wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
Has anyone here yet to see a single case where an employer reduced their dev. staff numbers (or held back from hiring) purely because they decided AI tools could do the job instead? I'm still very much in the camp that at least the cu
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> We should build a "car-free" city just to see how well it will go. Fairly sure we were doing exactly that for most of the last 9000 years or so. Anyway, it's hard to see how it will solve or prove anything - the vast maj
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's only not feasible because that's how the infrastructure and town planning in many urban areas has been done, and has somewhat succeeded because the degree to which you'll be dependent on a car to get everywhere isn&#x27
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"Safest", I'll grant. But "sensible " to me means actual trust between partners that such friendships are purely platonic - unless of course there's hard evidence that they aren't. It's admittedly rar
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not if it requires me to go out and buy a machine with an OS I'm unfamiliar with. Though I gather I don't really need to interact with it directly to build Xamarin/React-native type apps (not sure about Flutter etc.)
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The fact that you need a MacOS machine even to build Xamarin or React native apps always struck me as bizarre though - I assumed there was some proprietary component that Apple wouldn't publish the details for.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Just publish the specs for how to build/sign an iOS binary...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Will this include the ability to compile apps for iOS without requiring Apple made hardware/software (that specifically must run on MacOS)? Have never understood why developers haven't kicked up more of a fuss over that restrictio
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There are already a bunch of tools that do that sort of thing (even Strava has it these days), I'm not sure how much LLM-based tech would help.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Specifically "taller on average".
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by wizofaus 3y ago
FWIW in Australia we have reasonable exposure to baseball (and/or softball and even "rounders", both of which we got to play at school a few times), so much of the terminology and the basic rules are well enough known. I woul
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Fair enough, hadn't thought of it that way. Though of course cricket has a stumps (bowler's end) umpire too, who has to judge if the delivery is legal (i.e. it must not be "thrown" and the bowler's foot must be behi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
My only question is why AC/DC? Surely American bands have produced enough great sports worthy anthems that you needn't import music from the other side of the world (where "football" means something entirely different, a
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are you suggesting that in baseball pitchers actually aim to hit the "home plate umpire"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wonder if it mightn't be tried again at some point using a realistic "artificial human"/android.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I tried that with an iPad once - if there's a way to do so without looking faintly ridiculous I'm all ears. But I'm an Android person as far as phones go, lack of a standard system wise undo command isn't quite enough to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely it's going to need hardware innovations (e.g the ability to "roll out" a larger keyboard) for text editing on mobile devices to even come close to the desktop computing experience?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
No mention of "undo"? That's usually my biggest bug bear, no way to undo accidentally deleted/garbled edits. Oh and the fact that intended deletion of half a sentence via backspace often ends up deleting far more than in
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Practice. Trial & error. Playing along with the recording. I still do it regularly and it can often take a few goes to get all the chords just right, even with the relatively simple tonal/rhythmic language of most pop music.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You'd think, but I'd suggest the bulk of collaborative music making throughout human history was done without notated music. But it's undoubtedly a massive timesaver if all the musicians going into a collaborative session kno
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's just a vertical piano roll (in fact that's the typical orientation of physical piano rolls - DAWs typically rotate them 90 deg as we're accustomed to the concept of time being the horizontal axis).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Even experienced pianists would have trouble sight reading music that uses an excess of ledger lines - i.e. we can't accurately judge what note is intended just by estimating its vertical distance from the staff. But notes on the staff
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There's no standard Midi "notation" that's human-readable/writeable AFAIK - even written out in, e.g. hex, I would be flabbergasted if anyone could perform from a displayed Midi file. The YT video appears to show a
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And very imprecise. Virtually nobody gets it right when trying to describe a relationship with an nth cousin m times removed. And recently I tried to work out a fairly basic relationship between myself and my son's step-sisters - they&
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd imagine kids that happen to grow up in households with two granddads or two grandmas would find solutions - I remember we called the latter two "grey grandma" and "white grandma" on the basis of their hair colou
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Doesn't PS have "arc"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There will always be some percentage of the population that are essentially incapable of contributing further to the economy due to advanced age, and yes, it will grow, but I suspect you underestimate the vitality of many older Japanese.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
There's only so many countries that will have a surplus of young workers though, and arguably they're ones with cultures/ethnicities least likely to be readily integrated into Japanese society. And such workers are likely to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely the most likely outcome is that Japan becomes increasingly reliant on automation to ensure sufficient resources are available to support the non-working population? How well that works out is anyone's guess but there are plenty

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