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by mrob 3mo ago
Longwave penetrates buildings better than GPS and is harder to jam.
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by mrob 4mo ago
I see it as something similar to Aviation English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English Scientific papers are often written and read by non-native speakers. A standardized formal style is less likely to embed
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by mrob 4mo ago
You could duplicate every token and reserve the duplicates exclusively for the chain-of-thought, which could be robustly filtered from user input. Basically adding a "thought" bit to each token.
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by mrob 4mo ago
You can filter out any tokens you like, but the point of the paper is that it's not sufficient, because LLMs often ignore the special label tokens and treat user-injected text as chain-of-thought text merely because it looks like chain
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by mrob 4mo ago
>415Hz is often used for baroque music but that's just a modern convention, there was no such standard in baroque times 415Hz is one modern semitone below the standard 440Hz. Many (but not all) baroque instruments were tuned slightl
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Doesn't most DJing software support constant-pitch speed adjustment? Modern software does, but there's always the risk of introducing artifacts, and I like older music that's usually mixed with pitch shifting.
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Clarinets are keyed in Bb (you play a C, out comes a Bb), horns in F (you play a C, out comes an F), trumpets in Eb (this should be clear), and so on... In reality, you put your fingers in the position for a C on that specific instrumen
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by mrob 4mo ago
As somebody who enjoys listening to beatmatched DJ mixes, I'm glad I don't have "perfect" pitch. I'd hate to have vast amounts of music sound "wrong" just because the speed and pitch was changed slightly t
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Does your fridge play the banjo? Doesn't make sense does it? Of course it makes sense. The answer is a simple and obvious "no". I don't need to assume anything to ask the question.
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by mrob 4mo ago
It's technically possible to replace rotating mass with batteries using a "grid-forming inverter", which is an inverter that converts the battery DC to AC with frequency varying depending on the grid load, simulating how that
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Rather, the system is operating in perfect lockstep with the beam. That's the same as the Atari 2600. It just occurred to me that the name "racing the beam" is misleading because you can't be too fast either. "M
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by mrob 4mo ago
>It's not obvious to modern readers why a PC with significantly more powerful compute capabilities would struggle to keep up with significantly slower Nintendo hardware at the time for sprite rendering. To put it briefly, 4th genera
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by mrob 4mo ago
>E.g. scrolling to the bottom of the page causing a small bounce back instead of doing nothing is an absolutely information-providing animation you don't even think of as an animation. That's how you know it's good. A boun
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by mrob 4mo ago
If it's possible to revoke then by definition it's not zero knowledge. Revocation status is knowledge.
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by mrob 4mo ago
Zero knowledge proofs are unusable for age verification because they're impossible to revoke. One person can share their ID and everyone else can use it.
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by mrob 4mo ago
More authoritarianism from the UK government. A more reasonable solution would be to make it illegal for under-16s to possess mobile devices (anything with a touchscreen and wireless networking that's designed to run off battery) and m
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by mrob 4mo ago
A mouse, even a lightweight gaming mouse, is substantially heavier than a pencil. Even if you somehow made a mouse with zero mass, your hand still has mass. The momentum is unavoidable. You don't need to add an inferior simulation of a
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by mrob 4mo ago
You're not operating the GUI by thought alone, so your muscles already provide the animation. Adding additional animation on top of that is unnatural.
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by mrob 4mo ago
Most people aren't even aware that it's possible to turn them off.
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by mrob 4mo ago
>Everything in reality is animated. Nothing instantaneously snaps between two states. That's precisely why a GUI should not be animated. No matter how I operate it, the action I use already has its own animation, e.g. my finger movi
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by mrob 4mo ago
Reaction time is unrelated to perceptible latency. You're not reacting to things; you are seeing the result of an action you requested. You already know it's coming. To say that delays less than your reaction time don't matte
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by mrob 4mo ago
Hover effects are a terrible way of indicating if something is clickable, because you have to mouse over them instead of just looking at them. This problem was already solved a long time ago by rendering inactive elements in gray. I'm
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by mrob 4mo ago
Games are entertainment products, not tools. It's acceptable for a game UI to draw attention to itself for artistic effect, but I don't want to have to put up with this when I'm trying to get work done. Instant state transiti
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by mrob 4mo ago
I'd rather have an imperfect frame now than a perfect frame later. Latency should be the top priority for any UI, because when latency is low enough it feels like a part of your own body, which minimizes cognitive load. Animation is es
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by mrob 4mo ago
Outside of dedicated notification areas, a GUI should only change state in response to user action. Because the user requested the state change, they naturally know how it changed. This means any animation is a redundant waste of time. The
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by mrob 4mo ago
Acid-free paper and a carbon-black ink, or a modern neutral pH iron-gall ink, should last 1000 years if stored correctly. 2000 might be pushing it, but under a controlled atmosphere it should be possible.
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by mrob 4mo ago
"Young adult" in this context is a publishing industry marketing tactic. It doesn't refer to actual adults. The target audience is mostly children who want to feel like they're getting away with something they're no
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by mrob 4mo ago
>The weirdly obsessive zeal that orgs like Toastmasters have about eliminating them is weird. If you speak with disfluencies, you probably didn't sufficiently rehearse your speech. If you didn't rehearse enough, you probably di
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by mrob 4mo ago
Physics doesn't prevent reproduction of bass in IEMs. Thanks to inverse square scaling of sound pressure with distance, putting the driver within the ear canal greatly reduces the required output level to the point where even tiny driv
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by mrob 4mo ago
>it sounds more like what buyers today expect Is that really true? Anybody buying music today instead of streaming is somebody who takes music more seriously than most. It seems likely they're going to care more about sound quality

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