Thanks for the link. I think there's probably a much better explanation for 'voices' than that they're "hallucinations".
Doesn't ChromeOS/ChromiumOS count?
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First month off of WF, and I'm soo happy.
Pixelmator is crazy cheap for its features and polishness.

Edit: seems to be $60 now for "Pro" version, whatever that means, but still cheap. My only wish is svg export¹.

[1] http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663...
If you only use it once yeah. I'm super casual and just use it for cropping and resizing and whatnot, and have used it dozens of times. Worth 20-30 minutes.
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The main thing about BTC, the one that I, as a technical person, didn't understand until recently, is NOT it's tech, bugs or features... It's the value it has for people (albeit until recently mostly criminals and paranoid people). Value that is just as tangible as FIAT currency.
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Been a while since I used one... But $500 for cross-country car move as part of relocation. Beats the cost of flying back to home city, 48 hours of driving and multiple hotel nights.
I tried to use this, but it looks like they have to review me for access.

I've tried the IBM and Google transcription APIs on a podcast with overlapping speakers, and they turned out dadaist poetry. I've been meaning to check out other solutions.

* Google: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Podcast_107_Transcript_(automated)

* IBM Watson: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Podcast_117_Transcript_(automated)
I disagree about usability. Probably most people just used MS Paint first. MS Paint has different tools and different brush-tip (widths) for pencil/brush/spray-can/eraser that all do essentially the same thing (okay, the eraser's right click mode is different, but hardly anyone knows about it), and then the line/curve/box tools all have _their_ own width. This is all unified into one global brush/pattern option in mtPaint that everything uses. The zoom levels are better too. I think the only thing that's not obvious in mtPaint is the eyedropper.

The one thing I like in MS Paint is the controls to resize the canvas near its edges. Most other programs make you go through a dialog or select and then trim to selection.
Food was way more expensive back then; the additional expense of having milk or bread brought to your door was much smaller.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/58066/aug13_datafeat...
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Because ubuntu is based on Debian, almost all software/drivers packages for ubuntu work on debian.

Using debian could maybe be compared to using vanilla JS instead of the shiny frameworks.

The downside is that, debian is very conservative in their releases. Most packages that ship with the distro or are in the repositories are a bit behind. I guess that's why Google switched to Debian Testing.

Btw even debian testing is comfortably stable.

For people who want to try debian, I advise them to try Linux Mint Debian Edition. It is a vanilla debian shipping with a good looking DE. I installed it on my mother's laptop, she's been using it for more than 2 years. It is so stable that, one time her laptop broke and we pulled her old netbook from storage. I only took the hdd from the old laptop and inserted in the netbook. After installing the wifi driver the machine has been running flawlessly for more than a year now.

I only do dist-update dist-upgrade from time to time, no further maintance was necessary.
Ubuntu doesn't really have timely security updates for most of the packages they ship - those in "universe" etc are only randomly issued security patches, and you easily end up running unpatched stuff if you're not careful. With LTS releases you end up with having years of exposure to unpatched abitrary code execution bugs in security critical programs like firejail.
Debian is also the default Google compute cloud instance type.
On one hand these look way less durable than Legos.

On the other hand replacing a broken or misplaced part will be easier than with lego pieces.

They look way less painful to step on, too.
Google has it's own linux distro for it's servers.
Probably a Depeche Mode reference rather than mental control related? Good song though...
too many to list here :) [1]

my favorites from when I got bit by the reading bug are 'Harry Potter' and 'Sherlock Holmes' - I've read them many times and plan to read them every few years...

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/curated_resources/blob/mas...
May be interesting for steganography.
I'm not entirely sure what that would exactly mean, but I can think of two answers, one philosophical and one technical:

(1) Philosophically, Erlang borrows a lot from Prolog while Elixir borrows a lot from Ruby. For some programmers (dilettantes like myself included), that relative familiarity is a fairly big win. Go doesn't have the same "weird syntax" drawback; it's pretty easy for anyone familiar with C-like languages to pick up the basics virtually on sight.

