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Comment · 5 years ago
Not a world saving solution, just adding necessary context around the “fairly small” comment.
Comment · 5 years ago
The US GHG per capita remains one of the highest in the world, so things can be improved.
Comment · 5 years ago
Topre switches are my favorite

The most joyful keyboard I’ve ever had is a modified HHKB with a logic board that can run QMK

It’s both a nicer object than all my homebrew boards and it has the same customization potential

Comment · 5 years ago
While I agree with the 3-pm food in France sentiment. As a french person returning to France after 15 years away the "french tacos" seem like the most vile cultural mashup and taste made into a log of soggy fries and cheese sauce.

In general my rule of thumb is : stick to french food in France. Culturally imported dishes are often a very poor adaptation and I am often disappointed.

Comment · 5 years ago
V7 does one of the best auto segmentation I’ve tried, but on a complex scene fixing its worse case can be slower than not using any proposal. That’s where Toronto annotation suite shines

I can go over more details over over email/pm if you’d like

Comment · 5 years ago
Really cool stuff ! Looking forward to trying it out

my favorite commercial option so far is : https://www.v7labs.com/

prodi.gy for running small augmentation UIs is worth checking out

The workflow of the Toronto univ annotation suite [1] is sweet for making polygons semi-automatically, but not widely available yet

[1] https://youtu.be/3kFQJQicHxA

Comment · 6 years ago
And you really think this is an honest argumentation?
Comment · 6 years ago
It sounds dishonest to :

1. not being able to empathize with someone who is economically vulnerable. can't tell if it's on purpose, or just difficult.

2. attach yourself to the definition of vulnerability. I just gave you one : people living paycheck to paycheck. It's a pretty mundane concept, and it's trite or dishonest to have to revisit this.

Comment · 6 years ago
In a nutshell he says :

- from your tone it sounds that you have never been faced with such hardships and decisions to make.

- "quickly and efficiently" to me would be anything that would allow you to pay the next bills. Esp. since 78% of american workers live paycheck to paycheck with no cushion to absorb downtime looking for new work.

I'm detecting a bit of dishonesty (trolling?) in your answers too.

Comment · 6 years ago
It's beyond your imagination to conceive that there are people who would have to accept something they loathe because they must feed their family and pay the mortgage in a very immediate future?

I'm totally open to changing my mind that this hypothetical person doesn't exist in the US, if you'd like to bring forward a peer reviewed study on the subject.

Comment · 6 years ago
So you can only speak of those who serve your point?
Comment · 6 years ago
So is it the case? Do you have very few prospects of employments and yet would willingly chose living in poverty over surveillance of your laptop?

I don't think it's as unlikely as you seem to believe. There are no stats being brought forward on either side, so I don't see how your scenario is less or more likely than mine. And I am merely trying to empathize with the people for whom this is the sad reality.

Comment · 6 years ago
So .. can you rationalize in the same manner why the employees in the NPR story haven't quit yet?

Is it cowardice? Is it because they think they can't do better than what they have?

Comment · 6 years ago
Are you being extremely obtuse on purpose?

Not everyone is an engineer who have employers fawning over them. A lot of people have few prospects of employment - especially right now - and have bills to pay. So weighing the two options : no food this month, or installing spyware willingly they take the easiest route.

Comment · 6 years ago
yes filtering water along the way. I doubt you can carry six days of water in an environment that's so dry you need to carry everything

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