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by mrob 7mo ago
The classical classification system is equivalent to the classification of cover versions in popular music. Of course, most audio software handles cover versions poorly too, but it's not like it's a completely unknown problem.
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by mrob 7mo ago
Radio DJ isn't the same as club DJ.
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by mrob 7mo ago
>the author exposes themselves as a filthy casual anyway by focusing on the work itself, as if Spotify were looking up a score Isn't it the job of a DJ to pick a good recording? Petzold's test seems reasonable to me. As a class
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by mrob 7mo ago
Yes it is. "Classical" without further context means any part of the tradition of Western art music with written score. Classical-era classical music is a subset of classical as a whole.
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by mrob 7mo ago
The sound of vinyl is a subset of the sound of CD. If you take a high quality recording of a vinyl record playback and write it to CD, it will sound identical.
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by mrob 7mo ago
I'm convinced that at least 90% of "analog sound" can be simulated by taking the ideal block diagram and replacing every link with a parametric EQ->waveshaper->parametric EQ chain. Configuring those added components cor
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by mrob 7mo ago
Yes, that's exactly why it can't work.
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by mrob 7mo ago
The people proposing these laws presumably think imperfect enforcement is better than no enforcement at all. In the non-zero-knowledge case, it's possible to revoke falsely shared credentials.
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by mrob 7mo ago
Zero-knowledge proofs are unworkable for age verification because they can't prevent use of somebody else's credentials.
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by mrob 7mo ago
The optimal amount of generative AI in the world is zero. There are three possible scenarios, all of them bad: 1. Weaker than expected AI. Great Depression 2.0. Widespread poverty and suffering as the enormous investments already made fail
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by mrob 7mo ago
Doing anything on a phone is a miserable experience, even compared to using a laptop, which is already a lot worse than a desktop with good input devices. IMO it's shocking how many professionals are willing to tolerate such bad interf
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by mrob 7mo ago
I've personally never noticed brittleness in old optical discs (unlike the polystyrene jewel cases, which often turn brittle). I don't think shattering is likely, but if it's a concern some optical drives allow limiting the m
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by mrob 7mo ago
>The Thing (the one you know of—though the other had a longer title anyway) was a remake. I think it's more accurate to say they're both based off the same 1938 novella: "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell. The 1951
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by mrob 8mo ago
PTFE is extremely chemically inert. There's possibly some risk from ultra-fine particulates that could be absorbed by the body, but compared to all the other sources of particulate exposure I don't think it's a major problem.
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by mrob 8mo ago
PFOA is a surfactant that was previously used for emulsion polymerization of PTFE. It's not found in the finished product. It's since been replaced with other less well studied PFAS surfactants that might be less dangerous or migh
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by mrob 8mo ago
LLM inference is mostly read only, so high-bandwidth flash looks like it could provide huge cost savings over VRAM. It's not yet in commercial products but there are working prototypes already. Previous HN discussion: https:/&#x2
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by mrob 8mo ago
The tactile feeling of the physical media is important. I buy a lot of used CDs. It's a great time to buy because prices are still very low. It's not uncommon to find charity shops (a.k.a. thrift stores) in the UK selling used CDs
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by mrob 8mo ago
Obviously a superior intelligence is capable of modelling an inferior intelligence. I said so myself: "that AI will know the biological life would not want to be killed". But a goal like "predict tomorrow's stock prices&
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by mrob 8mo ago
Advertising causes great harm. Banning advertising, or better yet, making it economically nonviable without restricting freedom of speech, solves this problem. As already pointed out by several other posts in this thread, the purported bene
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by mrob 8mo ago
An industry group is not a disinterested party. Minimum competition requirements can be imposed. As I said elsewhere in the thread, a solution being imperfect is not a good reason to leave the problem unaddressed.
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by mrob 8mo ago
It's only assuming that free will requires effort to exert. They shouldn't be required to waste that effort on defending themselves from attempts to trick them into buying things they don't need.
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by mrob 8mo ago
Plain text with no tracking is cheaper than coffee.
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by mrob 8mo ago
Loopholes can be addressed on a case-by-case basis. A solution being imperfect is not a good reason to leave the problem completely unaddressed.
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by mrob 8mo ago
People don't need to discuss specific products, they only need to be aware of the existence of product categories. If it's genuinely the case that whole product categories are unknown to many people who could realistically benefit
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by mrob 8mo ago
It only assumes they are aware that the category of products exists, and ordinary word-of-mouth communication is sufficient to propagate that knowledge.
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by mrob 8mo ago
You don't need to ban advertising, you just need to ban paying for advertising. That doesn't harm free speech. When there's no money to be made the problem will sort itself out.
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by mrob 8mo ago
Searchable catalogues of products with prices and features listed.
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by mrob 8mo ago
I cannot be 100% certain that sleep is not fatal. If I had some safe and reliable means of preventing sleep I would take it without hesitation. But it seems plausible that a person could survive sleep because it's a gradual process and
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by mrob 8mo ago
>I'm pretty sure I could use that same logic to argue against organ transplants. When the organ is question is the brain, that argument is correct.
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by mrob 8mo ago
If humans encounter alien bugs that respond to a non-violent provocation by a minority group with attempted genocide of all humans, I hope that discussion would not be taken seriously. By your logic, taking antibiotics to cure a life-threat

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