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by Sophira 9y ago
Tom Scott yesterday made a video for laypeople on the topic of 'black box' machine learning and how it can be difficult to get it to behave as you want, too.[0] It's an interesting watch - I'd recommend it if you're
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by Sophira 10y ago
They don't seem to be very interested in listening to feedback: > We're sure it's the best there is, but since we're always improving, we'll pretend to listen to your feedback and make it better. Openly saying th
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by Sophira 10y ago
It's not actually said that "3" should swap with it - it's a substitution for that symbol. It's a proposal to post normally but to omit any symbols that don't fit by just not typing anything.
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by Sophira 10y ago
There's that, but there's also the fact that they invoke a musical number from the movie at the same time ("Be Our Guest") making this response in itself a bit of an ad.
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by Sophira 10y ago
It's also worth noting that in MySQL, the replace command is deprecated in 5.7.18 and removed in MySQL 8. [0] I don't know its status in MariaDB. [0] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/repl
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by Sophira 10y ago
Perhaps if JavaScript did not exist, those apps would be using something separate to the Web, and the Web would have remained a mostly non-interactive, read-only medium. You're overestimating the importance of JavaScript here. phpBB
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by Sophira 10y ago
You actually can do something like this with Firefox. If you load Firefox with the "-ProfileManager" switch (and you don't have another Firefox window open; see below for how to get round this), it'll open a window where
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by Sophira 10y ago
In addition to this, it's important to note that in a .mid file (or, more accurately, a Standard MIDI File), a track is deliberately quite similar to a stream of MIDI data. There are some changes, obviously (among other things, timing
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by Sophira 10y ago
I don't really know much about playing MIDIs on a Mac, unfortunately, as I'm a PC person. The only options I know of are paid; for example, GarageBand ( https://www.apple.com/mac/garageband/ ) can open and
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by Sophira 10y ago
Thanks for the report! Things should be fixed now. :) Technically, it's probably GarageBand that's wrong here, but I've changed AutoMIDIFlip so that GarageBand should be happy. What was happening is that the original file is
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by Sophira 10y ago
That sounds like a good idea. Props to your teacher - I might try that myself, as there are a few things I've been interested in learning on the left hand but have had trouble with.
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by Sophira 10y ago
It probably wouldn't sound terribly great; the site doesn't make any attempt to make sure that the flipped version is in the same key as the original (and in fact that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible), so you'
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by Sophira 10y ago
I wrote AutoMIDIFlip based on the #midiflip challenge going around Twitter right now - basically, take a MIDI file, flip it so that the intervals are preserved but in the opposite direction, and see what it sounds like. It actually has some
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Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper(automidiflip.com)
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by Sophira 10y ago
Reading the page, it sounds like they're talking about the "torrentfs" mounted filesystem component, where read requests will download just that part of the file. So theoretically, you could open the archive in a GUI, extract
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by Sophira 10y ago
That's true, but the whole point of the strip was that you use words that evoke an easily-memorable scene in your head. That will probably mean you can confine your list to words that most people know, which reduces the search space si
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by Sophira 10y ago
Unfortunately, if they don't or are forced by policy, then you've just told the Internet your security answers. If I were you I'd edit that and reword it without specifics.
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by Sophira 11y ago
> I'm all for educating people on these issues, but the true way to protect them from their own stupidity is to ensure that it is impossible for them to start up a vnc server without enforcing a strong password. What is a 'st
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by Sophira 11y ago
Phone status I'll agree is useful, but there's no need for a music-playing app to control BT pairing - the phone can do that itself.
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by Sophira 11y ago
I feel Scotland would do well to start hinting that tech startups may want to start there, given the likelihood of a successful referendum to leave the UK when it happens.
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by Sophira 11y ago
For anybody getting a message that says "Please try loading the page again after activating mobile data or connecting to a Wi-Fi network." = it's not your connection, despite what the page says. The mobile site, http:/&
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by Sophira 11y ago
When I said that user profiles weren't really a thing, I meant that they really didn't save much different per-user unless your network was set up to have roaming user profiles, which is what I meant about the enterprise networkin
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by Sophira 11y ago
You're actually very wrong about that, but it's easy to miss thanks to clever coding on Microsoft's part in Windows 95/98/NT4. Program Manager in Windows 3.x would actually store its "program groups" in .G
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by Sophira 11y ago
Yep! That was commonly called a "null modem" cable, and DOSBox supports that style of connection too. :)
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by Sophira 11y ago
You're correct that DOS itself (MS-DOS, at least) has no networking support, but you might be surprised to learn that DOSBox does natively have networking support - in more ways than one. On the DOS side of things, you can configure
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by Sophira 11y ago
Not in Firefox, and the GP said they're only keeping Chrome around for Flash.
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by Sophira 11y ago
I wasn't trying to say that intellectual property didn't exist. I think it's obvious that it does, at least in some form. (Heck, the patent system is builton the very idea.) Perhaps in an 'ideal' world, IP wouldn&#x
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by Sophira 11y ago
I think I'm missing something. Why not just install the Flash player from Adobe?
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by Sophira 11y ago
The second half of your last paragraph is interesting to me, because what you're basically doing is affirming the political idea of intellectual property. Out of curiosity, how do you feel about DRM (which is based on exactly the same
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by Sophira 11y ago
The point isn't that it can be bricked; it's that it's possible to brick it via an "rm". Or heck, doing anything hardware-related via an 'rm'. The UNIX philosophy of "everything is a file" ha

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