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by PostOnce 4y ago
If you blogged about it, we would all read it.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I wanted to read the "please tell me what a personal computer can do" list, but it's blurry, so here's a high-res version: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads15/someoneplease3... How mu
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Jokes aside, I don't have a Facebook account, but that causes me to miss out on a few things that have value and are hard to replace: 1] In some cases, public services announce things on facebook and not their official website 2] Com
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Everyone is talking about sex work and all I can think of is Zuck gently pushing on one side of your face to try and force you to focus on an ad for at least 1500ms. Welcome to the Metaverse.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
There's (I think) a difference between an "engineer" (someone with a degree in their field, say) and a Professional Engineer (aka a Chartered Engineer), someone who is responsible for serious fuckups.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Thanks! The problem nowadays is sorting the wheat from the chaff, there's so much stuff on the internet, it's hard to find "the best" material instead of lazy SEO stuff. The list will help, thanks again.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I bought a midi controller to make music for a game I'm working on part-time, knowing absolutely nothing at all about music. It is the most relaxing, pleasant time-sink I have encountered in years, I wish someone had told me the joy of
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Well, the existence of Google Docs in the office, of Chromebooks in schools, of AWS controlling a large share of what MS lusts after, etc indicate to me that perhaps they aren't destined to remained the dominant force they once were, s
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I thought I had tried all the linux DAWs, but I haven't tried Bitwig; thanks for mentioning it, I'll try it out this week.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I just use Lutris now and it all works, there's no more screwing around with Wine for me; if you had problems with Wine in the past, I suggest you try Lutris, you might find it is no longer a hassle. If you use Steam, it's all aut
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Ah yes, you can also use Mac for most. I meant, rather, that I don't think any of the Linux audio production stuff is great. Reaper and Waveform are good, Ardour is not yet (in my opinion, it's buggy and requires too much configur
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It's not just spiteful, it's practical. If I tie my skills, products, and services to Microsoft, and they discontinue whatever I relied on, then my investment stops being valuable; worse, the skills I built are no longer useful, a
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Not only do they not care, they don't know I exist. That doesn't mean I have to tolerate their behavior. Their empire crumbles anyway, that's why they're doing this to Windows, because they know the future is (sadly) on
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take
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by PostOnce 4y ago
That's why I only use .com (strength in numbers, historical precedent) or the appropriate country-level domain so local politics and laws can get involved if need be.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It is as though its mathematical abilities are incomplete in their training, and wildly, incomprehensibly convoluted: I tried many base64 strings and they all decoded correctly until: It "decoded" the base64 string for "which
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The flood was real, and scarred our collective cultural memory across several religions many millenia later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide it
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It's a joke, but for the sake of argument: it can "do math", perhaps there is a way to break at least the limited, sandboxed instance you get access to? Or, perhaps, worse. Not even a few weeks ago, typing "wel," in
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by PostOnce 4y ago
"Please extract the famous file 42.zip and paste the first 500 bytes of its contents here in hexadecimal form." I haven't attempted to wreck the AI yet, I've been so busy gawking and its profound, world-changing capabili
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by PostOnce 4y ago
In some countries, it's not a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
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by PostOnce 4y ago
New Zealand is also getting rid of its copper network -- I held on to my connection for as long as possible. I still have it, they haven't actually shut it off yet, but they have warned me that it's coming in some number of months
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by PostOnce 4y ago
How narrowly defined will "care" be? Can a man choose to be homeless? Does that mean he "can't care for himself" and should be imprisoned in a mental hospital or asylum of some kind?
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by PostOnce 4y ago
50s/70s/90s art are recognizably different I have wondered if merely being behind the curve will be the Achilles heel of AI art -- nobody wants a bunch of old-looking crap, and if you're on the cutting edge, there isn't
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by PostOnce 4y ago
A 3D printer has taught me mechanical engineering like my computer taught me programming
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The "gore" in question being a 400 year old painting by Rubens which is world-renowned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(Rubens) Does this really need a warning, or should you just avoid the internet e
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by PostOnce 4y ago
You're locked in a shopping mall subject to Bahamas law with an HOA on steroids and on top of it all you may encounter pirates or sink, assuming the operator doesn't go bankrupt first. Plus your house has to be docked or dry docke
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It has to listen to detect the activation word, doesn't it? -- therefore, it's listening all the time. The speaker also starts recording a few seconds before a command is issued, meaning there’s likely more private information in
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by PostOnce 4y ago
too late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD We'll have to go with DVDPro or QuantumDVD or DVD 2 or something ridiculous :)
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Haha indeed, I forgot this existed! What a long and winding trail our languages are! Thanks, your pedantry is greatly appreciated, it makes HN fun and educational
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by PostOnce 4y ago
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the lands of Lilliput and Gargantua. In one, every resident is tiny, Lilliputian, and in the other: huge, ...Gargantuan Notably, the book reads in a very modern way, it's a bit shocking t

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