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Mithaldu

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Mithaldu··on ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
It's a good thing the USA doesn't have many direct neighbors.
Mithaldu··on ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
Fwiw, i've read people say that that was fake to garner publicity. Part of the "spread the message to 10000 people even if it makes you look bad to most of them, if it means reaching the 10 among them who'd sympathize with it" thing.

Also, as a german again: There's no useful difference between action and talk, especially in peace times. The holocaust was at its root caused by words after all.

Mithaldu··on Science saved me from pretending to love wine
That's orthogonal. Genetics decide what sensors you have, and exposure can lead to slow-moving calibration of them.

I've experience the effects of cutting sugar/salt as well. But no amount of additional exposure i tried has made me capable of handling alcohol or chili well. The desensitization would need to cover a gap that's far too large.

Mithaldu··on ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
I'm not taking a stance on the CEO's actions.

Merely disagreeing with the claim that Daily Stormer are not nazis. They are.

Mithaldu··on ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
You guys are getting lost too much in domain-specific terms. At its core fascism is one thing:

The belief that a nation is like a living being and must do everything to protect itself as it is at that moment and try to grow, and that might makes right on a national scale. It's the belief that Darwinian principles of the survival of the fittest do not only apply to creatues, but also to nations and that this is also how the world should be.

Everything else is just the expression and logical conclusion of this belief.

And the nazis currently in germany specifically 100% subscribe to this. They do not want the national culture to be changed, they do not think other nations should be helped, etc. etc.

Even white supremacy is just a side effect of that. It comes from wanting the demography of one's country to remain unchanged.

Mithaldu··on ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
I'm a german who spent 6+ years of his school life continuously learning about nazis, lived for the first 25 years of his life in a town where i saw people in nazi attire on my way home or shopping every single day and always kept a key ring at the read, and is from a voting district that voted 20%+ for a party whose leadership explicitly hires neo nazis as security for demonstrations, a town where the lamp posts on the 200m way from my apartment to the shopping centers call for violence against foreigners.

And i have to say:

Those guys are nazis. They believe in fascism being the good and right way of the world. They hate people who're unlike them.

Don't try to sugarcoat them.

Mithaldu··on Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
> German police in the last G20 (Hamburg) was more violent, for example.

Not even remotely.

Mithaldu··on Catalan referendum: 'Hundreds injured' in Catalan clashes
You're advocating making the people in Catalonia prisoners to the rest of Spain.
Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
I expect it's a side effect from casual youtube users who've mostly experienced abuse of the feature and think i'm lying.
Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
"Many cases" is subjective and anecdotal. Maybe my set of youtubers i followed was particularly high quality, but almost all uses of annotations i have seen were to provide corrections to information found wrong in the video, or additional information learned after the video.

In some cases such things were applied quite heavily too.

And thus the point of my previous post is that for people doing serious work with their youtube videos providing corrections and such via the description is entirely untenable.

I'm sorry you've only seen spam, but cutting off another's tool because some people can't use it correctly is a severe case of FYGM.

Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
What exactly do you mean by dynamic annotations?
Mithaldu··on Style2Paints: AI colorization of images
Nope, images: https://i.imgur.com/QkFDOVs.png
Mithaldu··on Style2Paints: AI colorization of images
Hm, i wouldn't say that's usefully different from anime? The failure mode for e.g. pencil sketches is honestly kind of impressive. https://i.imgur.com/vdceynO.png https://i.imgur.com/2lvrpwE.png

On the other hand: https://i.imgur.com/QkFDOVs.png

Edit: Also, i missed this earlier, but this video shows nicely how the AI can be guided with color hints: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av14443094/

Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
You can add "cards", i.e. the popups in the top right that show a short text and an "i" button. Those can be links to videos, polls, or external links (if you're a big youtuber). However the text is limited, you can't set how long it shows, and you can have a maximum of 5. You can maybe use subtitles too, but you cannot set a default subtitle for your video.

So there are hacky half-working workarounds, but otherwise youtube just told everyone who cares about their videos to go and kindly get fucked.

Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
So you read the entire description of a video before watching it and remember every word of it, including timestamps with comments to note corrections, even when there's 10 of them for a half hour video?
Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
Many people ignore them and on mobile viewers need to do extra steps to even be able to see the description.
Mithaldu··on YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
Wow, that is utterly disgusting and an attack on their own user base.
Mithaldu··on RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
Personally i prefer speex even for car noise, as the rnn adds clicks and scratches that annoy me a lot more than more frequent soft distortions.
Mithaldu··on Giving you more characters
Sadly that is not going to be sufficient. Japanese uses very few context indicators and thus as a whole is a lot shorter.
Mithaldu··on Windows 3.1 All Over Again
Are the threads started by way of external process, thread started within a C library, or started with an actual Node.js call i can write directly in node.js code and also use to run literally arbitrary node.js code?
Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
To start with:

annual average temperature about 23 °F vs Average temperature: 55.7°F

Also, completely different time frame and technology standard.

Sibera might have given russia some value, but not remotely on the same scale as north america gave to the USA.

Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
You're forgetting the unique differences in geography and demographics of the USA area compared to what the germans, french and russians had to "work" with.
Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
Individual people may not be guilty of this, and even major parts of the USA may not have been guilty of it, but as an entity, this is what "the USA" did. If that makes people angry, they should search themselves to see where such anger should be directed.
Mithaldu··on Windows 3.1 All Over Again
Can you start a thread with a JS loop in node so you can have two loops running at the same time doing CPU-heavy tasks?

If not, then calling it multi-threaded is misleading to a programmer who needs such things, and instead you'll need to find a more accurate word.

Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
The modern form of it, which is having businesses with practically no worker protections (right-to-work, the health care situation) compared to other european countries.
Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
Not what happened here though.
Mithaldu··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
> According to your logic, undocumented immigrants are “usurping” America

According to your logic integrating successfully into a different society and culture, is the same as arriving with superior weaponry and slaughtering the natives over 149 years. (1775-1924)

Your attempt at comparison and equivalence is pitiful and cruel.

Mithaldu··on Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics
Fair enough, and it makes sense. Thanks for explaining. :)
Mithaldu··on Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics
What's the difference between continous checking logic and safety critical code with lot of safety checks?

I'm not a mech engineer, i do code. I'm asking to learn and if you can prove me wrong by teaching something, yay.

Mithaldu··on Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics
Link to patent?
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