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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
If that were true then they simply wouldn’t have published this research to begin with. Occam’s Razor suggests this simply doesn’t yield as good results as the status quo
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
That’s the same point the author was making. And it’s not just limited to descriptions. Record labels, track names, genre names, sometimes even DJ / artist names have taken their “acid” name from the distinctive sound of the TB-303. Ob
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I have a huge stack of records that prove it was used heavily throughout the 00s. And the 90s too
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I don’t recall it ever falling out of fashion. It’s easily the most used and copied sound. Like the Amen Break of synths.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I’m currently writing my own text editor (it’s basically a markdown equivalent of Jupyter notebooks). I’ve also written my own terminal emulator and my own shell. The shell does actually see other contributors and users these days too.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
Not invented here (NIH) syndrome has always been a thing but I think what we are seeing at the moment is an artificial high vs new ideas because 1. People are looking for excuses to learn to use AI because they’re scared of being left behin
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
Basically yes.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I’m running it on a ~15 year old Intel NUC. It’s got 4GB RAM and a modest Intel i3. KDE runs flawlessly. While modern web browsers struggle with more than a few tabs open.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
“Plasma” isn’t the name of the television app. It’s “Big Screen”. “Plasma” just refers to the desktop environment: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/ So this is a “Big Screen” UI for KDE Plasma.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I didn’t say XML a superset of JSON. I said it’s a superset of common programming abstractions like lists and maps. This was in response to a comment that said XML was incompatible with such abstractions.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
That’s why it’s a superset ;) You can map anything to it but that flexibility means you then need to define schemas et al to ensure compliance The schema thing isn’t actually unique to XML either. you can do the same thing with JSON and YAM
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
It isn’t incompatible. It’s just a massive superset of what is needed. JSON offers simplicity YAML offers readability XML offers a massive feature set. For what we need 99% of the time, simplicity and/or readability is a much higher re
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
My point is in this context they’re ostensibly the same thing.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
You’re vastly over exaggerating the drift of analogue watches. I’ve never experienced anything like that and I’ve been using them for 40+ years ;) Also, 5 minutes of drift is still very noticeable for people. You don’t need NTP for that l
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
Then local businesses would have to shift their hours to support parents with kids. And before you know it, you’ve effectively shifted everyone’s clock anyway.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
That’s handy. But who’s going to teach the other 98% of the worlds population who don’t use Discord and who aren’t good with technology like us?
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
That’s not even remotely true. Plenty of people still wear analogue wrist watches (eg for fashion). Then there’s old clocks in buildings like town halls. And it’s still reasonably common for people to hang analogue clocks in homes like one
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I do like your optimism but most of modern communication isn’t done via meeting invites from Google / MS Office. I might say to someone on Slack: are you free at 14:00 UK time? Or organise a time on a Zoom call. Because so much of mode
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I remember being in my early 20s, learning C and Pascal, and having this one kid telling me I was learning dead languages and he’d earn 3 times more than me leaning 4GL as well as himself being 3 times smarter than everyone else too. The on
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
If that were the case then public services would be paid better. Wages simply go to the industries that make the most money. There’s nothing more insightful than that.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I just wish Apple would add more streets. London is the closest place with Apple “street view” to me and there are literally a couple of cities (!!!) between me and London. So I don’t hold any hope that Apple will ever get round to coming t
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
You can do that with Google Earth VR. It’s actually really cool in VR. You feel like Godzilla. Unfortunately it’s only a small subsets of major cities and the implementation feels so half-baked it could have been an AWS service. But it’s st
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
> In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG" I use DDG too, but that’s not the point of the original comment. > Not everything needs to
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
As I’ve said twice already now: DDG is a shitty name for those of us might want to use the company name as a verb. My comment is no more profound than that. I’m not making any comment about social norms. And nor am I saying it’s impossible
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
The point isn’t that we can’t use generic adverbs. It’s that DDG’s name makes it unrealistic to use their brand as an adverb, which loses them more exposure.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that a
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
It’s also pretty common for VPNs to have exit nodes physically located in different counties to where they report those IPs (to GeoIP databases) as having originated from.
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I’m not suggesting things are as bad as a full on insurrection. But it’s not a great leap of imagination to compare the two either. > He declared martial law Trump has sent federal troops into states that voted against him. He’s also fre
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
I’ve been bashing my head against the wall with AI this week because they’ve utterly failed to even get close to solving my novel problems. And that’s when it dawned on me just how much of AI hype has been around boring, seen-many-times-bef
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by hnlmorg 8mo ago
If you have a fossil, and break it in half, then do you now have two fossils?

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