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by nitrogen 5y ago
Anathem by Neal Stephenson has some of that vibe. If you haven't read it, I'd recommend reading it without even glancing at the Wikipedia page or plot synopses to avoid conceptual spoilers.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not sure if you changed your Cloudflare settings, or if Cloudflare changed something, but I'm no longer getting the captcha, so that's good, but sadly I can't help debug the original issue.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The physicality that Compiz and wobbly windows brought to the desktop was a huge boon to my productivity. Everything was low latency, high framerate, and just felt real . I could rotate my virtual desktops around and they felt like actua
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Maybe it's the fact that I don't use one of the three major US ISPs. Hopefully CDNs get used to the idea that there can be more than one fiber provider.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Your ideas are interesting and I wish you luck on your quixotic quest to switch this part of our world from PvP mode to PvE mode.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Regarding writing systems for English, have you seen this one? We had to learn about it when growing up in Utah: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What CDN do you use? I was immediately asked to solve a captcha from my phone.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I feel like the iterated prisoner's dilemma is part of it too -- if you let someone off the hook repeatedly for defecting, you just enable them to continue defecting. Or somewhat related, the "if you touch it you own it" prob
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The biggest perverse incentive for Google is that making better search results can mean less clicks to ads This gets close to the real root of the issue -- attention is monetizable independently of the quality of content. There would be
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by nitrogen 5y ago
No, just MIDI CC controls. I control it with a hardware keyboard, but anything that can generate note events and MIDI CC changes can be wired in with jackd and a patchbay like Patchage.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Given that bees are the biggest likely victims of neonicotinoids, isn't restricting their use to greenhouses exactly what we want? Let bugs outside be, keep bugs inside under control?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You can try the synthesizer and other audio code if you're using Linux. Here's an earlier version of the synthesizer (licensed under AGPL3). The MIDI CCs for controlling different parameters are listed in the source code. You&#x
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by nitrogen 5y ago
...and thanks for checking out the video!
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Thanks for taking a look!
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Speculation: it looks a lot like a data exfiltration attempt, or like malware trying to reach its control network. Just don't do things unrelated to work using work resources.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
All of the above. I have a custom animation system written in Ruby that talks to some visualization software I wrote using C and OpenGL. The synthesizer is also in Ruby, and the core audio code for that is on GitHub. I use Inkscape for o
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Can you link to a paper, summary, or textbook with this algorithm? I'd like to learn more, but searching for "Griffey-Lim" only returns this HN thread, and a bunch of very unrelated news items about money laundering.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's the seed of whatever source you use to randomize the phases.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I made a video about the FFT a few months ago that I hope might offer another perspective to help understand these concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjIVSnrPSo&t=271s The FFT segment starts at 4:30 (linked), th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
AI enhancement of imagery injecting made-up data was a minor plot point in the novel Congo (the one about diamonds and apes), if I recall correctly, so this has been a known risk for a long time, and ML educators and practitioners aren&#x27
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's already happening. I saw an extreme eye enlarging filter accidentally applied to a video by Matt Risinger (YouTube videos about construction and homebuilding).
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ruby's % operator behaves the same way, for both integer and float values. A positive-only modulus function is useful for wrapping angles. This bit me a week or two ago when I was porting audio algorithms from Ruby to C, and had to i
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I subscribe to some streaming services and that's all I use, but consider this: copyright grants ownership over a fraction of your mind without your consent. Once you've seen a show or heard a song, whether you chose to or not, t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Is calling the main player in a space a zombie technology a zombie promotional strategy for unknown upstarts? Seems like such an old pattern.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
flexible wire So, LEDs in Christmas/holiday lights are patented?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Sound waves broadcast really well through air, and they come with localization information built in to the signal.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are UK salaries quoted post-tax? USA salaries and wages are usually quoted pre-tax. Obviously not a 5-10x difference, but that still makes comparison more difficult with regions that usually discuss post-tax earnings.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Owning shares that could be transferred from house to house would make a lot more sense than renting.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ruby's extremely rapid iteration cycle (e.g. by embedding pry for debugging and experimentation), good test coverage, and fast search tools like ripgrep and fzf alleviate a lot of the pain you might get from the lack of static types.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This looks incredible . I'm on my phone so I haven't tried this, but it looks like this supports slicing into MP3 bitstreams? That would have saved me a month of research and tons of development back in 2013.

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