afro88

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   by afro88 5y ago

   In chess, what can look like a blunder in the short term can be a brilliant move longer term. I want to believe you're right, but it's too easy to say they're performing comically badly. Putin and his cronies aren't idio
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   by afro88 5y ago

   And the other side of the coin: you better believe a lot of people were cease and desisted out of using Pon De Floor in tracks too. My point was that riddims unfortunately aren't as free. But the culture around them uses them as if the
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   by afro88 5y ago

   This is super interesting. Do you mind giving a concrete example?
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   by afro88 5y ago

   > another interesting aspect is it's free from intellectual property. it makes for a good example of the impact of free culture on creativity. You better believe Diplo got paid by Beyonce to use Pon De Floor in a track.
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   by afro88 5y ago

   This is such an intriguing comment. What question are you answering?
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   by afro88 5y ago

   Thanks for the detailed reply. Sounds really promising.
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   by afro88 5y ago

   Sounds way more complex than a traditional sign up? What am I missing?
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   by afro88 5y ago

   Not until I read your message, ugh
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   by afro88 5y ago

   > the key is to upgrade often * and have a very good test suite
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    by afro88 5y ago

    I think OP is referring to this when they say OCLP: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Personally I couldn't put it down. Amazingly well written.
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    by afro88 5y ago

    I think it was workflowy, thank you. Looks like they've added a ton of features since I first checked it out too, nice.
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Does anyone know the name of the note taking tool where pretty much everything is a bullet point, and each bullet point can expand to show sub bullet points. The website is essentially the tool itself IIRC. I've been trying to remember
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    by afro88 5y ago

    I wonder if a de-jammer ML model could be built to restore the original audio?
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    by afro88 5y ago

    My hesitation is also the proposition: if everything for a community is stored on my phone, does that mean one person could post something illegal and now I have illegal material on my phone even if I never clicked a link to it? That's
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Better thread (your thread was flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241753
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    by afro88 5y ago

    The default macOS is much nicer and coherent than the default KDE, year on year.
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    by afro88 5y ago

    > It's like working for a food company that claims to use organic, non-processed, fair-trade ingredients and in just a day deciding that you're going to switch to industrial farming sourcing and ultra-processed ingredients. No
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    by afro88 5y ago

    mimixco's comment in your post is spot on too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724776
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    by afro88 5y ago

    > This project is a tool to generate synthetic 3d scenes for toying with bricks registration. I'm out of the lego brick scanning loop. What is "bricks registration"?
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Man reading the response tweets really highlights how bad twitter is for nuanced discussion.
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    by afro88 5y ago

    The most amazing part of this for me is the goals were set before they started, and they delivered on them. The goals didn't change, they didn't pivot, it didn't agile it's way slowly into something else. Clear vision, a
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Imagine starting a job as a closure dev and being told you have to learn a new language with substantially different semantics
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Hah. Well, I'm in Australia. I guess it is per region then
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    by afro88 5y ago

    I loved The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a kid, and now read it to my 6 month old before bed. He loves it too, smiling while playing with the little mini pages and me poking his finger into the holes as the caterpillar chomps through his feas
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Strange, it's not marked sensitive in mine. Are twitter personalising the labelling of tweets now?
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Worse than that: as an influence on the conversational AI model, to push certain products by weighting responses that recommend them higher. Less hassle than throwing a conference for doctors and sending reps out to give them free stationer
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    by afro88 5y ago

    Can assistant make calls to book your haircut with a real person yet? That was hugely exciting at a google io demo about 3-4 years ago
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    by afro88 5y ago

    When I pinch zoom on the images on my iphone it crashes my device :o
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    by afro88 6y ago

    No swift support yet. What would be involved in adding it?