clumpthump

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by clumpthump 1y ago
I've been having a lot of fun getting started with Max/MSP following Cipriani & Giri's "Electronic Music And Sound Design" books. Max is a paid program though; Pure Data is similar but open source.
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by clumpthump 3y ago
Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any increase in opaque errors. I can tell what someone meant if I
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by clumpthump 4y ago
What does productivity have to do with wages, hours, or conditions? The labour movement, which got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, has had its power greatly diminished. That is why we don't work less.
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by clumpthump 4y ago
I disagree with that. Sure, wrong documentation can mislead and confuse, but it can also be very helpful. Lying comments have often helped me because it's often useful to know that a particular person at a particular point in time beli
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by clumpthump 4y ago
It's definitely annoying that users can't opt-in only to the types of notifications they want on installation, but Uber and Uber Eats are not guilty of what Starbucks is doing in the article (at least on Android); you can disable
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by clumpthump 4y ago
I suspect some apps go too far in the other direction on purpose, having a large list of promotional notification types amidst useful ones so that people miss opting out of some or are too overwhelmed by the list that they decide not to bot
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by clumpthump 4y ago
Hanlon's Razor is, I believe, a good rule of thumb, but people keep using it in situations such as this one where it's not just potentially malice (wanting to harm someone for little other reason than wanting to see them hurt or w
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by clumpthump 4y ago
I actually quite like the standard d4. Lands with an air of finality without faffing about. Also, I'm clumsy with dice and roll them off the table far too often.
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by clumpthump 4y ago
Not the person you're replying to but I had the same experience. My company was careful to announce the extra holidays as a special pandemic related wellness thing (subtext: not permanent) whenever they did it, so the discontinuation w
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by clumpthump 5y ago
I was not starting such a discussion. I'm baffled by your comment and can only assume you're reading my comment through an American lens, which is half foreign to me (only half because I'm exposed to so much of it on the Inte
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by clumpthump 5y ago
No, it doesn't. I can't tell from their comment whether their city/town has good cycling infrastructure or not. Even if it does, the app would still incentivize using it (and roads and sidewalks) incorrectly and dangerously.
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by clumpthump 5y ago
Want workers to have more personal time? Encourage people to "be political" at work.
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by clumpthump 5y ago
Squarespace's "ESC to go to Squarespace login" is a huge pain for me as well. I think it's on by default. I CTRL+F pretty often. I press ESC to clear it. I get redirected to Squarespace if I'm on a Squarespace site
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by clumpthump 6y ago
Yes.
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by clumpthump 7y ago
"PFS" sounds a lot like the MERGE operation of minimalist (natural language) syntax, which Chomsky has similarly linked to behavioural modernity. https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/20/noam-chomsky
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by clumpthump 7y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vermilion-alberta-sa... The CBC article differs in two important aspects. The BBC article says they "enlisted the help of experts", when the CBC article says
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by clumpthump 8y ago
>If it were easy to report abuses to Airbnb directly They have made plenty clear that they don't really care about how people near the rental unit are affected. They will never make this happen unless "NIMBY impulses" put
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by clumpthump 8y ago
The jury's still out on the Critical Period Hypothesis the last I checked. But in any case, you're right that there is a big difference between acquiring natural languages and learning a programming language. Language acquisition
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by clumpthump 8y ago
People confusing this terminology is one of my pet peeves. And it's not a petty one. It often impedes the conversation they're trying to have.
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by clumpthump 8y ago
I feel like your comment would be more accurate a few years back. Browsing /r/all is a lot more tolerable since it's gotten a lot less Gamergate-y. Mocking Gamergate is a lot more common nowadays. I really don't know wha