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by smoe 6y ago
Also where does text end and diagrams/images start? E.g where does musical notation stand? For an untrained eye it is just a bunch of lines, dots and squiggles but others will read it like text and much more efficiently so than if it
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by smoe 6y ago
Graphical programming languages are fairly popular for “scripting” and signal processing in various domains like visual effects, sound design, game dev, etc. Sure you wouldn’t want to implement the underlying systems in them, but I do think
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by smoe 6y ago
As someone that has last used microwaves on a regular basis when they just had two dials, I could see the use for Alexa to figure out how the more more modern ones with like 40 buttons work. The first time I tried the office kitchen microw
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by smoe 6y ago
I reckon because anything beyond spontaneously go for drinks or dinner is a big pain in the ass to organize as soon as like more than 2-3 people/opinions are involved.
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by smoe 6y ago
For me the issue is more that communities as they grow seem to be bound to become either burning dumpster fires or turn just uninteresting and boring as they converge on the lowest common denominator of interests/opinions. I have self
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by smoe 6y ago
There are a number of ear training or general practice apps for musicians that have been gamified E.g. https://youtu.be/2QQ-VDlPpA4 Think would be cool to use such a library to make an audio based puzzle game where you need
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by smoe 6y ago
Could be similar as when the covid lockdowns, mass layoffs and advertisment budget cuts started, I suddenly got bombarded (where it passed the ad blocker) with ads on how to rapidly become a millionaire by investing in stuff from home and s
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by smoe 6y ago
From the same section you quoted: “According to the ADL, by 2019 some white supremacists had begun using the OK symbol "as a sincere expression of White Supremacy", and many white supremacists have acknowledged using the symbol as
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by smoe 6y ago
In my opinion crowded cities really suck, during pandemics. I love to huge city I'm living in. But during the last 9-10 months I only had all the downsides of city living and none of the upsides. If I were not that attached to the apar
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by smoe 6y ago
Still doubt that that many people will travel long distance because of the hassle, the risk of getting stranded or having to deal with the local overwhelmed health system. Anecdotally I know a couple of people in Europe that travelled quit
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by smoe 6y ago
Not GP, but I would expect parts of the highway infrastructure where more crimes occur to be more closely monitored and controlled than others. I don't see how this is a black and white issue where you either should be in support or ag
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by smoe 6y ago
It still works -site:pinterest.* Even with wildcard tld, otherwise it is still all Pinterest But it is interesting that those kind of Google/search engine feature hardly ever get talked about these days whereas in the past they were c
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by smoe 6y ago
I think it is inevitable with online courses of this scale, that the instructor recorded for the video lectures can't be involved on the day to day of the course. It is the same for e.g. Coursera courses where it is peers and a bunch o
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by smoe 6y ago
I usually only ever read the 3 out of 5 stars reviews. Unless there is a ton of it, 1 star reviews are often outliers having had a bad experience, people who clearly haven’t read the product description or having some gripe otherwise. The 5
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by smoe 6y ago
I had C as an introductory language and I didn’t perceive it as very hardcore, because we were doing the most basic things. Key is in my opinion, that you do projects aligned with your current programming skill level. I have never used C pr
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by smoe 6y ago
Definitely good advise, but it made me wonder, how much gifts people are giving or differences in gifts culture, that makes such lists necessary? Myself, I grew up in a family that always did some variant of secret santa for Christmas and w
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by smoe 6y ago
I think plenty of whitespace in general (I don't know the mentioned tools that much), when done well, is a good default, because I reckon the majority of users only handle a small number of things in such tools and whitespace can help
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by smoe 6y ago
I reckon part of why it works well in this case is, because they are relatively popular (tens of thousands to millions of views) songs in somewhat niche genre. So maybe more similarity between users? In more mainstream genres, say Hip Hop,
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by smoe 6y ago
Really cool project, going to play around with it, since I wanted to experiment with alternative algorithms for these kind of platforms for a while, but didn't found time to get started. My biggest gripe with YouTube recommendations, o
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by smoe 6y ago
In Europe, it is common to use alternative measurements, for amounts where you’d need a lab grade or drug dealers scale. A tablespoon, a knife tip, half a sachet, etc. At the same time it also used to implicitly indicate that how much you u
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by smoe 6y ago
I grew up in a region where everything in recipes is given by weight and learned to cook this way. Nonetheless, although initially super annoyed, I have grown some fondness of using cups as measurement. For day to day cooking, I can’t be bo
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by smoe 6y ago
I have worked with Javascript for frontend quite extensively since 2005 and with Typescript since about half a year. In the general case, I don't have strong opinions about strong vs dynamic typing, or getting error during compile- or
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by smoe 6y ago
I agree, but it also fairly easily to be dogmatic overanalyzing things instead of executing. Especially early stage, you have limited knowledge what the requirements of a product that will stick might be. I think considering cost of future
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by smoe 6y ago
You automatically get all the material sent from the municipality you are registered in (this is mandatory) around 2 months before each vote in a re-sealable envelope that contains information how to vote, a one-off voting id, the ballot an
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by smoe 6y ago
Amazing and terrible I think it is pretty fitting. As a Swiss I have voted almost every single time (about 4 times a year) since I was able to, but I have never even left the house for doing that beyond dropping it off in the next regular o
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by smoe 6y ago
I’m glad not being a teenager these days where everything is constantly photographed and filmed then shared everywhere without consent. At least with my old embarrassing forum posts and such it was me actively sharing it :)
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by smoe 6y ago
Making such a decision doesn’t mean politics is running your life. What kind of society, part of which includes politics, you want to live in matters to a lot of people. For me the biggest luxury of working in tech is actually that pretty
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by smoe 6y ago
Anecdotally, McKinsey and other consulting people are/were pretty obsessed with it. At least those are the only ones I ever heard using it in a normal human conversation. At first I was terribly confused talking to people referring to
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by smoe 6y ago
For software development, I don't quite see it, because what we are building is not really a 2D or 3D thing but more conceptual (not sure what the right word would be). Visualizations help to understand and troubleshoot a system, but f
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by smoe 6y ago
I only know one person that actually uses the "smart" feature on one of those speakers. I wonder if in a lot of cases, for the people it is not actually about the smart stuff (that might be a plus or just out of curiosity), but co

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