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by atoav 7mo ago
Coincidentally my statement comes from the position of someone who has been building and designing analog synths for years and teaching exactly that on the university level. The analog part of a synth can be meaningful and sometimes it is
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by atoav 7mo ago
I happen to both teach electronics on a university level and DSP program, so I will add a [citation needed] to your statement. Yes, there are analog circuits whose edge case percularities have not yet been adequately represented in digital
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by atoav 7mo ago
Adressing your points: Music may have been a bigger culturual force during the heights of vinyl record sales. Whether that translated to better music or whether it is some form of survivorship bias: I don't know. In fact I doubt it.
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by atoav 7mo ago
Yes, but your "IF" is doing the heavy lifting here and it would be your burden to proof how dirt would be a means of artistic expression before anybody could take your argument seriously. As a musician myself I can assure you that
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by atoav 7mo ago
Wired headphones are infinitely more durable when good. I had a single pair of Sennheiser HD25II for 16 years now and I use them to run 16km a week, often in the rain.
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by atoav 7mo ago
I teach at an art university for 8 years now. I would highly doubt that: The most creative people are those who measure both high intelligence and low neuroticism . In my experience that isn't the complete picture. I have met highly c
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by atoav 7mo ago
This is the point. The way you carry out elections need to optimize for not having the loser riot on the streets, nearly all other considerations are secondary: speed, efficiency, etc. It is also interesting which role human psychology play
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by atoav 7mo ago
What is the need for it? You want faster results? Not needed, elections don't need to be fast, they need to be trusted. You want to have less humans in the loop to be more efficient? Having humans in the loop is actually a feature not
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by atoav 7mo ago
Sure. But that problem is not inherent to paper ballots. In fact miscounting (read: manipulation) is even easier and harder to detect with digital systems.
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by atoav 7mo ago
Just imagine you have to explain a child in kindergarden how the collective choice is made. Raising hands works. Putting different pieces of paper into a jars works. Magical machine says the result was X does not work unless they trust it
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by atoav 7mo ago
It is not even about understanding. It is about how easy it is to distrust it. Contrary to what nerds think, the goal of elections isn't to get bulletproof results by mathematical standards. The goal is to create agreeable consent am
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by atoav 7mo ago
Well but that's the thing. It is priced like a phone for exactly the kind of person who would spend 600 bucks on a phone. I don't think this is a coincidence. In terms of performance the raw compute people have in their pockets no
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by atoav 7mo ago
I would ask the opposite. For years now for most of my family even a Raspberry Pi 3B+ 3ould be enough. 95% of people use their machine to run a web browser, that easily ran on hardware that was old 20 years ago.
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by atoav 7mo ago
Well if you want to ensure there person in front of a machine at that time is actually above certain age the only way to do it is to reveal their identity. Of couese one could imagine a cryptographic scheme where only a binary true comes
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by atoav 7mo ago
I rolled a fair dice using ChatGPT.
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by atoav 7mo ago
This also made me wonder, is it: 1. That those in power believe they are so beyond consequences that literally nothing will happen to them, ever or 2. That the time wasn't there to build the narrative since someone else forced their ha
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by atoav 7mo ago
I wish there would just be laws against this type of behaviour, but we all know who is in control of which laws are getting passed. So short of that social shaming will have to do. A CEO that treated humans and/or the planet like dirt,
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by atoav 7mo ago
As weird or hard as it sounds, you need to embrace being alone. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to expose yourself to situations where you meet people or think about how you spend your time (may I suggest: limit internet/
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by atoav 7mo ago
Eliza was one of the first chatbots from the mid to late 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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by atoav 7mo ago
My perspective may come across cynical, although I am not a cynic, I just see this as what I observe. I am usually described as a very optimistic and patient person. My position is the perspective of a former freelancer who had to translate
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by atoav 8mo ago
This is The Lingo . It is something people use when they try to say bland obvious stuff while sounding like they are tech wizards that deserve a high wage. I know the pattern, I studied philosophy, where you also have some writers that exp
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by atoav 8mo ago
Not the person you asked here, but my guess is that it mostly has to do with the need for asynchronous communications. You can't just quickly ask the guy from Japan and expect an answer right away. That means the text needs to cover al
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by atoav 8mo ago
QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects. I used it to successfully extract 3D height data for the mountains next to my hometown. This was not an easy task since the miuntains are on a national border and I had to combine h
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by atoav 8mo ago
If you have regular KDE I urge you to just shake your mouse vigorously for ca. a minute. The cursor has this mouse finding feature where the mouse cursor gets bigger if you shake it. It can get comically big, like fill the whole screen big.
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by atoav 8mo ago
Yes, just not every lense in every part of the world.
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by atoav 8mo ago
Well. Unsurprisingly fascists will do a fascism – an ideology somewhat defined by merging state and industrial powers. Many economically minded people, many technologists, including in this space, have afforded themselves the luxury of not
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by atoav 8mo ago
Which is why on a human level I have zero respect for many CEOs. The world would be a better place without them and they are actively working on making it worse. In fact I believe the rest of the tribe should punish them for this anti-socia
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by atoav 8mo ago
Sell devices who want to get out of the grip of US software monopolies. This is not unpopular in the rest of the world.
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by atoav 8mo ago
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic here (the tone needed to identify it doesn't work well in the internet). But yes. My view on the issue is: companies need to support their products with software for a predefined time and after
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by atoav 8mo ago
You think regulations on planned obsolescence punish poorer people? How? As someone who had a friend who would only eat white bread at the end of the month having his old laptop not work would be a freaking emergency.

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