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by mrob 3y ago
This appears to be proprietary software. If you prefer Free Software, reSID also provides very good SID emulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSID
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by mrob 3y ago
The Llama 2 model license requires agreeing to an acceptable use policy, and prohibits use of the model to train competing models. It also prohibits any use by people who provide products or services to more than 700M monthly active users w
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by mrob 3y ago
Meta has never released an Open Source model, so I don't think they're interested in that. Actual Open Source base models (all Apache 2.0 licensed) are Falcon 7B and 40B (but not 180B); Mistral 7B; MPT 7B and 30B (but not the fine
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by mrob 3y ago
Oatmeal is cheap and widely available. It contains a specific soluble fiber[0] that has strong evidence for lowering blood cholesterol, and weaker evidence for various other health benefits. It's also very quick and easy to cook in a m
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by mrob 3y ago
Just intonation is an unusual choice for Bach's works. I'm not aware of any evidence that he used it, and he certainly thought about tuning. His "Well Tempered Clavier" was meant as a demonstration of some unknown tuning
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by mrob 3y ago
Differences in verb-subject-object word order will always add latency. If you want to translate from German, with the verb at the end, to Welsh, where the verb goes at the start, you'll have to wait for the complete sentence before you
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by mrob 3y ago
It's true that a lot of microtonal music is gimmicky, but I think that's the fault of the composers, not the tuning systems. Do you find barbershop music gimmicky? The defining feature of the genre (harmonic seventh chords) is mic
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by mrob 3y ago
Music theory has the concept of "octave equivalence", where changing the pitch of a note up or down by an octave does not change its function. This means it's possible to enumerate all the functionally distinct harmonies avai
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by mrob 3y ago
His website is a good place to start: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html
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by mrob 3y ago
>gigantic innovators of music in 20th century I still hold out hope that someday Harry Partch will get the recognition he deserves. If traditional Western harmony is played out, surely the obvious solution is adding more notes? It makes
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by mrob 3y ago
Before the Industrial Revolution, people didn't see so much change in their daily lives. Perhaps the risk of learning something maladaptive outweighed the potential benefits back then.
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by mrob 3y ago
My theory is that most (all?) mammals evolved a liking for fast movement to counteract the unpleasant exertion that usually accompanies it, and which might otherwise encourage them to sit around doing nothing all day. This is a simpler mech
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by mrob 3y ago
Why would it share our values? Human values are a result of our evolutionary history, which the AI will not share. We can't even formally describe them, so there's no hope of programming them into an AI. Of course, the AI will hav
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by mrob 3y ago
Onion is "addressed" by pointing out that it doesn't contain alcohol. This isn't a good explanation when it's combined with alcohol.
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by mrob 3y ago
If this is true, why is there no "beer and curry" headache? British style curry is based on a sauce called "base gravy", which is primarily onion (high in quercetin). It's commonly paired with beer, but I've ne
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by mrob 3y ago
Leaded glass is not required for CRTs. In the case of color CRTs, it was only used for the backs and sides, because x-rays make leaded glass turn brown. The faceplates used barium-strontium glass, which I assume was more expensive. This sam
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by mrob 3y ago
The minimum latency is bottlenecked by the monitor unless you allow tearing.
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by mrob 3y ago
You don't need to do anything special. Just render to the front buffer immediately and don't worry about the current scanout position. If it's above the part of the screen you're updating, great, you saved some latency.
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by mrob 3y ago
In Firefox, zoom level can be adjusted by holding down control and scrolling the mouse wheel. This is a very easy task, and Firefox remembers the custom zoom level for your next visit. I assume other browsers allow something similar.
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by mrob 3y ago
It's not entitlement to expect a "user agent" (formal name for a web browser) to serve the user.
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by mrob 3y ago
From the XML file that describes the protocol: "This global is a factory interface, allowing clients to inform which type of presentation the content of their surfaces is suitable for." Note that "global" refers to the i
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by mrob 3y ago
Text editing. I mostly work on a single line at a time. The chance of the tear ending up in that line is low. And even if it does, it lasts only for a single screen refresh cycle, so it's not a big deal. And you're not limited to
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by mrob 3y ago
This is something that every application has to opt in to individually. It's not a global setting like TearFree.
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by mrob 3y ago
And screen tearing is a major benefit of not using a compositor. There's an unavoidable tradeoff between image quality and latency. Neither is objectively better than the other. Xorg has the unique advantage that you can easily switch
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by mrob 3y ago
Follow your switching regulator or rectifier with some analog filtering, then a linear regulator to convert the remaining ripple to heat. It doesn't have to be very expensive, and only loses a little efficiency. I have LED light bulbs
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by mrob 3y ago
>> "Sweep" is most likely a broom - but would you be able to determine that without the text? >I can't imagine what else that would be. It could be a hand holding a fencing foil. The scale of the various parts is wro
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by mrob 3y ago
Depends on the brand. Yeast does not naturally produce B12, but many brands of nutritional yeast are fortified with B12.
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by mrob 3y ago
All squashes can be roasted and pureed like you would for making pumpkin pie, and then they can be divided into portions and frozen.
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by mrob 3y ago
The singularity scenario does not require malice to result in disaster. When your capabilities are superhuman, almost every goal is more easily and reliably accomplished with no living creatures around to complicate things. Unless the goal
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by mrob 3y ago
Did you get those the right way round? All other software I tested opens menus on button press. IIRC, Blender defaults to opening menus on button release, adding unnecessary latency and making it feel slow. You can change it, but you have t

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