noizejoy

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by noizejoy 4y ago
> People make mistakes, but data doesn’t. But data collection, storage, retrieval and/or interpretation may contain errors.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I’m still disappointed that YouTube/Google didn’t find it worthwhile to figure out brigading and render it useless. Wouldn’t that be an entirely solvable problem? Or am I expecting too much from machine learning?
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Fair enough - I should have been more verbose in my post: I was actually genuinely curious in this case, because I liked that little poem a lot, and if the answer was that it was human generated content, I would have felt a bit of positive
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> no person or company with integrity exists? … probably not in the most powerful x percent.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> only if you believe them.. I dont. And I don’t believe that PHP is the best ;-)
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Unless Google successfully removed online evidence, that simply doesn’t seem to be correct. A more nuanced and accurate description of the change seems to be written up here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-b
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Creative Labs also made one of the strangest keyboard keyboard (not a typo) contraptions, the Prodikeys[0] [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Creative+Labs+ProdiKeys&t=h_&iax=i...
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by noizejoy 4y ago
To be fair, quite a few music synthesizer companies of that era died. Moog, Sequential, Oberheim, PPG, Synclavier, …
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> I got about three sentences in when I realized this guy is really, really smart. The way he spoke about … As a non-expert, how would you be able to judge? ChatGPT also sounds really smart while giving brutally false answers.
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> Did anyone else collect MIDI files in the pre MP3 days? Oh yes! And I still copy them over every time I migrate to a new music making computer. And play them back every few years for a good smile. I even spent quite a bit of money on c
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> MIDI 1.0's failings ... I generally agree with most of your points, although I'd prefer to call it "limitations". But even with those limitations, MIDI 1.0 has been used in numerous practical applications that have
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> I wish midi was used for more things. There are utility programs, that allow you to trigger and/or script keyboard and/or mouse actions et. via MIDI. So it becomes entirely possible to use a hardware MIDI controller to contro
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Korg, Yamaha and Roland synths will become (even) more expensive :-(
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> Right but you wouldn't need that hack in the first place in MIDI2.0 Yes indeed, but one of my favourite pastimes over the last while has been to buy inexpensive used (and no longer manufactured) midi controllers and use them toget
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> no possible option for any standard negotiation between devices. While I agree for ease of designed use, I also think that’s one of the fantastic features of MIDI, because it makes it possible to use participating devices in novel ways
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> For example imagine I relate something that actually happened to me vs a bot making up a story. Byte for byte identical stories. They could be realistic, and have several good lessons baked in. Yet one is more valuable, because it is t
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I sometimes wish that the following words would require a license to be used - and such license could be suspended when the words are being used in a negligent or nefarious manner: all, always, none, never
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> Timeline > Date reported: 8/24/2022 > Date fixed: 10/11/2022 > Date disclosed: 11/22/2022
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by noizejoy 4y ago
It’s pretty easy to get to 3 weights, just by having normal, big and small in a page and/or site. Also when trying to differentiate between the entire range of h1 to h6 type of headlines within the same font. At least my own tendency
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I’m still very happy to see more high quality and free variable fonts. They save a few lines of code and a bit of network egress when self hosting fonts (for better privacy).
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> 3 years of work being thrown away is not a big deal. Imagine a retail employee complaining about how nobody cares what they did the past 3 years. I don't see a difference. There’s a big difference between project work and operatio
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> The island is huge ... If you've seen islands ... or off the Atlantic or Pacific coast, you're thinking too small. Maybe along the US coasts, but a bit further up north, there are significantly larger islands along both coast
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> If you publish it with some instructions it is illegal ... unless you phrase the instructions as what you're not allowed to do[0][1] [0] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s... [1] ht
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by noizejoy 4y ago
If you’re essentially extrapolating into what Apple may become one day, rather than what it is now (i.e. if/when the 1% of revenue from advertising becomes a meaningfully larger share like 51% or whatever the threshold for being an adv
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I’d categorize that as a beef with the walled garden system, more so than Apple becoming an ad company. I don’t have an issue with criticism of the walled garden approach and that being a reason for many individuals to avoid the Apple ecosy
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Proof of work via computing should be a non-starter for anyone caring for limiting environmental damage.
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> Also: Yet I see many comments rushing to perform mental gymnastics on their behalf. There are several attributes here that match up exactly with other companies that are somehow vilified. The blog post is on point, the user have been i
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> Do you consider Apple-made devices property of their buyers or do they forever remain property of Apple? The original post talked about advertising on cloud properties, not devices. And that was the context of my post. So I’m puzzled w
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Lovely free advertising for Proton. Very smart blog post, since numerous employees and fans of Apple competitors, as well as anyone who dislikes Apple for whatever reason, has plenty motivation to upvote this post. Also: Calling someone an
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Google collects massive amounts of user data from visits to non-Google properties via Google Analytics and AdSense.

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