ryandvm

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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'm curious what the state of AI generated music is. I heard a quote once that "music is math for people that don't like numbers" which struck me as particularly insightful. All the things that people appreciate about th
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Perfect. I'm stealing this.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That's my experience as an adult with ADHD and an Adderall prescription. I've never taken more than my prescribed dose so I don't get "high", but I do get the sense that I might if I took quite a bit more.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
It's probably not fraud so much as it is chargebacks from guys whose wives are asking "wtf is this OnlyFans charge?!?" "Ah shit, honey. Somebody must have stolen my card."
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Programmers are generally unhappy with fuzziness or else they wouldn't be good programmers.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
You're not wrong, but those circumstances are so exceedingly rare that activating an armed robot should require a warrant or some other way of rate-limiting their invocation.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
It's kind of an indictment of the industry that a 30 year old, 8-bit image format somehow won out as the medium of choice for displaying looping animated scenes. What cascade of negligent decisions had to happen that all the other viab
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by ryandvm 5y ago
By not having any features
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I dunno. Most of these people probably aren't moving to the deeply red, shithole regions of these states. They're moving to the suburbs of purple areas like Charlotte or Charleston. I've long thought that living in a blue cit
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by ryandvm 5y ago
You also wouldn't be able to do the cocktail party trick. Your brain's ability to ignore everything that isn't of the desired ITD phase shift is what allows you to selectively ignore most of the noise in the room and focus on
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Depends. If his vision was some sort of capitalistic dystopia where various agents of chaos are able to ricochet disinformation and hatred through the global zeitgeist, then I'd say he was remarkably successful.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Not a popular opinion, but I have a lot of faith in humanity's _future_ engineering ability. Yes, we are dealing with climate consequences right now. And yes, we should be trying to improve resource efficiency right now. But that said,
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Not just Linux, but Git too. So not only do most of the computers in the world run Linux, there's an entire ecosystem of the Internet based off of one of his side projects. Talk about proving that you're not a one-hit wonder...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
If I know anything about capitalism, the primary reason manhole covers are round is because that's the most cost-efficient shape for the job.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That and the fact that civilizations probably only broadcast EM radiation out into the void for a short period of time before they start getting into energy efficiency and switch over to more efficient communication technologies.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I don't know, watching these far-out-right types continually being grifted has a sort of karmic justice to it. Too bad the next big scam on them is this anti-vax bullshit and it's actually going to have a body count...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
"What Intel giveth, React taketh away." (Updated for this decade.)
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Strict local gun laws in the United States is a like having a "no peeing" section in a pool.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Agreed. Python 3 and IPv6 are case studies in how not to do an upgrade. While I can appreciate the care and engineering skill involved in upgrading a technology while still having backward compatibility, it turns out just to enable the wors
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Good. Advertising is theft. Hear me out. If we agree that my attention has economic value (and it must as that is the entire basis of advertising); and if we agree once my attention is captured it cannot be applied to something else at that
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by ryandvm 5y ago
The fact that it was written in 2017 and yet today the only use cases for blockchain are still just buying small amounts of illegal stuff and warming the planet lends the author a bit of credit as prescient technologist.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Sure, there are a lot of indicators all pointing in spooky directions. The problem is that the time frame in which these indicators actually indicate anything is well out of the planning range of most folks' investment capabilities. Yo
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Maybe it's a Great Filter kind of thing. Most civilizations probably continually decimate themselves in a never-ending series of self-inflicted cataclysms every time they build up their energy capability. If you've mastered enough
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by ryandvm 5y ago
This is true. When you are a consultant or contractor, you still have assess to kiss and jerks to take orders from. You actually have to work a lot harder at keeping the folks in charge happy. And worse, they can fire you in two weeks inste
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Yes. It's a pretty good spaz filter. If somebody doesn't have the attention span to read/respond to emails, then I'm probably not going to enjoy working with them.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
No, it's not a cyanoacrylate. You have to activate it with water and it takes about 24 hours to set.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
The only DB problem blockchain solves is: when DB users don't agree on who should manage the DB. That's it. Every other attempted use case for blockchain is most likely a newly minted "blockchain consultant" trying to se
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by ryandvm 5y ago
As a habitual burnout, there is some truth to this. For me, the solution to wanting to quit whatever job I had after 2 or 3 years turned out to be starting my own consultancy. Controlled burns are sort of built-in to consulting since you en
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Not Maxwell's Demon, but the closest physical approximation is probably the Hilsch Vortex tube: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube Pretty cool. (Har har)
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by ryandvm 6y ago
Whether it smears your tribe or not...

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