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by louthy 2y ago
Philip Glass and Steve Reich worked together as removals men. For some reason I find it fascinating that the two greats of minimalist composing did this. It shouldn’t be that strange, I have plenty of struggling musician friends who work da
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by louthy 2y ago
You won't be able to leverage C#'s pattern-matching effectively with a library. Really though, you don't need a library to do sum-types in C#: It's best to just use records for now: public abstract record Maybe<
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by louthy 2y ago
An army of robot peasants working the fields with lasers for eyes? What could possibly go wrong? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
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by louthy 2y ago
Creativity is also enabled by having bones, being an amorphous blob on the floor doesn’t help creativity. Creativity is also enabled by drinking water, being dust doesn’t help creativity. Saying creativity is enabled by memory doest’t say
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by louthy 2y ago
> even when they are realistic they are often way too mediocre! 100% agree and wish I’d also made that point in my post! It’s like it’s taken the average of human creativity, so everything is average. The unrelenting blandness is definit
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by louthy 2y ago
> it just makes me assume the company is an unserious fly-by-night operation and/or a one person company Exactly this. Any serious company would manage their brand seriously. Even if you're a one person bootstrapped startup,
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by louthy 2y ago
I think this is true, but it's worth expanding, because it's not just lingo. Personally, I am sick of seeing AI generated images in blogs, advertising campaigns, and in social media posts. There's a weird uncanny valley to
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by louthy 2y ago
I hadn't got that far, but went to have a look and yeah, as a fellow pianist I concur. Then I saw the following paragraph: "Another strategy that works well in both humor and famous EDM drops is "violating the expectation&qu
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by louthy 2y ago
> A DJ can't mashup two songs unless they're familiar with both As someone who’s DJ’d at a pretty high level I can tell you this is nonsense. And to prove the point, here’s a mix I did recently [1] with brand new records that I
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by louthy 2y ago
> who remembers them nowadays? 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3 Me, that’s the new number for the emergency services. Actually, that’s the only phone number I can remember :D
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by louthy 2y ago
Certain memorisation techniques leverage innate human abilities. For example, if you want to memorise a shopping list, mentally picture the items as waypoints on a route you know well, then when you want to recall the list, mentally walk t
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by louthy 2y ago
What makes you think Linux can't have a virus or malware? It has attack vectors like any piece of software, surely?
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Even a stopped clock will be right twice per day. Google will be right about this eventually.
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by louthy 2y ago
Let me tell you a story ... in 1999, Google was a little startup, just like we are. And when they started bringing in chefs and masseuses, we thought, "They're nuts!" But, they were attracting the best possible people, and th
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by louthy 2y ago
If there are then Crecganford [1] will have probably covered it and followed the evolution of the story across the world - a real treasure trove of a channel (I advise using closed-captions as he often hurries through words). [1] https:&#x
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by louthy 2y ago
I haven’t yet, but I’m feeling like I need to again!
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As a sugar addict the only thing that has ever worked for me was doing a 3 day fast. For about 6 months afterwards I just seemed to not need sugary things as much and I didn’t crave it in the same way. I also had a lot more control over my
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by louthy 2y ago
My back is aching just looking at it!
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by louthy 2y ago
Omnidirectional reference microphone would do the job.
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In the UK we had The Computer Programme [1] (with Kraftwerk - Computer Love as its theme) and Making the Most of the Micro [2] [1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOtimvwAoYtnCtLiLspq_Gnng... [2] https://youtu
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by louthy 2y ago
The whole purpose of a game is to complete a goal. Good games gamify you to achieving that goal. If the goal is to learn CSS and the game hasn't guided you to achieve that goal then it's failing at its purpose. Blaming the pl
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by louthy 2y ago
You are getting down voted unfairly I think, the selling of peerages has been a problem for over 100 years [1], it would be entirely reasonable to conclude that this is exactly how the system works. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by louthy 2y ago
It wasn’t always free. It did originally compete with other newspapers. Once Metro went free then it was inevitable the Standard would have to too. It seems even that model is not working for the Oligarch owner.
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It’s military based isn’t it? First time you use a weapon “in anger” is to test its effectiveness in real world conflict
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Now you’ve got two problems
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> I'm not sure everyone has this ability, but whenever I've written/recorded music, I almost literally hear it before I even try to create it or play it. My memory of sound is REALLY strong I’m the same. Details in sound i
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by louthy 2y ago
The OP wrote “make and use copies of data” — seems a reasonable response
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by louthy 2y ago
If the material is copyrighted then reuse should be licensed. Otherwise I believe you’re in breach of copyright — whether that technically falls into the category of ‘theft’, I’m not sure, but it’s not legal (outside of ‘fair use’)
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Step 1. Acquire $20b Step 2. Build the $20b semiconductor fab https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
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> I'm healthier than 99% of people I meet Sure. At least we now have a sample size of 1 to extrapolate from.

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