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by djur 3y ago
Why would you run Audacity in a VM?
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This is not consistent with my experience with younger devs. There are teenagers doing kernel-level hacking and there's also older people who have been comfortably driving RAD tools for decades. This is fine. Software development has b
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by djur 3y ago
As I understand it, the prerendered backgrounds in these games were rendered as video clips. This was an efficient way to superimpose 3D on a 2D backdrop. But I imagine it may have affected how crisp the backgrounds could look.
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Both games have a mutual influence in Starflight.
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Tesla and Edison were rivals, but the idea that there was some deep personal animus between them isn't well supported. Tesla was awarded (and accepted) the Edison Medal in 1917, and he wrote a friendly (if also somewhat catty and criti
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by djur 3y ago
Good thing it's a Utah nonprofit, then.
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Vocal fry is very common in Finnish. I would consider it to be part of a person's accent just like their vowel shapes.
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This is already the law in many places, including the entirety of California, and it has neither resulted in the end of tipping nor in restaurants confiscating tips.
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There's a meaningful difference between assuming an actor is malicious or untrustworthy and going out of your way to provide the maximally malicious interpretation of each of their actions. As a matter of rhetoric, the latter tends to
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by djur 3y ago
I'm not nitpicking, I'm trying to understand what you mean by "copyright law [taking] a massive leap forward in the next year".
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Royalties are almost 100% a private industry matter in the US. There is compulsory licensing with legally mandated royalties for certain types of musical performance, but that is used quite rarely. The vast majority of US music licensing go
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by djur 3y ago
Copyright law does not currently mandate any particular payment schedule for licensing work. Are you suggesting that it should?
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Do you have a sense of how much people tend to get paid for commercial art, stock photography, etc.? That's essentially the ceiling on what contributors to training datasets can expect going forward. Regulation isn't likely to be
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by djur 3y ago
I don't think the question of rights conferred through training data is going to be resolved through copyright law. I think the availability of models trained exclusively on licensed data is going to bypass that controversy. People wil
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by djur 3y ago
Copyright law isn't going to matter here. There are already models trained solely on owned or licensed content and there is more than enough funding to produce more. The big businesses dumping billions of dollars into AI have zero inte
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by djur 3y ago
My understanding is that DALL-E 3 is supposed to reject attempts to mimic living artists. That would explain why the "Gary Larson" image doesn't resemble his style, but I'm surprised to see Spongebob being so on-model. T
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by djur 3y ago
Public universities in the US do have admission requirements and yearly admission limits. I'm not sure where this idea that they don't comes from.
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CCSF is a community college. Community colleges are great, but associate degrees by themselves don't do much for you. The issue here is public universities that offer 4-year and postgraduate programs.
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Facially it's counterprogramming for pro-crypto advocacy. More broadly it's propaganda intended to promote general opposition to cryptocurrency and the adoption of related technologies. That this includes not investing in crypto m
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I think it's safe to say that the purpose of the video is not to provide investment advice.
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The essay was written in early 2015 and you can further interpret the author's idea of "boring" versus "innovative" technologies through the lens of what they were using at Etsy from 2007-2014 (NodeJS was initially
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by djur 3y ago
I share your preference for text over video in many cases, although I think Dan Olson makes extremely effective use of his medium in a way many other "video essayists" do not. As far as age goes: before the Internet or even TV, pe
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by djur 3y ago
> the idea that cigarette manufacturers were conspiring with the medical industry Was this actually dismissed at the time as a conspiracy theory? Similarly, claims about the NSA monitoring US citizens were taken seriously well before the
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by djur 3y ago
Line Goes Up only briefly touches on proof of stake and mostly says that PoS had not yet proven itself as a solution to the problems with PoW. But I think it's important to understand that the central argument of the video is not a tec
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by djur 3y ago
Yes, it's fairly common. "Prisoner's cinema" and "phosphenes" are terms used. I used to entertain myself during boring classes by closing my eyes and watching the light show.
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by djur 3y ago
The timing doesn't quite work out for this explanation, unfortunately. YAML is about the same age as JSON and started finding a niche as a configuration language in parallel with JSON finding use as a serialization format. Ruby on Rail
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by djur 3y ago
I think everybody should try a less subtle playthrough at least once, though. Some of the game's funniest dialogue results from playing JC as a big dumb oaf.
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I've seen Spector tell this story a few times, and the point as I understood it was that the team was shocked and dismayed to realize that the game they'd worked on so hard wasn't fun. They ended up tossing out big chunks of
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by djur 3y ago
That assumes that the GOP offers better alternatives on policy other than social issues and that social issues are insufficient to outweigh them. You don't get to vote for party policies or even for parties, you get to vote for candida
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To paraphrase an old saying about bipartisanship, no matter how poorly run the restaurant you're eating in is, if the competition across the street is serving tire rims and anthrax you're going to stay put.

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