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kingrolo

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About kingrolo

London based techie. Python, RL.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rolo; my proof: https://keybase.io/rolo/sigs/rnzoLhEWZFUKZ2kBVye5HtTq2BO90H5BPmUlkuCpdSU ]

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    These days in my experience most people don't use a sidechain signal, just chop out, or filter, enough of the first base note so that it doesn't clash with the kick. People still r…

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    This has reminded me of the awe felt by 12 year old me when someone showed me that you could use a hole punch to make a hole in the corner of a single sided 3.5" disk to double the…

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    It feels to me as though LLMs should (eventually?) really shine at these kinds of tasks where the intent is already defined in code of some sort and the challenge of the task is lo…

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    I was thinking that the current chatbot showdown reminds me of the time before Google won the search wars. There were sites like this that had several search engines side by side i…

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    You might like Scaler 2 https://www.scalerplugin.com/ It isn't really for learning theory but more for wielding it to write chords. I use it as a VST in Ableton but you can use it …

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    Its been very interesting to watch all of this play out. FTX going under feels somehow bigger than Gox, bigger than the DAO. Gox looked like it was held together by bits of string,…

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    I have a beast of a desktop PC but still find myself getting into console games far more than PC games. I think when I'm at my desk there's always this nagging feeling telling me I…

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    Ah this looks great. My Dad would buy and sell second hand BBCs and my whole family were well into all of the Repton 3 games. I remember loving discovering the level editor too and…

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    MUD2, the next incarnation of the MUD by Bartle and Trubshaw mentioned in the article is still running and free to play (I believe), http://mud2.com/ . I played it on and off from …

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    I use black by default across all our projects now and I'm all for it, but it does seem kind of ironic that whilst the main selling point of black is to take away these kind of cod…

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    Django Developer - REMOTE but bonus points if you can get to London sometimes. Wildfish - https://wildfish.com We're a London based consultancy who work exclusively with Django. We…

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    I really enjoyed this book for RL. https://www.packtpub.com/gb/big-data-and-business-intelligen... If you learn well from videos many rave about the free fast.ai courses which now …

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    * NO AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS PLEASE * Wildfish - https://wildfish.com We're a London based consultancy who work mainly with Django. We're looking for a full stack developer to join …

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    Wow, I'd never heard of that. Looks really interesting!

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    I'll just piggy back this comment to add that there's a whole world of milk alternatives too if you're worried about the ethics and don't like soy. I'm not keen on soy but use coco…

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    Google Container Engine supports cluster autoscaling to automatically add nodes with load. It's listed as a beta feature though. I've tried most of the Docker orchestration offerin…

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    docker-compose is really straightforward to get running, even moreso with docker-machine, and it gives you dev/prod parity, but the downside is that there's not a built in way to d…

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    Systop of Overdose BBS, sometime around 1993/94. I was 13 or 14 years old. From a look at a list of software on Wikipedia I think we were running Remote Access ( https://en.wikiped…

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    Django Tech Lead at Wildfish ( http://wildfish.com ) | London | UK applicants only. Mostly remote, but some London meetings. We're a London based consultancy specialising in buildi…

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    I've probably had some 50 nodes with Linode over the last 7ish years. Until about 2 years ago I would enthusiastically recommend them to anyone who would listen, but I've found the…

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    Django Developer - REMOTE within UK Wildfish - http://wildfish.com We're a London based consultancy looking for a Django developer to help us out on some ongoing projects, typicall…

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    You already can on a few places. OKCoin seems to be most popular, and up to 20X leverage on their futures, http://okcoin.com/

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    SEEKING FREELANCER - Django Developer - Remote okay (within 4 hours of London time preferable) Wildfish - http://wildfish.com We're a London based consulting collective looking for…

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