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by portaouflop 3y ago
I recently was in Cuba and also visited a local print shop. It was a delight to see dozens of hacked HP printers with tubes directly going into containers of ink doing all the printing. The printers had small custom circuit boards attached
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by portaouflop 3y ago
if you work in tech and you don’t know a way to block all online ads what the hell are you doing
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I don’t know about the hierarchy thing but humans are very different from apes.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I know people who are running Supbase in production for Enterprise customers so that claim is just false.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
As the article states: Even today, the myth persists that the human body cannot withstand more than a few minutes in the ocean. Thus, many people thrown into the sea assume that cold shock is the icy grip of death closing around them. In re
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I haven’t read anything “shit out” by any LLM that even nearly approaches the level of quality by the authors you named — would very much like to see something like that - do you have any evidence for your claims? AFAICT current text genera
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I would suggest you educate yourself a little bit about the culture you consume. The artist you chose is extremely well known and about 85 years old so I can’t take your example serious. Of course I can’t give an extremely precise category
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by portaouflop 3y ago
Just because something is popular, backed by venture capital, or widely used does not guarantee that it is fair or positive for the culture.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
Of course a celebrated artist with a 50+ year career that is a national icon won’t be reliant on digital distribution… I think that would be obvious to anyone that wants to have a conversation in good faith.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
Same story with Blizzard - I used to be the biggest fanboy, spending thousands of hours with SC,WC3,WoW and Diablo. Ever since they got acquired by Activision it’s just been very disappointing. Now I don’t even check out their new release
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by portaouflop 3y ago
A movie ticket is a one-time permission to watch the movie in that particular place and time - it has nothing to do with licensing.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
Nesrin Sipahi is a far cry from a small indie artist that relies on support by their fan base. And there are many options to buy her music as physical copies directly from her labels. Of course it’s fine to use Spotify to listen to music an
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by portaouflop 3y ago
If that implies connecting to Spotify, no thanks. If your reality is based on catering to VC funded tech companies I pity you.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I listed four other concrete options and closed with “or whatever other direct support method they have set up” — I assure you that every artist that wants to make money will have set up _something_ besides Spotify since it’s practically im
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by portaouflop 3y ago
So they started out pirating music and then decided they want to get rich from stolen culture while giving nothing back. That is taking the whole pirate meme a bit too literally.
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by portaouflop 3y ago
If you care about the artist here pay them directly either through bandcamp, by going to the physical shows and buying merch, ordering physical copies of their music at the label, patreon, or whatever form of direct support they have set up
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by portaouflop 3y ago
Yea for me that is just dance music or electronic music; and EDM is more a marketing term from the US shrug
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by portaouflop 3y ago
I feel like there are many definitions of EDM out there. GP probably means electronic music in general - to me EDM is a genre coming out of the US since maybe 2006, heavily influenced by pop, French house and UK dubstep - basically a watere