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by deusofnull 6y ago
VCV Rack is a titan in the FOSS eurorack modular world. nothing else comes close. I have a physical eurorack as well but i use Rack all the time to sketch out ideas and to explore new kinds of modules before i buy something physical.
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by deusofnull 6y ago
protip. small piece of scotch tape and a small piece of paper. when you need camera, just fold the paper open. when it gets worn out, new paper and scotch tape.
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by deusofnull 6y ago
tbh it seems like the distinction being made by the stuff about 'alt-lit twitter' and 'weird-facebook' from a few years back https://stayhipp.com/media/tiktok/what-is-alt-elite-tiktok/
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by deusofnull 7y ago
TipTop is a bad actor / goes against the ethos of many others in the eurorack space IMO. I have their mantis case, was my first eurorack case, and while it's good I do dislike that i use theirs. the modularity and interoperabilit
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Not tryna be flippant here but probably not. See comment history for other arguments ive made on this. I am incredibly skeptical that the engineering ethics / practices of any organization currently in existence adequately surpass the
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by deusofnull 7y ago
your anecdote seems to support the case for stronger more populated unions with better negotiation outcomes.
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Im curious about that too. If you were a skilled programmer who studied common bugs, you could introduce those bugs intentionally but with plausible deniability if caught. Then again, in a smaller system that would be easier to detect. B
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by deusofnull 7y ago
fascinating, thanks for this post.
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by deusofnull 7y ago
> I do think there will be a crash similar to 2008, but this is not evidence that it is coming. i agree but i lack a specific metric or analysis that supports my thinking. do you have one?
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by deusofnull 7y ago
if i'm getting my shit done at work, then im going to get my shit done at work.
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Lowering meat consumption writ large, even just more people only having one meat meal a day, would be huge too. Meat production is super resource intensive. Have to grow grain for them to eat, water that grain, transport it, provide water
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by deusofnull 7y ago
if i paid a 5 dollars per much subscription to tap would you offer me an "ad free" version where you use NFC or bluetooth or GPS to turn off the ad playing on the fountain? im half joking / half curious if this ever came up
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Does anyone happen to know if there's a name for the "theme" that this site seems to be emulating in its terminal-esque design? It looks sorta like Monokai but with a really nice dark teal background.
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by deusofnull 7y ago
you could probably figure out some cool insights about tech people's beliefs and opinions in aggregate with some clever NLP and sentiment analysis and some.... ahh, not asking for user's consent to use their data for that! classic
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by deusofnull 7y ago
"in Jersey[1] everythings legal as long as you dont get caught[2]" - bob dylan in 'tweeter and the monkey man' by the traveling willburys. [1] replace jersey with ukraine [2] replace caught with extradited
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by deusofnull 7y ago
funny, i build a basic little script that did this back in like 2015 so i could give my GF at the time a copy of all her instagram, which she was trying to do via scrolling + screenshots. I was thinking about expanding it but didnt. Thoug
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by deusofnull 7y ago
yeah i mean honestly you're probably right. But in reality, the whole point of advocating for something that skeptics call "utopian" isn't to achieve that specific utopia per se. IT is to make improvements towards tha
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Frankly i agree about gov intervention in such matters because how can you really, honestly take a company at its word that its self-appointed accountability board is actually independent? Or has power to make decisions that would hurt Fac
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Reminds me of yesterday's hn frontpager, the paper about a "programble programming language". they were talking about how domain specific languages within a single language become super distinct and ungrokable to people who
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by deusofnull 7y ago
from the article, > While Facebook will select the first 11 members of the board, the eleven will choose the remaining board members, with terms lasting three years. facebook picks the first 11 board members and then those 11 staff new a
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by deusofnull 7y ago
well it would solve problems for all the people who really do want to use a different / better social network or chat app but cant get their friends to switch too, killing the idea on arrival. that would change perception of social me
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by deusofnull 7y ago
i feel like the function of success would be pushed into other areas like the actual value of the feature being made available to competitors. or speed of competitors adoption of said feature. basically, sharing a foundational open standar
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Dunno, but all kinds of things could happen with novel co-dependent alleles with devistating effects when the express. Imagine theres a cool gene edit in 100 years that lets you live to 200 easy and it becomes normal for most people to get
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Look again lots of people here are saying that the research can continue but must be held to not only ethical but engineering standards of the highest order. If youre willing to compromise on those to achieve strategic goals between nation
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Ok Dr. Mengele
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by deusofnull 7y ago
>A good chunk of harmful mutations will prevent people from procreating, either by killing them first, or making it unlikely for them to find a mate. well, what about a recessive allele that doesnt cause problems in the first generation
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by deusofnull 7y ago
I agree it is resilient, but that resilience has been tested by a slow, small increment evolution over millions of years. And even given that, genetic disorders with novel expressions exist that confound modern science. if we start making
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by deusofnull 7y ago
it would be really really hard to figure that out at this point, most likely. again, like the article says, they cant investigate the embryo too fully without "destroying it". Same sorta goes for a kid. But if the unintended mu
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by deusofnull 7y ago
Back in my genetics class in Uni, unitended mutations from gene editing struck me as a concern almost immediately. and its scary to think about. these unknown mutations could be benign, harmful, or even helpful, but if they entered the pop
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by deusofnull 7y ago
I spent hours going through this list on wiki of chess variants. are there any on there that sound compelling to you or less nerve racking? there are even historical variants I've heard of, like one from the mongolian empire where the

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