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by rotexo 4y ago
This is really good, imho. The downside is that the information is of course all still out there for a sufficiently motivated person to find.
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by rotexo 4y ago
I was advised by multiple sources not to try. The initial people took down the info pretty immediately, but now it persists over a lot of forums, blog posts, etc., so I imagine it would be a game of whack-a-mole that would require significa
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by rotexo 4y ago
Bingo. Like many in my generation, I used to not worry about it at all. Now I am a bit obsessive—constantly checking my name, number, and address on people finder sites and sending takedown requests when they pop back up, and currently tryi
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by rotexo 4y ago
Hits close to home. Several years ago, people from one end of the political spectrum mistook me for another person on the opposite end of the political spectrum and doxxed me. I haven’t been able to correct the record to any real extent, an
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by rotexo 4y ago
Thank you. My partner is an architect, and while they aren’t a structural engineer, they had enough structures training in grad school to know that hobby tunnel digging is extremely dangerous. There are clearly alternative physical activiti
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by rotexo 5y ago
This guy is known for doing vasectomies: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-chopp-3aa14436
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by rotexo 5y ago
Agreed. In the digital realm, the closest I have ever come to the feeling of browsing at Waterloo records on 6th and Lamar in Austin with my brothers has been splurging on bandcamp fridays during the pandemic, posting my haul on ig, then al
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by rotexo 5y ago
Me too. The score gave the scene where they comprehend the capabilities of the box such a terrifying edge.
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by rotexo 5y ago
This is not a car dealership, pal!
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by rotexo 5y ago
Is there really no feasible natural explanation for inhomogeneities in stable magnesium isotopes in materials such as those found in, say, meteorites? How frequently do scientists do such fine-grained nanoSIMS analysis of materials containi
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by rotexo 5y ago
I don’t have any resources for you, but I will say that there are a lot of synth emulations out there (for instance, google “dx7 vst”). Developers might be more or less obsessive about emulating the particular quirks of different hardware s
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by rotexo 5y ago
Oh for sure. An additional advantage of the modular approach is: if you don’t like the raw FM tone, you can try running it through an MS-20 filter, or a Moog filter, or a wavefolder, or a ring modulator, or… One of my favorite custom SuperC
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by rotexo 5y ago
Oh I definitely think it is too! I could see other people dismissing the modular stuff as a waste of money, or the midimutant thing as a- or un-musical. Maybe I could have reframed this as a meditation on how quirky technology development c
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by rotexo 5y ago
I’m definitely curious about other people’s approach to Project Euler. My experience was that the first several were pretty straightforward, but I pretty quickly ran into a wall where I couldn’t rely on my intuition to generate a solution t
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by rotexo 5y ago
Reading this really drove home to me just how amusing some of the twists and turns of music tech development are. In contemporary modular synth formats, you now have modules that use similar FM tone chips, but are controlled by potentiomete
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by rotexo 5y ago
Two ideas: desalination and direct air CO2 capture plants? Though maybe the primary bottleneck isn’t lack of energy, and you don’t want all that expensive equipment idle while you are waiting for excess electricity from renewables.
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Unpacking the Impact in Impact Investing (2013)(ssir.org)
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by rotexo 5y ago
Thanks for this very thoughtful reply! I thought 2) in particular was a very good point, and one I hadn’t really considered. I would definitely be interested in hearing more about specific opportunities in 3) if anyone has any. At this poin
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by rotexo 5y ago
Definitely agreed!
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by rotexo 5y ago
That would be the obvious move, but my background is so far from finance that I have no earthly idea how I would begin. Open to ideas though for sure!
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by rotexo 5y ago
I have been thinking a lot about this. I wish I could invest my paltry funds into climate-focused ventures as part of a crowd of like-minded small-scale investors. So I am investing in things like renewable energy ETFs. But my impression (c
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by rotexo 5y ago
I find myself excited about starship for other reasons. It seems like there is a large range of outcomes for the starship development program—maybe the difficulty of having an effective, durable, and serviceable heat shield really will kill
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by rotexo 5y ago
Right, but I see elsewhere that it is mostly about individual freedom. It is hard for me to understand if those two reasons are two separate groups, or if one is an internal reason and the other is the stated reason, for instance. If the la
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by rotexo 5y ago
That question might best be prefaced with “here’s what would change my mind… what about yours?” That formulation might come across as more curious and open rather than patronizing. Though I honestly don’t at all understand the mindset of pe
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by rotexo 5y ago
Have any recommendations? I bought a bunch of shares of VOTE recently (the Engine No. 1 ETF), but I’m curious about others.
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by rotexo 5y ago
I wonder if you could make a setup where you have actual human volunteers in a vr environment, have the agent instruct the human on what action to take, and then reward the agent on the correspondence between the instruction and the human’s
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by rotexo 5y ago
Atari ST 520/1040, for the built-in MIDI ports and retro sequencing software.
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by rotexo 5y ago
Thanks for the breakdown. I like the idea of something we can remove more easily down the line, even if it’s more expensive. I suppose we probably won’t have the luxury, though.
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by rotexo 5y ago
Because I think you’d be the person to ask: what is the feasibility of putting up a space sunshade to block some incoming solar radiation, using starship/super heavy?
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by rotexo 5y ago
Isn’t systematic sleep deprivation part of military training too? Or is that just used in training for some branches? If so, I imagine that would be a big driver in rebuilding sleep habits from the ground up. If I’m not mistaken, sleep rest

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