gpvos's comments

On: Mistral OCR

[gpvos]

PDF/A doesn't require preserving the document structure, only that any text is extractable.

On: Study of cockatoo Snowball suggests humans aren't the only ones who can dance

[gpvos]

(2019)

On: Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud

[gpvos]

But the article says "glass", not "a glass".

[kergonath → gpvos]

Using “glass” as a strict equivalent for “silicate glass” is incorrect. Metallic glass is glass. Not the glass you are used to, but still glass.

[gpvos → kergonath]

I'm not convinced that that is common usage. Maybe in technical circles.

On: The Internals of PostgreSQL

[gpvos]

A bit on the wordy side, but better than the average documentation.

On: We in-housed our data labelling

[gpvos]

> All labellers are either licensed pilots or controllers (or VATSIM pilots/controllers).

I would think such people can make better money by actually working as a pilot or controller?

[kristian1109 → gpvos]

For sure they can! The vast majority of our reviewers make a few extra $hundred every week around their day jobs in aviation. Our target audience for this is the folks who enjoy spending their free time watching YouTube videos like VASAviation or PilotDebrief (like me). We get a kick out of listening to air traffic control audio and hearing what's going on in the airspace system.

[JamesSwift → gpvos]

And doing the quickmath based on the UI saying that 25,150 pts == $50.30 along with them saying 600 pts ~= 15 minutes of work... this is coming out to be ~$4.80/hr. No thanks.

EDIT: and that assumes perfect accuracy, the actual pay will be lower if you miss anything

[repiret → gpvos]

Not all pilots have a commercial pilots license, without which you can’t get paid to fly at all.

Early career professional pilots make surprisingly little money flying.

And professional pilots of all sorts often find themselves in a hotel in a city away from home with time to kill.

[stevage → gpvos]

They said that their reviewers mostly have day jobs.

[gpvos → stevage]

Ah, I see it now. Totally read over that.

On: Our Search for Life in the Clouds

[gpvos]

Correct, since it is an English article. In most other languages (that use these words at all) it would be 1 x 10^36 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

On: Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?

[gpvos]

> The linked "byte mode" table only has 45 individual chars.

No, that link is for alphanumeric mode, which uses 5.5 bits per character (45 * 45 = 2025 <= 2048, so it fits in 11 bits).

On: Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

[gpvos]

I've always thought, in a single-surname system, it would be most fair to give girls their mother's surname and boys their father's (throw a dice for intersex children).

On: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

[gpvos]

Let them ask a tenner for an album download code.

On: Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams

[gpvos]

TIL something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam (I knew about the concept, just hadn't encountered the name.)