Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's funny because it's true. Front-enders get surface body modifications. Ink and piercings. True engineers know that the worthwhile body modifications are a resting heart rate sub 45, or being able to bench double their body wei
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, look at the Spanish naming system for example. It doesn't get much more Catholic than that, but they combine both partners' family names.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Sure.. so the beginning of the story up to the Avid acquisition is publicly documented as Sibelius' history and so on. The development and release of Dorico has also been written about in depth on Daniel Spreadbury's blog, "M
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
3-4 hours in the air is a lot easier to deal with than 7-8 hours on a 1960s B-707. On a Dreamliner with modern entertainment, higher cabin pressure, satellite internet, big windows, far better seats and much, much quieter engines? Meh, NBD.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That is, to some extent, what happened in South Africa. Of course, the whites didn't give power over easily, and the road since has not been smooth. There's no reason to think the Rhodesians would have handed it over any easier, w
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, I've tried to use LLMs to disassemble and decompile binaries (giving them the hex bytes as plaintext), they do OK on trivial/artificial cases but quickly fail after that.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Nationality? Certainly. Race / ethnicity? With extreme caution. Most Black people in the US have enough of a shared history that it's a useful label, for example. But Ghana, Eritrea and Eswatini share almost none, even if their pe
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Is there any evidence for this ultrasound being a communication medium of any kind (I'm thinking less IPv6 or US English, and more insect or bird calls)? Any hint that they listen to sounds as well as make them, or that there's an
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I'm not here to accuse you of racism. This isn't X. But there are some words here which require closer examination. "A people".. "themselves".. "we".. "our past". Who, exactly, gets to draw
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Why must they have agreed on price? Only Steinberg/Dorico are making a sale, I don't see any reason to think Finale are forcing their hand on price. More likely it's Finale says "offer a good price to our users, and in r
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
As people are talking about Dorico, a little story about how it happened (and, very nearly, didn't). So Sibelius began as a project by the Finn brothers, then in their early 20s in Cambridge, some time around 1990. Originally it was wr
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There's no resale here? EU resale law is mostly around the fact that makers can't dictate to shops or other resellers what their sale price should be. Vendors - whether original makers or resellers - are free to offer differential
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There's no stigma for treating clinically low T. But as with most things in life, there's a spectrum. And strength / resistance exercise / ability to build & retain muscle will be impaired way before you hit the clin
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Like the gender drugs don't have trade offs? In my limited understanding - as with many drugs - they're the best (or least worst) available option for people with a condition that's affecting their wellbeing. Untreated gender
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Online dating and food delivery are popular because they're an allegedly more efficient and safer (in the case of dating) way of getting what you're looking for delivered to your door. Online dating is basically pre-screening, and
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The stumbling block here seems likely to be Apple's fundamental dislike of, and disconnect with, all things gaming. It's an aesthetic and cultural divide. Like premium German car brands vs ricers, and I don't need to tell you
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
So many options in Europe if you don't mind discomfort. From the UK, I'd maybe take a cheap flight to Poland or even the long distance bus. Once there, YHA hostels, camping etc. Another option is fly to Greece and island hop on th
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Unless perhaps you're severely disabled, holidays are so much more than just your eyes and ears. Not just all of your five senses, and your ability to interact, but the social and human side as well, and your ability to interact physic
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The logic of public health and product design applied to urban/spatial planning basically. And, unsurprisingly, it works wonders.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Ok,that makes sense. My country (UK) uses a definition of poverty that's based on a % of median household income, which doesn't tell you anything about buying power. If your income is below 60% of median, you're in poverty pe
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not all irradiance translates into heat, but even if it's only a few W/m2, that's megawatts per sq km, and terawatts for a France sized area.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Isn't the most useful definition of rich/poor how much access to resources you can buy? As in, how can someone be both getting poorer but also enjoying increasing access to resources? Buying power is a pretty good measure here unl
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Have you got some sources for that? Thermal forcing from existing plants (and thermal sink from their energy output) seems like it'd be tiny compared to solar thermal forcing. I realise GHG from their waste gases is a huge problem, but
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
But they all identify with the same hierarchical structure to some degree, at least if we're talking about a group like Roman Catholics, Sunni Muslims etc. It gets more complicated of course where e.g. Judaism is concerned, because tha
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
"Atheist" feels like such a strange and artificial category, lumping people together on the basis of what they don't believe rather than what they do. It's a bit like defining everyone who isn't Indo-European or Asi
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
"believe" and "true" as you're using them are relatively modern, secular concepts, the idea that anything can be tested to destruction and deemed true or false, and the idea that stories are superimposed upon the wo
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Totally agree, the difference is speed and scale. Copyright laws didn't need to be invented until the printing press came along, because the act of copying was slow and difficult. Not a fan of the patent model for software, for example
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
AI changes the rules here, because AI is able to automate extracting structure/meaning, and launder it of its origins. In classical copyright, fair use allows certain.. fair uses. Going beyond that is considered stealing. You can chop
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Actually, "launder" is the word I'd use for LLMs. Clean things up just enough that it's difficult to prove where their semantic content came from. How useful this is or isn't, and how much of a threat to rightful IP
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
True, but at $500k, being frugal means living a $250k standard of living, which is still way more than most people have. I guess it comes down to what you see as negative impacts. I'd never been further than maybe 1500 miles from home

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