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by mastazi 5y ago
Wow that page with the history of all the changes over the years is such a good read :-) it almost makes me feel nostalgic even though I never worked there ahah thank you for sharing.
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Covid: The lives upended by Australia's sealed border(bbc.com)
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by mastazi 5y ago
Oh, it was an Olivetti camera <3 I remember when I was a kid and up to my teens (80's-90's) many more countries had their own national tech and people were understandably proud of it. I grew up in Italy hearing stories of how f
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by mastazi 5y ago
> It was a shame there was the whole thing of losing the source code Yes, I can remember that very well! Eventually Oskari rebuilt the app basically from scratch, using .NET (at least IIRC) and that's what you get today if you go to
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes! Thank you for reminding me how it's called! I remember seeing it some time ago and it's absolutely in my wish list!
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by mastazi 5y ago
I have tried SunVox on the iPad, it's a very nice application. On tracker websites I used to be mastazi just like my HN username, but I never released my own music I think. However I made a CD and gave it to friends, I might still have
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by mastazi 5y ago
While I have used modern DAWs in recent years, the music making tool I've used the most was Jeskola Buzz[1], it's a weird mix of music tracker[1] and modular setup[2] (but not modular in the same way a modular synth works, you con
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by mastazi 5y ago
It's quite a common sight if you often download installers from smaller publishers. On MacOs you get similar warnings (even though Mac "notarization"[1] works differently compared to Windows certification[2]) Obviously it&#x
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by mastazi 5y ago
Interesting bit at the end: > As CEO Baek said, the reason for the popularity of virtual humans is that there is no fear that advertisements will be suspended due to unsavory privacy scandals after the AI model is selected as the adverti
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by mastazi 5y ago
It seems that the decision to fire him was completely unjustified: > APRS had requested that its employees be fingerprinted as a result of a background check requirement of one of its clients > APRS terminated Harrington [...] without
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes using JAN FEB etc. would be a very effective quick and dirty fix. I guess the only reason why not many complain in this case, is that "premieres on..." is a feature that almost no one uses on Youtube.
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by mastazi 5y ago
Youtube still shows dates for "Premieres on..." in MM/DD/YY, regardless of the locale. Internationalisation and localisation are such hard problems that even the big FAANG companies fail at it.
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by mastazi 5y ago
But the sibling thread doesn't seem to have additional sources. My point was that this BBC article we are discussing leaves a lot to interpretation and I wish it was more informative.
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by mastazi 5y ago
Probably they would. If we had a more thorough source we would know for sure.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> but it didn’t do that. It only tagged black people Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find this in the article but maybe I missed it.
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes that's a good point. What I'm seeing might be an unintentional by-product.
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by mastazi 5y ago
> if you're looking at it, it's obviously important enough to simulate. basically the argument I was trying to make is: if it wasn't simulated I wouldn't be looking at it, and I wouldn't find it strange at all be
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by mastazi 5y ago
> and when it labels both black and white people Unfortunately the article doesn't provide any details on whether that was the case or not. I'm finding it very difficult to form an opinion about this specific issue without havi
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by mastazi 5y ago
Parent's point is not irrelevant though, did the AI label only people of one specific racial background as primates? The article doesn't really provide any details as it's only a few lines long. The word "primate" i
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by mastazi 5y ago
The more I delve into game development the more I'm convinced that we in fact do not live in a simulation. Why would someone spend day after day carefully modelling things that no one seems to notice anyway? For example the way in whic
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by mastazi 5y ago
Tangentially related, I wish Pandora was still a thing, I used to love it. Currently pandora.com redirects to a 404 page when viewed from outside the US [1] [1] https://help.pandora.com/s/login/?language=en_US&
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by mastazi 5y ago
PGP is a protocol, not a client. It should be up to clients to make it easy to use. You can setup PGP in Thunderbird in one minute https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-how... Edit: maybe what s
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by mastazi 5y ago
> PGP is literally thirty years old now, and I'm not aware of any significant changes sounds like a good thing to me
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by mastazi 5y ago
"Let's ditch open protocol X that has worked well for decades, in favour or closed protocol Y. Because of some transient issue with open protocol X, it's now time for open protocol X to die" Heard that before? It's
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by mastazi 5y ago
Thank you, I missed that part.
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by mastazi 5y ago
I'm curious as to why Reddit users were considered a tech-savvy audience. While there are some tech-centered subreddits, many others are not.
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by mastazi 5y ago
My intuition is that many less powerful strikes are worse for your health than one very powerful one. But I'm not a doctor and that's just a wild guess. I would like to see some studies about this.
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by mastazi 5y ago
The difference between boxing and MMA is not just punches vs kicks. For example, the two rulesets are different with regards to how a fight ends. In MMA there is no count if you get knocked down, you either show that you can defend yourself
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes I agree about GoLang. I mentioned "hot new thing" to describe a general mindset and not specific to Go.
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by mastazi 5y ago
I'm going out on a limb and guess that either it wasn't a particularly large codebase and/or it didn't have many dependencies and/or you had more than enough resources so you could do the rewrite while at the same t

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