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·hace 6 horas·discuss
Unless you're trying to do something like high frequency stock trading, this does not really matter. Most of the added latency is added in the hops themselves, as packets are being classified and routed. Your generic Internet user won't be able to see any difference.
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·hace 6 horas·discuss
I guess my (badly conveyed) point was that Anki is already so efficient for me that I don't feel the need anything more.

Well, not for vocabulary, anyway. There is more to learning a language than vocabulary. :)
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·hace 16 horas·discuss
I have the exact opposite experience with Anki. I use it to memorize vocabulary of a language I'm learning, a language completely different to other languages I know, and my retention before and after I started using Anki is night and day. Frankly, I was floored once I realized how much faster I was learning, and how easily I can recall even words I last practiced or used months ago.

I make and maintain my own cards/notes, which I think is part of why it works so well - it's tailored to my learning, not to someone else's.
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·anteayer·discuss
I mean, I poisoned and then deleted my GH account the day Microsoft acquisition was confirmed, because it was obvious where it's heading.
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·hace 3 días·discuss
Yeah, that's a whole different kettle of waspnests. :)
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·hace 3 días·discuss
That's because Unified Attestation is unsalvageable. It's basically the same scam as Google's, with different owners doing (or wanting to do) the extortion.
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·hace 3 días·discuss
I'd like to point out that it only "gets pulled in" if the data is actually made available by the government, and there are dedicated volunteers who work on getting the data, massaging it into the right format and importing it into OSM, and that is not the case in many countries.
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·hace 3 días·discuss
The seemingly duplicate data on crossing is because there are different "parts" of the crossing, intended for different users.

There is the path across the road, usually from one sidewalk to the opposite, which is meant for pedestrians, and there is the node where this path touches the road, which is meant for car drivers.

Yes, the system could be improved by grouping these somehow, maybe using relations (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation ), but that would add complexity to any navigation or rendering application using OSM data that wants to process information about crossings.
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·hace 3 días·discuss
Can you give examples of what you consider "nasty attitude" on their part? All criticism of other project I've seen was either cold, clinical technical criticism, or defense against slander propagated in the media against GrapheneOS.

I haven't seen GrapheneOS folks going out of their way to attack anyone.
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·hace 9 días·discuss
That, not being sure if the submitter is willing to meet you part way, is exactly the miserable part I am talking about. Basically, you go in risking it's just a waste of your time. After some trust is established, or when the PR is from someone you already have some trust relationship, the dynamics are very different.

Yes, it can still be a slog to review someone else's code, but you usually have the feeling of "hey, this is probably something good".
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·hace 10 días·discuss
No, reviewing PRs in general is a delightful process. The tedious part is in the initial triage when the PR comes from a previously unknown submitter, and you cannot be sure what is the intention of the submitter, what is their technical level, whether they are talking out of their ass or not.

It's basically the same issue as spam in emails. It was bad before, and automation made it a zillion times worse.
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·hace 20 días·discuss
For a model that claims to focus on many languages, it's quite unreliable when it comes to simple questions like "how to say X in language Y" or "how to conjugate verb X in language Y". It keeps hallucinating words that do not exist, and when corrected, it only hallucinates a new lie.
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·hace 22 días·discuss
And yet, oodles of people continue to happily use it every day. From what I've seen, it's only the assholes who get booted out of everywhere they go.
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·hace 22 días·discuss
If you actually take the time to look for posts and communities about things you care about, you'll find more than enough of interesting people. It's just that there is no algorithm to feed you content, you have to be active in looking for it, at least initially.

I'm not necessarily saying you made this mistake, but plenty of other people who dip their toe in the fediverse do this - they get in, find nothing in their feed, they shrug and forget about it. A good start is to search for a few hashtags that match your interests, even add a follow for those if you see they're active, and soon you'll start seeing interesting people. I've been on there for years, and I'm always amazed at the small niche discussion threads I find.
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·hace 24 días·discuss
"I would love to, but I do not have a compatible phone. I cannot afford it."
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·hace 29 días·discuss
There are many, many such great communities hidden all around the Internet - on half-abandoned forums, IRC channels, even Matrix rooms. One just has to wade outside the mainstream fascist asocial networks, and look for niche topics.
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·hace 2 meses·discuss
Haven't they tried doing Step 4 already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
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·hace 2 meses·discuss
Getting tired of complaints about trump means what he's doing and who he is is being normalized, bit by bit. Don't get tired, get angrier.
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·hace 2 meses·discuss
I think you're being too optimistic about your fellow humans' judgement. "Death by GPS" is a quite common occurrence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13550...
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·hace 3 meses·discuss
Its owner being a nazi white supremacist is "silly political reason" now? Oh my...