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871.
by nr2x 6y ago
It’s working for SpaceX.
872.
by nr2x 6y ago
Not if the Irish have any say in the matter.
873.
by nr2x 6y ago
yeah, that requirements.txt is a nightmare.
874.
by nr2x 6y ago
I have many, many colleagues from EU: French, German, Italian, Belgian, Croatian, all among the best in the field. None of them remotely interested in going back. I’m actually an American who lived in EU for several years and loved it.
875.
by nr2x 6y ago
As a professor at a top institution I can say with certainty the entire US higher education system is fatally broken and the student loan bubble will burst to disastrous results. The situation as it stands is so bad that I welcome any other
876.
by nr2x 6y ago
Oddly I’ve not yet heard the NSF described as “rich people”.
877.
by nr2x 6y ago
Lots of "first-party" domains used the same IP address of known adtech servers, it's pretty easy to find if you have the data.
878.
by nr2x 6y ago
I use logic to make music and the noise from the fan on my 15" MBP goes beyond annoyance to making it hard to perform my task as I can't hear subtleties without cranking up the volume to compensate for the fan. As soon as the 14&
879.
by nr2x 6y ago
That's not high quality: Give me lossless, 24bit master or GTFO! ;-)
880.
by nr2x 6y ago
Qobuz is amazing for classical.
881.
by nr2x 6y ago
Broader take on free speech to encompass more forms of communication more-or-less. Consent of the Networked by Rebecca MacKinnon is a very good book on the subject vis-a-vis tech/regulation/etc.
882.
by nr2x 6y ago
I studied free expression in grad school and worked on advocacy in the tech space related to free expression, it's a topic I'm qualified to teach, and I have a lot of theoretical and practical experience to share with students. H
883.
by nr2x 6y ago
I was the first person to allow bitcoin donations for music and netted roughly $10 at the time, which today would be worth nearly half a million dollars. I happened to be lucky my interests in emerging tech and music lined up when I had an
884.
by nr2x 6y ago
Yes, but complaining about “the government” in a functioning democracy* is just complaining about fellow citizens. Making “the government” into some exogenous monolith makes no sense. * Local conditions may vary, contact your local election
885.
by nr2x 6y ago
You get what you give.
886.
by nr2x 6y ago
yeah, that's a 100% bullshit claim.
887.
by nr2x 6y ago
I once administered an office where all the machines ran Snow Leopard, which meant I had plenty of time that would normally go to user support available for more interesting skill development. Best OS of all time.
888.
by nr2x 6y ago
The competition for Facebook is owning the social graph as a means to fuel advertising profits. Google+ failed, sure. Instagram would have been eating Mark's lunch right now if he didn't buy them, and he knows it.
889.
by nr2x 6y ago
Imagine a world where Facebook didn’t buy WhatsApp and Instagram. So I think the better hypothetical is “imagine a world where Facebook didn’t leverage its existing dominance to preempt competitors”.
890.
by nr2x 6y ago
The questions are twofold: does Facebook do more good than bad? Could the good be accomplished without much of the bad? The answers to both questions are arguably bad for Facebook.
891.
by nr2x 6y ago
Not every passage of every song will produce a meaningful difference. The areas where a 24bit vs. 16bit file differ most are in subtle dynamic changes. For example, there was a specific ~ 2-second transition in a recording of Steve Reich
892.
by nr2x 6y ago
Exactly, it's literally a different sound file - not just format/delivery/etc.
893.
by nr2x 6y ago
On AirPods, no. With audio set ups that cost few grand, yes.
894.
by nr2x 6y ago
If you truly care about audio quality you can't go wrong with Qobuz, tons of 24bit material: https://www.qobuz.com/
895.
by nr2x 6y ago
To be fair, Human After All is not their best record. ;-)
896.
by nr2x 6y ago
If it is naturally how you talk most people tend not to notice.
897.
by nr2x 6y ago
"The amount of time and effort spent on Legal, Policy, Privacy - on features that have not shipped to users yet, meant a significant waste of resources and focus." ...yet I imagine verifying a feature is not actually illegal is
898.
by nr2x 6y ago
In person
899.
by nr2x 6y ago
I'm measuring tracking so I need to have the page semi-idle while trackers show up, so it's both speed and allowing some waiting-around-time.
900.
by nr2x 6y ago
It gets more complicated when you need to leverage real browser engines (eg Chrome). I've got jobs spread across ~ 20 machines/ 140 concurrent browser instances, it's non-trivial.

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