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allanrbo
829karma·197submissions·April 2, 2012
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If a human eye works at say 10 fps, then 8 minutes with a cat is about 10k images :-D
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Been thinking... Why is AI even needed for a thing like this? Aren't there assistive tech API's for screen readers for people who are blind, that could be used to scrape all text from all wi…
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Was looking for something like this some years back. Though I wanted Windows support too. Ended up switching to C++ to use wxWidgets, giving me small self contained binaries.
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First I’m hearing of the meta search engine SearxNG too. Neat. Feel like we’ve come full circle, going back to meta search engines again.
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Sure it’s tough, but still a great tool. Hard work is hard. Do you have any better ideas?
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2020
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not down for me.
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Syncthing
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Kind of makes sense that ABC news (American Broadcasting Company) is US centric though :-)
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not hdmi, but display port over usb-c. Though it can't just show up as a plain display I think. Search for quest 3 link to learn more.
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Used it for a couple of months and actually had better perf and responsiveness than X11 on my Lenovo X1 Carbon with Intel graphics. For me, I eventually got too much of a wrist pain from my mouse scro…
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Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co.
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My goodness, 3+ hours on this topic! I truly admire the passion! Fascinating!
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It says in the top "presents his new open source joke", but I actually think this sounds genuinely useful. So many other media formats become unsupported by modern operating systems. Cloud s…
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It made more sense to go through the effort to install IrfanView when there was no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Those only had MS Paint, and…
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What an inspiring passion project! Very ambitious first Verilog project.
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What an inspiring passion project! Very ambitious first Verilog project.
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Is it similar to Yammer?
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I thought at first it was related to Snowflake Inc., the data cloud company. But realize now that their logo is slightly different, https://www.snowflake.com/ , so probably unrelated.…
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Couldn't see the cost anywhere on the website.
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Neat. Sounds a bit like Patreon.
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Fun thought. The internet is like a nerve system. The roads are like blood vessels.
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Why do you say Mistral only possible because of Meta?
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You can also insert a timestamp in notepad.exe simply by pressing F5. (At least it used to be like this - haven't tried on newest versions of Windows).
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In my opinion the original author did a really good job, so I found it interesting to know where and whether he might continue his vision. Edit: I see now from the hg history that Igor hasn't bee…
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Igor, the original author, left in 2022 according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sysoev …
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“ enable John Deere customers to be more productive, profitable, and sustainable in their operations as they continue to provide food, fuel, and fiber for their communities”. Wonder what kind of fiber…
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How come Denmark can produce cheaper and less carbon intensive energy than the UK? Can't offshore windmills be built in the UK too?
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But just because fewer people own one personally, will that necessarily mean fewer cars on the road? Might still be an increase in cars, but with a different ownership model. It's tough to make p…
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Love it when complex things are distilled down to just the essentials!