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by cthor 6y ago
Yeah. I think a lot of people are ignoring that the output target, MIDI, is pretty limited. A skilled producer could pretty easily take these exact notes and make a track that sounds great. Sound design makes a huge difference.
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by cthor 7y ago
Tab width arguments are amusing, because it's always between 2 and 4. There’s actually a number between 2 and 4. For some reason it's never considered. I've got a summary of all the indentation arguments here: https:/&#
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by cthor 7y ago
I don't get this. Just read the tweets like they're paragraphs.
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by cthor 7y ago
Well why the hell are all our major service providers not trustworthy ? In absolutely any other context this would be unacceptable. Coca-Cola can't just slip sawdust into their product without getting reamed by the law. Why do tech co
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by cthor 7y ago
> How is that not manipulating the market? Nobody said it isn't. In fact, that's the whole point: manipulate people to chill out, take a few minutes to think, and then get back to it.
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by cthor 7y ago
If society thinks blowing up a house is worth catching the perp then they at least oughta pay for the damn house.
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by cthor 7y ago
You don't need humans to moderate the "500 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute". Most of those videos get little to no views and are irrelevant, and then most cases of infringement are clear cut enough that automa
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by cthor 7y ago
Mostly yes. But a lot of these companies are operating at big losses funded by VC money.
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by cthor 7y ago
I keep seeing this defence of Walker that amounts to, "Yeah, so what he's bloviating. What's the harm in recommending more sleep?" But there is a lot of harm in recommending more sleep. If someone only needs 6-7 hours
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by cthor 7y ago
Ignore it. If it were a credible threat of physical harm (it rarely is), then I'd make a police report and be more vigilant with my self-defence preparation and tell my loved ones to be accordingly. Attempting to censor the information
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by cthor 7y ago
I don't think this is that important because there are far more people reading than posting. Even if the person you're responding to isn't arguing in good faith, there are people reading the discussion with an inquisitive min
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by cthor 7y ago
As soon as you open the barn door for having ads at all, the floodgates will open. Also a pointless concession given Wikipedia has far more money than they need. If Wikipedia ever puts ads up because of the bureaucratic WMF cancer exceeding
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by cthor 7y ago
> If not, what happens if someone else releases a superior product in the interim? They'll get your business. > Or my business needs change? I didn't waste my time building you a feature you won't pay for.
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by cthor 7y ago
Bigger leap when it comes to finger wagging over word choice, smaller leap when it comes to things that actually matter.
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by cthor 7y ago
It's formatted as a code block, saying don't wrap these lines . But that's not a good idea when it's a long piece of English text. Is the platform supposed to run some ML algorithm on every code block to decide if it&#x
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by cthor 7y ago
I'd say they're delusional. Everyone made this assumption in the '90s, that prosperity necessarily lead to freedom. 20 years later that assumption doesn't look so good.
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by cthor 7y ago
Just as well, you get to start acting like you own the house from day 1.
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by cthor 7y ago
Wikipedia is the single greatest website on the Internet. That's what it takes for donations to keep you afloat . $100MM revenue? Google makes that in a day . That aside, it's not entirely clear that Wikipedia can live off donat
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by cthor 7y ago
JavaScript got popular because it was the only option for scripting in browser. Newbs constantly trip over its hazardous wires lying all over the floor. It's absurdly daunting, especially once you bring in all the modern libraries full
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by cthor 7y ago
The complaint here is just that these articles are written with an anecdotal lead style, rather than inverted pyramid style. The solution is writers changing their writing style, and probably not a browser/tool that can display 4 diffe
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by cthor 7y ago
Author's criticism that Flesch-Kincaid isn't suitable for non-English text is on point, but history hasn't been kind to critics of readability scores in general: http://www.impact-information.com/impactinfo&#x
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by cthor 7y ago
If there were a credible case of criminal misconduct against him, you can be sure you'd hear the witch hunters cry it from the fucking rooftops. In the hours I've spent reading this story, all I've seen is hearsay about women
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by cthor 7y ago
Can you clarify? That's like the whole point of the AGPL. It not doing that would be quite surprising.
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by cthor 7y ago
AGPL closes the SAAS loophole. Outside of that, what "private extraction of the commons" is left to cover? Parity license looks like a super aggressive and untested version of AGPL. I can't see what benefit using it over AGPL
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by cthor 7y ago
That's why we have GPL.
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by cthor 7y ago
> If you sell games for $60 upfront then your marketing will be perceived as a scam in the face of any failures or shortcomings in your game. You're trying to hype people up and sell them something bad. Between Steam's refund p
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by cthor 7y ago
The "language can control thought" idea is called linguistic determinism, and has been considered bogus by linguists for a while now, at least the strong form of it.
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by cthor 7y ago
It looks like this is built on top of Postgres, so they're already doing this.
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by cthor 7y ago
It's pretty sad people excuse this. Every single press release OpenAI have made in the history of this project has been actively misleading. What they've achieved is actually impressive, too, so the deception is doubly annoying.
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by cthor 8y ago
The correct response to defectbot is defecting back

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