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by lauritz 4mo ago
There may also be a Bitter Lesson element here. Ultimately, if law is like other domains, we may be able to solve legal applications with more compute on the limited freely-available data. That's a load-bearing "if", though,
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by lauritz 1y ago
There are (non-shady) firms that do exactly this for other areas (flight compensation, most notably). There are some issues with contingency fees in German legal professional law. However, it can be argued that suing for these 5,000 EUR is
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by lauritz 1y ago
It should be noted that this may not stand on appeal. The full decision is not yet available. All we know is from the press statement. For example, the court ruled that the plaintiff is entitled to these damages without even hearing them pe
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by lauritz 1y ago
I think there is opportunity for a more design-oriented tool in this space. I tried pitch.com a while back and was a heavy Google Slides user for a while, but, like the author, I keep coming back to Keynote. What drives me nuts, however, is
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by lauritz 1y ago
I have run into similar issues and I agree, it’s not without flaws. The formula editor is another example, as others have pointed out. A good solution I have found to your particular problem is to use checkboxes in the cells. You can select
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by lauritz 1y ago
Given that most of our civilization is run using these tools, it boggles the mind how they are still so limited. Why is there a limit of nine levels of headings in Word? Why does it feel less usable on my i9 with 32GB of RAM once you hit 20
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by lauritz 1y ago
To my surprise, what used to be called iWork has been my main "Office" replacement for years now. It's good enough, and it's free. I have switched over most of the non-technical people in my life to it, and they have no
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by lauritz 2y ago
Interestingly, Apple apparently confirmed to a French website that M4 lacks the interconnect required to make an "Ultra" [0][1], so contrary to what I originally thought, they maybe won't make this after all? I'll take t
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by lauritz 2y ago
I agree. Nonetheless, I agree with Siracusa that the Mac Pro makes sense as a "halo car" in the Mac lineup. I just find it interesting that you can currently buy a M2 Ultra Mac Pro that is weaker than the Mac Studio (for a compara
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by lauritz 2y ago
They update the Studio to M3 Ultra now, so M4 Ultra can presumably go directly into the Mac Pro at WWDC? Interesting timing. Maybe they'll change the form factor of the Mac Pro, too? Additionally, I would assume this is a very low-volu
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by lauritz 9y ago
This kind of thing has been done for a couple of years now, if I understand the Vodafone offer correctly. Binge On in the U.S. (or StreamOn in Germany) by T-Mobile is the same thing, and the Deutsche Telekom used to offer a plan where you g
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Fontgate: Anachronistic typography topples defense in Panama Papers case(theguardian.com)
1 points by lauritz 9y ago|1 comments
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by lauritz 9y ago
I learned OpenCV using the O'Reilly book by Bradski and Kaehler (back when it was OpenCV 2). I found it well-structured and it worked for me. They have an updated version for OpenCV 3. However, I can't tell you if OpenCV is still
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by lauritz 10y ago
I really like (and currently use) Input Mono. http://input.fontbureau.com
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by lauritz 10y ago
This looks cool, I especially like the lower-case characters (with the possible exception of the descender on the g). Also, the idea of using a monospaced font as a display font rather than a font for restricted environments (terminals) is
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by lauritz 10y ago
Okay, first off: This is great. The most popular messaging app finally gets the security it needed. And we've just rolled out E2E to 1b 'monthly active users'. However, I have always wondered one thing about WhatsApp: How doe
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by lauritz 11y ago
Out of sheer curiosity: Does anyone know/suspect if Netflix is actually using techniques in addition to blocking IPs of known proxy/vpn/unblocking services? Because I would imagine that is a bit like fighting a hydra, very la
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by lauritz 11y ago
Seems down (Error 500). However, the books that were published can be viewed at Monoskop: http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10127 For those who are interested in Klee's personal notebooks, this collection of Bauhaus eBoo
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by lauritz 11y ago
I agree! But still, it corrects incorrect things that my spell checker doesn't see, like inconsistent spacing and 'goofy approximations' like (R) for ®. (Depends on your definition of incorrect, but I personally would not min
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by lauritz 11y ago
Of course, that would be the ideal way of combating this. If you're talking about financial stakes in certain findings however, these might be hard to prove (and stalking colleagues to prove they're playing dirty is not and should
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by lauritz 11y ago
I'm not saying there is not a general problem with internet addiction, however: The sample size is ridiculous. 27 participants is--as far as my understanding goes--not very representative. To make a news article based on this sample cl
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by lauritz 11y ago
How about the other way round? Who's to say that they're not countering Apple in their specs? I think that with this one-year cycle that phone manufacturers have--unfortunately--imposed on themselves, it is a strategic decision to
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by lauritz 11y ago
Adobe Garamond [0] is really nice to look at, I think, especially for long passages of text. With Akzidenz-Grotesk [1] as a runner-up (and for headlines etc.). Font fun fact: This was actually the font Massimo Vignelli originally used on t
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by lauritz 11y ago
I will concede that I haven't actually learned much of it yet, I've just always thought it looks beautiful. What I have tried so far (the arm movements, and copying some of the letters) works with the left hand surprisingly well.
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by lauritz 11y ago
Love the Palmer Method. A bit frustrating, though, that the website (as a modern-day adaptation of a 1915 book) seems to be specifically tailored to right-handed people only. But then again, in 1915 pretty much everyone was forced to write
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by lauritz 11y ago
I agree completely. But how likely is that to happen? Let's face it, companies that make 'smart' devices will likely want to monetize on customers whose software is outdated (in functionality, not security) and who want to up
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by lauritz 11y ago
I agree with everything you say, apart from the general assumption in #1. The examples you provide for European laws being too restrictive are correct imo, and there are more examples of laws that were, in my mind, the poor execution of a g
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by lauritz 11y ago
While I agree that having one account to rule them all is generally a pretty bad idea if you're talking about projects that deal with sensitive data, I still think it's not that big a deal here. A cookie would tie you to one devic
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by lauritz 11y ago
Given that everyone gets a different 'input' string for every problem to prevent the simplest form of cheating and to enable such a thing as a leaderboard, I think this is a very reasonable measure, better than having yet another
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by lauritz 11y ago
Being a fellow law student who decided against a formal CS education, I can second that. It also works the other way around, a lawyer who knows about computer science is (in my experience) pretty rare, and issues that also require a thorou

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