cousin_it

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by cousin_it 9d ago
I think looking cool matters a lot in live music, maybe even more than the actual music. Blowing into a harmonica while carrying a backpack full of cutlery looks really dorky. But two people with drums+whistling and guitar+vocals can be mad
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by cousin_it 9d ago
The first time I saw it, I thought about playing a drumkit and whistling a bassline at the same time, with someone else on guitar and vocals, making a full rock sound with two people. But then I was too lazy to try it.
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by cousin_it 15d ago
I think it's more than "you need to know them". You need to be a friend to them and do things for them in turn. Play a part in the mutual help network. If many people free ride on it, it dies.
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by cousin_it 21d ago
I don't really like the concept of "guests" being applied to people living somewhere for years, working, paying taxes, making families and friends, sending children to school and so on. I think it would be more humane if this
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by cousin_it 24d ago
My favorite read about cults is this short interview with Richard DeMille about Ron Hubbard: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/... The interviewee comes across as extremely
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by cousin_it 25d ago
Yeah. I've seen the same puzzling thing in game development. People don't seem to want to make good games! They want a hat that says "I made a game". That done, they want a hat that says "my game is successful"
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by cousin_it 1mo ago
When I was learning DSP, I was surprised by the fact that generating pink (1/f) noise, sample by sample, is not mathematically easy at all. One practical approach is passing white noise (every sample independent random) through a &quot
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by cousin_it 1mo ago
The article makes an interesting point. Like, sure, AI slop is nasty; but also maybe the job itself was bullshit all along (making powerpoints, or coding yet another todo app and so on), and you were only making peace with it by adding a hu
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by cousin_it 1mo ago
A bit off topic, but I'm guessing Aristotle himself would say that chasing "status in the workforce" (as opposed to leisure, riches, wisdom, power etc) is itself a good example of slavish disposition. Status in the bosses&#x2
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by cousin_it 2mo ago
No mention of GANs? As far as I remember, their images felt much more like "sampled from training data" than "averaged from training data". The idea was that you train a "discriminator" that tells generated ima
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by cousin_it 2mo ago
Is HN showing post and comment times as recent when they really aren't? I see an exchange between Rochus and jefftk "1 hour ago", ending with a "thanks, posted" and that blogpost is from July 25. Today is July 29.
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by cousin_it 2mo ago
Oh, who gives a damn. Half the games in my Steam library don't work since Apple killed 32bit. When they fix it, I'll know they care about Mac gaming.
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by cousin_it 2mo ago
Nice! I think you can approximate timing somewhat, by making your web server create the "jpeg" on the fly and send it to the client in timed chunks. The source could even be a webcam, so the "jpeg" would go on forever.
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
Could great works substitute for having a scene? After all, writers have been inspired by Dostoevsky without being part of the same scene as him, and often without being part of a scene at all.
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
If people can move freely, and there's no price mechanism to allocate housing and construction, there will be problems. So "taking the market out of real estate" is a very big ask. In the USSR you couldn't freely move to
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
Good point, didn't think of it. And yeah, I don't know in general which goods should be more vs less free-market.
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
Your heart is in the right place, but I want to push back a bit. Zoning is a red herring, sure, but landlords and airbnb are a red herring too. The truth is worse. The natural bloc for restricting housing construction and increasing home va
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
You're simplifying to the point of nonsense. Freedom you say? How about the freedom to have a say in government of the place you're living in? That seems a pretty fundamental freedom. When the rich folks of a town vote for plannin
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
Yeah. There's an even simpler way to formulate it: different types of goods require different mixes of market vs planning. For example, video games can be an almost completely free market. Food too (as long as it's checked for pub
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
Well, the planning restrictions don't just come from nowhere. People pay for them (with their lobbying time, lost rent and so on) because they want them. There's a market for "no poors in the neighborhood", an unpleasant
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
I think you and the parent comment are both wrong. The right analogy is something like a new species, which consumes resources and makes more of itself. The species is "AI", or "AI-empowered organization with a handful of hum
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by cousin_it 3mo ago
> At every commit, you need handle the possibility of a serialization exception and retry the transaction. Yeah, but it seems so strange to me. Imagine if a database simply executed all transactions serially. Then there would be no ser
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
Huh? I know nothing about cars, but to me there's an obvious difference. If I saw the top car in the street, I'd say "wow that's nice"; while the bottom one just looks like a regular car. The top one looks like it w
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
I'm not sure. It might be a real person, just writing in an LLM-like hackneyed voice. Anyway here's three specific paragraphs from the post, each exhibiting that voice and the "rule of three": > Throughout all of the
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
I think this post is either LLM-written, or written in a standard blogpost style of today which is increasingly becoming LLM-like. Sam Kriss had a good recent post pointing out some of the "tells": https://samkriss.subs
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
Reminds me of the font in Master of Orion: https://www.mobygames.com/game/212/master-of-orion/screensho...
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
Portfolio websites of designers, where nobody's the higher authority but themselves, are full of scrolljacking and other fuckery.
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
Whoa there. What's wrong with "undercutting labor markets"? Last I heard, when a profession (e.g. doctors) decides to limit the number of practicioners in order to charge a higher price to the public, that's a bad thing.
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
> When people criticize my AI films, I ask them what they've made. They're saying that your contribution is negative. Even if their contribution is zero, zero is still better than negative.
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by cousin_it 4mo ago
When I was learning to draw, I used this free site which has lots of poses and detailed anatomy: https://www.posemaniacs.com/poses

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