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Comment #49195515
yeah but processors phone home anyway at a level beneath the OS and there’s no european chip development worth mentioning. so i’m not sure real sovereignty is ever going to be poss…
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Comment #49194866
good lord i did read right through that. how someone could come to that conclusion is beyond me
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Comment #49183499
why would that “crowd” present themselves as bots by modifying their user agent string? the point is to poison someone’s agent with sponsored “knowledge” over time.
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Comment #49153913
i read it as a Hamburg thing. my experience is mostly with NRW and i don’t recognise anything of this article in it. hierarchical, conservative, suspicious.
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Comment #49153894
yeah Munich if anything is extremely hostile to integration. i know several people who moved there and got burnt out trying to integrate. with previous knowledge of the language.
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Comment #49145588
there is almost no sci-fi with at least some invention and speculation that bends known physics and/or engineering, either implicitly or explicitly. novels that seem very “hard” of…
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Comment #49145534
most drugs get people talking but there’s something especially cocky about the cocaine types. i’ve never done it but i can occasionally tell when someone’s used it regularly becaus…
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Comment #49145520
maybe my take on this is weird but spending more than 5-10 on entry is a sign it’s commercial and not really gonna be fun. the more informal the better. club goers from Londons leg…
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Comment #49143018
blows my mind that there’s not a single open solution for mobile wallets and nobody is saying anything.
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Comment #49142936
XMPP, then. it’s the continually inventing new protocols (insert XKCD comic) that i’m protesting against.
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Comment #49142925
i think this has more to do with the innate tendency of a capitalist media machine: getting people into an addictive hype cycle of merchandisable content is profitable, having them…
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Comment #49133067
as someone who wasn’t online in the IRC heydays i really wonder why we can’t just build on it, instead of inventing new protocols
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Comment #49132964
tried this and it’s not always an immediate eyes-light-up. it’s a bit frustrating really, the chasm between what people know and what they need to know.
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Comment #49107762
playback in Resolve would probably just use hardware decoding and barely hit your CPU or GPU. RAM usage would also not be much.
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Comment #49107461
i can’t imagine prefix or postfix being easier for most people to understand.
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Comment #49107449
seems so, but there are thousands of good tape sat emulations, both paid and free. and i think some chowdsp ones might be open source.
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Comment #49087773
to add, all of this doesn’t account for music outside of that which is a direct descendant of 15th and 16th century contrapuntal music, aka the sort defined by exactly the medieval…
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Comment #49087627
given that wordpress.com is just managed hosting i wonder if other providers can bring that cost down. installing it yourself is trivial though because of Softaculous, and web host…
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Comment #49066535
that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations.
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Comment #49065329
what aspect of school level “mathematical notation” is so bad as to be brain damage inducing?
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Comment #49063352
i don’t think any dynamic range manipulation is being done, beyond the slight variations as a consequence of the other processing. generally 0dBVU is mapped to -18dBFS with VU styl…
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Comment #49057944
i understand this very well. i’m trying to work through SICP but without a goal i’m struggling even though i enjoy LISP. on the other hand i’m playing Mindustry[1] in which you can…
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Comment #48927600
AI is merely exposing an already existing tendency. the creative output of the average non professional will always tend to the mean. it’s a tautology, that’s what the mean is. pro…
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Comment #48923995
yeah that’s pretty much what i thought as well, this rhymes with the post earlier today about DSLs working well as harnesses. i get the logic but i find it depresssing that even la…
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Comment #48744596
i just wonder how good it sounds. open audiophile grade hardware is something of a gap.