sdrothrock

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by sdrothrock 3y ago
> Musicians could automate all the instruments with incredible accuracy since a long time. But they never do that. For some reason, they still want a person behind the piano / guitar / drums. This actually happened on a recent
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
This is really neat! I thought I'd try it out before bed (in Japan) and I was talking to someone from Dallas (hi, if you see this!), but it disconnected us. :(
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
There was less automation and as far as I recall, none of us had "branches" -- everyone worked on a local trunk and everything would diverge rapidly. I wasn't working professionally at the time (I was 11-13), so I wasn't
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
I remember downloading/emailing patch files around and groaning when your local changes had made it impossible to get the patch file to work smoothly, so you ended up going through line by line trying to figure out what was supposed to
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
I have profound hearing loss and rely on the Windows 11 captions. They are absolutely best in class and head/shoulders above any other automatic captioning I've used. My coworkers have a variety of accents (Hispanic, Eastern Europ
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
It's an American Chinese dish that contains garlic and onions.
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
This recently happened to me with DRF and JWTs -- the JWTs were invalid due to sporadic timing issues and we were unable to log in. There was no indication that anything was going on since DRF was swallowing the validation errors and return
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
Ordinals and references, like this: ① Draw some circles ② Draw the rest of the owl Commentary: ① is simple but ② is masking many complex steps that are necessary to draw an owl.
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
> they were in some old Japanese character set This implies that they're obsolete, but they're not -- they're still in very common use today. You can type them in Japanese by typing まる (maru, circle) and the number, then p
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
> Sounds kind of gross. To me this is the proof in the pudding! It indicates a distinctive difference that one group of people enjoys and another group finds repulsive. But with these types of things, if we share food culture, then many
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Japan’s Toshiba to delist after takeover by Japanese consortium succeeds(apnews.com)
4 points by sdrothrock 3y ago|1 comments
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
> Boom, a little cottage industry This is the devil that lives in the details. You have an industry of people who are trying to get these charitable donations, and the towns that can't afford that industry or don't have anythin
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results. Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: https://simps
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
It sounds like you're sort of describing affordances, which Don Norman talks a lot about in The Design of Everyday Things. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
I was thinking that about the movement too -- or you could go for a Miyota/Citizen, the high-beat (28800) movements were around $70-80 on ebay the last time I checked.
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
COVID and the general slowdown gave a lot of folks here the chance to breathe and think about what they want out of life and realize what a dead end many jobs and salaries [0] here are... and that the hope for improvement seems vanishingly
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
How about something like me@firstlast.com?
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
Simak included dogs in his stories so often (and especially in that anthology you mentioned) that any time someone mentions a sci fi story with a dog, my first thought is that it has to be a Simak story. :)
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by sdrothrock 3y ago
The precision and temperature control are what separate sous vide from retort pouches in my mind, which are often heated up with just boiling.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
My general impression, possibly out of ignorance, has been that there have always been lots of these and people (read: me) were just unaware of them. Some, like this (and "88" on usernames) are sometimes (often?) legitimate but ha
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
Just a heads up: "crypto Jew" is also an antisemitic buzz word, which is why I suspect the linked article says "hidden" instead.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
The Clever Pork Theory
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I wonder if you could change this to allow a video input via prompts to turn your head in various angels, like registering for facial recognition. Then it might not trigger the distaste for photos AND you could get better data for face plac
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
This is an extremely common situation at many restaurants and is a reason I don't really enjoy going out to eat with friends without prior investigation.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I don't think anyone taps space four times; they just set tab to insert four spaces. So from a typing perspective, there's no difference. It's a pretty standard setting in every editor I've used, including vim.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
My uncle pulled this one on me when I was a kid. There was a willow tree out in the yard and he'd have me go to the "spaghetti tree" and "harvest some spaghetti" for dinner, which I went and did... and lo and behold
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
The Culture Map; it really helps with understanding not only cultural differences, but also personal differences.
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
I've been incredibly happy with the Win 11 captions as well; it's spoiled me on every other automatic captioning resource, honestly. I saw a video (from Microsoft) about how their captions are best in class, especially for accents
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
There's a dead comment from one of the creators that needs some vouches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33451938
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by sdrothrock 4y ago
In terms of costs of living and salary percentage, 100,000 yen feels like it's around $1000 or so. For context, a new grad will probably end up making around 200,000 - 250,000 yen (before taxes) a month at a lot of places.

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