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by klodolph 3y ago
You have to be passionate about the specific sounds a synth offers to buy any synth at a $5k or $10k price tag. The OB-X8 from Sequential sounds fantastic but it still only gives you the palette of an analog polysynth for $5k. You have to b
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, other states as well, such as mentioned in the article: > The sheriff’s office has specialized in and perfected the practice, known as civil asset forfeiture, despite a 2016 law meant to ban it in Nebraska. Other laws have either pa
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by klodolph 3y ago
Laws are being passed across the country which ban, or attempt to ban the practice. This is being done on a state-by-state basis.
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by klodolph 3y ago
It's a slow process fixing it, and the police departments don't want it fixed, and the police departments have a lot of leverage. It is slowly being fixed, however.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Were you playing multiplayer? Multiplayer always starts with Butcher and Skeleton King.
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by klodolph 3y ago
When the problem can never be resolved, you redefine the problem until you find a version of the problem with a good solution. So if the problem is that software is hard to estimate, which is hard, we redefine the problem to something like
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by klodolph 3y ago
The Butcher did not always show up. It just had a 2/3 chance of showing up. It’s easy to test for yourself, because you can restart the game and you only have to walk as far as the cathedral entrance to see if the quest appeared. It al
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by klodolph 3y ago
For those who haven’t seen Buckaroo Banzai—all the people working at Yoyodyne Propulsion are named John. It’s a plot point.
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by klodolph 3y ago
People live in NY, raise families, with less income. I don't know what your impression of NY is but your preferences of neighborhood and your lifestyle choices have a massive impact on your cost of living.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I think if it truly costs that much to use Reddit’s API, then maybe it’s on reddit to make their backend more efficient. I am a bit skeptical that efficiency is part of the formula here. Reddit's running an entire company here, an
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by klodolph 3y ago
The way Reddit displays content is basically all caches, as far as I can tell. Every query you do is supposed to directly hit a cache of 1000 objects (like comments or posts). You can’t go past 1000, either through the web interface or thro
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by klodolph 3y ago
I see what you are talking about, but I don’t think it makes Reddit interesting. It’s kind of like having a bunch of different HOA boards, all fighting over how to mow the lawns or what colors to paint the houses in their respective communi
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by klodolph 3y ago
The good places on Reddit, with tight moderation, are few and far between. I can think of r/AskHistorians, but there are not many like it (I can’t think of another, off the top of my head). Maybe you know of other examples?
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t think the “troublemakers” are likely to be the people who make Reddit interesting. The troublemakers are the people who are complaining the loudest about Reddit, and the people who make the site interesting are the people who spend
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t get the “completely inept” or “valid, urgent reason” dilemma. The decisions Reddit leadership is making seem foreseeable / obvious, under the assumption that they own lots of Reddit stock and want an IPO.
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by klodolph 3y ago
> … so it would be good to know what file systems and cache setups are needed in order to benefit from this. I’ve worked on these systems. You might as well be asking F1 drivers for tips to help you commute to work. The hyperscale stuff
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by klodolph 3y ago
In my limited experience, quota is one of the pain points of GCP. It's where the cloud "leaks".
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don't think that there's any secret sauce or moat, it's just kind of a weird niche. Multi-engine synths / grooveboxes are getting more common. You see stuff like the Roland SH-4d, or the various options from Elektron.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah, the OP-1 fills a weird niche. People talk about the $2,000 price tag (for the field) as being hard to justify. I feel the same way, but I do have some synths in the $2,000+ price range. In that price range, you can get a high-qualit
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by klodolph 3y ago
My experience is that Dvorak solved my RSI problems, and split keyboards do not. The amount of time it takes to retrain into Dvorak is irrelevant to me, because the alternative is something more extreme, like quitting my job, using speech-t
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’d like to add to this that iterative solutions are wonderful, and often better than closed-form solutions in a lot of ways. Of course you know that already :-)
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don’t think soldering is an “evil”. Sockets suck in a hundred different ways, and we only tolerate them for the stuff we need to upgrade or replace. The demand for upgrading / replacing CPUs and memory has been dropping, steadily. I
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by klodolph 3y ago
$X is the fallout from the new Reddit policies w.r.t. third-party apps, and the power struggle with moderators. $Y is the additional amount of money that Reddit gets from improving their advertising metrics before an IPO. Reddit is betting
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by klodolph 3y ago
I don't think that's an internally consistent way of looking at the situation.
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by klodolph 3y ago
For builds that large, I (personally) start evaluating Bazel. Bazel has distributed build + shared cache features built-in. But I’ve always just dug into reducing build times in any large C or C++ code base I’ve worked on—damn what manageme
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. Everyone I’ve talked to who has run a build cluster has recommended ECC for the build cluster, even if they’ve decided not to use ECC for other systems. Some people would run Hackintosh-like setups for macOS build clusters, just for t
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think a certain amount of ambition is necessary if you’re making a language for general use. You get important feedback from real-world use, and that means you need a population of developers willing to take risks on new languages. If we
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by klodolph 3y ago
I used to see the compiler run away, consuming all available RAM and CPU, back in the early days of Mac OS X. So this is not necessarily something unique to Swift. Then there was the ill-fated garbage collection system that got bolted onto
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, exactly. I’ve seen the same discussion play out as “if you make a game and somebody plays it, and they don’t enjoy it, it’s your fault.” It seems as nonsensical as, “if you’re a chef and somebody doesn’t like your food, it’s your fault
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by klodolph 3y ago
I have seen this on trails. Regrowth, itself, has no preference. But the people maintaining the mountain want regrowth to happen in such a way to mitigate erosion.

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