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by wheels 7y ago
For-profit companies are under no obligation to seek profit before all other goals. In the broad sense, they can seek to optimize for any value their shareholders collectively agree to, and in a narrow sense, their leaders are still bound
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by wheels 7y ago
The pro-audio software market is significantly tilted towards Windows. The split is approximately 75/25. Also, the majority of the "pro"-audio market is not working professionals. In fact, they're a vanishingly small
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by wheels 7y ago
At least a year and a half ago, Android notifications weren't at all reliable, even when on wi-fi. You'd have to start the app most of the time to get them. I can't remember if it was Rocket.Chat or Mattermost that also was
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by wheels 7y ago
Open Source chat tools are sadly almost universally disappointing. I believe I tried just about every one of them before giving up and just using Slack. I detailed the reasons here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176
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by wheels 7y ago
> A lot of physicists also don't see any value in MW's interpretation since it offers no predictive value David Deutsch (in many ways, the father of quantum computing) initially imagined quantum computing as a way to test MWI
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by wheels 7y ago
Different levels of physical affection often make it clear. Put another way: you can't always rule out wife. You can often rule out daughter. But we also don't particularly care about being accurate all the time.
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by wheels 7y ago
Really? My wife and I see it often enough that we've even labeled it: "the wife or daughter game". You observe such a constellation and try to figure out which one it is. Less often the answer is "escort".
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by wheels 7y ago
You could, at one point. C++98 and C++03 were minor updates, meaning C++ had 22 years where learning it wasn't a fast moving target (between C++89 and C++11). I would happily call myself an expert in that dialect of C++, but getting
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by wheels 7y ago
That's basically the way things already are. Current backends are things like GNU Make, Ninja, Xcode and Visual Studio. CMake is the frontend.
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by wheels 7y ago
> Whenever I hear people say this, I'm really sceptical. Does this mean never buying any products with animal ingredients? Nothing that has butter or milk, no ice cream, never a turkey sandwich or anything with egg or gelatine in i
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by wheels 7y ago
That's patently false on two charges: - Vegan dishes enjoy nowhere near the popularity of low-fat foods in the anti-fat wave of the 80s and 90s. Not even close. It's still a minority of restaurants that offer any vegan options
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by wheels 8y ago
A very different Berlin metro map, based on concentric circles, drawn by a good friend of mine (and old housemate): https://glyphobet.net/rundumberlin/ It makes much less of an attempt to correlate with actual geograph
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by wheels 8y ago
I did the same with my 2011 Macbook Pro in 2017, also to similar effect. As another poster points out, the more frequent maintenance task that makes a big difference is removing the fan and pulling the dust out. https://scotchi.
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by wheels 8y ago
It's totally reasonable to eat meat and still have qualms about its labeling. This is about processed meat being sold as ground beef. I eat both processed meat and ground beef, but they're not the same thing and don't have
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by wheels 8y ago
This article is 14 years old, and dates back to a time when the debates about the "semantic web" had a lot more wind in their sails. (I made similar arguments around that time...)
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by wheels 8y ago
Roaming charges inside of the EU were eliminated in 2017, so a single prepaid SIM (readily available for a few dollars) would do him well inside of the EU. Make sure that he has a phone that's not vendor locked. That doesn't inc
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by wheels 8y ago
C++ is largely backwards compatible to C, but idiomatic code is very different in modern practice between the two. A somewhat dated blog post I wrote on the topic a decade ago: https://blog.directededge.com/2009/05&#x2
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by wheels 8y ago
This doesn't work for things that are dynamically loaded into other applications (as VSTs are). In general, you need to be using the same version of the libraries as the rest of the application.
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by wheels 8y ago
A little of an aside: I've often wondered if motion sickness is less prevalent in populations that got to their current locations largely by long ship rides (i.e. most Americans). These days sea sickness is a mild inconvenience, but
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by wheels 8y ago
You could call Einstein one of those labels and it wouldn't be much odder than calling him German. He was actually born in The Kingdom of Würtemburg, at the beginning of the "German Empire" (a federation of kingdoms whose bo
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by wheels 8y ago
You're off by more than an order of magnitude. $50 million is 3,382 lbs (1534 kg, 1.6 US tons) of gold at current prices.
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by wheels 8y ago
Really? Who are these people that consider physics to be complete? I'm kind of skeptical that there's a large body of folks that know enough about physics to even ponder its completeness, but who also are unaware of the discrepa
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by wheels 8y ago
That's a very young-civilization perspective. 100 years seems like a long time to us because it's approximately 1% of the age of our civilization. But it's possible that civilizations that are hundreds of millions of years
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by wheels 8y ago
You can start way before 12 with cooking. My son made scrambled eggs a day before his third birthday. (I just put the stuff out and told him what to do -- he put the butter in the pan, turned the stove on, cracked and scrambled the egg, a
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by wheels 8y ago
We really wanted to not use Slack. We really wanted something self-hosted. After weeks of wasting time trying a half-dozen alternatives, we bit the bullet and now use Slack too. I too thought, "Chat isn't that hard -- why wou
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by wheels 8y ago
The US particularly has high "sin" taxes on alcohol. I live in Germany, which has lower taxes on alcohol than the US and Scotland, so ironically, both bourbon and Scotch whisky are cheaper than in their home countries: These are
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by wheels 8y ago
Whisky became hip in the last 5-ish years and all of the stuff I used to recommend to people has gotten too expensive. I've expanded significantly towards other matured spirits where the prices haven't gotten as redonkulous yet:
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by wheels 8y ago
Glenmorangie isn't sherried unless you get the "La Santa" version, which I don't think is as good as the original, and then it's only finished for two years in sherry casks after the usual maturation in bourbon cask
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by wheels 8y ago
"Expat" has colonial overtones: if one was sent to the colonies they were an expat; if one moved from the colonies to the ruling country, they were an immigrant. That's become fuzzier with time, but labeling of "expats&
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by wheels 8y ago
As of the last few years, there are actually high quality apps for music production on the Linux desktop (BitWig, Tracktion), they're just not the apps that I've used for the last 15 years, and since I have a Mac, I'm not i

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