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by klodolph 3y ago
I was comparing the App Store, which lets you freely set prices. iTunes Store does offer you some control, within certain limits. You can set the “price tier” for different songs, which is why you see some songs for 69¢, some for 99¢, and m
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by klodolph 3y ago
That’s success in the sense that niche music is getting out to listeners—but I think we should also care whether these artists we like are able to pay for food and rent, and I think the picture looks somewhat grim. If you’re productive and
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Before, you needed an army of people and companies on your side, and had to be exceedingly popular to stand any chance of earning a penny. Before, you could play to local audiences. You even stood a decent chance of making a living doi
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by klodolph 3y ago
Seems like the opposite to me—small artists used to be able to make a living playing local bars, or maybe be a musician and have a part-time job, but nowadays there are so few venues with live bands.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah—it’s also easier than ever to write an article and post it online, which is also a double-edged sword: journalists are competing against everyone else who joined the talent pool. Good reporting is basically dead compared to the 1990s,
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by klodolph 3y ago
Smaller / medium bands have it rough compared to, say, the 2000s. Music isn’t just hit-driven. There used to be more house bands, more bands who could make a living from tours, that sort of thing. These days, musicians try to find an
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by klodolph 3y ago
When you stream a song, it’s Spotify who controls both the revenue and the revenue share. Spotify gives you 70% of some amount of revenue, and Spotify determines how much that revenue is, in the first place. If you put an app in the App Sto
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Spotify is a music distribution tool that modern artists use to leverage their popularity into fiscal gains. This is a skewed way of looking at it, that highlights the positive and ignores the negative. It’s a lot harder to turn musica
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by klodolph 3y ago
Sweet. For some reason, this has been an ongoing problem with Go’s tooling. I’m sure that there’s some underlying reason why the dead code finding tools have kept getting deprecated or had various problems.
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by klodolph 3y ago
There are lots of scenarios where a CEO can go to prison. I don’t think we get a lot of mileage when we argue about the right words used in corporate comms. Like, “this person is accountable to some extent, but not enough for my standards
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by klodolph 3y ago
> (of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible This is from the OED. There’s no mention of consequences. You are expected to account for your actions. Like an accountant
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by klodolph 3y ago
The “astronauts on strike” story of Skylab 4, to me, seems like more of a rational response to harsh working conditions, which somehow got exaggerated in the media. The previous mission, Skylab 3, accomplished much more than was expected—co
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, and I also think that we should expect readers here to respond to the most coherent reading of a comment, but I know a lot of us don’t spend the time to figure out what someone means. In “fast-growing stasis”, because it’s an unexpecte
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by klodolph 3y ago
I found the original comment unclear and hard to follow. It has some garden-path elements… like “partially fossilized”, which most people will parse as an adjective, but here is used as a transitive verb (unusual / surprising usage). T
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by klodolph 3y ago
> It's interesting how many strategies Rust tried before settling on linear types. Rust doesn’t actually have linear types. I’m not sure what Rust’s types are called (affine?), but linear types are the “must be consumed” (can’t leak
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by klodolph 3y ago
Your question was, “Who’s buying these inkjet printers?” I just answered the part of that question that I know the answer to.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Depends on what you mean by “these”. Artists who want prints often buy their own inkjet printers. There are a few good reasons—you can calibrate it, you can immediately adjust and reprint something if you don't like the output, and in
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by klodolph 3y ago
> and the entire article is basically saying - without any proof whatsoever - that it has never happened, not a single time, ever in the history of the millions of people who have arrived there. First—for proof you dig into the linked ar
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by klodolph 3y ago
> And that should be the focus here, rather than attacking or regulating false information. This approach is too callous and cold-hearted for my taste. I can’t stomach it. The real consequences for human life is, I think, too severe to i
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, I do believe that the government should regulate use of the word “medicine” in trade. It also regulates a lot of other words, like “ketchup” and “ice cream”. The government regulates what “12 fl. oz” means when you buy a can of root be
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by klodolph 3y ago
Homeopathic medicines are generally non-toxic because they only contain fillers / non-active ingredients. You may be thinking of herbal remedies.
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by klodolph 3y ago
They are not labeled clearly, IMO. Oscillococcinum is labeled with “flu-like symptoms” “body aches, headache, fever, chills, fatigue” “medicine” and “works naturally with your body”. These fall on a spectrum between misleading and outright
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by klodolph 3y ago
If that’s a foot gun, then -Ofast is an autocannon. I like to think that the flag should be renamed “-Ofuck-my-shit-up”.
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by klodolph 3y ago
-Ofast is one of those dangerous flags that you should probably be careful with. It is “contagious” and it can mess up code elsewhere in the program, because it changes processor flags. I would try a more specific flag like -ffinite-math-on
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by klodolph 3y ago
Mass production hasn’t wiped out hand-made furniture, but it’s damn fucking hard to get decent furniture these days on a reasonable budget. There used to be a kind of comfortable mid-range where you could spend extra money and get decent fu
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by klodolph 3y ago
WASM is kind of a stack machine, yes, but there are a lot of constraints on the stack machine that are designed to make it easy to translate to registers. If you squint and look sideways, you can think of it as a flattened tree, rather than
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by klodolph 3y ago
Most of this can be done statically. You do the bookkeeping once. There are various approaches—you can try to allocate registers, or you can emit code that loads/stores on the stack, or you can just run an interpreter and remove the sa
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by klodolph 3y ago
Part of optimizing for the design choices of browser engines is to make it easy to emit machine code. The browsers have multiple compilers in them, and one of the compilers has the task of emitting simple machine code quickly, so the code c
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’m curious what you’re talking about—WASM has different instructions for each of its different types. There are separate instructions for i32, i64, f32, and f64 in the base spec. This seems like a pretty clean map to me—most of the archite
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, Mantle is older. But after Mantle came out, my impression is that the OpenGL committee intended to deliver a new version of OpenGL, rather than rewrite it. I think of the timeline like this: Mantle comes out and it shows that you can d

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