elevaet

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   by elevaet 4y ago

   Or colours in a painting
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   Multiple origins are probably more common than we think. We tend to be biased to want to see singular causes of things, but language is often a murky soup full of feedback cycles. In the example you gave, if it is not an origin, it could at
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   Probably not good, and just one of the reasons why incarceration should be an absolute last resort. Welcome out!
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   Stockholm Syndrome?
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   I know a lot more people whose lives have been deeply enriched by acid, than those who've ended up on the ends of those proverbial meat hooks. That being said, casualties are real and can happen, it's great work that Psymposia is
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   I second everything parent said ^ You'll get a lot more utility and value out of software these days, but if you really want a hardware synth, the non-trendy 90s romplers can carry you far. If you want something with knobs and analogue
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   As a parent of a 10 and 7yo your insight here is absolutely golden. I worry a lot about my kids getting sucked into that world. Right now we're keeping them well away from social media, and very little and restricted screen time. Your
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   I wonder if people with naturally high pain tolerance would also have reduced positive empathy?
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   by elevaet 4y ago

   It's interesting to see how far language/norms have come since 2009. Still pretty damn funny I thought, if you can get past those two terrible and unfunny slips. I like the idea of not throwing out the whole thing when someone say
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Many places have spots for bicycles on the trains, and mass guarded bike parking at train stations. Helps a bit with this last mile problem. Ebikes really extend the range
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Bikes are great for the last-10-mile problem, easily. I've got plenty of friends who cycle commute 15km+ each direction, each day, and are quite happy (and healthy) doing it.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    During the summer of 2021 Lytton, BC in Canada hit a slightly higher temperature of 49.6C. The next day the town burned down. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/literally-hotter-than-t...
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    In the Hindu pantheon, the goddess Saraswati is associated with music, learning, intelligence, knowledge. It seems like the link between musical training and cognition is something humanity has been aware of for some time.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    It's nuts. Canada has a lot of good things going for it, but housing affordability is at a crisis point.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    In Canada rates are creeping up from really low, often under 2% still.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Thanks. I wish I had the time, experience and the brainpower to dive into that and build some Joe Public tools to play around with AudioCLIP.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Wavelet transforms!
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Very cool. Which reminds me, what the heck happened to old-school progressive JPEGs? I remember seeing them a lot in the early days of images on the internet, but it seems like you don't see them around anymore. Why is that?
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Thanks, I didn't know AVIF was well supported alreadyA I remember I couldn't decide if I liked AVIF or JPEG XL better quality-wise, but the support would make AVIF the clear winner.
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Sounds like this particular piece of news is underwhelming, but from my own casual experimentation, JPEG XL delivers much better quality vs compression ratio than Google's WebP (and the lossless compression is really good too). I look
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    by elevaet 4y ago

    Great story, a true random glitch. Interestingly, a blog post of his was up on HN front page the other day: "The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077912
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I wish there were analogous tools for sound design
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Screenshot page, set background-image, done ;)
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    And hope that in 1000 years it is still being managed properly, the water table hasn't changed and caused it to poison the groundwater, no one has used it to make a dirty bomb... etc. I don't think we can be so cavalier about nucl
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    It's hard to price in the cost of the very long tail of nuclear waste. This is my greatest hesitation with nuclear power. I'm sure someone will point to bleeding-edge tech with waste that has shorter half-life, but nuclear power a
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    > Now that we know how to bore very deep holes electrically, geothermal is practical in many more places than before. I'd love to know more about this. Links?
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Very nice to see this genre is alive and well! Looking good, and I look forward to seeing the progress on Cytopia :D
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Anyone know roughly how much the BOM costs for this?
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    I flip flop between seeing it as inevitable, and overly techno-optimistic. Can definitely see it both ways. In the arms race between ML-copy generation and its detection, eventually the edge becomes "does this make sense in a coherent
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    by elevaet 5y ago

    Don't be evil (tm) ?