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throw457··on Ask HN: Old iPad, Unusable?
Sounds like degraded storage tbh.
throw457··on No but why this web isn't good?
No.
throw457··on Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent
You should at least know what hyperinflation is before you make statements.
throw457··on Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent
Because he wants it to be. It’s way easier to blame someone acting nefarious than living in reality.
throw457··on Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
No I am telling you that your implementation is subpar even to open source once that need only few shot training.
throw457··on Octagon Networks converts its entire balance sheet into Bitcoin
„All liquid assets“, „many“, „extremely talented“, it’s all so non factional as is their website.
throw457··on Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab
Just wait 10 years until we get rid of it again like we did with AMD and Infineon.
throw457··on Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
If you build a product no matter what you have to be honest to yourself and imho most of the neural voices from azure sound better than your example. They may miss some of the tempre of your voices but the tempre comes from the examples you fed it... tbh it's not much better than doing it yourself with something like https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
throw457··on Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
Azure is Microsoft.
throw457··on Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
Cherry picking one of the AWS voices is a bit fishy to say the least and Azure is running away with the quality of their voices anyway.
throw457··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
Maybe visit your relatives once in a while and use them as a data drop. It’s really not that big of a problem he makes it out to be. He screwed up.
throw457··on “AI generated art will devour sustainability of being an illustrator”
I wonder what artists said about the invention of the camera…
throw457··on I've locked myself out of my digital life
I keep an encrypted backup and second yubikey at my workplace.
throw457··on Deepfake Offensive Toolkit (real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras)
Deepfakes are for deceiving humans. There are still way too many artifacts in the outputs that are easy to detect in code.
throw457··on Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider
Why bother doing science at all if it's not practical applicable right? Such a nonsense argument I wonder how you think any scientific progress is made.
throw457··on Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider
If we solve physics we solve everything if we solve fusion we have solved fusion.
throw457··on Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider
Ah... the yearly bigthink article that we should stop funding other experiments and put everything into fusion.
throw457··on Apple, stop this nonsense and just put a decent camera in your laptops
Yeah, what a terrible idea to give all the people that already own a mac not the possibility to use a better camera that they also ALREADY own...
throw457··on Ask HN: For devs, any regrets on getting the M1 MacBook Air?
What's heavy development work?
throw457··on Ask HN: Are there any desktop apps that haven't moved to a subscription model?
Almost every app and almost every game. subscription is still the outlier for offline first apps...
throw457··on Tell HN: I used the same computer since 2007 (with minor upgrades)
Used a i7 3930k with 32GB Ram since 2012 with only upgrading to a 2080 TI from a 750. Did everything it needed to do and more (heavy vfx, editing, nibbling into machine learning) and still was usable for most of the things you threw at it. The board finally gave in after 10 years so I upgraded and the CPU is now framed and hanging above my new workstation. My computing devices all have the names of quake weapons but nothing will ever top - railgun.

For repurposing I often hunt for old broken radios to put a raspi in it and use it as smart speakers with mycroft, spotify connect and airplay connectify. If you get ones from quality brands the speakers are usually still in really good shape and you need nothing more than a small amp to use them. Add some yellow leds for lighting and you have a nice looking smart speaker for 30-40 bucks. I just love the aesthetic https://imgur.com/fZDEEyL

throw457··on Apple announces new flagship M2 processor
They build upon an architecture they knew from their phone socs and arm mobile socs never had dimmable ram. I get your viewpoint but your arguments are null if you look back on how their silicone came to be.
throw457··on Apple’s CarPlay is going beyond the infotainment screen
BMW made a 180 with their infotainment system in the new BMW iX the old one in the i-series was at least usable.
throw457··on Axon Ditches Plan for Weaponized Taser Drones (Majority of Ethics Board Resigns)
It goes in both directions... We should all be scared of the time when lunatics discover how easy it is to arm commercial drones. Drones are becoming increasingly available and easy to use, and as they become more sophisticated, it is only a matter of time before someone with malicious intent figures out how to arm them. Once that happens, we could see a whole new level of terror and violence, as drones armed with explosives or other weapons could be used to target civilians indiscriminately. Even worse, it would be very difficult to defend against an attack by armed drones, as they can be operated remotely and are very difficult to shoot down. In short, the potential for misuse of armed drones is extremely high, and we should all be worried about the possibility of them being used for nefarious purposes.
throw457··on DALL·E Mini – Generate images from a text prompt
Can you elaborate what you mean by "programming inputs" because the only thing you did in your example is be more descriptive in your prompt...
throw457··on Musk SEC Filing
Talking form the viewpoint of a bipolar person he seems to be hypomanic in the last view months.
throw457··on Is social audio already dead?
Someone should tell them about discord.
throw457··on Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken iPhone 12 / iOS 14.1
This is such a small edge case it would never profitable to implement.
throw457··on Tesla customer gets new Model 3 with cracks
Drive fast and deliver broken things.
throw457··on Complex systems collapse faster
Complex systems are always in a failed state.
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