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by qppo 7y ago
I don't know what it is off the top of my head but I think actor pay isn't that big a slice of the cost. What I mean by market distortion is really the lack of insight into value creation. How much value is created by whom in the
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by qppo 7y ago
"Hollywood accounting" isn't designed to cheat anyone. It has been used to do so in the past, mostly decades ago. Slight difference. It refers to the fact that a film as an enterprise is designed as an independent business wi
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by qppo 7y ago
As long as I am given the option to purchase content without advertisements I will do so. If I can't watch a piece of content without ads, I'll either wait until I can or pirate it. Usually the former. Frankly I think content is j
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by qppo 7y ago
Deaths lag infections by weeks. If anyone got sick from those protests they haven't been sick long enough to make it to this statistic.
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by qppo 7y ago
It's a problem for my users, because it's silently broken.
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by qppo 7y ago
My experience has been that the hard part is not teaching students using tools effectively, but getting professors/academics to learn that the tools exist.
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by qppo 7y ago
It basically breaks xdg-open. This is crucial for a lot of flows with desktop software and I'm honestly baffled why it isn't fixed. Any URI with a custom scheme is horribly and completely broken with a browser installed as a snap.
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by qppo 7y ago
The crushing loneliness
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by qppo 7y ago
Your coworker who doesn't know what the fuck Kafka is or why you need it to get the system online.
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by qppo 7y ago
Those companies aren't around anymore. There's no one left to update the software, and like vintage gear, it's irreplaceable.
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by qppo 7y ago
that's one hell of a domain name
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by qppo 7y ago
These exist for AAX plugins and they're naturally pretty expensive and hard to program for as a general purpose unit.
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by qppo 7y ago
Is the debt collateralized? Regardless they have tons of assets, their entire film and television catalog. There's a big market to content rights, and it's pretty liquid right now with covid halting new production while viewership
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by qppo 7y ago
I don't like arguing semantics but I don't really think any of what Geekbench does is a "micro" benchmark. At least for me that typically refers to running a small snippet of code, like calculating a dot product or somet
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by qppo 7y ago
There are many reasons. The latency of getting data back and forth to the GPU is a pretty high threshold to cross before you even see benefits, and many tasks are still CPU bound because they have data dependencies and logic that benefit fr
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by qppo 7y ago
Geekbench isn't a micro benchmark, it's a comprehensive test of the system using a variety of programs and workloads and aggregates the results. It's not a single program that one can play games with compiler optimizations.
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by qppo 7y ago
this is missing an "I use arch btw" Those 11k other things are usually the minimum needed to have a production ready system that doesn't require you as a user to jump through hoops to provision and maintain.
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by qppo 7y ago
To use startup lingo, they were a unicorn turning into a zombie because they never hired people who knew how to run their organizations as a cockroach. A lot of the people that I know who went there were basically fresh out of college or ac
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by qppo 7y ago
I don't want to doxx myself so I'm intentionally leaving out details, and you can take this comment as rumor and baseless. But based on the people I know (personally) who work there - there wasn't a lot of talent being thrown
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by qppo 7y ago
they allegedly had an insane demo for investors only, before around 2016 (at least that's when I heard of it) you needed to sign an NDA to even get in the room to see it. The consumer product is quite lacking compared to what people sa
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by qppo 7y ago
High level synthesis works perfectly fine, just not from C. HDLs have chugged along too, it's just the toolchains are ridiculously expensive and risky to change. That's why hardware tech stacks lag behind the state-of-the-art. I s
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by qppo 7y ago
Its too early in the morning for me to get into a flamewar about this. So all I'll say is that I get a lot of value out of VS Code as a tool, and I don't think it's slow. I think every point you bring up comes from a lack of
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by qppo 7y ago
I mean I use vs code daily and don't think it's any less "snappy" than a native app. Quite the opposite really, Chromium's rendering engine is faster than most native cross platform toolkits. The memory consumption
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by qppo 7y ago
I kinda want to see a riff generator, searchable by chord base/tonality, time signature, and length. Also a scale exercise generator. Lot of space to explore in terms of permutations. I seem to recall some research on probability of us
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by qppo 7y ago
edit: I'd argue that this isn't devoid of morality since it's literally a zero sum game, and the negative externalities are pretty clear. Making money at someone else's expense is definitely a moral quandary.
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by qppo 7y ago
Well they have value in hearing others and being heard, I'd assume. All my friends have their own mics because we couldn't understand eachother otherwise, and we don't have problems with fidelity. My coworkers are a different
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by qppo 7y ago
I think the problem is that Zoom hasn't solved any of the hard problems with scheduling and holding meetings remotely. They got decent/reliable multimedia multicast, and I'll give them that. Talk to anyone in process manageme
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by qppo 7y ago
The only thing really terrible is their (lack of) echo cancellation. Otherwise I'm about 90% sure it's just off the shelf OPUS with next to no DSP on top. It's not that bad on its own. What is terrible is audio hardware on la
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by qppo 7y ago
It sounds like you're asking for symbolic math utilities, which exist in a number of languages. Like for example I've tried to play this game building a toy language from first principles but you run into problems rather quickly.
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by qppo 7y ago
I don't want an extremely public record of my personal opinions or thoughts today, because I know they're going to change tomorrow.

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