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by jtriangle 2y ago
I'm simplifying things significantly because I don't expect most HN'ers to know the ins and outs of pro sound. Dave Rat has a good youtube channel, he also has some sort of insider subscription thing that I've never both
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Dave Rat, of Rat Sound/RHCP/Bassnectar/etc fame, has some very interesting takes on the wall of sound idea using modern equipment. The core of it is that speakers are bad at polyphony, so if you can avoid it, you can produce
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Automation doesn't replace human work, it just amplifies how much work can be done. There is -plenty- of work out there that's currently not worth taking that will be suddenly worth it if you can code 100x faster than you can now.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Yes, but if you're getting the desired yield from fusion alone, you don't need to. Remember, most of the world is focused on relatively small nuclear arms, not world ending polymegaton devices
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by jtriangle 2y ago
It depends on your answer to the question, is nuclear war inevitable? If it is, making weapons that are as clean as possible is a reasonable goal. If you get some knowledge that's applicable elsewhere, that's a nice bonus. If you
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Navy has very, very good antifouling tech. It'll be far less of a problem than you'd think.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Usually it's a backup thing, not a 24/7 thing. If you're really out in the sticks, solar/battery/genset is a very likely complete system. I know of a couple places way up north in Saskatchewan that have what amounts
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by jtriangle 2y ago
I know that tesla's won't allow you to drive while charging the car. It throws an error if it's plugged in, so, that's a no-go without significant hackery. That said, they certainly have tow-behind generators, and they&#
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by jtriangle 2y ago
You certainly can, provided you have a truck, and a DOT certified fuel trailer, and a transfer pump. That system also allows you to participate in oil futures as an end user, not to mention it lets you keep your generator up and running for
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by jtriangle 2y ago
It's very likely that we'll end up with tiered batteries in EV's before long. Some amount of the capacity will be fast charge/discharge, some amount of it will be capacity with slower charge/discharge with a higher
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Last I checked they haven't killed any passengers in awhile. Really not since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302#... Which was due to MCAS malfunction and pilots responding poorly to it.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Both sides are the same in the way that, they generally work in tandem to erode the common individual in favor of the wealthy. That doesn't mean the totality of what they do is to that end, it doesn't mean that they aren't
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by jtriangle 2y ago
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who keeps local backups of Wikipedia
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by jtriangle 2y ago
The market value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it. Always has been, always will be.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Sure, but can you take back banning a social media platform? Very likely not, because even if you did, it'd still be ruined by a massive loss of users/ad partners/etc. Realistically, what we needed is comprehensive user priva
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by jtriangle 2y ago
If the current president decides that they're a threat to national security, then yes.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
I've read the complete bill at every stage of it's development. It places substantial fines on American companies who provide services that distribute, maintain or update any sufficiently popular apps where a company is headquarte
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by jtriangle 2y ago
You're right, it's "US ownership or get banned". Not just tiktok either, this will wind up applying to many companies.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
And eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
It bans American companies from providing services that distribute, maintain or update any sufficiently popular apps where a company is headquartered in, or has more than a 20% ownership share of the company held, in a country that has been
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Funny enough, Discord is probably on the block too if this passes, being that China owns a significant amount of it. Meta could also be at-risk if China owns 20% of their stock, as could any other qualifying media company. More or less, Chi
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Because their algo is really, really good. Scary good. And it had a ridiculous amount of money funding the marketing machine behind it to onboard users. US startups don't have access to that kind of capital, and even if their algo is b
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by jtriangle 2y ago
You, and those in charge of writing and voting for this legislation, massively under-estimate the popularity of tiktok in the US among normal people, ie, normal people who aren't normally subject to the government banning something the
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by jtriangle 2y ago
No, not making an argument, just a comment that, if you're worried about the CCP data mining US users, banning tiktok is a bad way to fix that problem. Realistically, this falls under the "solving a human problem with tech",
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by jtriangle 2y ago
They certainly won't disappear overnight. In fact, they will be very, very upset with those that took their platform away. Millions of upset people, and, if you're worried about the CCP, well, they'll have plenty of time to t
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by jtriangle 2y ago
No, the solution is for the scoring to be handled by software that doesn't exist yet. Some things have easy, objective measures of correctness. STEM is mostly this way. Others, your humanities et al, are fairly subjective. You could pr
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by jtriangle 2y ago
I know a guy who copy/pasted a wikipedia article, in line citations and all, and submitted it for a sociology class and got an A, no notes, nothing.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
I've found that it occasionally just..... fails, and then works on the second attempt for, well, reasons? No idea.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Toyota had the floor mat thing as well, that was big news for awhile.
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by jtriangle 2y ago
Are all 4000 of those even delivered? Last I checked they were basically bespoke at this point.

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