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by oriolid 5y ago
I've never had the problem with Finnish rap, but at one point the discover weekly was full of death metal. Also, for some reason they pushed really hard Ricky's Hand by Fad Gadget (awful, but at the time they had a well hidden ban
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by oriolid 5y ago
Have you read about illusion of control (search for elevator door button for one well known example)? If we take the idea that recommendations are really hard and dislike button doesn't help at face value, wouldn't it still improv
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by oriolid 5y ago
I haven't noticed that Spotify would do anything like that. Instead they're pushing their podcasts and curated playlists. To be honest, I've thought that they're more like banner ads on websites rather an attempt at cust
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by oriolid 5y ago
> Skipping a song after less then 20 seconds for example can train a model as well as incorporating an explicit dislike button. So, basically if I dislike a song but want to give it a chance and then decide that you want to never hear it
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by oriolid 5y ago
They do lump unrelated acts together. It's somewhat obvious when one of them is a current young musician and other had their career in 60s.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Skip could also mean "I like this song, but I want to hear something different at the moment".
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by oriolid 5y ago
I have never listened to a podcast on Spotify and I still have them on my home screen, so I think that it's hardcoded, not a generated recommendation. The probably autogenerated daily mixes have been surprisingly non-bad for me. Nothin
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by oriolid 5y ago
It guarantees that in overload situation the requests that get handled are handled quickly. In the same situation a FIFO would grow until all requests are really slow or time out without increasing throughput. The reason to keep old request
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by oriolid 5y ago
Even if they're taking the spray-and-pray approach, it certainly doesn't look like they'd be filtering for age. To compare, I'm 43, not even a tech lead and I've received more recruiter contacts over last couple of
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by oriolid 5y ago
Because Blumat exists, and there's something incredibly elegant in how these things can adjust dripping or pull water from a container without any electronics, and depending on the version either with a single moving part or no moving
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by oriolid 5y ago
The binge-watching masses are easy to satisfy. All it takes for the stream to work is average speed of a few megabits per second, but there's so much caching at client end that high latency and few seconds of total blackout every now a
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by oriolid 5y ago
And in Finnish, "Köyhällä ei ole varaa ostaa halpaa", "A poor person can't afford to buy cheap things"
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by oriolid 5y ago
I think the argument was that the old boots are better because of the manufacturing methods and materials used back in the day. Yes, stuff is cheaper today but especially for clothes quality has dropped too. As a second anecdote in the same
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by oriolid 5y ago
If you adjust for inflation, 300 1976 dollars correspond to 1442 current dollars. I'm not saying they're not worth it but it's something that people always forget it.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Is there a limit that a person can have only one middle name?
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by oriolid 5y ago
I prefer a phone that fits comfortably in a pocket. If you have one of the huge phones, then there's of course not so much difference.
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by oriolid 5y ago
I have one (previous generation), and it's great for video streaming, web surfing, mobile games, as remote control for TV and music streamers. The only use case where I'd want a bigger tablet is displaying sheet music.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Netflix is cool, but stuff like SambaTV and showing ads right in the main menu are reasons to keep the smart TV away from both Internet and my home network. Chromecasts and Apple TVs are at least a bit less obvious about it.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Good point. I have always been thinking that the practical way with MSVC is to just embed everything into the project because everything else is too much work. Perhaps it's time to change that now.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Thanks. It's a fairly new feature, I didn't know about it. It's certainly annoying that distros don't have good pkg-config support, it would be so much nicer than writing detection logic or reusing CMake.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, which packages do use Meson as wrapper over CMake? Sounds like total misuse but I'm interested in how it's done.
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by oriolid 5y ago
In serious engineering wheels are reinvented everywhere, but somehow in software you're supposed to use existing parts that do 90% of what you need and then struggle with the remaining 10%.
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by oriolid 5y ago
> Isn't the conclusion here "contribute to/write your own libraries" If you write your own library for a popular language, you're both competing with everyone else who has written a library to do the same thing a
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by oriolid 5y ago
Did you mean AbstractCorporationCategoryLanguageMemeFactory? Anyway, at the time Enterprise Java was developed, it was commonly believed that the best way to do large scale development is to hire busload of outsourced workers and give them
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by oriolid 5y ago
The best explanation for Java language design I have heard that it's not designed to be productive but to prevent mediocre developers from shooting themselves in the foot.
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by oriolid 5y ago
There are several threads on bicycles that have metric diameter and TPI thread pitch. Off the top of my head, at least Italian bottom bracket and freewheel threads and French lock ring thread are like that but I'm sure there are more.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Technically true, the best kind of true.
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by oriolid 5y ago
I'd rather live in a house without undefined behavior.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Looks more complicated than just not using Apple ID.
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by oriolid 5y ago
> Don’t use apple SSO because apple might not exist one day? There might be a day when Apple is not _my_ cell phone platform. Even now I have an Android phone and iPad and I prefer to have access to same services from both.

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