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It is indeed a common weakness of TTS models.

Unfortunately it makes it unsuited for my use case, which is almost entirely single words, as I don't particularly want to deal with stitching/segmenting input/output.

I tried that, and found dryers actually vibrate so little that most sensors have a hard time reliably detecting it.

It's actually really, really easy to get the state of a "dumb" washing machine (or any other electric machine) into Home Assistant using a smart plug. You can use something really basic like "power draw for > n seconds followed by no power for > m seconds" to detect when a cycle is finished. You can get way fancier and look at power draw curves to determine what part of a cycle it's in, or which cycle, if you really want to. You can add a door sensor (recommend Samsung) if you want to know if the door's been opened.

Unfortunately it's much harder to do the same for an electric dryer, since there's no inexpensive or good smart plugs for 240V last I checked.

All major online game companies are moving towards kernel-level anticheat, as it's almost pointless to attempt anticheat otherwise.

I played on a fantastic MUD as a kid. It was based on the code for some other MUD, and the admins were unhappy about some things, so they decided to write their own MUD engine from scratch. They got as far as establishing a network connection to a client - all network code written in scratch from C - before they burned themselves out and quit, which pretty much killed the MUD too.

Even worse, some will simply arbitrarily silently truncate the password. But not everywhere! The sign up page might silently truncate and then the actual login page might not.

And Hasbro: https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-rai...

Unfortunately, traditional pinsetters are well on their way out. All of the chains now use new models with strings that are much cheaper to operate. Non-chain bowling alleys with traditional pinsetters almost all get displaced by competition from chains and other issues.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bowling-is-in-a-knock-...

You can get a technically-legal Professional license from shady websites for $20.

Retail price is ~$140 for Home.

The kingpin at the top of the food chain sold the metals to a refinery. There were many levels below him of catalytic converters being bought and sold before they got to the kingpin.

There absolutely exist fungi that feeds on writable discs. Supposedly more common in tropical, humid areas.

I've always only bought Taiyo Yuden media since ~2000. Every CD-R and DVD-R I still have that I've tried is still readable.

Taiyo Yuden at least used to be white labeled sometimes, so you'd just look up online what white-label media at Best Buy or CompUSA at the time was Taiyo Yuden.

I haven't burned a disc in probably close to a decade at this point though. SpiderOak is my backup.

You've had the ability to turn off team chat in settings for quite awhile. I also turn it off, both all and team.

Oh hey, I sold them that github account name for 0.11 BTC. They obviously had deep pockets but I wondered whether they'd end up having any success.

There's no shortage of adwall sites, which is pretty much the evolution. Outsourcing of ad fraud is their bread and butter.

That's quite disingenuous. Entirely different circumstances and facts.

You're using the absolute maximum prosecutors were threatening Swartz with in order to extract a plea deal. They would not have brought anything near that to trial had it gone to trial, much less convicted him on it. In fact, in your link, this is what he was offered: "During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison".

The statute Swartz was charged under has also widely been recognized as flawed. Not the case with what Shkreli was charged with.

You do when you also commit fraud with a 7 year sentence.

Also, if you have a Windows Update pending that requires a reboot, attempting to install anything from the Windows Store will fail, sometimes with a cryptic error code and sometimes not even that.

Uber deals with a commodity - the variance in someone driving you from point to point is pretty low, and the qualitative parts are basically all consumer visible.

The market for contractors is basically a market for lemons. There's 10 bad to downright criminal contractors for every good one, and most customers have no way to judge the actual quality of the work until it's months later and something falls apart.

ShopRunner is also free, forever, if you ever sign up for one of their free trials - I think they tend to happen around Black Friday.

I signed up for a free 1 year trial 5+ years ago, and it's still active. I don't know if they're desperate to goose their user numbers or what, but I've never heard of anyone's trial expiring.

I wonder whether this is why every Google router (OnHub, Wifi) on Earth shut down about 2PM PST yesterday and requires a factory reset to get running again.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlewifi/38...

And you are a case in point; spez (Steve Huffman, CEO) actually made those decisions and used Pao as a fall-woman.

Once there is more than a single product being produced by an organization, hiring and firing is not generally correlated.

Some states have tried, including Colorado in the most recent election via ballot measure, but the plans have been resoundingly defeated at the ballot. I doubt even Massachusetts's current health system would pass a vote if it were on the ballot today. I suppose that could change depending on how badly the republicans muck things up.

Naan is everywhere in the US. I'd expect tourists preferring naan is pure familiarity. I see naan at every grocery store, much like sushi. Or pita, thinking of breads.

If I recall this is largely why eBay started charging the seller fees on the shipping cost (boy was that a loophole) and then heavily pushed sellers to move to free shipping.

On the flip side, as an eBay seller it's kind of painful to know that if I sell something for $X, shipping is eating $3+ of that - on top of the 10% cut for eBay and the 2% for PayPal. It makes it not worthwhile to me to list anything below $10.

The Anniversary Update completely hosed the Windows install on my desktop.

It got stuck at 15% installing with the infamous spinning circle - I let it run 8 hours at 15% just to be sure because there is zero info given to you beyond the spinning circle. Then when I rebooted the machine it got stuck "Restoring previous version of Windows", again I gave it 8 hours. A third reboot and it failed to boot, forcing me to spend a couple hours fiddling with the command line tools in the recovery environment to repair the boot record.

And I still have no idea why it failed, and Google has no answers either beyond vague suggestions like unplugging all USB devices before the install runs.

Not looking forward to losing a day of work to it again, but not like I have a choice.

How does Microsoft screw up Windows that badly? They've had 20 years to figure stuff like this out.

It's also worth pointing out that the Gameloft acquisition was very much a hostile takeover. Gameloft and Ubisoft were both founded by the Guillemot family, and the Guillemots basically washed their hands of Gameloft after they failed to stop the takeover and dug in extra hard against Vivendi at Ubisoft.

> Part 2 goes back to the Sierra model though, with puzzles that make little sense and are insolvable for most casual and moderate gamers without a hint guide.

Really? I don't remember having to look up hints a single time in part 2. The puzzles were more difficult, but definitely not "Sierra model". The solutions were logical if you paid attention, with the possible exception of the tree joke (I don't remember if that was part 1 or part 2).

The knot puzzle was probably the most annoying of them, but the problem with that one was having to take the long walk back and forth every time you failed.

The energy has long since moved from RTSes to MOBAs. It's doubtful Blizzard will ever make a Starcraft 3. Pure RTSes are going the way of the point & click adventure game.

I'm sure you probably have, but give League of Legends a try if you haven't. There's still a lot of similarities with RTSes.