agallant

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by agallant 2y ago
It's interesting you say "just" a tool - I think the median reader here sees tool as an inherent part of what "computer" means. I'm not trying to dismiss your perspective here, I think you have a real point abo
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by agallant 2y ago
More personal in terms of use case, sure. And it performs computations - but it's pretty clear most mobile devices are not really your computer, when push comes to shove. So, it's hard to call it a PC at the end of the day IMO.
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by agallant 2y ago
Human art most definitely can be reduced to tokens, since that's also essentially how we compress and transmit it. Now, whether a statistical token generator makes "real art" is subjective (as human art already is). And again
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by agallant 2y ago
Sure - but it could still be pretty relevant if we want to ask about the future of beverage making and consumption, especially if new technology enables everybody to mass-produce lemonade (and similar sugary beverages) at home at minimal co
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by agallant 2y ago
The takeaway (that obfuscation is bad and specificity is valuable) is clear and uncontroversial. But an issue is that nearly every suggestion entails lengthening your prose. There is a time and place for precision, and there is also one for
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by agallant 2y ago
If it truly worked as a series of incremental improvements, and considered total carbon footprint (transportation costs etc.), then sure. Those are two pretty big "ifs" - people can be inclined to satisfice and pat themselves on t
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by agallant 3y ago
As most of the messaging on this page implies the release will occur in 2023, I figured it was worth noting this excerpt towards the bottom: We will be exhibiting the Omnichord OM-108 and announcing the new official release date at the
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by agallant 3y ago
Whatever the default is in this Nikola theme - https://themes.getnikola.com/v8/hack/ I tweaked the theme just a bit, to add the faux scanlines, URL mouseover highlight, and background green glow (trying to mimic a
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by agallant 3y ago
https://gallant.dev Haven't had the chance to write for awhile, but been wanting to get back to it. In addition to normal static site stuff it has webmentions/pingbacks, comments, and (probably now broken) interoperabi
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by agallant 4y ago
I also make music, and have found the Fediverse to be a far more welcoming and varied place than commercial social media. Sure, I'm only getting maybe hundreds of impressions - but that's better than the dozens I got organically (
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by agallant 4y ago
https://gallant.dev/ A straightforward blog (static site generated by Nikola), but I had fun styling it to look kinda like an old CRT. I also loaded it up with IndieWeb goodness (webmentions, pingbacks), bridged the webment
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by agallant 5y ago
Laptops from the same series are still offered, and (for good or ill) still pretty similar to 2019 - https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif... I have a 2020 model, and would concur with
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by agallant 5y ago
It's perhaps worth steelmanning the argument here - though technically one can release an app for free, it is generally the case that any app with significant investment (warranting monetization) will take one of the two paths he descr
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by agallant 5y ago
I agree that it's similar to a hard fork (and has similar problems), but would argue that (due to the "interdisciplinary" nature of fintech) it's not incompetence or laziness but rather the blind spot/hubris of bein
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by agallant 5y ago
True, but it was also relatively harder for pictures to become famous, and there wasn't massive face recognition systems to use the data in unexpected ways. Also, a lot more people are taking pictures, and though I'm not art-gatek
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by agallant 5y ago
Monad, Inc. | Multiple Positions | Full-time | Remote | https://monad.security Monad makes security easier by simplifying security data, enabling teams to move quickly from data to insight to action. We've just announced a
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by agallant 5y ago
As another example "fake news" isn't new either, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism However, I'd suggest that the new challenge isn't simply scale and omnipresence but algorit
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by agallant 5y ago
Monad, Inc. | Multiple Positions | Full-time | Remote | https://monad.security Monad makes security easier by simplifying security data, enabling teams to move quickly from data to insight to action. We've just announced a
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by agallant 5y ago
From the registrars I've checked, many are passing on a slightly larger price increase (e.g. a nice round number like $1). Granted that's on them as well as Verisign, but as others have noted it's increasing the price of some
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by agallant 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of lifelong learning, and overall agree with this post. But, from a hiring perspective, it is missing a few important details: 1. Sometimes you have things that need to be achieved in a time-sensitive fashion, i.e. the t
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by agallant 5y ago
So, you're saying because past research has been correlated with causality fallacies, we should just assume it's the case when we see claims of this sort? ;) More seriously - I'm well aware of the difficulties of causality, a
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by agallant 5y ago
The sentence you're concerned with is the headline of the article, but isn't found in the original paper. Here's how they close their abstract: This result supports the notion that the prevalence of Airbnb listings erodes
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by agallant 5y ago
Again, not vouching for the study as a whole - and agreed that scientists can get a bit "creative" when trying to actually describe and motivate causal mechanisms (in their defense, a very hard problem). But I'm just talking
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by agallant 5y ago
We use difference-in-difference models (Eq (1)) to test whether a rise in the prevalence of Airbnb in a census tract in one year predicts increases in crime and disorder in the following year. ... The models control for tract-level
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by agallant 5y ago
I also found the balance of the book refreshing, and took the lack of "character development" as instead a sign of his intense focus on the problems at hand. It actually made it more plausible to me that he survived - sure, if he&
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by agallant 5y ago
It is well worth archiving. I recently helped typeset and publish (via Amazon) a diary written by one of my ancestors - https://amzn.to/3tmUI3l ($0.99 as that's the lowest price Amazon accepts, but you can read the pre
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by agallant 5y ago
I've also seen similar usage of glitch versus bug, and think it's a useful distinction. But I'd say that actually it can be consequential from an engineering perspective, and can even run counter to the outsider intuition - t
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by agallant 5y ago
As with much expensive software, the biggest difference isn't what it does but who uses it. You didn't mention it, but Pro Tools is the dominant (and truly pricey) DAW in professional studios, and so a big reason for using it is i
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by agallant 5y ago
You may be interested in https://devdocs.io (offline-friendly documentation tool). And if you prefer a straight up desktop app - https://zealdocs.org
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by agallant 5y ago
They recently updated it to allow you to use an iOS or Android device as an external display: https://www.roland.com/us/support/knowledge_base/36005866483... Clunkier than a device with a proper screen, but t

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