bskrobisz

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by bskrobisz 3y ago
No pitches at all would render it extremely difficult for those without perfect pitch, but supplying a reference tone or scale (like Earmaster) and highlighting the appropriate key rather than providing each tone on demand would be a good c
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by bskrobisz 3y ago
There's plenty of knowledge to be gained apart from that, there are top players that explain some of their thinking that have content on Youtube/Twitch. There are other examples along the lines of what you're saying -- traffi
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
"Series of unfortunate events" is an understatement, but I would say it gets due recognition--it's an indie game over a decade old and still earns its slot at major fighting game tournaments and (after said events' hopef
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
>And of course there is pressng all 88 keys on the MIDI piano at the same time. I would like to know what that sounds like on a real piano though. The mute pedal on an upright/console piano works by situating the hammers closer to t
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
This one has nailed a strong 'hook' for puzzle games, I think--the game appearing at first more challenging than it becomes after the initial learning.
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
At the risk of being oblivious to humor: The point is the latency and loss of the message -- for a more red-team angle, suppose someone in the intervening space has captured the communicator and seized their phone? The story is an allegory
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
While I also agree with the sentiment, I do think it's a little bit like saying "90% of all programming is flow control and assignments"--it hinges on wide definitions that can be contextually helpful, harmful, or both. Resol
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
I'd be surprised if there existed a significant number of software development professionals who could answer a flat 'no' to this (although I'm certain there exist some amount who only do it when it is more direct a solu
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
I'm sure that those with a lot more hardware experience than me have the intuition to make guesses like this but I was surprised at: >You have to register to download the HDMI spec which is more effort than I have for this, but the
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by bskrobisz 4y ago
I think, if you're familiar with go, this is an uncharitable reading of the question. The victory condition in this game is very directly analogous to a not-uncommon source of (sometimes-game-deciding) violence in go--two nearby weak g
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
And leave a webcam on the door of every single person I'm professionally engaged with, to record their visitors? Use it to understand where each of those persons spends all of their time, to the best of my capability? Learn who has wha
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
What I mean is that some group of people earns dividends from the profit of the insurance company (stockholders or private owners), the insurance company earns profit by charging each little guy more than they are expected to cost. When I s
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
I think the idea of that service being all three of mandatory, not owned by its participants, and profit-driven is what causes it to feel inherently predatory -- that there exist companies which take on risk on behalf of entities who cannot
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
I dunno, for-profit insurance has always struck me as something predatory by nature. The only functional difference between the two sides is that the sellers of insurance have capital to absorb loss--sure, there's some overhead in orga
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
It seems weird to hear "a company here in Japan called LINE" -- LINE is big enough in Japan that it sounds kind of equivalent to "a company here in America called Discord".
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
I'm... confused as to what your interpretation of my comments here is. I'm explicitly stating that the issue isn't about people deciding they owe something to other people, or what the market decides the value of something is
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
This is not really the point that I'm arguing--my point would be that if you wanted your house entirely encrusted in precious jewels, each of which was individually polished by a team of people paid 50 USD an hour to do this weekly, no
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
I think the primary issue is not precisely 'wealth inequality' but rather a lack of accountability and responsibility from people with large amounts of wealth. If one has assets whose value is representative of the life's wor
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
> 3... e6: "A solid move, and I have never seen it before. It has been played by many strong players, including GMs, Zvjaginsev, and others. It seems quite good overall, but occasionally there are fun AI-isms like this :)
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
>when one would simply need a microscope to find them in devices This isn't a true statement, if strictly read--there are many techniques to hide undocumented components on boards, and covering all of them requires more than just a
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
Very cool! There's another site I used to frequent with a similar bent, focused on golfing: https://www.dwitter.net/
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
>Also, notably, the bot can still lose in the short term to terrible players, which was the thrust of my post. In fact, given its bluffing frequency, it might actually do worse against weaker players than it did against pros. To be clear
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
Though I know very little Russian, I know enough to say that "how" and "pochemu" do not map 1:1 -- If I asked, in English, "how is this cardboard box flat?", the natural response would be "it's design
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
As a prime example of this, I'd point to the horrifying source for VVVVVV, a darling indie game of its time: https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv (my favorite piece: https://github.com/TerryCava
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by bskrobisz 5y ago
You've painted the above comment as a negative spin, but I'm not really understanding, in your post, where it isn't just a less extreme version of this same spin. You're suggesting a human should spend otherwise free tim
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by bskrobisz 6y ago
I wouldn't call it the worst way to draw -- these studies are excellent at training the eye to understand things as they truly look (rather than the shorthand symbols we are accustomed to), but would agree that one will find their abil
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by bskrobisz 6y ago
I think these are reasonable. I should highlight, though, that 1, 3 and 4 are true for sign languages as well -- 3 and 4 doubly so (given how large a component individual expressions and gestures play in communication without sound).
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by bskrobisz 6y ago
It's faster to read text than to listen to someone speak, yet speech remains popular. There are aspects of communication which are not easily replicated in text -- sign languages do not lack the semantic information that is provided in