(2) Technically, Elixir is another language for the Erlang VM, like Scala and Clojure are other languages for the Java VM. But Go doesn't have a VM; its compiler produces native code. So there's no way to produce something that's strictly comparable. You could write a preprocessor that translates an entirely new syntax into Go, but that wouldn't be Go's Elixir, it would be Go's CoffeeScript.
Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead
not everyone is an engineer either
Why do you think China invests in Africa?
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Broken glass may be essentially worthless, but intact bottles can be cleaned and refilled. Since that actually happens, I imagine the logistics involved to be somewhat cost-effective compared to making new glass (or maybe it's all fueled by subsidies).
> Really, Steam seems to be the closest thing Windows has to an application/package manager

OneCore does have a package manager.

Windows Store (Win10, WP10, Xbox OS) use it and it works great but with old win32 apps, nothing is "standardized" in terms of storage, app state and versioning so that's an open challenge still.
I've been an almost Linux/BSD user for more than a decade now, and I've always used 32-bit MSPaint from XP without any issue through Wine. Salvage the .exe from a Windows XP install and the necessary MFC .dll, and you're ready to roll.
I feel that the first person to automate recycling and "mining" of trash at a large scale will make a lot of money. And do the world a huge favour.
I assume there's a technical reason that a normal Minecraft account/client can't be used?

Ideally, I'd be able to get a free transferable license from the Microsoft store for already owning the game. (lol, I know..)

*edit: I shouldn't be so cynical; and am gobsmacked - there is a free version available for existing owners. Nice job Microsoft! (Login to Mojang account to claim the copy.)
With softwares that can turn them into innovative toys. So its an one time investment, if you want you can just use your blueprints to make a toy when you eventually break it
The smartest of them saw the writing on the wall and used their I'll gotten gains to go mostly legit, investing heavily in high money throughput businesses such as Hollywood, casinos, banking, the legal field, insurance, etc.

Bonus: The mafia that even the mafia is afraid of that you've probably never heard of? The Jewish mafia.
For some reason I always assumed Google had their own customised OS built on top of Debian instead of using Ubuntu OOTB. Debian offers a much more stable base which someone with the resources like Google has can easily customise for internal Engg usecases. Esp. in the last few years, Ubuntu has been having a rough time with the ups and downs, while Debain-land has been much calmer. End of the day, Ubuntu has to bring in new bells and whistles for the user community (which has backfired multiple times) as it's targeted as a daily general-use distro while Debian only has to guarantee stability.

That's more or less the approach many Engg teams with much lesser Engg resources also take. Or are the Engg teams I've worked with just the minority?
That's interesting, I guess the author have that same feeling with me when I tried to create the same thing with Windows 7 on my personal website https://dinhquangtrung.net, just that my Windows 7 is not ready feature complete because I was too lazy, haha.
There's a neat, somewhat old documentary on how good garlic is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_Is_as_Good_as_Ten_Mothe...

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As far as I know, engineers can choose whatever they want.
Does anyone know why more countries haven’t taken a stance like Germany with glass bottles? For those who aren’t aware, in Germany there are standard glass bottle shapes that are used for beer and soft drinks. Instead of being recycled, the bottle is cleaned, refilled and relabelled - most likely by a different producer. The bottles can be reused up to 50 times.

A lot of countries have the infrastructure of refunding a deposit when a bottle is returned, but it sounds like most of those are just going to end up in a landfill.
My objection to the bullet train is that we could get many more people much more effectively to work/home with local transit, which largely doesn't exist, than with this boondoggle out in the central valley.
I'm a native speaker, I think it depends on the region. But yeah, "dövme dondurma" is more specific. The part I'm from did not make the distinction, however.
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Are you in the USA? I pay about $115/mo for 5 lines after the Kickback rebates, and that includes Netflix. Modern plans don't throttle until something like 23GB in a month.
This is new to me. What does a Bitcoin trading bot do exactly? Do they trade alt-coins through exchanges?
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And they had all the objective reasons to think so. I remember reading a sci-fi book from 1930s (Olaf Stapledon), otherwise well-researched, that pegged the invention of nuclear weapons 300 years from then and spaceflight millions of years from then (the interstellar space flight was never achieved, not even billions of years into the future when the humankind v18 moved to Neptune and achieved a lifespan of 250,000 years).

If that was the prevailing opinion, it's easy to see how the interstellar flight could be seen as around the corner after the conservative predictions were all put to shame.

