jonathankoren

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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I guess we’ve gone full circle to back to curses like UIs in terminals now.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Missed the whole thing about spelling reforms are about making everything consistent huh?
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
>The thing about most conspiracies is that they need to have some "marginal plausibility We literally had a wide spread conspiracy about secret DNA editing viruses that were controlled by 5G cellular antennas, because They™ wanted t
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Just drop all the diacritics and go on and live for live music. Also the removal of diacritics and other fancy letters like o-slash simplifies text processing. 7 bits are enough for everyone.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Yeah. Woodstock '99 was basically the Fyre Festival, but with more burning. I'm pretty amazed someone didn't try to burn something down at Fyre Festival. Maybe because there was nothing to burn.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
That's just a fancy c. Diacritics are for cowards that are too scared to make a new letter for a sound that doesn't have a single letter.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Those are often transliterations into the latin alphabet or direct adoption of foreign words and therefore are not English. For example, 氣 is only spelled "qi" in pinyin. "Chi" is also a perfectly fine transliteration if
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
No. You need a letter for “ch” regardless. You can just reuse the Q for that. It’s pretty much useless as well. Can’t be used by itself because it’s always in “qu”, and that’s just “kw”
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I lost interest as soon as they decided to use digraphs. If you’re going to change spelling, stop uses a letter for more than one sound. Didn’t even have the guts to eliminate the most useless letter in the entire English alphabet — the C.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
That’s because it’s industrial
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Genre has always been a mess. For a while Primus was a ID3Tag genre in unto themselves. In general, that type of inherently fuzzy categorical will always be a mess. I’m old enough to remember the great alt.music.industrial wars over whether
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
> People forget that a lot - if you raise wages you also have to raise prices, which ends up hurting the exact people you are raising wages for. This is simply false. It’s false just thinking about it, and it’s false from multiple econom
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Not to be a complete pessimist, but there was an active disinformation campaign, not dissimilar to the tobacco companies lying about cancer rates going on. Mix in useful idiots and as Upton Sinclair pointed out, "It is difficult to get
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
In both cases the companies are specifically trading on creating confusion of a celebrity’s likeness in an act that celebrity trades in, and with the motivation of circumventing that very celebrity’s explicit rejection of the offer for tha
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Doesn't matter. Waits v Frito Lay
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Yeah. Sh needs to be abandoned. There's a million better alternatives, including those without such an asinine syntax.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
What’s the point of a job, if you can’t live on it? If you feel anger when reading that the largest and most profitable companies in the world won’t pay a living wage, the. You should be. There isn’t two side to simple greed and exploitatio
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Are you really saying, “But Walmart doesn’t pay a living wage either so it’s okay?” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Sit by and let nothing happen while you’re out!
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
You can keep assert these things, but do you really think this is acceptable progress of two and a half decades? Look around. It’s not. I gave a concrete example of a task that is trivial in 2024, and it just does not work nearly as well or
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Two and a half decades for a text tool, when the rest of the functionality is stuck in 1996? Seems fair
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
You’ve proven my point. A bunch of data loading crap, but nothing substantial on the usability. This is a simple tutorial task. Is it this easy in Gimp? No. It’s not. But hey, we have the same crappy ScriptFu plugins from a quarter century
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
It’s not just that. It’s also ugly and awkward to use. I tried to use it after learning Fusion360, and it’s just lacking. I wasn’t even trying to do anything particularly complicated, and it just kinda sucked. You see the same problems with
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
All subscription software is just a protection racket. Nice files you got there. It would be a shame if they suddenly become unreadable, eh? Even the so called "open" core is a joke. Just try to add anything useful. It will get re
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Let me connect the dots for you. Company identifies celebrity voice they want. (Frito=Waits, OpenAi=ScarJo) Company comes up with novel thing for the the voice to say. (Frito=Song, OpenAI=ChatGpt) Company decides they don’t need the celebri
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
This has been settled law for 34 years. See Tom Waits v Frito-Lay. They literally hired an impersonator, and it cost them 2.5 million (~6 million today). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
I believe the windows key is just ctrl-esc
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
Huh. You’re right. Some keyboard have both windows and the menu key, and others have only one menu key. I don’t know if this means Microsoft relaxed their “Made for Windows” standards, or higher profile manufacturers don’t care.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
If only there was some sort of technology that could directly measure the distance to objects. Perhaps as some sort of point cloud. Guess we'll never know.
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by jonathankoren 2y ago
> Their "copilot" brand is so weird and... muddled. It’s Watson. Ha ha, only serious. You’re right. It feels like an umbrella brand they’re just tossing around, because AI — and Copilot in particular — is hot in Redmond. I find

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