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by oriolid 2y ago
It is also widely criticized by professional piano teachers (see the link above), and for good reasons.
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by oriolid 2y ago
The enemy of good is not perfect but "good enough".
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by oriolid 2y ago
> Scrum is developed as a solution to quick requirement changes and adaptability of development (agile), but I find that 2 weeks sprint planning and execution is actually the opposite. It is a solution against quick changes. The only b
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by oriolid 2y ago
> Rust in comparison is minutes old and there's no evidence it will dominate the field of system programming in the future. This is true (for some values of minute). It is also why I was suggesting that C calling convention, HTTP et
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by oriolid 2y ago
> Funny, given that the word diplomacy is a French word This is true. But it only tells about the cultural dominance that France had at the time the convention started. If history had happened differently, Chinese, Hindi or something els
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by oriolid 2y ago
Ok, I'll try to explain. - French itself does not add much value to diplomacy. The reason to use is that everyone else who does diplomacy is expected to know French (and probably isn't a native speaker which makes things a bit mor
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by oriolid 2y ago
Could you explain your thinking a bit more? To me the "language of diplomacy" equivalent for computers sounds more like C calling convention, HTTP and XML or JSON.
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by oriolid 2y ago
> Nothing on the internet happens without human intent. I have written many pieces of software that did something I didn't intend. I have the feeling it's the same for everyone who's written anything more complex than hell
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by oriolid 2y ago
> That's the reason why malware has it easy because companies still send office documents that should be a PDF. PDF embedding attacks have been a thing for years. Personally I think that the culture of sending everything as a Word o
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by oriolid 3y ago
> How else do you signal the bus driver to stop? In Europe we have buttons. The pull cords and push strips seem weirdly over- and underengineered at the same time.
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by oriolid 3y ago
The problem is that once you get past the very initial stage, you want to read ahead of what you play at the moment. At that moment Synthesia-style falling blocks notation becomes difficult to read because the blocks don't have any pos
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by oriolid 3y ago
> Learning instruments in a guitar-hero way (Piano, guitar, drums) What would VR add here? For guitar-hero style instrument learning, there are already Yousician, Simply Piano / Guitar, Gibson and Fender apps, and quite a few others
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by oriolid 3y ago
> Until someone establishes the 'spyware free, dumb tv" market that will continue to be the case I'm afraid. Well, there is Sceptre. Unfortunately they don't seem to be available outside US.
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by oriolid 3y ago
The usual explanation, true or not, is that someone was selling the state a chatbot as the modern solution and since the buyer isn't spending their own money they will happily buy it without thinking if it's useful.
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by oriolid 3y ago
> Navigating these types of situations is a skill that can be developed. It's difficult to practice something where failure means disaster.
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by oriolid 3y ago
> Developing crushes on people you actually know in your social scenes is more reasonable. And if it is not mutual, admitting it can be a total social suicide.
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by oriolid 3y ago
One of the benefits of lossless compression is that you don't have to put any effort into thinking about what level of compression is good enough and who can hear the difference. It just doesn't make any difference.
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by oriolid 3y ago
I have the same experience with Spotify vs Deezer. I think it's more likely that Spotify has somehow screwed up their encoding process than that I would hear the difference between high bitrate lossy and lossless compression. Spotify&#
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by oriolid 3y ago
I think a flip book animation could be actually feasible and do more than three frames
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by oriolid 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I thought code signing was supposed to reduce the need for this kind of checks. Still, stuff like this isn't helping with performance and if the new binary is sent somewhere outside the developer machine leg
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by oriolid 3y ago
Do you know why running the binary is slow for the first time, and that it will be fast forever once it's been run once? I thought it's common knowledge that starting apps for the first time after reboot or after doing something e
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by oriolid 3y ago
So, I had to try this. And look what happened on a 2015 Macbook running Monterey (edit: but check the thread below for possible explanation): ojs@MacBook-Pro-4 /tmp % time ./a.out Hello world ./a.out 0.00s user 0.00
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by oriolid 3y ago
If something has a score, people will compete in it just for the satisfaction of moving up on the leaderboard.
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by oriolid 3y ago
...and now you turned the fun part back into comparing different third party services and choosing between them instead of the direct problem solving.
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by oriolid 3y ago
...and now you turned the fun part back into comparing different third party services and choosing between one.
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by oriolid 3y ago
It would be interesting to know where the transcription with 5/8 originally came from. If you listen to the record, it's not clear what it is and if it was ever supposed to have a nice written form, but it certainly doesn't f
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by oriolid 3y ago
Asking as someone who has tried learning Rust but didn't get very far, doesn't unwrap essentially mean "this might panic but I don't care to implement error handling here"?
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by oriolid 3y ago
On the other hand, there are countless recordings of the same songs by covers bands, different recordings of the same classical pieces, etc. https://forgotify.com/ should give a good idea of what the long tail on Spotify is
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by oriolid 3y ago
> If we did some improvising, it might be useful. Of course, it was the way back then. I've been told that it's changed a lot in the recent 10 or 20 years at least where I live. But the point is, even if they didn't teach
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by oriolid 3y ago
They could just write loops and remember that repeating the variable name with ++ is part of loop syntax without knowing what it means. Almost like text-generating AI would do it (ducks).

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