albatrosstrophy

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by albatrosstrophy 5mo ago
Kindly elaborate? Coming from someone who still uses AI mainly to draft emails and raspberry Pi as sandboxed automation project.
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by albatrosstrophy 7mo ago
If battery life really is high up your list, look up Amazfit. The Bip 6 can last up to a month as a dumb watch health tracker. It's got some decent watchfaces too. Another Amazfit product that's popular is their Helio Strap, essen
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by albatrosstrophy 1y ago
Still the best cloud service for me for my Windows. But I'm interested to hear how you set up Drive and Syncthing. Is the UI as familiar to use as the the standard Windows folder?
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by albatrosstrophy 1y ago
The battery is the single reason why I got the Amazfit. I use as a dumb health tracker and occasional GPS running. It easily lasts 4 weeks on a single charge. That's one less proprietary charging cable to bring on a trip.
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by albatrosstrophy 1y ago
As someone who' just counting steps, I'm genuinely curious what's your average steps per day? And how many steps over 10 years?
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by albatrosstrophy 2y ago
And here I thought after reading the headline: finally a reliable Arabic OCR. I've never in my life found a good that does the job decently especially for a scanned document. Or is there something out there I don't know about?
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by albatrosstrophy 2y ago
I wouldn't say it's a downgrade, but I had to run Windhawk and other mods just to make sure the start menu doesn't look like a phone's app drawer.
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by albatrosstrophy 3y ago
Interestingly while the minorities have a higher birth rate compared to the majority Chinese, the ethnic breakdown remains the exact same throughout the decades. This is because Singapore's unsaid migration policy is such that the gove
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by albatrosstrophy 3y ago
This is obvious yet brilliant. I've been working for so long without realising that meetings are a process, not the end. I.e. they have to lead to something.
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by albatrosstrophy 3y ago
I would appreciate an archive link though
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by albatrosstrophy 3y ago
I'm sad Bookdepository is closing.
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
You seem to be describing an Android tablet with e-ink display. Aside from Remarkable, what else is out there worth buying?
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I always have this problem. Not sure if I want the mouse pad to be totally deactivated while typing. I don't mind the pointer moving (might be a valid input anyway), but the clicking should be disabled so that the typing doesn't a
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Well these days they call it ASMR. But you're right he's one of the first to strip away all unnecessary sounds. Makes for a very therapeutic video.
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I have no intention of being snarky here, but perhaps someone can break it down to a layman how this might differ from Theranos' approach?
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I like your idea of the search engine. It's what I miss from Google. At one time (2006?) we had the option to google search only forums and discussions, and that helped me get quality answers to my queries.
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I came across this recently, not sure if it's something that might help. https://www.scrintal.com/
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I'm not a big fan of the Saudi government, but people die in stampedes there EVERY year? As someone who follows the hajj closely, the last stampede was in 2015, and previously 2006. Not that these are insignificant, but they are a rari
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
How about foreign languages? I've never had one good enough for Arabic. 3 years ago when needed it for a project, no OCR I found could read a properly scanned Arabic page. Had to go on Fiverr and paid a transcriber instead.
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Myprotein is one of bigger brands in the UK and many other countries. Wonder if it can be included?
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Been using Kagi too. Search results are pretty decent, and sometimes better. Problem is that I need Google almost exclusively for shopping and price comparison. Wonder if there's any other websites that can replicate this (non-US).
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Now they have to find a way to make iPlayer accessible to those residing outside the UK. They've got decent programs but an even more impressive anti VPN detector.
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Ona tangential note, I remember a time when Google had the option to search only for 'discussions'. The results were amazing and accurate as it scoured online forums. Almost all issue I had (was following the rooting scene closely
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
I host a hobby website and use WordPress for everything. Even as an entry level user, I agree the amount of plugins are ridiculous. But it's free and I only pay for hosting. Anyone knows what are the alternatives for someone like me?
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by albatrosstrophy 4y ago
Had no idea current EV batteries have progressed so far. How does this fare with Tesla?
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by albatrosstrophy 5y ago
So banks refer to SWIFT for instruction on how much to transfer where? And anyone who hacks SWIFT will be able to fake fund transfer instruction?
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by albatrosstrophy 5y ago
That's the perfect analogy I could never think of.
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by albatrosstrophy 5y ago
I speak both a 'most efficient' language (Arabic) and a 'least efficient' (Malay). My take ia that while Arabic is a very concise language, the learning curve is really steep. Verbs has to be conjugated to accommodate p
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by albatrosstrophy 5y ago
Tetris. There's some discussion on HN a while back on different ways of tapping the controller to make quicker turns. It will be interesting to seenwhat CharaChorder can do.
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by albatrosstrophy 5y ago
I just want to wish you the best if luck. May you go far and high!

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