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by 839083 8y ago
I didn’t like “static” and “dynamic” but they were the best words I could come up with quickly. Mostly I mean that the performative arts involve a physical skill component that will be hard to develop without the sheer hours. Introspection
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by 839083 8y ago
The article is about the creators of “static” art: writers, composers, and artists. Having a day job would affect actors, musicians, or dancers, much like it would affect athletes. The artistic fields that require “dynamic” performance need
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by 839083 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that having to account for segfaults, keyboard interrupts, power outages, and other kinds of 'real world' exceptions that have to be caught means that the code might be deterministic but the computer is expose
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by 839083 9y ago
Education inflation is difficult to solve when assessing the value of “education/experience currency” means having to consider “exchange rates” between different fields (see CS vs ‘Computer Engineering’) and institutions (potential deg
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by 839083 9y ago
Little late, but my two cents as someone who majored in a humanities field (although working in tech now): Our lectures were almost always intended to be heard after doing the readings. They were comprised of helpful info professors knew fr
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by 839083 9y ago
If you treat photos as pleasurable pictures, then machine-generated photos will serve fine (e.g. stock photos). What if you replace "photos" with "music", "art", or "literature"? Sure, we will get to
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by 839083 9y ago
Not quite IF, but reading Ulysses and retracing the protagonist's steps around Dublin is surprisingly common. Interactive but deterministic...
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by 839083 9y ago
There was the whole Nest thermostat debacle recently, but no legal precedent as far as I know.
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by 839083 9y ago
Real world usage would have to be curated though, awkward sentence constructions or word choices do happen in real world usage. Or as the article shows, there can be multiple, very different ways of fixing awkwardness. I'm not sure wha
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by 839083 9y ago
Another user mentioned stealing IP, maybe the US is involved in similar activities (not necessarily targeting China) and doesn't want to be caught pointing fingers. But politically, we had the Contras and Cuban exiles. It's not as
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by 839083 9y ago
Will there ever be an online "cultural institution of free speech"? Usenet was pretty close but the ISPs and government were able to tighten the clamps over illegal activities. There are some subreddits that could probably be shut
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by 839083 9y ago
Wouldn't an FBI seizure involve a gag order?
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by 839083 9y ago
It seems like "security through obscurity" could only successfully combine with encryption if a critical mass of the population got onboard very quickly. But security-conscious users are just such a minority, even programmers have