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by atoav 1y ago
Yes, but determinism != ambiguity, because determinism means: for this exact input the same exact output needs to follow. If I ask the same model the same question I should be able to deterministically get the same answer. Now if we phrase
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by atoav 1y ago
We are on our third run of tapes now (50 each). Chrome-Oxide tapes can sound surprisingly good. Our main reason is that people want to buy music at gigs and just offering solitary paper sheets with download codes doesn't really work. A
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by atoav 1y ago
A big chunk of my favorite websites to this day are hosted by motivated individuals in their spare time. And that hasn't changed. Maybe I am an exception as I find social media nearly worthless by this point, but hey: Just because you
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by atoav 1y ago
This is the main issue with it yes. Instead of having a compelling user- and/or howter-centric vision of how Web 3.0 could look and why, it was basically just like: like web but with blockchain and yet somehow more centralized and with
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by atoav 1y ago
How do you messure this? Every university in my country has thousands of mail accounts that are constantly used and having worked at an university IT department I have never heard of any numbers collection coming by to ask us how many mails
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by atoav 1y ago
I had my mail hosted with my managed server for 10 years, then they started charging ridiculous amounts of money for SSL certs, so I moved all websites to a self-managed 10 times cheaper yet more performant webservers. Then they wanted to f
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by atoav 1y ago
I run multiple websites since I have been roughly 14 and I never had any of those problems. I am not saying they could theoretically happen. What I am saying is that to most people running small websites they don't. I don't use cl
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by atoav 1y ago
Repairability: -1/10
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by atoav 1y ago
The problem with that attitude is that waste isn't that easy to define: - what is waste during good times may be essential during bad ones. If your service utilizes 100% CPU during normal operation (no waste), it has zero slack for cha
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by atoav 1y ago
Privatization just means that if you were interested in the outcome before (having water), they are now interested in the money that can be extracted from it. And that means their interest is to but a modern branding onto an operation that
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by atoav 1y ago
The thing about age verification ia that it is at its core identity verification. You need to make sure the person on the other side of the screen is indeed who they are. This means it isn't enough to verify the age of an account once.
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by atoav 1y ago
As someone who programs both C++ and Rust, without even reading the article, my own experience with typos in those languages is: Rust: Typo? Now it just doesn't compile anymore. Worst case is that the compiler does a bad job at explain
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by atoav 1y ago
Everything exists in thousand shades and ethics is one of those fields where in the finer shades people can and will differ in their assessment. That is in the nature of the thing. I am not saying anyone who listens voluntarily for 30 secon
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by atoav 1y ago
You read "living of" as a monetary value, that isn't what I meant. That particular app is useless without musicians that upload stuff for free, meaning the fact that musicians do that is of existential importance for it.
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by atoav 1y ago
Actual paper is pretty good, very cheap, has very good haptic feedback and readability, needs no subscription, doesn't restric you to certain pen manufacturers, you can still read the contents when the paper-mill ceases to exiet and ha
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by atoav 1y ago
One can be angry for symbolic reasons as well. If your CEO told you to "Get your code on github, it is free", you would probably rightfully question whether they understood the reasons why people develope and maintain open source
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by atoav 1y ago
Artists, especially on bandcamp, are often the underdog. Being proud of not paying them is like being proud to watch a street artist "for free", because fuck them for doing it in public. My ethics say: "If you don't like
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by atoav 1y ago
Your app is living off the work of artists and making it in a way that gives them a way to profit from it costs you nothing, so it is the right thing to do. Show some merch buying options or display a button that allows you to pay for the m
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by atoav 1y ago
You can limit the number of possible listens without buying on Bandcamp if you prefer people who actually consider paying for artists. But yeah marketing an app as "this is free, we are great, while some musician didn't like it, b
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by atoav 1y ago
Legible != Readable Legability means you have to be able to differenciate words and letters. With a font specialized for aerospace use that probably also mean it has to retain that quality when printed on panels. A special requirement I wou
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by atoav 1y ago
I thought multidimensional random walkers would make random choices on all dimensions, so: step = [random.choice([-1,0,1]) for _d in range(n_dimensions)] At least this is how I did 2D random walks as this allows for diagonal step
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by atoav 1y ago
Similar for my approach (although I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD). This is how I learned electronics enough to manage becoming a certified electrical engineer without ever officially studying anything even remotely like it. I was i
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by atoav 1y ago
Or (3) what ICE does is illegal AND you can't legally challenge their action until AFTER you have been deported to a torture prison in a 3rd world country you've never been to. The reason people want to avoid ICE is the same reaso
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by atoav 1y ago
> Attaching to buyers pain is the only way you’ll ever get anything meaningful done. Yes. Under the one precondition that you can actually provide a solution. Your customer might know that pain better than you do and they may sometimes
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by atoav 1y ago
This made me recall a sales interaction with a company myself. Somehow a sales person from a company noticed we were in the market for an somewhat expensive product their company was selling. They always called during lunch hours (three tim
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by atoav 1y ago
Of course there is no single best road to mathematics, mainly because the way humans are able to think isn't uniform. There are people with more or less Aphantasia, so people who can't or have a hard time forming mental images. Th
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by atoav 1y ago
As a former film student I can say from experience that licensing rights can be expensive. And how expensive depends on the usage. E.g. playing a song at a live event is different from using it in television which is different from using it
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by atoav 1y ago
There are many smaller bands that sell their stuff more or less directly, e.g. via bandcamp or directly via small independent record labels. Buy their stuff, it helps them to survive. But mayor record labels can go die in a ditch.
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes, a tariff can be a good measure. But for that the tariffed goods need to be selected carefully and rationally und not whatever the heck the Trump administration is doing. For example you can tariff bananas all you like, that won'
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by atoav 1y ago
Place 33. I hate the whole LLMs em-dash thing since I now have to consider how em-dash usage impacts the perception of those reading what I wrote. At least I tended to use em-dash always with spaces surrounding it — like so. I know the angl

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