[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

China has next to no dependencies on Russia but Russia would collapse within 2 years of China just said no.

Both Xi and Putin knew this when they had their little negotiation last year.

Oh my.... Imagine how far Putin had to lean forward for Xi to get China to deliver the essentials for Putin's war machine.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

Great theory you have there.

So when USA would be doing whatever you think they would do to China, how do you think that would affect the economy of USA and the rest of the West when all essential manufacturing stops to a grinding halt worldwide?

Covid showed the world what happens if China is unable to keep the factories up and running 100%... And you seem to have missed it all because you have been asleep since 2018 and just woke up?

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago

Unable to understand and/or admit that both sides can be bad. It's ok to admit the "your team" did some nasty shit and it doesn't in any way cancel out what the other "team" did.

Also, Winning an argument doesn't in any way make you a winner. Actually, an argument that someone "won" often doesn't lead to a change for the better or even make anyone convinced that your arguments were valid.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 25 points 5 days ago

What's is the main topic of your blog?

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How good is good do you say?

We got a pretty good results with CER at 4% and WER at 15%!

This was on a limited dataset used to test and train which most likely means that if you introduced an even larger dataset with greater variations in handwriting style for testing the numbers might be even worse.

Very simplified: A risk of a character wrong every 20th character and a word wrong every 7th word. The SER was around 20%.

There's an reason why no one has released a good model for western letters yet and why companies pay up to 1€ for capturing data from 10 handwritten pages.

It will come but OCR isn't as sexy as developing text2image solutions.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You really don't understand how Blu-ray works, do you?

Regarding Blu-ray as a medium for movies: Sony isn't able do that kind of damage.

Blu-ray Association would go bananas:

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 147 points 1 month ago

Today is a slightly better day for the people of Iran. Especially for the women of Iran.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 154 points 2 months ago

PCWorld:

Microsoft’s latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there’s no fix

What Microsoft actually said:

Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update, or KB5036893. We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release

I'm so fed up with everyone trying to make a quick buck on our constant struggle to stay safe.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 127 points 3 months ago

"...and Russia is thought to be responsible."

Nooooooo... Russia? Really? They would neeeveeeer?

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 124 points 4 months ago

Touch screen, Vibration feedback/Color change or not, means that you have to look at what your hand is doing and not on the road.

A physical button means you can keep your eyes on the road and find the right button with easy.

So let's be honest. At this point, touch screens are chosen by car makers because cost and not design. So essentially, safety is less important than cost for the car makers.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 131 points 5 months ago

As a non US citizen this is just a Robin Williams in Jumanji moment...

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?!

Anyways, welcome to the year of the interwebs.

Have you got rid of your cheques and faxes yet? 😉

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 151 points 7 months ago

For you outside Sweden: There is no such thing as minimum wage. It's perfectly legal to hire someone for 0 SEK / month.

The whole idea is that a collective agreement should be negotiated and agreed upon by the employers and employees in each business area (like telecom, healthcare, factory workers, electricians etc etc). The idea is that the employers and employees, not the politicians, knows more about what their market/business area requires and is able to deliver in the form of minimum wage, yearly salary increase, vacation and overtime (among other things) .

Here's the thing that often is different in discusions like the one about Tesla refusing to sign a collective agreement: Collective agreements only limits the minimums. So the only reason to refuse to sign is if you intend to keep some thing below the levels that are the norm in your business area.

Essentially, you're trying to get unfair competitive advantage.

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