Marazan

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by Marazan 3y ago
Thabks for that. I've not been paying attention - the major labels have all sold (almost all) their stakes over the last few years.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Given that the major shareholders are the big music rights holders which is one of Spotifies major costs shareholder have done alright.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Pretty much every music recommendation service tells me that Turin Brakes are almost identical to Gomez and I, having ears, can tell they are not. I'd love to know how they have come to this conclusions. Is it because there aren'
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by Marazan 3y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067786/ai-model... The approach I've seen is to prompt for people with unusual names, they're often be only a single source image in the input data
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by Marazan 3y ago
But people absolutely have extracted individual source images out of the models by not even particularly careful prompting.
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by Marazan 3y ago
> Bob James, one of the most sampled artists in history, take it in stride. He's happy that so many people are listening to his stuff. Bob James gets paid. Like, have you ever listened to Bob James talk about people sampling his st
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by Marazan 3y ago
For me jq is my epitome of "When faced with a problem a programmer says 'I know I can use X' and now they have two problems" I continually bounce off the "language/philospohy" of jq in quite embarrassing w
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by Marazan 3y ago
I couldn't imagine any computer beating a human at any Collectable Card Game in the near term. Likewise I'd imagine that computers would be at a insurmountable disadvantage at Deck Builders like Dominion in the general case (in
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by Marazan 3y ago
I think that is a horrifying crime against man and nature. If I wanted to write PERL I would do so.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Only a slight amount of awe there. a16z have a proven track record of this kind of horrible decision.
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by Marazan 3y ago
I will never stop being in awe of this part of the grift.
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by Marazan 3y ago
I said WeWork sceptics not short term leased office space sceptics.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Time to dig out all the past comments about how WeWork sceptics were idiots who didn't understand the genius of their offering. An inverse Dropbox.
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by Marazan 3y ago
DaOrtiz is a primal force. I have bought instructional videos from him so I know the fundamentals of that routine. Knowing how it is done makes it _more_ impressive to me. It is incredible skill that truly only very few people could maste
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by Marazan 3y ago
Yeah, this is not a case of someone being convicted based on dodgy statistical data. Indeed she was found not guilty on a large number of other deaths. There was corroborating evidence which lead to her conviction.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Patreon took venture money despite being bootstrapped. That is behind everyone of their dumb decisions. They had a great model harvesting nickels and then they sold a vision of Taylor Swift being on Patreon to VCs.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Brute force and ignorance approach: Choose random starting point and compute distance to all other points on the map. Repeat for multiple random starting points. Average the distance. Points with high average distance are difficult to reac
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by Marazan 3y ago
Ticketmaster (Live Nation) own the venue.
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by Marazan 3y ago
So what you're saying is that he didn't take being corrected well and was easily annoyed. Literally costs him nothing to adopt the culture of the Discord he wants to participate in yet still he was so easily annoyed he got banned.
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by Marazan 3y ago
The entire multi-media infrastructure at Twitter is visibly creaking.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load. That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.
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by Marazan 3y ago
"The Covid vaccine didn't have any effect onbthe severity of my infection" is the most utterly idiotic take if have read given the mountains of evidence that it massively reduces the severity of the infection
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by Marazan 3y ago
https://readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/arcade-game-typography/ For a loving look at the golden age of 8x8 pixel fonts.
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by Marazan 3y ago
It was an easy question this time.
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by Marazan 3y ago
It was always funny listening to Apple peeps in that time period complain about that horrible, resource sucking, unstable, machine crashing web plugin and realise they weren't talking about the Windows Quicktime web player.
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by Marazan 3y ago
When Adobe released tools to allow you to release Flash Games as native apps on the App Store Steve Jobs had a total meltdown that resulted in the infamous clause 3.3.1 banning cross compilers.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Whilst it was a complete and total security nightmare the Flash Player wasn't a resource hog. People just wrote bad flash apps, that was where the resource hogging came. Those same people are now writing the same bad code in HTML5&#x2
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by Marazan 3y ago
Apple didn't expose necessary APIs
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by Marazan 3y ago
Edinburgh have attempted to regulate and have been sued by the short term let's association.
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by Marazan 3y ago
Good guess but it wasn't varargs, those were default value overrides IIRC. Thing that was objectionable it was that each an every argument was Object type. Absolutely no affordable whatsoever

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