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by teiferer 1mo ago
Most music cultures work well without once thinking about frequency. The closest you get might be pitch. Starting from frequency is a very physics-oriented approach and will give you a hard time understanding why your favorite piece of musi
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Props for mentioning “The Jazz Theory Book”! It's an excellent book. The only thing I'd add to your recommendations is: Listen! When you hear a song, some melody, a rhythm, listen carefully, try to deconstruct the components, how
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by teiferer 1mo ago
>Sound is just air pressure wobbling. Sorry man, if you approach things from that angle then no wonder music is a mystery to you. The issue with "deriving from first principles" is that it very much depends on what you consider
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by teiferer 1mo ago
What attracted me to computers as a kid in the 90s was the promise of an always-on, never moody, deterministic machine. That was magic and finally a fixed reliable point in life, forever. Plus, with the internet, suddenly the world came clo
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> website itself is open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and outside of that it’s closed. So you want people to read your blog at work because when they are off it's closed?
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Then you are not in a country where it is blocked. (Or you VPN into one.)
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> Residential ip's map to a specific person, Since when does every household member have their own residential IP? Even in single households that's not true (friends visiting, on-and-off partner, one night stands, helping the n
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Fund research into this, big time. For starters. And not just some figleaf anthropomorphizing hippie folks.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> I've really come to realize recently Recently? W.r.t. climate this collective denial has been going on for literally decades. With the same patterns. Rationalizing excuses etc. Still going on btw.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> What happens when Then the people with responsibility, like CEO and CTO, or those they pawn-sacrifice for this, will go to prison for a long time. Unless the instructions include ensuring that this won't happen, by all means neces
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Though what has a program that is really really good at edge detection have to do with AGI? The community just spent decades to perfect edge detection. That's great! But let your edge detector try to fry an egg and then tell me again
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I got a man in India 1000 years ago who died at 92. Impressive yet rather unlikely.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> This was always inevitable with the progression of globalisation. To a certain extent that's probably true, but there are limits to this. Local cultures, dialects etc. persevere despite open floodgates of communication. As an exam
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by teiferer 1mo ago
(Also, why was that question downvoted?)
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by teiferer 1mo ago
The connection is that www.bfs.admin.ch itself will tell you that there are multiple sources for unemployment statistics in Switzerland, ILO-based being one of them. Picking only the one that supports your argument after being pointed out t
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Selfishly speaking is the word you were looking for.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> I hate data collection in paid products. You can opt out in this one.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
"Full stop"? So you don't want to hear other arguments? The ILO-based statistics differ from what you cited and explicitly "encompasses all persons not employed and who are actively looking for and available for work, re
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Oh interesting. What are the interpretations and why?
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I surely didn't. But knowing to not know is an inherent and central lesson from higher education, one would think.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
And it's economics 101. The price is the symptom. The root cause is a shortage. Fix the shortage and the symptom follows. Try to fix the symptom and the root cause will make things worse.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> losses due to inflation nor losses due to risk, both of which are substantial for capital income but non-existent for wage income. Neither is true. The only asset class directly hit by inflation is cash. No high net worth person in the
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> In the US, about 2/3 of wealth is completely non-liquid so any theoretical valuation is fiction and highly leveraged. That may be the case but it doesn't prevent anybody from borrowing against it, which turns that fiction and
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Then maybe it's time you look up how unemployment statistics are calculated in Switzerland and you will be surprised that you counted into them. It's unclear to me how folks with a university education can make such simplistic sta
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by teiferer 1mo ago
I didn't say it's not damaging. But that's a side effect, not the goal.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
In fact, I'm aware what it means and don't see how that and what I wrote are contradictory. Though not everybody around here may know, so how about you educate folks instead of being condescending? Getting your tag up somewhere ca
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Does anybody have experience putting out such a phone somewhat permanently in a public space?
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by teiferer 1mo ago
So cool! Thanks for this! One detail about the status page: the rows read upside down. "Online Phone connection". Once you realize what it means your brain can flip it, but the more natural order would be "Phone connection On
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> Graffiti, fundamentally, is a defacement of public property Both wrong. Neither is defacement the point nor doing it to public property. Fundamentally it's a visual art form and whether that's on private or public property is

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