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Let this sink in: I wanted to open source a package at work at needed approval from legal and other teams to make sure I wasn't leaking anything proprietary. The same executives th…

> who could “do music”... were born, I felt, gifted in a way that I was not Maybe it's true for some people but I generally think it isn't. The secret to being able to play an inst…

It's funny to think how much effort was put into preventing bootlegging, when now everything is being recorded all the time. The few bands that didn't care or even encouraged it re…

Aren't the stakes a little different with an iPhone that you have for picture taking and entertainment vs the systems that manage your trajectory and life support? The fact that a …

> Most people won't be able to keep at it I always tell people the secret to learning guitar fast is to practice for a minimum of 5 minutes a every day for 20 years. It's simultane…

In some genres there are an infinite number. Most of the music regular people listen to is diatonic though and uses either power chords or triads, and then there are not that many …

Or a MagicJack

If you don't have probable cause and you don't have a warrant, it's not an arrest and you aren't law enforcement. You're subbing in some words yourself.

I agree that the software industry should expect a major upheaval. Developers won’t be replaced by LLMs, but it’s extremely likely that software as a product will become less valua…

> I NEVER said that the guitar is the best acoustic instrument. Me neither? This thread was about expressiveness. I asked the OP why they think guitar is more expressive than anyth…

So the difference in expression is in the oscillator type? Are we using the same definition of "expressive"? I play synth, guitar and trumpet, and the trumpet is by far the most ex…

> have a fundamental problem with human expression. How up to date is this opinion of yours? Expression on guitar is pretty intuitive, but modern electronic instrument manufacturer…

But you have to plug cables into both sides... Also you set your pedals up before you actually start playing.

What about the boring parts of fun hobby projects?

You can. The same devices that run Spotify will happily play your mp3 collection.

They are literally called "Large Language Model". Everybody prefers the term AI because it's easier to pretend they actually know things, but that's not what they are designed to d…

Many libraries offer 3d printing for the cost of filament.

Do share. I have similar aspirations

Hosting a website might be easier now. Services like netlify make it pretty simple

That’s one example. For me, I think I mostly used it to have conversations that would extend past the number of quarters I was carrying.

Have you actually played these games? I put in some hours on Hitchhikers Guide, and It was anything but natural. Maybe once you get far enough in the game and learn the language th…

Well, you could always focus on the ridiculous environmental impact of llms. I read once that asking ChatGPT used 250x as much energy as just googling. But now google incorporated …

Why would it be mold if the OP was culturing bakers yeast?

The best time to start terraforming a planet is 500 years ago. The second best time is now.

Lots of saws have safety features to keep fingers from being removed. It happens all the time.