Kinda makes one want to draw parallels with the 'singularity' and AI.
Hah! Yeah, probably. No ops person I've met has NOT made this mistake. The more you touch, the more likely you are to break something. It's bound to happen eventually. So, when it does, you buckle down and hope that ALL_CAPS_REG_JOB_X-22 wasn't that important.

A NOC I worked at used to send company-wide pages (in 2008..) whenever something important broke. "Inadvertently" was used maybe once a month!
Just my obligatory criticism of Hanlons razor, it's a logically fallacious statement and should be relegated to the dustbin of intellectual discussion where it belongs.
I may have missed my chance to participate in this discussion, but this is the part I didn't understand.

Does this mean that when 1 phone goes past 15GB, it is necessary to opt-out of the cap to return to normal speeds?

If not (and it doesn't make sense if opting out of the cap is somehow possible), is there ever any case where someone would _not_ want to go back to the normal speed as they cross the 15GB on the way to passing the cap?

Is the intention just to throw in a minor speed bump requiring the affected 1% of users to contact support every month (leaving the few that are ignorant throttled)?
There's also that they treat all wifi as the same. I saw my data allowance for a 2 week cruise in a few weeks, it's 250MB total. I wonder how many people burn through that on updates alone. As annoying as windows can be about applying the updates, at least they let you set if a connection is metered or not so it won't download. If only steam and everything else didn't ignore the setting.

> Ironically enough, Microsoft seems to have gotten the apply updates/restart frustration down. Maybe it's from all the flak they've gotten over the years.

Not IME. When I shutdown my computer to go away for Christmas holidays windows decided that this was the perfect time to apply updates. Fortunately it completed on the bus ride and not the flight.

I think we've gone well passed the point of what computers should do on our behalf, everything they try and automate lately just ends up aggravating me.
This project is going to be more than just la to sf route. It will allow people to live further away from the over crowded Bay Area (probably Southern California too) and getting more commuters off of our clogged highways.

Besides, sf to la has an additional hour+ wasted with Security and 1 hr travel time to the airport (if you live in SF).
There are people like Eric Rudolph serving multiple consecutive life sentences in ADX Florence -- how is that legal then in light of that ruling?
That's an odd way to look at it:

> materials and labor worth approximately X dollars are eliminated from the face of the earth

They aren't eliminated from the face of the earth. The materials exist, just in a new and more useful state state (as tracks, trains, etc.). The labor I suppose doesn't exist, but it never existed as it's not a physical object.

> When you give a tax break of X dollars nothing is removed from the face of the earth, the X dollars are now in the pockets of people who may save or spend them

Well sort of--those X dollars are presumably spent on something, either immediately or (if saved) some years in the future. When they're spent, the functionality is similar to government spending, in that resources are taken from the earth and transformed into some other good.

I'll grant that there's reasonable debate about whether a HSR is a better way to spend $100B than a tax cut, but I don't think "eliminating" things is a valid argument for/against either side.
I love cars, but they can not handle intersections at all.

For me personally it's a great injustice that cars are so valued that I am supposed to breath one of the worst kinds of air pollutions every other morning for 180 seconds while waiting for red light at just one intersection.
Could they use a third rail system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail
A lot of credit unions have sub-par mobile and web offerings. I have accounts with 2 credit unions but I rarely use them because of this reason. So if you're going to look for a credit union take that into consideration.
Well, we need to do something constantly, we human beings cannot be bored, but what you can do to avoid boredom

Ten years ago or so, I did a meditation retreat. The first two days of silence and having my eyes closed were hell, I craved for music, TV, chatting with people, etc. Somehow the small daily distractions seemed fundamental to surviving.

I was ready to pack up and leave and told the instructor so during the next daily talk. He smiled and said 'ok, we'll make sure that you get refunded'. Somehow, his light and humorful reaction made me realize that my brain had built a monster out of my cravings and that I let it dominate my will completely. After our chat I could more easily see the craving for what it was. During the remainder of the retreat it would sometimes rear its ugly head again, but I could just observe it as 'oh, that's craving again'. It comes and it goes away.

The nice thing was that after those initial two days, I got a lot calmer and my brain clearly started processing things from the past.
I generally assume the opposite for any significantly large, powerful, or successful bureaucracy. There is more incentive to be competent than to not be malicious.
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