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I've been having a lot of fun getting started with Max/MSP following Cipriani & Giri's "Electronic Music And Sound Design" books. Max is a paid program though; Pure Data is similar…

Call me old fashioned, but I would absolutely like to see autocorrect turned off in many contexts. I much prefer to read messages with 30% more transparent errors rather than any i…

What does productivity have to do with wages, hours, or conditions? The labour movement, which got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, has had its power greatly diminished. That…

I disagree with that. Sure, wrong documentation can mislead and confuse, but it can also be very helpful. Lying comments have often helped me because it's often useful to know that…

It's definitely annoying that users can't opt-in only to the types of notifications they want on installation, but Uber and Uber Eats are not guilty of what Starbucks is doing in t…

I suspect some apps go too far in the other direction on purpose, having a large list of promotional notification types amidst useful ones so that people miss opting out of some or…

Hanlon's Razor is, I believe, a good rule of thumb, but people keep using it in situations such as this one where it's not just potentially malice (wanting to harm someone for litt…

I actually quite like the standard d4. Lands with an air of finality without faffing about. Also, I'm clumsy with dice and roll them off the table far too often.

Not the person you're replying to but I had the same experience. My company was careful to announce the extra holidays as a special pandemic related wellness thing (subtext: not pe…

I was not starting such a discussion. I'm baffled by your comment and can only assume you're reading my comment through an American lens, which is half foreign to me (only half bec…

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No, it doesn't. I can't tell from their comment whether their city/town has good cycling infrastructure or not. Even if it does, the app would still incentivize using it (and roads…

Want workers to have more personal time? Encourage people to "be political" at work.

Squarespace's "ESC to go to Squarespace login" is a huge pain for me as well. I think it's on by default. I CTRL+F pretty often. I press ESC to clear it. I get redirected to Square…

Yes.

"PFS" sounds a lot like the MERGE operation of minimalist (natural language) syntax, which Chomsky has similarly linked to behavioural modernity. https://www.brainpickings.org/2012…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/vermilion-alberta-sa... The CBC article differs in two important aspects. The BBC article says they "enlisted the help of experts", when the…

>If it were easy to report abuses to Airbnb directly They have made plenty clear that they don't really care about how people near the rental unit are affected. They will never mak…

The jury's still out on the Critical Period Hypothesis the last I checked. But in any case, you're right that there is a big difference between acquiring natural languages and lear…

People confusing this terminology is one of my pet peeves. And it's not a petty one. It often impedes the conversation they're trying to have.

I feel like your comment would be more accurate a few years back. Browsing /r/all is a lot more tolerable since it's gotten a lot less Gamergate-y. Mocking Gamergate is a lot more …