ssalazar

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by ssalazar 6y ago
Video hosting is a solved problem, there are multiple mature and viable competing services. Creators use Youtube because of built-in discovery, community-building, and monetization services, which benefit much more from network effects and
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Because corporations are not a natural entity and exist at the behest of society as a whole? If that means nothing to you then read the link. Literally killing your own customers to make the line go up isn’t a sound business strategy.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
"Engagement" is the "paper clip maximizer"[1] of the modern software industry, or more generally an example of "instrumental convergence." Optimizing engagement without regard for negative externalities is a c
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Community college is certainly a key part of the solution for students (we recommended many students pad out their non-major credits this way to save time/money), but for an academic with an R1 STEM PhD its unfortunately not a great mi
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Left academia shortly after finishing my PhD and haven't looked back in the slightest. Aside from the issues of personal harm touched on by the author, I felt serious ethical issues participating in a system that convinces incoming st
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Yes, we definitely need people authorized to use deadly force going around making sure windows aren't overly tinted. /s
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by ssalazar 6y ago
I have read many of Taibbi's past articles with enthusiasm and he makes some interesting arguments in the present article, but to be clear, he has an axe to grind on this very issue. He himself was essentially cancelled for some prett
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> Cotton called for force against “lawbreakers”, not “protestors” I don't care. I live in one of these so-called riot zones and my company's office was looted. I do not want active duty soldiers pointing weapons of war around
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by ssalazar 6y ago
The nonce can be replayed too. Just use HTTPS and (as a user) don't re-use passwords.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
HTTPS is critical yes. If hash(password) is sent over HTTP in plaintext, then hash(password) can just be used in a replay attack. You shouldn't be sending passwords in any form over unencrypted HTTP, and there isnt a clear case for ha
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Not totally inaccurate, but I would take "no improvement" over actively undermining American government and society. For better or for worse Obama pinned his legacy on healthcare reform, and being a symbol of improving racial just
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by ssalazar 6y ago
I appreciate the counterargument. I would never advocate looting, especially of small/family businesses. The part of Los Angeles where I live has been hit hard by looting this weekend, including many small businesses, and its painful
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Ugly but beside the point. Why arent the police protecting these businesses, if looting is such a concern, rather than instigating peaceful protestors? Besides, these businesses are all insured; Im certain that Apple and Luxottica, some o
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by ssalazar 6y ago
I wasn't there so I can't argue with your experience, but the fact that engineering is so heavily involved seems like the crux of the issue. These are fundamentally product and data management issues. Why would an engineer need
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by ssalazar 6y ago
And took more time and expertise to develop and only worked on one computing platform. The software industry has been a cycle of trading hardware performance improvements for developer productivity since the beginning.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Nope- Tubescreamer is non-linear so a simple transfer function won't do it.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> What that neural network learns is basically an approximation of a static impulse response. Im curious, do you have a reference or source for this? Distortion is non-linear making it impractical to model using an impulse response. Is
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Idk exactly what the poster meant but an impulse is broadband, theoretically encompassing all frequencies representable in the host sampling rate.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Whats completely anecdotal-- your counterargument here?
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by ssalazar 6y ago
C.f. Ghost in the Shell, Rainbows End, and certainly many others.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
I dont think anyone's arguing that the Fed is literally printing paper money, which is the myth debunked in that article.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
One goal of AI/ML for this kind of task is to discover a latent space of the source images, such that the “average” in that space is always a “valid” image (not splodge).
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Never heard this before but despite being grammatically sound, I guess the events that would lead to someone truthfully saying it are meant to defy reason.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Its not the right tradeoff for everything, but this took 10 minutes to code and runs on practically every modern computer in existence.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Chuck [1] is what clicked for me, as it is C/Java-like with the DSP basics built-in. Im biased here however as I eventually became one of its developers. Its easy to get started although unfortunately also easy to outgrow :) SonicPi&
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by ssalazar 7y ago
> almost all albums and Youtubes are now done "in your room." Hm, not exactly sure if you meant to qualify this somehow but this isnt broadly true in a literal sense. Sure, with 1-2 musicians or DAW-heavy productions you can p
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Wifi, Bluetooth, cellular, bespoke solutions, etc. are all "just radio waves" yet entail a vast spectrum of engineering and business requirements including cost, power usage, implementation complexity, reliability, interoperabilit
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by ssalazar 7y ago
I see, your gripe is having to be a part of the Apple developer program to develop for iOS. A 10+ years stale debate.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Porting the toolchain is arguably trivial, but making a pleasant developer experience on a computing platform that may or may not have a keyboard is another concern entirely.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Yeah. Honestly, this whole back-and-forth is exhaustingly trite and pedantic.

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