BigTTYGothGF

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by BigTTYGothGF 5d ago
> I read many years ago that psychedelics are what lead to the formation of consciousness I have never taken psychedelics but I believe myself to be conscious.
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by BigTTYGothGF 6d ago
Also quarter step bends in guitar and vibrato in general.
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by BigTTYGothGF 6d ago
That's clearly not what was meant, even without the context of this following bit: > To describe tones that exist in music, we can describe tones that exist on a piano. There are only two rules: > the first key must play a tone o
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by BigTTYGothGF 6d ago
> It's all about the integers modulo 12. Only in 12TET.
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by BigTTYGothGF 6d ago
Because of circumstances I was involved in running several birthday parties for children these past few years. All of them had pinatas. In my experience: > Adults hate them This is absolutely not the case.
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by BigTTYGothGF 7d ago
> On my own it often takes me 5-10 minutes just to figure out how to phrase something simple clearly You need more practice doing it (with your brain, not the model).
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by BigTTYGothGF 8d ago
Meanwhile someone went and did the experiment on the equivalent problem in a virus: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mutate-em-all-and-...
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by BigTTYGothGF 10d ago
Most of those are variable names. The rest: > Why a melody wants to land where it lands is still mostly opaque to me > A key, its diatonic chords, a progression, those chords broken into an arpeggio one note at a time, and a melody
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by BigTTYGothGF 10d ago
Vampires aren't any more fantastical than FTL travel, and yet we're perfectly happy to have that in SF.
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by BigTTYGothGF 10d ago
> Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. .... 100% That's certainly a revealing example. TTLS is entirely melody, and the article says basically nothing about melody. At a stretch you could say "the article talks about the major scale,
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by BigTTYGothGF 10d ago
"Seem" is doing a lot of work there.
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by BigTTYGothGF 12d ago
> But what about At the very least your dog stands a good chance of being put down.
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by BigTTYGothGF 12d ago
Wiki suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjū
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by BigTTYGothGF 12d ago
Ah, the good old "outside agitators" canard. > These new AI data centers are now built with their own power generation capacity And now you've got all the noise and pollution from that to deal with.
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by BigTTYGothGF 13d ago
Well, was he? I mean, I never heard of him, but all I know about the Chinese internet from those years I got from reading China Smack.
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by BigTTYGothGF 13d ago
It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of software in places other than the west. Could you expand on the particulars of software in China and why those claims are wrong?
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by BigTTYGothGF 14d ago
> good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure Oh yeah that'll stop them.
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by BigTTYGothGF 14d ago
400 years ago you'd be saying the same thing about heliocentrism.
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by BigTTYGothGF 14d ago
I'm having trouble understanding the situation here. Could you expand?
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by BigTTYGothGF 16d ago
> My point is more that as a middle aged dude that grew up reading, the current publishing industry feels awfully hostile to me. I too am a middle aged dude who grew up reading and I think there's a simple explanation for that feeli
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by BigTTYGothGF 16d ago
Give this a try: https://www.blackgate.com > I'm greeted by the likes of "Morning Glory Milking Farm" The genre survived John Norman and Jack Chalker, it can handle a little sex stuff aimed at women. I haven&#
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by BigTTYGothGF 16d ago
As far as solutions go it seems strictly inferior to the classic "a dog".
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by BigTTYGothGF 20d ago
> let the market solve That's how we got here in the first place.
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by BigTTYGothGF 20d ago
That's just a rant trying to disguise itself as objective.
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by BigTTYGothGF 20d ago
> best selling The question was about "good" tho.
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by BigTTYGothGF 21d ago
> I think we need to have a little more sympathy for GitHub We certainly do not.
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by BigTTYGothGF 21d ago
Wiki cites https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2026/04/08/864876... which reads: "loss of the warehouse could impact 3% of sales [for Kimberley-Clark] in the West Coast region", whi
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by BigTTYGothGF 23d ago
> those ships would require enormous chemical batteries In many cases they can't be all that far from land, could one set up a way to run wires? I also wonder about the possibility for some kind of permanent installation in select p
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by BigTTYGothGF 23d ago
You're vastly over-estimating the difficulty of making a web page and even more vastly under-estimating the difficulty of LLMs.
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by BigTTYGothGF 24d ago
> Better invest in learning a language with multiple implementations like C++ As someone who has spent a little too much of their life having to deal with one cross-implementation C++ incompatibility or another, all I have to say is &quo

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