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New comment by i2cmaster in "Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer"

i2cmaster — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:46:28 +0000

I've started using Microsoft's TROCR (another transformer OCR model) to read the cursive in my pocket journal (I have a habit of writing programs there first while I'm out and then typing them in manually, I just focus better that way.)

It's surprisingly accurate although you have to write your own program to segment the image into lines. I think with some fine tuning I could have the machine read my notebook with minimal corrections.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The Future of Consumer SBCs: Has the Pi Bubble Burst? [video]"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 18:11:03 +0000

Software has also improved. Micropython is surprisingly good even on micro controllers.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:24:27 +0000

The only "big tech bad" law that really makes sense would be making non-free software illegal.

New comment by i2cmaster in "TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:15:25 +0000

Nah I don't want them involved.

New comment by i2cmaster in "TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 04:55:36 +0000

At this point I'd rather die in my house. So much of it is obviously crap and it's so inconvenient and expensive I'd rather avoid doctors altogether.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 04:53:14 +0000

I managed to log into the mail account I had when I set up gmail.

Their AI arbitrarily decided that still wasn't good enough and that was the end of the gmail account I had since I was 13 (yes, I got one of the early invites.) I'm absolutely never doing anything important on a Google service ever again. It doesn't matter if you set stuff like that up.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Senators issued satellite phones, offered demos on upgraded security devices"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 04:49:18 +0000

IMO: HAMs will likely be more helpful than these will. This is more of the result of professional confusion/processes etc.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Senators issued satellite phones, offered demos on upgraded security devices"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 04:39:10 +0000

I'm on the "please obstruct it" side and thought this was funny.

Let's laugh together instead of silencing each other.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Senators issued satellite phones, offered demos on upgraded security devices"

i2cmaster — Sun, 28 May 2023 04:37:56 +0000

A lot of important people where I work (something important you're probably using right now) were recently issued these as well.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Direct air capture: our technology to capture CO₂"

i2cmaster — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:39:26 +0000

The justification for these things is that the oxygen is being converted to CO2 faster than CO2 is being reduced back to oxygen. So if you capture CO2 at a high rate eventually this would lead to you capturing all of the oxygen.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed"

i2cmaster — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:35:23 +0000

Is there a reason you can't just use the normal OS package repo like everyone else?

New comment by i2cmaster in "Why labor shortages could be here to stay"

i2cmaster — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:15:09 +0000

This only makes sense if you think of people as fungible.

Also one of the main drivers of the low birth rate in the US is the housing/land shortage. Recovery depends on the population shrinking.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:08:56 +0000

I actually do use a lot of XT/Motif apps. Mostly because of the lower latency but also they weren't infected with whatever brain damage generated the gtk3 design language.

New comment by i2cmaster in "Direct air capture: our technology to capture CO₂"

i2cmaster — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:05:43 +0000

I don't see how these are improvements over algae bioreactors. Capturing the CO2 without reducing it will lead to less oxygen in the atmosphere as well. Also at least with bioreactors you get useful products/energy. This just generates more waste products and consumes energy.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:54:25 +0000

I highly doubt the majority of Linux users have Steam installed, especially the kinds that don't tolerate Nvidia's drivers.

New comment by i2cmaster in "What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:33:01 +0000

Humans tend to communicate/write software in what are really sub languages. Often these sub languages are not recursive.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:27:08 +0000

OpenBSD always seems to have the sanity you would normally expect from GNU/Linux. I already run their WM, I might switch entirely to their OS.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:24:59 +0000

Steam is going to be heavily skewed Nvidia since many games either need it or run poorly without it. Gamers seem to tolerate an otherwise nearly unusable computer for Nvidia graphics acceleration where most users won't.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:13:40 +0000

I notice it I just don't care at all. Latency is a much bigger deal to me and it may not be technically part of Wayland or the widget toolkits used by compatible apps but it is consistently a problem.

New comment by i2cmaster in "The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)"

i2cmaster — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:24:41 +0000

I used plan9 extensively (Almost all my machines including my mail server and primary desktop) before I went to college. That doesn't mean its ready for most people to use.