bonestormii_

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by bonestormii_ 4y ago
lol, yes, sure. But why don't you sound horrified? Version control at least is essential for something of any size with any number of people working on it. You must be able to "revert" a set of changes quickly and reliably if
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for running the test! I can't help but feel it is heavily impacted by ambience of the recording as well. The midi is of course a very rigid and literal interpretation of what the model is hearing as pitches over time, b
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
Yeah, articulation should be standardized in the midi specification. It's always a custom mapping to control it even when proper articulations are available. "Oh cool, custom mapping?!", you might say. Wrong. It sucks, becaus
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
I wish more people thought this way about computing.
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
I think you are right in many respects. I would not consider myself one of the accused luddites, but in their defense, this ethos isn't baseless. First and foremost, the luddites you speak of are programmers or sys admins. They have be
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
I think it is perhaps a function of the way we train ourselves to be workers that passively accept tasks to occupy our attention. Much of school and many jobs provide anywhere from a drip to a torrent of regular units of work for us to focu
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
LoL @ "Perhaps Apple can't afford..."
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
It's all really stupid, actually. The competition for the best schooling so that you can get the best job can indeed yield significant benefits for the winners. The private sector judges prestigious universities to be high-value; those
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
The problem is that our legislators famously do not write or even read the legislation that they vote on. Sometimes it's strategic and intentional that a party will try to hold a vote on some 1000+ page piece of legislation with 24 hou
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
It's easy to say that, but what do you expect the platform to provide? If the platform makes operating your business so trivial that they provide all functionality baked into the product, I would suggest that your business may lack nov
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by bonestormii_ 5y ago
ooOOOOoooo
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Why? This is not a completely novel concept, and a daemon is not a particularly complicated thing. You can use shell scripts to easily "daemonize" small programs. It's both fun and effective to do so.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Eh, I don't find this argument compelling. Insurance companies already have significant influence in the government, and the line from sugar consumption to health care costs has already been established. So if this is the concern, well
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Yeah you are right. There is no standardization to the way you interact with such things.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
It's crazy. I started writing why I disagreed based on my visceral reaction to the topic. But as I constructed my arguments, they were not sound. So I suppose I agree? Hm. The above paragraph is sincere--that did happen. And interestin
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
This isn't really vendor lock-in, though. It's simply a technical/design lock-in. Going from unstructured to structured data presents problems, and if you do that, it's rightfully up to you to fix. It is different from t
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
That's crazy, IMO. This view supposes that the workers simply extract wealth from the company, rather than exchanging wealth for their time, which also has innate value to the worker. Per this view, if a worker worked 100% of their tim
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
The "confidence" of senior people to push back is greatly enhanced by the fact that they won't be expediently fired for doing so. And even so, plenty of senior positions suffer from this situation as well. I'm living thi
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Maybe! I've only ever glanced at it, but something between awk and python does sound useful.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
For scripts requiring any degree of complexity regarding data structures or architecture, for sure, use Python. But like, you can't just use Python to interact with your system. It will be such a pain in the ass. Piping and redirecti
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
The interesting property is embedded in the parent's use of the word "emerge" I think. It is the property of emergence that takes swarms of ants and forms an organized colony, or a network of nerves that creates intelligence.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Ha. I like you. You see nationalization of industry as a pathway to revenue growth? I guess it makes sense, but somehow I always think about industries like healthcare being nationalized as a means of providing service, which is likely to c
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I'm skeptical that no level of taxation can support the government. Bill Clinton was able to balance the budget, and that wasn't so long ago. The government collects trillions of dollars a year in taxes as it is. A significant p
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
What would an appropriate revenue source be? I don't really think generating revenue should be the focus of the government as much as facilitating the growth of private industry through smart regulation, and then taxing them. The gover
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I mean, there is a growing consensus that corporations need to pay more taxes, yes. I don't know if the public generally "vilifies anyone who understands taxes". Some certainly do. But I would point out that those two things
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
I'm sorry, but if being an expert in art, engineering, acting, AND directing doesn't make you a polymath, then precisely what does? The author severely underestimates the universal genius of diCaprio.
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Totally valid. I do like a vanilla vim though. It took some getting used to but I do find myself editing things in vim over ssh quite frequently and it is much easier for doing things like search/replace, etc. Nano probably works too b
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Lol. I want to type full words, and feel that doing so is near frictionless. I access around 70 environments regularly, many of which are frequently re-imaged during testing, and I appreciate the fact that typing works the same on all of th
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Words are already extremely cheap and effortless though, and saying that they have a higher value than I appraise them for doesn't address some of the issues I addressed, such as the very real problem on non-universal configurations. I
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by bonestormii_ 6y ago
Right, but it's the vim effect. For vim to become worth your time to learn to use effectively, you have to have a purpose to use it quite a lot. But it takes quite a lot of time, and causes quite a lot of errors in the mean time. E

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