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by noizejoy 7y ago
There are many factors going into such a decision - as a result nobody here can give you a qualified answer without much more detailed info about your life situation, priorities and dreams as well as more specifics about how layoffs likely
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Maybe a better title would be “Berlin Clubs live stream music”.
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Canada also encouraging return of residents [0] [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-travellers-abroad-...
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Wouldn't that also have precedence in the history of the automobile? Pretty much a free-for-all while development was advancing fast, large & powerful corporations dominating the industry and good chunks of the economy - and then a
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I often wonder why IOT devices aren’t regulated more analogous to cars, since the Internet is a bit analogous to a road system [0], i.e. a shared resource where mistakes and misbehaviour impact other participants. A couple of car analogies
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> back in my Amiga days when Atari was "the enemy" To the best of my recollection that was the first major fanboi war in computers, also amplified by the advent of pre-internet online community in the form of BBSs (Bulletin Boa
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by noizejoy 7y ago
They probably didn’t read George Orwell in their formative years :-/
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by noizejoy 7y ago
just wow - that’s pretty crazy - it sure would be interesting to find out what signals the logic/code behind the trust dialog actually looks for, and maybe even more interesting why it was designed that way, or if it’s just really bugg
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> What's exactly the difference between the memory and emotion and the real sound of a telephone call? When mixing a song, one of the many things to consider is, if a specific part is intended to blend in with other parts, effective
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by noizejoy 7y ago
As an alternative to Fourier Transformations, one can also use classic audio filters applying high pass and low pass filters, or a band pass filter (or similar EQ settings with the aim of boosting the signal around 2KHz, and silencing the s
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Flaw or feature?
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> rampant tribalism and insistence one groupthink is incredibly strong Could that be, because so much of programming is a group activity (understanding, maintaining, and evolving other people’s code), and thus actually benefits (in an ev
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> I’ve found that the best subreddits are fairly small or have heavy moderation if they are large. Maybe that’s just reflecting how our species seems to work. The larger the group, the more it turns into a mob unless increasingly tightly
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Wow - it’s a strange one indeed. Your use case doesn’t even strike me as that far from a pretty normal scenario. But it illustrates, how much potential for malfeasance is introduced with the chains of “smart” components that we’re increasin
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I didn’t think the device had any way of telling if the cable was malicious. So even if it wouldn’t ask repeatedly, you wouldn’t know if the cable was evil? So I’m not sure if the question “do you trust the device you just plugged in” does
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it that I have been able to discern. In sufficiently complex software, things can appear to be random (or magic), even when they are neither. — I seldom trust myself to declare something ran
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> But if you choose not to share any information about your use case with the company that makes the product, then you don’t have much right to complain about it not doing what you want it to. I generally disable the analytics in softwar
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Would sandboxing make my old 32bit midi apps stop talking to my new 64bit midi apps? If yes, that would be a shame, since the ability to still use ancient midi software and hardware is one of the things that’s nice about Windows 10.
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Peter van de Kamp: An astronomer who was wrong in all the right ways(sciencefocus.com)
23 points by noizejoy 7y ago|2 comments
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by noizejoy 7y ago
The mass of the lever just adds or subtracts from any other external force(s) applied to the lever - depending on the direction of the external force relative to the direction of gravity. So a heavy wrench is helpful when pushing down, whil
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by noizejoy 7y ago
1 Order watering can 2 Get mulch in erroneous delivery 3 ... [0] 4 Profit! [0] https://www.craigslist.org/ :-) p.s. I actually agree with your point. Just occasionally you can turn a wrong into something good.
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by noizejoy 7y ago
To the best of my recollection, before the address field ended up doing double duty for web searches, the defaulting to .com happened across several browsers (never thought it was just Windows, though). — So for a while, I ended up getting
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by noizejoy 7y ago
There are some genuine differences, but these are probably only discernible to a relatively small subset of humans, who have genuinely superior hearing to the rest of us - especially as we age. However, to the best of my understanding, the
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by noizejoy 7y ago
Agreed - and I really dislike how anti-tracking technologies are commonly called ad-blocking. I’m ok with ads, but not ok with tracking.
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by noizejoy 7y ago
That argument held for many technologies in the past. e.g. to figure out your location, you had to be able to operate sextant. In the early days of the automobile you had to have considerable mechanical skills to keep one running. Cameras
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I’m assuming that the link in parent post is in error and was intended to be this one[0], which specifically mentions the connection between climate change and the extraordinarily high amounts of rain having fallen in the area around the ti
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Taken for a ride: how Norton Motorcycles collapsed amid acrimony and scandal(theguardian.com)
1 points by noizejoy 7y ago|0 comments
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I remember using 8x8 midi interfaces to get around some of that - not just for the additional midi channels, but also to thin out the traffic for each connection. i.e. each midi channel would get it's own cable/connection. However
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by noizejoy 7y ago
> All sorts of talented musicians have done incredible things with MIDI. The resolution of MIDI has been just fine for people with real chops. MIDI 2.0 isn't going to solve the real problem: talent vacuum. Wouldn't basic econom
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by noizejoy 7y ago
I don’t think it should have the www in the url. This url looks different than the submitted one: https://del.icio.us/

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