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Comment · 3 days ago
I feel also than this article is a bit weird.

It start by making citations form Roffat, Takai and Okuda, to blindly classify Porco Rosso as an "anti war propaganda" movie. The article did not even discuss this classification.

- Is "Porco Rosso" anti-war or anti-fascist (or both)?

- Is it even propaganda?

The article cite "The Wind Rises" just to tell than this other movie also have the same themes (war, fascism, planes) but do not even even try to analyze if this other movie is "propaganda" too. At last make a paragraph to compare the two movies.

The article have around 30 citations (including 4 auto-citations) mainly to state the obvious to anybody who have watched the movie or read the Wikipedia page.

And finally the conclusion is something like: "i have see this movie and now is will now state the obvious about it".

At least, try to explain :

- Why "Le temps de cerises"?

- What about "The Princess and the Frog" in the story?

- What was the real meaning of "porco rosso", as an insult, during the fascism period in Italy?

Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe Little Snitch can be helpful in this sort of case ? Consent or not, it must be possible to kill the phone home line.
Comment · 2 months ago
According to the article: "it's any OS or application “under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software.”"

The article then explicitly cite "Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, and the BSD family".

There is also another exclusion for libraries and software from a packages managers like apt and pacman.

So from my understanding ReactOS, hobby OS but also CP/M, FreeDOS, Haiku or Collapse OS...

Comment · 9 months ago
This is interesting but i find it strange than there is no tests with a controls groups with closed eyes. Maybe some of the observed effects are visual only or psychological and not tactile at all.
Comment · 9 months ago
Did this thing (or open-whispr) work well with other languages than english ?
Comment · 10 months ago
Lets go with the usual reminder: de-soldering / soldering Li-ion cells can be super dangerous. With a bit too much of heat it can fire or even explode...
Comment · 11 months ago
They explain in the article what they consider a proper citation, an erroneous one and an hallucination, in the section "Defining Hallucitations". They also say than they have many false positives, mostly real papers who are not available online.

Thad said, i am also very curious of the result than their tool, would give to papers from the 2010's and before.

Comment · 11 months ago
Not exactly true, they have hacked the end of the copyright for SteamBoat Willie, by adding a few second extract of it, as part of the actual "Walt Disney Animation Studios" actual logo.

They cannot sue anymore for copyright infringements, but they may do it the registered trademark way, by saying "It's in our logo !".

Comment · 11 months ago
I buy mine at redbubble.com

Only one simple non-computer related sticker to: - hide the logo of the laptop company - recognize my work laptop at airports security checks

Simply because i do not what to exchange my work laptop, with another traveler by mistake.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the discovery, i did not know of this one. From the docs, it look like promising to me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Apart from Flyway (Apache), Atlas (Apache) and Sqitch (MIT) still use "Open Source" licenses.
Comment · 1 year ago
It look like easy to disable a rule : `SELECT pglinter.disable_rule('B006');`.

That said, i agree with you than some of the default rules may be bad. For example : B001 & T001 recommend primary keys, but it will effectively kill a TimescaleDB hypertable (primary keys are not recommended).

Comment · 1 year ago
Don't you have energy cooperatives to avoid this in the Netherlands ? According to rescoop.eu i did find hetcooperatie.nl, energiesamen.nu & lochemenergie.org.

Even if you are instead in Newfoundland, maybe ask cecooperative.ca if there us a project to create one in your province.

Comment · 1 year ago
2 x Nvidia Tesla P40 card for €660 is not a thing i consider to be "on a budget".

People can play with "small" or "medium" models less powerfull and cheaper cards. A Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 card with "only" 12Gb VRAM can be found around €200-250 on second hand market (and they are around 300~350 new).

In my opinion, 48Gb of VRAM is overkill to call it "on a budget", for me this setup is nice but it's for semi-professional or professional usage.

There is of course a trade off to use medium or small models, but being "on a budget" is also to do trade off.

Comment · 1 year ago
What i do not understand in this case, is why politics are involved in this ?

Why do the fact than a local government changed from Conservative to Liberal, did have an impact on the story ?

Either a case must be opened or closed, must be decided by doctors & researchers alone, not because of politics.

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