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by noizejoy 3y ago
There’s a fantastic free collection of samples recorded from real Mellotrons, which is worth knowing about for anyone desiring to experiment with creating their own virtual Mellotron. “Tajiguy mellotron samples” in your favourite search eng
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Agreed: Conceptually not mutually exclusive, but in practice, it would seem that problems only get fixed when they get pretty bad (squeaky wheels syndrome). I’m personally very torn on this subject. In smaller circles where I have relations
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by noizejoy 3y ago
There’s even a term for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM
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I suspect, that the main problem is inconsistency in the underlying mental model, because there’s multiple individuals doing that and/or over longer periods of time. I can typically figure out a mental model, even if designed by someo
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Arguably, the value of data in its modern version is much higher than mere “goodwill” including customer relationships. The data travels easily without customer consent, while a traditional customer relationship can be canceled by the custo
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Arguably there’s pretty meaningful intersection between those two sets of information - e.g. when purchasing medicine with a credit card. Edited to add example.
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Isn’t this one of those moral hazards? i.e. Encouraging everyone to protect themselves inadvertently slows down the fixing of the root problem?
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by noizejoy 3y ago
> While the lawsuit names Lithuania-based Teso LT, UAB as a defendant rather than “Tesonet”, this is as a result of a corporate restructuring several years ago. Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator
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by noizejoy 3y ago
I’ve taken to “open link in new tab” on any search result or listing page for years. It doesn’t solve all the issues, but makes things more tolerable.
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This was my immediate first thought, too. Arguably AI and large scale social networks have a lot in common (opportunities and problems). Related: AI as the logical next step after “crowd sourcing”.
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> finally realizing being one of their users will never stop being an unpaid, unrespected beta tester … … and AI trainer
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Nice idea! I was just surprised to see the table rows and columns opposite of what I’m used to seeing in lists where one dimension is more likely to grow much longer than the other. i.e. I would have expected the libraries as rows, rather
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by noizejoy 3y ago
The web, just like the real world isn’t static. Becoming and staying intellectually, emotionally and physically mobile may be the only long term strategy to avoid ending up in one or the other dystopia, sooner or later. When rates of change
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by noizejoy 3y ago
> Hire someone. There's no guarantee that the such hired individual will outlive the last of the original six - or that their life priorities won't change.
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In the former GDR(DDR), too[0] [0] https://apnews.com/article/b771e863afa629be5139b65784b21aba
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> Not only is it materially bad, a lot of society's trust is burned. Too much rule adherence, resulting in too much trust can also have undesirable consequences, e.g. From "Traffic safety and norms of compliance with rules:An e
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Is there something like penetration testing for projects? i.e. a business unit that is working fulltime on identifying “what could possibly go wrong” in very complex projects.
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> If the contractor can lump all sorts of charges into the cost of the hammer (for unrelated projects), it's a way of hiding the true cost of anything. You should have seen the massive number of very large enterprise IT projects in
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by noizejoy 3y ago
> One thing to note is that many Google Analytics alternatives suffer from data accuracy issues. They record and count analytics data differently from how Google Analytics does. During my years of experience using Google Analytics, I had
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> LinkedIn lost the HiQ case. Your GC claiming it’s a win doesn’t change that you lost, repeatedly, in multiple courts of law That would appear to be false, since after appeals, there was a settlement wich would seem to make it pretty cl
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by noizejoy 3y ago
That makes me wonder, if it should be solved client side by translating server side colours to something different on the client, according to the user’s needs.
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by noizejoy 3y ago
In response to the new TLDs I’ve made www. the official primary part of most of my websites. www.example.com would be the primary, and example.com redirects to www.example.com It’s my simple approach to overcome the cognitive overload issue
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Has anyone seen an analysis of what percentage of economic activity is just redistribution of wealth more adjacent to gambling, compared to economic activity that is more tightly coupled to cost of delivering goods and services? And just in
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> I'd just think if you write something like a programming language of all things you'd want others to use it and have a pleasant experience getting started. You might be surprised how many different nuances exist in what motiv
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This makes about as much sense to me as the old “keywords” HTML meta tag. It will be gamed.
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It’s not just business people. Most humans seem to see security (and safety) as a burden, not as something enjoyable.
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The business may be local but the owner or other management or employees may wish to keep all of their travel options wide open without fear of some obscure foreign law that might hold them individually responsible. The golden days of globa
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A potential post Beatles album by the Beatles reminded me of the 1976 hype around Klaatu[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_(band)#First_three_albu...
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On the other hand if your human comment is indistinguishable from a bot comment, maybe it’s ok to be kicked out? Related: Reverse Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test
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At the 25 second mark: isn’t that one of the high end Roland electronic drum kits?

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