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Comment · 2 months ago
To be fair, Mistral doesn't list Ukrainian as one of the supported languages.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've recently been given a MacBook for work for the first time and this was driving me crazy, thank you!

Now I just need to figure out how to make Word stick to these commands and not decide that right half of the screen means the right 3/4 of the screen.

Comment · 9 months ago
Any particular template you'd recommend? My resume is LaTeX too but I'm not 100% happy with it (about 98% happy and much happier than with anything else however).
Comment · 1 year ago
For years YouTube would randomly change my language to Italian and auto translate all the titles, which was annoying but I can change the language back to English and it was fine.

Thing is, I haven't lived in Italy for well over a decade. I don't consume much Italian content. I've tried my best to purge my Google account of any possible trace of Italian language settings, I've never saved an Italian address etc.

And yet Google must be convinced that, because I was in Italy over a dozen years ago when I made the account I must be Italian, and that cannot possibly change.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's already how this works, basically. You have to keep paying a fee to keep your patent, and the fees increase with each year of the patent.

The fees are fixed, but the effect is pretty similar to what you describe.

In some jurisdictions you get a discount on the fees if you declare that you are open to licence out your patent. Then everyone can use your invention without having to ask for permission,as long as they pay the license fee.

EDIT: I looked it up, in Germany (§ 23 PatG) the patent office can set the licence fees that others have to pay, so you can't play games by just setting the fee to a trillion euros.

Comment · 3 years ago
Why are you not allowed to hire a cook, painter or child carer?
Comment · 3 years ago
Does anyone know of a nice UI wrapper for something like whisper.cpp?

I need to write a lot of long texts for work and some good dictation software would be great. I know there's Dragon, but somehow I have not been able to find something that fits my need and is free.

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Is there something like oobabooga to easily run this in a click-and-run way? Where I can load up a model, a text, and ask it questions?
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Comment · 3 years ago
Depending in the demographics, a fertility rate below replacement level can still lead to a rising population even when excluding migrants, as the people who would be "replaced" by the new births might live for many more decades.

I.e., we'd probably still have a housing crisis in Europe even if not a single foreigner came in.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'll guess that this is referencing asylum seekers and migrants.

I keep seeing this argument pop up all the time online and in person, but it's never really made sense to me. Population growth in most European countries is lower now than at many periods in the past, yet we were able to house rising populations somehow.

Do people think cities like Berlin and Paris just got plopped down fully formed at some distant point in the past, together with instructions reading "Population: 3 million max., never exceed or add anything"? They and their infrastructure have grown over time as the population has grown. There's no magic maximum population limit that every city in the western world has just happened to hit right in the last 20 years.

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