chestervonwinch

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by chestervonwinch 2mo ago
what about for blob storage too?
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by chestervonwinch 1y ago
> Especially if you go beyond Type-I cassettes Yea, I use Type II cassettes to record on my Tascam 246. I did an experiment where I recorded a track I made digitally to tape and then back into the DAW. I A/B'd them and struggle
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by chestervonwinch 1y ago
There is a conceptual difference between a blob of text drafted by a person and a dynamically generated blob of text initiated by a human, generated through multiple LLM calls that pull in information from targeted resources. Perhaps "
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by chestervonwinch 2y ago
I wonder if you can use an existing svg as a starting point. I would love to use the sketch approach and generate frame-by-frame animations to plot with my pen plotter.
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by chestervonwinch 3y ago
This is somewhat validating to read as someone who started semi recently.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
Also, the teensy audio library is great! https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Audio.html
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
it's their unused treadmill in the living room they bought back in November
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
Get a degree in STEM, they said. Don't want to end up flipping burgers, they said.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
Additionally, I would say more historical emphasis within STEM itself would be beneficial. Motivate through context. Show students that the concepts arose from people solving problems.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
Similar camp. Two reasons I enjoy Python, both related to documentation: 1. docstrings 2. keyword arguments Docstrings mean I can do REPL experiments without the additional friction of opening a browser to RTFM. Keyword arguments reduce how
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> counterdiscombobulating what a discombobulating way to say "clarifying" :)
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
The feed used to be a simple chronological timeline. Then it evolved into whatever stochastic mess it is now in an attempt to maximize user engagement and ad views. So they've turned the notifications into essentially a mini version o
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
That's the first I've heard of the dead internet theory. Seems plausible. I deleted my social media around 2016. About a year ago, I created a new instagram account. My account is not private, and I'd reckon that over 50% of
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> - More gentleman layoffs at Google more in addition to what?
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> Several alternative hypotheses were considered-that spices provide macronutrients, disguise the taste and smell of spoiled foods, or increase perspiration and thus evaporative cooling; it also is conceivable that spice use provides no
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> Assuming it's not supposed to change how you feel (directly) - what is the purpose of being conscious of how you feel? Because it can manifest in how you communicate and treat others. Recognizing your emotional state doesn't
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> there's some politics at work in who is remembered politics, or do people have natural a bias towards giving attribution to a lone genius?
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> Few people live in what can reasonably called a "community" any more, so the link between anonymous theft and the erosion of social culture doesn't make sense to everyone. What do you think about how this relates to comm
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
seems like the actual problem is the meager space provided in the first place, not the scraps of free room we're forced to battle over
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> Why that all happened, IDK. I'd reckon the parent's suspicion about the scientific community is correct in that it was a large influence. When ML and deep learning blew up, the academic Python community was in a great positio
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
The meat of the question is, "where do you go when don't know how to do a thing?". The answer could potentially be "the docs", but that's not necessarily sufficient like you point out. However, you could ask fo
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but robustness through complexity feels like an odd argument nonetheless.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> Eno instead put randomness/chaos at play by using tape loops of different length, so they will never (or very hardly) repeat at the same interval again, or, in his own words It's a least common multiple problem, right. The sa
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
> As someone in tech ... ... you do realize that goes for 99% of people posting here? In my biased experience in consulting for ~4 years, the distribution is more like 80/10/10 for AWS/GCP/Azure.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
parent is saying mathematics is the abstract base class. they're in the source, but you never see instances of them at runtime.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
The parent is using the term pejoratively. In this context, I would describe it as calling someone a poseur of liberal/progressive issues, i.e., someone who cares more about the appearance of supporting progressive issues than actually
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
Yea, that's where the difference between contractor vs. consultant becomes a little blurry. No idea on books though, sorry.
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
idiocracy is becoming increasingly prophetic
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek because "digital transformation" has become an overused marketing term. But I think the core of it is valid -- a company has an inefficient process due to lack of technical expertise or whatever a
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by chestervonwinch 4y ago
start getting these gigs and boom, now you're a bonafide digital transformation consulting company

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