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by ringeryless 1y ago
? you are suggesting that zero musicians are required by society in order for society to function?
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by ringeryless 1y ago
the difference is this: music is always changing, and this change is what defines the active cutting edge of the arts, vs the retro/copycat/tribute/covers schlock the masses are ok with. the schlock itself requires constant
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by ringeryless 1y ago
i can promise you that classical theory is not how 99% of flamenco players learned what is essentially an oral tradition folk art. OTOH, classical guitar, if that is what you are after, is exclusively a repertoire music, you learn it by pl
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by ringeryless 1y ago
first of all, stop being an outsider and calling it "spanish guitar" and start listening to decades of recordings made available via the internet. do you want to learn flamenco techniques? there are a zillion youtube tutorials on
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by ringeryless 1y ago
yes, constantly. I also don't remember much contextual domain info of a given section of code about 2 weeks into delving into some other part of the same app. So-called AI makes this worse. Let me remind you of gyms, now that humans ha
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by ringeryless 1y ago
and LLMs are the opposite of automation, the opposite of a human intention amplifier like CAD CAM, or chef puppet ansible terraform whatever, aka non deterministic
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by ringeryless 1y ago
said capabilities Hegseth is utterly gutting and undermining. It's more likely China's next gen aircraft one should be wary of, than their AI. (as previewed in recent Indian Pakistani air engagements) i really see this so-called A
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by ringeryless 1y ago
which also can be botched
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by ringeryless 1y ago
"help" (botch the job)
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by ringeryless 1y ago
I have every intention of continuing to avoid LLM usage in any capacity of my job. I actively seek physical exercise and have no intention of outsourcing my mental processes to avoid thought either. I suspect my capabilities will be more ra
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by ringeryless 1y ago
yes, Kate editor is a classic example. one clicks the report a bug link in-app and immediately gets a login page. no one has time for this sort of thing. it indicates a disinterest in getting bug reports, making people do homework to report
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by ringeryless 1y ago
Dear Author, AI is coming for YOUR job. The doomsday marketing approach is getting rather old, IMO.
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by ringeryless 1y ago
i remain unconvinced that anyone needs to "catch up" in any so-called AI race (to the bottom, IMO) dodging a bullet is a thing, as popular as everything AI seems on HN
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by ringeryless 1y ago
i tend to see trumps abuse of office as an unprecedented claim to powers a president does not, did not, and should not have. only partisan blinders would cause one to equate trumps actions with anything from our past. mark my words, maga is
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by ringeryless 1y ago
umm Switzerland disagrees with the assessment of the USA being the oldest democratic republic. If we are only speaking of republic, Portugal has been one since the 12th century, albeit there's been 10 or 11 iterations on the constituti
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by ringeryless 1y ago
i wonder what all this hype-driven overcapacity will be used for by future generations. once this bubble pops we are going to have some serious albeit high-latency hardware
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by ringeryless 1y ago
fast lookup for internal usage. it's significantly faster than a UUID on every DBMS i have ever seen
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by ringeryless 1y ago
i disagree with your assessment. remember, Russias economy is smaller than the Italian economy bigger than Spains. this war is bankrupting Russia the longer it continues
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by ringeryless 1y ago
and so Putin and his drunk lapdop Medvedev should stop sabre rattling with toy sabres. be careful whom you are advising to back down in fear.
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by ringeryless 1y ago
does anyone do due diligence on corporate names before launching? Sakana is a popular slang spelling of sacana, or bastard, in Português. I suppose self modifying code can be considered such, in some circumstances, but willingly pointing th
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by ringeryless 1y ago
...yet
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by ringeryless 1y ago
and that last phrase is worthy of chairman mao. anti elitism rapidly turns into anti competence. in which circles would one be embarrassed to have attended Harvard? the notion of foisting your narrow-minded vision of reality on 300 million
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by ringeryless 1y ago
what a load of bs. i anticipated a reasonable article at the outset, i even agreed with the thesis statement that changing political mores are resulting in a decline in meritocracy, and i was directly considering Hegseth and Gabbard and RF
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by ringeryless 1y ago
I suspect we will continue to have junior developers, albeit the tasks they are tasked with may change. One big issue is that it is expensive to have senior devs essentially correcting AI slop. Additionally, at current prompt pricing I su
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by ringeryless 1y ago
UUID is PUBLIC id, use it to look up the bigint numerical id, when necessary. one should not divulge scale, placement in numerical sequence, etc wtr to integer id, hence ouvlic UUID, which is basically unguessable token
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by ringeryless 1y ago
Greed as the only engine of human enterprise turns out to have negative social effects over and over again. it's not that tv or social media must inherently be evil, but when the motivations for building platforms is mind control and m
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by ringeryless 1y ago
OTOH they are admittedly using an ORM (Prisma, known for its weight)
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by ringeryless 1y ago
the cause of all this? single client ALSA driver model. coreaudio doesn't need pulse nor jack nor pipewire to allow a single device to be opened by multiple applications. ALSA additionally specifies every 2 channels as separate 2channe
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by ringeryless 1y ago
hubris is more than just a word, evidently. here's a word for you to learn, friend: techne. it's Greek for "hand". clothed talking apes shouldn't presume to reduce the world to their own limited understanding of it.
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by ringeryless 1y ago
ah yes, bonkers subsumed everything he didn't understand and called it macaroni.

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