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by Pxtl 3y ago
7digital was also bought by songtradr this year. Presumably Songtradr is making a big play on owning online music stores.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
You can download AAC files that are AFAIK digitally watermarked with your Apple ID to prevent piracy, but you can use freely in all your client tools. But they are not lossless. I don't know if iTMS sells lossless music. However, the
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There's also 7digital.... which is now, also owned by Songtradr. Or Amazon, which doesn't sell music in my country. Or Apple. Which seems to resent even still running the itunes music store, they don't even have a web front
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by Pxtl 3y ago
See, for me I like that Bandcamp is just a store . That I see an artist I like on social media, click their bandcamp link, and if I like their music I buy it. I don't use its recommendation features, and the only social feature I us
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by Pxtl 3y ago
God damn. Bandcamp is where I get my music wherever possible - they're an amazing platform and product and I like the fact that my purchases are going to support the actual artists instead of vanishing into the Google or Spotify machi
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Dark Matter is the opposite of String Theory imho. String Theory was about desperately seeking a Grand Unifying Theory that everybody wants and mashing math together until you figured out something that matched the evidence but was so ove
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There's a good cosmology YouTuber who basically explains: dark matter is not a theory, it's a set of observations. Galaxies behave like there's a halo of invisible mass surrounding them, one that varies in density per-galaxy
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I think you could say literally all the exact same things about Markdown and HTML. > I wonder if that would limit you to the very simplest of ~~math~~markup. > ~~LaTeX~~HTML notation lets you type ~~math~~markup without the ambiguity
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The trick is that HN turns into monospace when you indent. So this is not monospaced, but this text that is indented with 4 spaces is monospaced so I can easily align words.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'm curious - is there any mathjax/mathml/latex/whatever equivalent to Markdown? Because every math extension seems to fail the one great feature of markdown: that when I view Markdown as plain text, it's still real
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> "end to individual car ownership" Name one. Name one notable person here on HN who wants to "end individual car ownership". Not to offer an alternative for people who don't need to own a car all day every d
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by Pxtl 3y ago
99.9% of all hydrogen currently on the market is not "green". It is either captured by products from dirty industrial processes, or more commonly it is made from gas or coal and the CO2 is released into the atmosphere. If you&#x2
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Once you're already committed to green hydrogen (electrolysis-made hydrogen) you may as well go whole hog and do green methane (methane made through the Sabatier process, which consumes Hydrogen and CO2). Making a methane-powered jetli
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by Pxtl 3y ago
> Dedicated hydrogen production today is primarily based on fossil fuel technologies, with around a sixth of the global hydrogen supply coming from “by-product” hydrogen, mainly in the petrochemical industry. In 2022, 70% of the energy r
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by Pxtl 3y ago
At present, the amount of green hydrogen in the total hydrogen economy is less than 1%. (edit: possibly less than 0.1% [1]) Green hydrogen is vapourware. [1] https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/22/0-03-of-hydroge
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by Pxtl 3y ago
More to the point, currently only 1% (edit: some articles I've seen put it less than 0.1%[1]) of hydrogen is "green". The rest is mostly made out of natural gas, a process that releases just as much CO2 as if you'd burn
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yup. It's painfully obvious here in Canada, where the loudest champion of hydrogen-powered vehicles is the Premiere of the oil-and-gas-generating province of Alberta, and she's an ideological-conservative pro-oil leader at that.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Imho it's just that method signatures are enough work to write and maintain that inheritance is needed for simple code reuse sometimes. A language with good constructs for convenient call-signature reuse and redirection at the function
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by Pxtl 3y ago
It looks neat. But the goals sound very similar to venerable old Lua. I wonder what Berry has to set it apart from Lua, besides a few of Lua's idiosyncratic language decisions that come from its age.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've never touched Rust, but I can see the complaint -- if I have to write my code in a special way so that its state can be marshalled across threads to redistribute load in a way that I do not need and will make the actual end-to-end
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Other way around. The idea is that anybody can right-click-save whatever game they like. But when you run the game, the first thing it would do is check your blockchain wallets for authorization to execute this game. Basically, accept tha
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Exactly. That's why I come back to a simple set of requirements for "physical media equivalent" software: - Transferrable interminable software license (blockchain is a decent way to implement this but by no means the only o
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That's a distinction without a difference, imho. Either IP that the owner has decided to stop selling should be free to reproduce, or it shouldn't, regardless of their justification and the medium.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
If the binaries are freely redistributable but worthless without the blockchain auth, then it's harmless to let any torrent site host them, right?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That argument extends far beyond digital goods. There are a myriad of great physical books, albums, games, boardgames, etc. that are out-of-print, and so the only legal way to experience them is to find somebody with a copy and borrow&#x2F
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Blockchain is not redundant because blockchain provides non-first-party ownership authorization and would enforce the transferability of the product. Like, right now, if I buy a digital good on a game console, my "ownership" of th
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The Atari 2600 launched in 1977. If you can get your hands on a working console and cartridge, they will still play regardless of the status of Atari's company software infrastructure. You can even transfer ownership of the cartridge
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly, I hate blockchains, but I feel like they're the ultimate solution for digital goods. I don't want to own NFTs for their own sake as "speculative assets" or "stores of value" or nonsense like that, bu
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Still, I'd rather have textual hints about layout than explicit drag-and-drop. Stuff like "boxes a1, a2, a3 should be presented sequentially" or "box b1, b2, b3 are tightly related and should be presented close to each
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Frustrating, I looked up MS/C#'s implementation and they don't get stored in a proper semisequential fashion in MS SQL Server because MS stores UUIDs in an odd binary format.

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