SeppoErviala

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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
I didn't use Steam since switching to Linux in 2008 until now that it is officially available. Some of that 1.85% are new (or returning) customers.
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
Check out gensim if you want to do topic modeling or similarity comparisons in Python. http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/ It has good implementations of various algorithms, some of which support streaming or dirstribution
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
This is the new beginning after the burning platform company has finally been sold to Microsoft. Alternatively the new beginning for maemo/moblin/meego/whatever.
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
Our families and countries work differently. This scenario doesn't work if the only place to return cans is a recycling center that has no other function and is located at a far away place or if the monetary amount received from cans i
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
If you show initiative and return the cans you can obtain money that would not be available otherwise. Pretty straightforward in my mind.
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
I think one of the reasons for returnable cans and bottles is to teach children about money and work. Many people I know once ran the can business in their household as children. EDIT: This requires grocery stores to take return bottles, I&
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
In Finland, one gets 0.15€ per can returned and slightly less/more for different kinds of bottles. It is very easy to return these since every grocery store has a return machine and one can just take the money without buying anything.
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
There are multiple music store providers and a musician should have presence in all of them. It seems that DistroKid solves this problem by uploading the music to all the music stores (not really all atm but maybe they will get there). This
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
"About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and t
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by SeppoErviala 13y ago
Only reason GIF is still alive is its animation support. APNG and WEBP+animation are not there yet. 8-bit palette and crappy compression do not matter when you offer exclusive features.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Thanks! This should really be listed in the HN/rss page.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I want a google reader replacement but this requires me to install something instead of just working.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I would like more powerful filtering options and better recommendations. For example, Hacker News feed is impossible to follow as RSS on reader as it has too high volume (for me at least). I would be content with ~40 daily recommendations.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
No localization, I'm not too interested in USA news.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
The petition will not help. Google already killed reader in their hearths when they made the g+ update. Instead of neglecting it for years to come they did the right thing and let it go for good.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I have plenty of feeds that include ads. Reader shows all images and links that are part of the feed body so not going to the site should not be a problem. If an ad supported feed provider fails to add ads to their feed they just do not und
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I for one welcome this change as an opportunity for growth. Google has not put any effort into reader for some time now. Maybe some innovative company will get the google reader user base and build something great. --- OTOH I do feel sad th
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
There's even lxml.cssselect if you prefer css selectors over Xpaht.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Certainly a bit easier than dungeon crawl or adom.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
This is not limited to Linux but affects all players that use libdvdcss. For example, Windows and OSX versions of VLC come bundled with the library.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
What is the worst that could happen? They close your account?
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
You could just put all your passwords into a place where they are accessible after your death and your relatives can access your accounts regardless of any TOS you've clicked through.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
The English language has a lot of quirks where the pronunciation doesn't match the spelling or two words are pronounced the same but are spelled differently. This disparity has been enforced by the school system and media publishing gatekee
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I guess Netflix is phasing out their disc service because it seems to be a US-only thing while they are aiming to be an international video streaming provider. Amazon streaming service seems to be only available in the US while Netflix is a
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Then you'll be 'the guy with the odd mask' and easily recognized unless there are a lot of people doing the same thing.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
It's an useless effort to build a new free operating system kernel now that GNU Hurd is just around the corner. What chance you have to compete with those MIT hackers? Besides, monolithic kernels are so 80s. --- Even if you're building some
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Maybe she hadn't used fsn ever but could tell from the file system structure that it was in fact a UNIX system. Then she concluded that she need to find the correct file - which is how UNIX does things. I did find the scene ridiculous at th
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Attitudes toward stuff change slowly because you learn them from your parents. My grandmother used to save everything starting from plastic bags, strings, plastic food containers, used nails and screws to electricity, water, heat and money.
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
I recently tried out pHash and it seemed to be a good tool for detecting nearly duplicate images. Certainly superior to calculating md5 for images and comparing those. However, if the images have different cropping, slight rotation or diffe
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by SeppoErviala 14y ago
Why would it matter to users what kernel is being run? The great thing about Chromebook running Linux is that more work is put into Linux kernel, Linux harware supporting and Linux software support. Linux is not GNU. Locked down devices wer

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