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Yeah but as gp pointed out that was the style du jour of baroque and early classical as the plucking keyboards were mostly played with a finger technique
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Tangential but your comment has just given me a penny drop moment that I can isolate each degree of freedom (finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder) and still play a key to sound a note. For context I have been working on playing multiple lines of
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by djtango 2y ago
This. Thank you. People stop caring about optimising or improving stuff. Even programmers are guilty of it. I haven't changed my vimrc in over 5 years
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Technical people don't write code, they (along with product people) specify things exhaustively. While in theory a super AGI can do everything (therefore deprecating all of humanity) in reality I suspect that given existing patterns in
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Yes this is exactly how I see it happening - just like how Amazon and Google were computer-native companies
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IMO it comes from inertia. People at the top are not digital-native. And they're definitely not AI-native. So you're retrofitting a solution onto a legacy org. No one will have the will to go far enough fast enough. And if they di
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> Even if there is fast takeoff AGI, he thinks human messiness will slow implementation Five years ago during covid all these clunky legacy businesses couldn't figure out a CSV let alone APIs but suddenly with AGI they are going to
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The point is the window to buy was 2-3 hours: you had to be ready to trade, and watching either charts or being on a discord or actively checking X and with cash in an account. People lost money but I doubt there was much collateral damage
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It was niche outside of Japan but Monster Hunter Freedom/Portable was incredible and wildly more successful than the console edition - the PSP and social monhun parties in Japan validated a brand new IP for Capcom Admittedly with homeb
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Chinese/Japanese -> everything else. They're so terse, two Unicode characters can be like 10+ letters lol Sometimes I translate to understand the page then refresh to use it unborked in the original language
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10 years ago when I was still in academia, modelling more than 8 water molecules solvating an ion started to get computationally very expensive lol Depends how accurate you want your model. Pie in the sky thinking, we need quantum computing
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I don't live in NYC so I can't comment on what happens in NYC but when people point at data and blame social media for altering perceptions I find it disingenuous for my lived experiences in London. You only truly realise how unsa
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When you collect data if it doesn't reflect what you know about reality, check again how you are collecting data. If citizens no longer think reporting a crime will lead to justice, will they still report crimes? My lived experience is
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I think this happens in London too. Crime is so normalised that both the residents and police see a creep in their threshold for what is a "serious" crime. My apartment block sees package theft almost daily and there was a parking
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Making a $100 mistake is annoying, making a $10000 mistake has serious consequences especially if it is coming out of your own pocket
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This was a great share - thanks
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Found the article light on details here. What kind of AWS setup leads to surprise bills? If your blog ends up on front page of HN how much is the traffic spike going to cost? $100? $1000? $10000? Ofc I've seen the horror stories of rec
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Consider the case where there is a non Native English speaker and they use AI to misrepresent the standard of written English communication. Assume their command of English is insufficient to get the job ultimately. They've just wasted
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This is the Disney play book - they would only release their classic movies on VHS for limited time before removing them from the shelves, look up the Disney Vault. The long backward compatibility we enjoyed as kids was a bug not a feature
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Personally, I think some of the reality is that in a dual income household if both individuals work full time there's limited time to do life admin and some life admin can only be done during business hours. So in aggregate, many compa
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It's funny because these developments come at a time where a large proportion of the world no longer really uses their body for their living. I wonder how different our ancestors perceived the world when their survival depended on thei
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This is really exciting. Is anyone familiar with this space able to point to prior art? Have people built similar frameworks in other languages? I know different people have worked on dataflow and remember thinking Materialize was very cool
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I learned Latin in the 90s-00s If you're from Europe knowing Latin definitely gives you a deeper appreciation of a bunch of stuff. It's a useful way of formalising verb conjugation and tenses which is common across the major Europ
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After studying atmospheric Chemistry I found it hard to not feel like our planet was alive in some sense of the word but "alive" has a very precise meaning and Earth doesn't fit the definition. Presumably because it doesn&#x2
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Its only for live tv? I had the impression you needed a license to use iPlayer at all
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Who is jhana?
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The image of London being overrun with tuk tuks made me chuckle
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Yes there is now a latency to HN and its not always the first place to break tech news now...
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What is gambling? Does it need to involve money? What is money? Money is a human invention. So is gambling about resources, power and status? If so then can gambling CS skins count? What about candy crush lootboxes? If gambling is about ris
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A father of a newborn child produces less testosterone... From what I know this is not explained by just sleep deprivation. So here we have no direct chemical transfer altering the physiological state of a man via external stimulus. So if a

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