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by renaudg 9y ago
> Whatever Google does. I don't know the details. Oh come on. You admit having no idea what Google does either, but surely that must be better than Facebook because you said so, until an FB insider replied and brought down your narr
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by renaudg 9y ago
Another ex-FB employee here. I can't believe this is even a thing people are wondering about. Of course not the average employee can't access user data, it's an immediate firing offense.
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by renaudg 9y ago
I'm ex-FB and have it on good authority that this is indeed used to improve the relevance of friend suggestions (i.e. distinguish between your best friends and the plumber in your contacts). I'm also told it's opt-in, and the
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by renaudg 9y ago
I'm assuming you deactivated, not deleted, your account.
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Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)(pnas.org)
120 points by renaudg 9y ago|107 comments
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by renaudg 9y ago
What did you write to your friends on IM when you were 19 yourself ?
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by renaudg 9y ago
TL;DR : hackintoshes are a total shit-show in all but the simplest of use cases (no need for decent hardware support or any software upgrades ever) > while nvidia just works. Huh ? He specifically mentions why he didn't go NVidia :
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by renaudg 9y ago
You could learn the basics of substractive synthesis (the most common one) for free with software emulations, either on desktop (VST/AU plugins) or with iOS apps (Android is not very well served in this area) Here's a free barebon
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by renaudg 9y ago
That's a pretty terrible example. Instead try telling people in SF how great Trump is, and see how many friends you make. (Not that this reflects my opinion of Trump.)
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by renaudg 9y ago
You've just described Local Loop Unbundling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling ), this has been the way things have worked for 15-20 years in France, the UK, and probably most of Europe.
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by renaudg 9y ago
This is how it has worked for 15-20 years in France, the UK, and probably most of Europe.
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macOS High Sierra “Month 13 is out of bounds”(christiantietze.de)
5 points by renaudg 9y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 9y ago
This is a bit naive in a world where the address and search bars in browsers have merged, and many physical adverts don't even feature a website address any more, just search keywords.
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by renaudg 9y ago
There's an interesting real time map of energy production across Europe that illustrates the problem quite well : https://www.electricitymap.org/ Nordic countries and France stand out (because of hydro and nuclear powe
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by renaudg 9y ago
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in this space. It reminds me of this hardware project : https://witharsenal.com/features Basically a smart remote for your DSLR camera that provides a better, AI-based auto m
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by renaudg 9y ago
Yes.
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by renaudg 9y ago
This is changing with Macron's sweeping labor law reform.
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by renaudg 9y ago
I agree that developers in France are rather underpaid, but you're comparing apples to oranges. A lower French salary comes with a number of valuable benefits which makes the take-home pay difference much smaller than what you're
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by renaudg 9y ago
"Calories count, no matter where they are from." This is the exact point the article is proving wrong.
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by renaudg 9y ago
It may be worth clarifying that these are not covers (which would be musically interesting, but not technically impressive like what we have here) It's likely that most of these versions are not even reconstructed from the original m
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by renaudg 9y ago
Another crazy application of Melodyne : turning minor key "sad" songs into "happy" major key ones http://theweek.com/articles/467109/sad-songs-made-happy-amaz...
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Turning minor-key songs major(theweek.com)
88 points by renaudg 9y ago|48 comments
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by renaudg 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that even if Auto-Tune has pioneered the field and is now almost a mainstream househould name (much like Photoshop), nowadays all the cool kids are on Melodyne, which is frankly black magic : https://ww
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by renaudg 9y ago
Of course it's being done live : http://www.antarestech.com/products/detail.php?product=Auto-... Also as a $349 rack device : https://www.amazon.com/Tascam-Producer-Processor-Antares-Aut...
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by renaudg 9y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, etc etc.
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by renaudg 9y ago
Ohh great, 35 years old platform wars in the comments :) The ZX Spectrum is definitely the most overrated of all of the 8-bits : it had by far the most horrid (all but monochrome !) graphics of the bunch, and few other redeeming qualities (
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by renaudg 9y ago
The issue, of course, is to define hate speech. Most speakers being "no-platformed" on American campuses these days absolutely do not "encourage violence towards specific groups of people". It seems sufficient that they
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by renaudg 9y ago
Here's the money quote : "44 percent [of U.S. college students] — do not believe the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects so-called “hate speech,” when of course it absolutely does. More shockingly, a narrow majority
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Ex-NSA hacker drops macOS High Sierra zero-day hours before launch(zdnet.com)
4 points by renaudg 9y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 9y ago
Bilingual user here. I think predictive typing is a keyboard issue, not an app issue, and the iOS keyboard has been smart enough to use dictionaries in both languages without switching since iOS 9 or 10.

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