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Unintentional information disclosure in LaTex Files submitted to arXiv(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
2 points by whym 2mo ago|0 comments
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Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them(writings.hongminhee.org)
2 points by whym 7mo ago|0 comments
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Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers(arxiv.org)
4 points by whym 11mo ago|0 comments
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by whym 2y ago
If nothing else, the fact that many people write anything with ink and brush helps to sustain the calligraphy culture. Nowadays, to many (if not most) of them the new year kakizome ritual is the only occasion they practice brush calligrap
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by whym 2y ago
Various businesses provide paid service called 見守りサービス to have someone (or a machine) check up on you. The idea is to detect health emergencies early enough and act on getting help, in case family members and neighbors can't. Not that
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The Internet Under Attack(chathamhouse.org)
3 points by whym 2y ago|1 comments
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by whym 3y ago
It looks like this is what it does essentially: let luminance = (0.2126 * avg_r as f32 + 0.7152 * avg_g as f32 + 0.0722 * avg_b as f32) as u8; let character = match luminance { 0..=31 =&
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RSS-bridge: The RSS feed for websites missing it(github.com)
2 points by whym 3y ago|0 comments
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by whym 3y ago
There has been an RFC about it (for years). "Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998
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by whym 3y ago
From WordNet: > 1. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous -- (unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)) (I didn't know the word skittish, and I figured this might help others, too.)
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by whym 4y ago
> 自作自演 (jisakujien ; self-made self-staged ; for example, used for the act of creating a staged situation and then acting as if it were genuine) The original meaning was a screenwriter-actor performing the script they wrote, which is a p
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by whym 4y ago
> (or whatever they are called these days, Google for Work?) Gmail is currently branded as part of Google Workspace, and shows the Workspace logo upon sign in. It probably has been that way architecturarly for a long time, but I think t
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by whym 4y ago
I don't think any fork was deleted. 3.5k forks as of now vs 3.4k forks in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129022012/https://github.co... Many people won't notice some of their stars h
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by whym 5y ago
A lot of the cherry trees planted in Japan are clones, which causes synchronicity - the cherry trees in an area are grafted from a single, best tree found there, and thus bloom at the same time for the same duration, more or less. (At least
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by whym 5y ago
> やさしい料学 It seems like that's also a typo or scanno of 科学. Aside from the one letter, everything else about that book matches the bibliographic information of another book whose alternative title (or subtitle) is "やさしい科学":
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by whym 5y ago
Are these public domain illustrations in the United States because they are works of the federal government or does the artist retain the copyright?
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by whym 5y ago
7 banned, 12 removed as sysops [1] > We have banned seven users and desysopped a further 12 as a result of long and deep investigations into activities around some members of the unrecognized group Wikimedians of Mainland China and 12 wa
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The battle of open-source licenses(sdtimes.com)
1 points by whym 5y ago|0 comments
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by whym 5y ago
Related threads: Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699011 Wikipedia doesn't need your money (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946912
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by whym 5y ago
住民基本台帳収録変体仮名 (jūmin kihon daichō shūroku hentaigana, or Jūki-gana for short) is the character set specifically made for the administrative purposes of those local government registrars. I don't know what the actual computer system used
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by whym 6y ago
You are thinking about foreignization, which is more common (but still not really common) in the translation of literary fictions than that of subtitles. I think most movies don't do that because they target casual audience who is not
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by whym 6y ago
Not to disagree, but the mobile web site brought a significantly different user experience (for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean ),
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by whym 6y ago
Why does CHI have so many best paper awards recipients each year, when other conferences usually have 1-3? Does CHI accept an exceedingly large number of papers? I would expect some consistency within a domain (although computer science as
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by whym 6y ago
I would guess many COVID stories that could be big were submitted, upvoted, and quickly flagged because they were deemed out of scope. If they were not flagged, perhaps one or two could have been among the top 10. But even then I wouldn&#x2
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by whym 6y ago
There is an RSS feed (linked at the bottom of the page): https://www.slowernews.com/rss.xml
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by whym 6y ago
I wonder how it will work against websites like http://neverssl.com (which helps me to log in to some wifi portals, HTTPS Everywhere shows the prompt for a temporary exception.)
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A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How Bert Works(arxiv.org)
81 points by whym 6y ago|16 comments
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by whym 6y ago
I wonder if the Zoom interview was conducted in his native language. If not, he might have been trying to say "I learn from how Jesus founded Christianity and apply that to how I operate my company," which is a bit strange thing t
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by whym 6y ago
> In response to this latest report, TikTok has said “the current version of TikTok does not collect MAC addresses.” ... as opposed to saying "TikTok does not and has never collected MAC addresses."
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TikTok Caught Breaking Google Rules to Track Android Users(forbes.com)
2 points by whym 6y ago|1 comments

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