Everything posted by Sam Lin
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
This isn't about what the man wants, this is about what WE want!
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Trivial things that please the ever living shit out of you
Too bad it was 5:45 by the time you actually got a gate and deplaned, and 7:15 by the time you had your luggage and rental car and actually got on the road.
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The Japan Thread
For foreign locations, Google Maps has a little speaker icon next to place name that you can tap to play the pronunciation for taxi drivers.
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Stupid linguistic help for a pissed off Dad
Palm wasn't doing OCR. It was reading touch keystrokes and correlating the desired letter. This is much easier to do because you have direction, pressure, sequence, and relative positions for each touch that you can individually teach, and actually works very well as an input method for Mandarin on smartphones (finger draw the kanji on the touchpad). Mandarin kanji is always written in a specific keystroke sequence; just teaching the sequence of stroke positions can tell you the word, or at least rule out 90% of the possibilities.
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Stupid linguistic help for a pissed off Dad
This is incorrect, there are two written forms of Chinese: traditional and simplified. As the names might hint, the more complex kanji characters are...simpler in the simplified form. Most new students are being taught simplified. Analogy: similar to the US not teaching cursive, some of the young generation cannot read all the traditional words as a result. This is only partially correct. Only some of the characters are the same. The meanings also vary in many cases, so while you could read it, you may not get the correct meaning out of it. Analogy: we as English writers can read written French as it mostly uses the Roman alphabet. We can even read some Cyrillic because of alphabet overlap. But we don't get the meaning unless we actually know the language. This isn't real different than any language. Just like in English there are a ton of words that are infrequently used or are olde Englische. We remove English words from the dictionary every year. Same goes in other languages. Likely no, depending on the type of scroll this is. If it is a calligraphy artwork, depending on the artist style, it will barely be recognizable as a specific kanji symbol. Even if it wasn't heavily stylized, there are font and structure differences in words over time (just like we have different spellings of aluminium). There is a LOT of effort going in to OCR of Chinese calligraphy. I haven't seen a really good solution yet. Look at this photo for example (sorry for picture of a screen, quickest way for me to post at moment). These are all the same kanji word. A kanji scroll is almost always some form of cursive, like the far right. And that cursive is not a standard, unlike English cursive - calligraphy cursive is an art and depends on each writer. There are very famous historical calligraphy artists who are known for a specific way they write one symbol.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
You should start a thread on the entire Singer experience. Document the whole process exhaustively. I will subscribe.
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Bidet Meta Threas
No, you get a UPS or generator for your fancy bidet.
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Furiosa Anya Taylor-Joy Chris Hemsworth
Just saw this. Resounding "meh." Wife fell asleep and I wished I was tired enough to fall asleep. Biggest complaint was how lazy the CGI was, it just felt mailed in compared to the first. Plot was a disjointed hot mess, felt like tourettes in movie form (no offense meant to actual tourettes). Anya was great.
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Denis Villeneuve's Dune
I actually want to see a Michael Bay SW movie more. Not because it'd be good.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
- Southwest or every other airline in the history of the world?
Remembered many airports support 3 jetbridges for the a380. One upstairs, two downstairs. Of course it isn't so much to board quicker as it is to keep riffraff away from the hoi polloi.- Pics of parking douche baggery
- Southwest or every other airline in the history of the world?
I definitely deplaned down the tail center stair of some aircraft way back when.- Markets still falling like whoa
Back on the menu, meat is.- The Watch Fanatic Thread
My vote goes Reverso.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Not actually a wife, yet. But really close (wedding was next day). https://www.azfamily.com/2024/06/07/bride-to-be-trying-secure-mattress-falls-truck-50-mph-day-before-wedding/- I pledge to post more pictures of this STEAK
Felt like steak. Found a pack of markdown T-bones. Dry brine (Montreal steak seasoning), grill (on gas, lazy), eat (on Corelle). Breakfast of champions.- So I got a WSM...
Wrap a brick or even an empty beer can in foil and drape the brisket over it if it doesn't fit flat.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Turbos don't magically "go out of balance." Something failed hard.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
RIP your personal data.- Bidet Meta Threas
I mean, you CAN...but...- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
So much this. The truck "ton" naming has always confused me.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Pics of parent?- Lets talk Hawai'i (for poors)
Tell me more about this magic snorkel that makes turtles appear on the beach.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Don't worry, God appreciates the extra support. - Southwest or every other airline in the history of the world?
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