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Posts by Kenneth Udut
Well this one was a stack of looseleaf pages sitting in an old box until a few days ago. I was so happy to find it. I have one of these inexpensive laser/scanner/fax/copier things as our main printer and using an app on my phone, I put one page at a time, scanned it, then the next, etc until it was done, and I saved to PDF. And after a lot of searching to find SOMEBODY who could convert handwriting to text ,I find that GOOGLE DOCS can do it – IF you open a PDF as a Google Doc with the handwriting in it. I was amazed. SO now if I find anything i have that I hand wrote it is possible to convert them into a format useful on the computer – where it becomes searchable, usable in AI, wherever. I’m so excited that it can do that.
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love the movie. Saw it in the theater and thought “this would make a great TV show” Then about 1999, I saw that they had a TV show and I said “no no no don’t watch it you’ll get hooked!!” After about 3 months of ads for it, I finally broke down and started watching it 14 years later when the last Stargate tv show in a row finished – I said “never again!”. and I turned off my bedroom TV with vcr. Tossed it a year later. Past 12 years, I only watch TV with other people occasionally. I love the series but I hated being hooked by a show and having to watch all of it. This is before Netflix and binge watching was a thing. I’m glad. I know I missed out on a lot of great TV but this way I got to enhance my education with Wikipedia and websites and studying and stuff
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The attack on the Capitol building – the seat of government in the USA – on Federal lands – for strictly political reasons – was a unique event. Whatever else you’re comparing to does not compare. Show me where there were other attempts that were nearly successful to overthrow federal government functions? Your equivalence is false and any validity is on a laughably surface level.
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don’t think their addiction algorithms are significantly better than what I experience on Instagram, FB, Youtube, Twitter, etc. All different to varying degrees, but the “how to addict people” algorithms are pretty well known and studied and constantly getting tweaked by everybody who has anything to sell at any volume of customer.
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Yes, however, as its typical for shutdowns, you usually get 90 days to six months to retrieve your data after an app closes. They promised that you could get your data after the ban in order to transfer to other services like Red Note or whomever. The form is there to fill out. I filled it out. [I have a copy from Jan 5th as well which is nearly the same] but it sits. And it will continue to sit until Oracle turns the servers back on for people to retrieve what should be “their data”. No, this was never done before like this. It’s a middle finger.
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Only the hosting of the APP ITSELF. The data center holds the VIDEOS, not the APP. They did not have to shut down the place where the VIDEOS are stored. This shuts down access for example to American account holders OVERSEAS. Oracle did not have to shut down access for them.
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I’m 53 and I can’t apply literacy skills. I’m currently going back to college to FINALLY finish a degree in something (hopefully) – and I have TWO classes that require CLOSE READING. In standardized testing in middle school, I would get 99.9% on everything EXCEPT listening/reading comprehension. On those, I could score 45%-55% every time. “What is the author’s intent?” was the killer question that would doom me – and close reading is “What is the author’s intent?” * 1000. “Literacy skills” sometimes require cognitive skills that are simply not available to the student. They’re not available to me in any case: but I am a voracious reader and I understand much. But some things will always go over my head. It would be entirely wrong for me to place the level of expectations on 5 year old that I cannot achieve myself.
I’m 53 and I … [read full article]