lewispollard

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by lewispollard 2y ago
It is. Samatha is often contrasted with vipassana in the Buddhist traditions. Samatha being calm concentration, vipassana being analytic insight meditation. "Standard mindfulness", i.e. the distillation of Theravada Buddhist insig
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by lewispollard 2y ago
> Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord. I mean, I'm a pretty staunch socialist/commie and there are plenty of hard-left edgelords out there "joking" about gulags and executing academics and so on.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Those 50+ year old albums weren't using samplers.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
That's a new Mario Kart game they're showing on the screen, not the Switch 1 version.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Why does everyone think this is generating 3D assets? It's purely 2D
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by lewispollard 2y ago
What 3D assets? I don't see anything suggestive of a 3D renderer here.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Pali suttas doesn't work, but Pali sutta does. It's a weird filter.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
As a musician who plays the drum set, the typical wisdom is that noise isolation is basically impossible unless you're willing to build a "room within a room" that allows you to construct a heavy, physical insulating barrier
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Nobody who actually uses that discord server would have been shocked, since it was widely, repeatedly and loudly announced on it that they were moving to the official server months ago.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
> D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster. As a jungle fan since the 90s, don't spout that offensive nonsense ;) Seriously, there are marked differences between the two other than BPM that make them sound very distinctive (and D&B
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Serato Lite is free (as in beer) and you just need to buy a pair of timecoded vinyl records, which are pretty cheap.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Looks like a pretty standard npm-based application, so just clone the repo, run `npm install` and then `npm run dev` (see `package.json` scripts section for available commands to use with `npm run`)
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Some on the left are proudly socialist or communist, and some on the right are proudly bigoted.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Yeah, geometry shaders aren't even widely used, they weren't great in the first place and devs have moved on.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
That's only with the XReal Beam. I don't know if it's possible to use the Beam and an external device like the Steam Deck together though. Edit: yes, it appears it has a passthrough for displaying an external device - it does
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by lewispollard 2y ago
I think you need the XReal Beam in addition to the glasses to be able to anchor the screen in space, without it the screen is just fixed to the glasses.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
"Hallucinate" is just a term we've come up with for LLMs making mistakes. If the LLM knew it was making a mistake, wouldn't it just not make it? Of course, it's not possible for an LLM to actually "know" a
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by lewispollard 2y ago
And if that confidence level is high enough for it to output an answer, but that answer is wrong or nonsensical, what do we call it?
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by lewispollard 2y ago
The entire Rust ecosystem for gamedev is kind of like that - it was only recently that people really started writing games entirely in Rust, and even now there are very few actual released commercial games out there. I think there's a
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by lewispollard 2y ago
At least in terms of animations being superfluous, there's an accessibility setting to reduce animations that at least built in browser CSS animations can reliably respect, whereas with hand-coded Javascript animations, you're rel
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by lewispollard 2y ago
So the purpose of the website wasn't clear to you, you then figured it out, decided to write an article about it, but didn't explain to the reader what the website actually is?
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by lewispollard 2y ago
It is, but at least in my experience, we do it for the 10% discount and then immediately cancel the subscription every time we want to make a purchase.
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Aha!
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by lewispollard 2y ago
I used to work at the IBM lab where Rexx was created, funnily enough I've never heard of anyone using it in the wild!
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by lewispollard 2y ago
I'm familiar with music theory and microtonal music and the first examples are just too close to really discern easily. The examples of "chord 1/2" in the section "The Far-Out Solution: Freestyle JI" are probab
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by lewispollard 2y ago
> still not sure what consonant, continuous, or misleading chords are. I only know what dissonance sounds like Consonance is the opposite of dissonance; so while a dissonant chord sounds jarring and unpleasant with beating, a consonant c
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by lewispollard 2y ago
If you like synths/electronic music, and you're interested in listening to music in other temperaments/tunings, check out the artist Sevish. He also designed a web app for creating alternate tunings: https://sevish
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by lewispollard 2y ago
Yes, exactly - minor/major and modes in 12TET (as well as pentatonic but that's just major/minor with fewer notes). What would be interesting with this synth (something other synths, like my Korg Monologue, can do) is being a
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by lewispollard 2y ago
> the pads can be retuned to different scales suggesting a complete break from any kind of equal temperament octaves. I was kind of curious about this since in the medieval era, equal temperament wasn't used very much. But it just a
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by lewispollard 2y ago
This doesn't remove that effect, since the video signal is still going through the CRT and will become naturally blurred/distorted by it. The problem is that the video signal was already blurry/smudgy coming out of the SNES,

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