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I recently contributed to https://deflock.me/We had a local story where the gist was the police said they searched ALPR for the welfare of a young woman, but it was actually more focused on a possible abortion. [1] "Unrelated" this same Sheriff was later charged with sexual haras

What is needed to evaluate OCR for most business applications (above everything else) is accuracy.Some results look plausible but are just plain wrong. That is worse than useless.Example: the "Table" sample document contains chemical substances and their properties. How many numb

This is pretty incredibly - Fabrice Bellard builds stuff that just has such a wide spread impact - so cool that QuickJS enabled an old system like PS2 to have a bit of a homebrew revival through this AthenaEnv project The author's short diversion about the hassle of using a rando

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin or to hack the source code itself (even though I

This article really takes umbridge with those that conflate phenomenological and access consciousness. However that is essentially dualism. It's a valid philosophical position to believe that there is no distinct phenomenological consciousness besides access consciousness.Abandon

It's always funny to me, the more you go into the depth of windows settings, the older the UI that start to show up.Which makes sense, between the "if we change it we break it in some subtle way" and "we don't expose that in UI anymore so the new panel doesn't have it".My underst

This article is somewhat misleading. The changed ToS only covers Arduino's hosted cloud services, not the IDE or microcontroller library. This is spelled out in black and white in the first paragraph of the ToS:> 1.1 The Site is part of the platform developed and managed by Ardui

The OP's author is at the beginning of the path towards understanding that Nash Equilibria are everywhere in the economy. I say this because the OP doesn't realize that's what he's talking about: Nash Equilibria.A company's strategy, tactics, and individual decisions are always c

XBMC on the original Xbox was so unbelievably far ahead of it's time, it's crazy and that's not just nostalgia talking. I remember installing XBMC with a 360-style "blades" interface and being blown away by how much smoother and nicer it was then the blades interface on the Xbox

People in this thread are worried that they are significantly vulnerable if they don't update right away. However, this is mostly not an issue in practice. A lot of software doesn't have continuous deployment, but instead has customer-side deployment of new releases, which follow