Strongly seconded. Great radio, independent, opinionated, kind, reasonable, 100% listener supported. My main go-to for music in the last couple of years (since I discovered it)
> Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos
Are you saying that 30-50% of Cambodia's economy can be directly attributed to scamming and casinos? I find that shocking and hard to believe. Do you have a source for that statement?
I had similar feeling over the past few years, trying futilely to escape the algorithm.. I recently discovered radiop aradise[1] which is exactly what I needed - free, old style, very little talk, human-curated radio. They have a vast selection of titles, and they simply play good music - stuff I know, stuff I don't.. it's just great.
They also have a world music channel, which I couldn't find any parallel anywhere else. They have wonderful music there when I'm in my "world music" mood. All in all, it's a gem, highly recommended for any music lovers who prefer curated over algorithmic.
That's not a useless project! It's a silly piece of code, but it gave joy to people, so I would say much more useful than most stories in this thread.
Back in the nineties my dad had the notion that if you make the computer select numbers at random many times, and you run statistics on the results you gain some "legitimacy" to these selections. So he asked me to write a "lotto number selector program", but it needed to run for a few hours and select many numbers and then output the ones that were selected the most or some such. Maybe it was more sophisticated, but I can't really remember the details. I guess I could just add a delay instead of actually selecting the numbers, but I wouldn't lie to my dad :)
It was super silly, but like you said, why not, I was a teen/tween and I didn't mind playing around with silly software.
He actually used it and actually filled out the lotto numbers based on it. No, we never won the millions :)
Also - I just visited a casino in Spokane, WA for the first time ever. Isn't that what all the machines there are doing? A random number emitter thingy with random delays, animation, music and flashing lights?
Hey, thanks for making this! And thanks for posting here.
I was wondering if you are willing to share some of the innerworkings of this. You mention in the FAQ that it works for almost any site, so I am guessing you are not developing a per-site scraping script, rather something more generic? Maybe AI? How do you protect from AI mangling results unexpectedly (I don't know if this is a risk, I have no AI experience)
Oh, it's a huge effort! These bodies meet and discuss what the proper spelling of words should be, or they make up new words, and then they publish those guidelines for journalists, authors, and anyone who wants to speak "properly" to follow.
It gives the language a good balance between spelling and pronouncing - that's why you can pronounce most words in German and Spanish exactly how they are written (I think there are very very few exceptions, if at all). But this comes at a price of losing ability to track meaning some times.
There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.
There are many English dialects, and sounds (and meanings) vary, A LOT. It's up to you whether you want to try and assimilate the local dialect of where you live right now, or you want to simply understand and be understood.
There are many non-native speakers who are extremely easy to understand, even though it is clear that English is their second (or third) language. I believe the hardest part is to learn how to make sounds that do not exist in your native language (both consonants and vowels). But the good news is that there are ways to learn that. The human mouth is capable of pronouncing all human sounds, it is only a matter of practice.
The English spelling is guided by meaning, not by sound. So trying to make the sounds out of the letters will always be a frustrating endeavor, as there will never be a single rule you can follow.
I still am unable to get resume from deep sleep to be less than 12-15 seconds. I dug the forums, contacted support, did all the things, but nothing works. If I go to s2idle it is instant, but that takes way too much battery.
Even with deep sleep the battery life feels very short. I haven't done formal tests, but I also have a macbook for work, and the difference is quite noticeable. I very often come to open the framework after a few hours of sleep and it just ran itself out of battery. This never happens with the macbook.
Don't get me wrong, I love the framework, and I love that it's "open", and fixable - so I'm willing to live with that. But just comparing it to another laptop, I'm not sure I'd give it 10 out of 10.
Same here, been hosting for over a decade now. You do need to be on top of all the latest technologies, and still some problems will arise once in a while. But all in all, it's a pretty smooth operation.
I had a legit call a few months ago from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency). He was nice enough and sounded calm, and I explained that with all due respect, since he called, I have no way of knowing if he is a scammer or not, so I'd like to call back. He was somewhat taken aback, but not annoyed. I asked where to call, and what to say to get to the matter at hand. After hanging up, I looked up the number, called them back, and got the issue settled. But I was truly surprised that he expected me to talk to him when he called.
The CRA is probably the number one pretend-caller in Canada (Or two, after the RCMP - the federal police), so I was surprised they do not employ this as a standard practice and education for people to protect against scam calls.
I was lucky to keep my wits about me, and that the call indeed was legit, but it shows there's a huge opening for scamming less savvy people.
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