LeoWattenberg

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by LeoWattenberg 3mo ago
You may enjoy the new global tectonic map with 11000 features and 1180 "tectonic plates". https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12662 , also available on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d&#
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by LeoWattenberg 6mo ago
It's not an LLM, it is a purpose built model. https://arxiv.org/html/2411.19506v1 5 years ago we would've called it a Machine Learning algorithm. 5 years before that, a Big Data algorithm.
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by LeoWattenberg 8mo ago
Dailymotion, Google Video, sevenload, german TV stations RTL and Pro7 even launched Clipfish and MyVideo respectively to compete with youtube. Youtube happens to be the only one that survived on Googles ad model, the others very quickly rea
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by LeoWattenberg 8mo ago
Whatever the reason may be, the fact that pilots regularly engage in rather complicated and obstruse workarounds shows that cockpit design shouldn't be taken as the holy grail of UX. Incidentally, I also wonder if the many checklists p
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by LeoWattenberg 8mo ago
While aviation is the origin of UX design, I'm uncertain whether modern cockpit design is born out of UX or out of a resistance to change. For example, for fuel-efficient takeoffs, you need to go in and override the ambient temperature
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by LeoWattenberg 9mo ago
Most licenses, EULAs, contracts and so on don't have much precedent in court. There's no reason to believe that GPL would fold once subjected to sufficiently crafty lawyers.
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by LeoWattenberg 9mo ago
Copy pasting code is allowed under LGPL, but doing so while removing license headers and attribution of code snippets would not be.
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by LeoWattenberg 9mo ago
I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. But it was entirely possible to make it legally painful for people involved in it, as seen in eg. The Pirate Bay, megaupload or an entire cease-and-desist letter industry
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by LeoWattenberg 9mo ago
> They just surveyed some college students and drew conclusions by running statistical analyses on the data until they got something that seemed significant. Is this just cynicism or based on anything? From reading the methods section it
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by LeoWattenberg 9mo ago
I bet the folks of the state Schleswig-Holstein are celebrating right now, having switched away from it recently https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Hol...
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by LeoWattenberg 10mo ago
They also want 150 Gripen E: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraines-...
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
please provide any sort of source that Audacity is, or ever has been, distributing malware.
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
There is no server in Moscow, and I don't think there ever was. Muse Group left their original office in Kaliningrad for Cyprus pretty much the second the war started, and at this point has no offices or employees left in Russia. The s
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
A waveeditor inside a DAW is very helpful anyway; it's the place where you can chop up source files to become loops, and where you can throw in stretch markers to conform fluctuating tempo in the source to your beat. And once you have
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
You are aware that VLC, LibreOffice and many other FOSS apps have an update checker?
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
After its inception, Tenacity unfortunately tackled an irrelevant, yet opinionated part of development first: The build system, together with any internal variables saying "audacity" getting replaced with "tenacity". As
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by LeoWattenberg 11mo ago
I've seen XLR used for DMX lighting. The advice for stage techs seems to be "don't do that". Same thing applies to this standard probably.
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by LeoWattenberg 1y ago
It clusters symptoms "without underlying cause" because we don't know the underlying cause. If we wanted to go for a fully "physical mechanism" approach to mental health, we could just end any treatment attempts and
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by LeoWattenberg 1y ago
It feels broadly desirable to have a court decide what is and isn't a scam and perhaps hand out punishment instead of having a private entity act as the judge and executioner.
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Intel OpenVINO plugins for Audacity are now supported on macOS(audacityteam.org)
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by LeoWattenberg 2y ago
I sure have. Mozillas main and perhaps only real mistake was that they didn't meaningfully attempt to become independent from Google the second Google started building Chrome (with Mozillas help, no less!). A truly independent Mozilla
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by LeoWattenberg 2y ago
The beer brewers in my home town used to have a self-driving horse and cart which knew the daily delivery route going by all pubs and didn't really need a human to steer it or indeed be conscious during the trip. Expectedly, the delive
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by LeoWattenberg 3y ago
The tragedy of the commons requires a resource that is being depleted, which definitely isn't something that merely using FOSS would do.
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by LeoWattenberg 3y ago
If you go to Filter > Video, it gives you a more traditional search. Additionally, YouTube can be thought of as the second most used search engine. Which in return means that the built-in search is now up against Google, Bing and whateve