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by nkozyra 4y ago
Depriving features of their core purpose seems to be the Musk M.O. to date, starting with paid checkmarks that then forced creation of Official tags. Making shadowbans not shadowbans means there's no real reason to have them at all.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
[ as someone who does not work in language design ] - it does feel sometimes like this achievement is more a source of pride than a hard requirement. A sort of symbolic (no pun) closing of the circle. Is there a reason why keeping a compile
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by nkozyra 4y ago
In theory it's to reduce information for bad actors, but we know in practice it never really works this way. Don't send people on a goose chase because you're obscuring details for "security."
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Stems are usually lossless files and have an intended purpose for remixing. Do you stop at instruments and vocals or are we talking 100+ tracks? It strikes me as nontrivial work for very limited purpose. Apple can turn your vocals down so n
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Channel and spatial/binaural tracks I'd expect, but separated tracks for instruments/vocals is a lot more time consuming and the kind of thing that studios/producers/masterers would bluster at enough that I wouldn&#
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by nkozyra 4y ago
It's hard to explain the near exponential increase in pathogen exposure when 20+ kids are in a room doing the least hygienic things imaginable for 4-8 hours a day. I rode the subway every day for years and rarely got sick, but a few we
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Plenty of file formats support this, but they're generally for DAWs and not for a final mix. In order to support volume the file would have to be packed with each individual track. Almost assuredly this is just ML-assisted frequency se
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Well good news, there'll be a new thing that replaces it in three weeks!
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by nkozyra 4y ago
"$8" is the answer I'd expect
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I agree that YouTube - like most large social networks - cares only about the large traffic generators, but I'm not sure about your characterization of the content. I can find high quality creators for almost anything on earth that int
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by nkozyra 4y ago
It's probably not a huge priority, given the replacement cadence of most phone users. https://www.statista.com/statistics/619788/average-smartphon... . If, on average, people are replacing their phone within t
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Someone actually wrote "communism works ... in theory" without a hint of irony. I don't think it was a meltdown but one might be justified.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Your argument is not that they didn't have elevated access to control content on Twitter but that it was a specific type of access and a specific type of content. And I agree! My point is they had that channel, not a value judgement on
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by nkozyra 4y ago
In what sense is my "characterization" ridiculous? Should we not take Taiibis tweets at face value? That's exactly what he says.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
This does seem to be the play. There is a story here! Politicians having direct access to social networks to suppress narratives they don't like is interesting. But 1) I don't think it's surprising and 2) it appears it was no
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Junk article that does not cite any real reference between Masamune's helmet and Darth Vader's design. Agreed. There are similarities, but nothing to directly tie them together. If you get The Making of Star Wars[1] book ther
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Go _has_ frameworks that are pretty good, though. They're just not as feature-packed as, say, Django.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I think a "meme" is more than "gets mentioned a lot." Given the person who I replied to didn't know there was a name for it, I think it was warranted.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Where is the meme? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Fully encapsulated by Betteridge's law.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> a totally different issue is that big-o notation doesn't always narrow down where the bottleneck is even if you calculate it correctly because n is never arbitrarily large and so the bottleneck depends on the constant factors Yeah
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> Some candidates say that sorting is going to be the bottleneck, because it’s O(N log N) rather than the input processing, which is O(N). However, it’s easy to forget we’re dealing with two different N’s: the total number of words in th
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> If you are actually doing 40 hours a week you are productive as hell. I disagree. But I think what we qualify as "work" is more rigid than it needs to be. Is spending 5 minutes looking at HN every few hours work? Most people
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by nkozyra 4y ago
I think if there were more variability in scheduling a lot of people would exceed 40 hours on average without much issue. If office workers had the ability to have more relaxed PTO I think it would alleviate a lot of that. But even in pla
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by nkozyra 4y ago
While true, there's an endless supply of new buzzwords to use to capture another round of rubes.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
Demand for what, though? Startups can cover ... well anything, really? There's certainly less demand for Facebook's style of social media, for sure.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
That's cyclical, though. The question is always how long the cycle lasts.
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by nkozyra 4y ago
> then perhaps a lawsuit could be worth it. Even in US law, no, there's no scenario wherein the lawsuit against IKEA would be worth ~$50k in revenue (not profit).
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by nkozyra 4y ago
"Today?"
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by nkozyra 4y ago
That's the copycat behavior. It's forced engagement analytics. You either care (and it's boosted for some people) or you don't (and it's devalued for some people). All in the pursuit of perpetual doomscrolling.

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