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by fat-chunk 12d ago
When I first learned to program at university we were taught Haskell. That was 15 years ago and I've not really programmed anything in Haskell since, instead I've racked up years coding professionally in pretty much all the major
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
You're in for a surprise, https://audiotool.com is a fully-fledged DAW with advanced music synthesis running in the browser. It actually is where ToneMatrix originates from, and is still one of the useable synths in the DAW
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
https://audiotool.com
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
My wife only started learning drums a few years ago, and now she's regularly gigging with a band in a bunch of iconic venues around London. It's never too late to start! :)
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
I'm inclined to disagree. I believe the progress in music software has opened up new avenues and genres, it hasn't stifled existing ones. Instrument players are going to keep playing their instruments, just that now it's easi
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
If anyone is looking for a low-barrier-to-entry start to making music, I'd recommend they check out https://audiotool.com Completely free, but very deep and powerful browser-based cloud music production software, with a tig
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
I was at a conference called World Summit AI in 2018, where a vice president of Microsoft gave a talk on progress in AI. I asked a question after his talk about the responsibility of corporations in light of the rapidly increasing sophistic
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by fat-chunk 3y ago
Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about. Nintendo has a history of hosting competitive tournaments for games such as Pokemon (and even in a limited capacity Smash Bros). They even made a Pokemon game targeted at com
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by fat-chunk 4y ago
Have you ever come across https://audiotool.com ? It's a free, fully fledged DAW in the browser, they emulate the most iconic Roland devices like the 808, 909 and 303
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by fat-chunk 5y ago
I'm not very knowledgeable with how compilers or language standards work, but would there not be security implications with this approach? For example let's say a security exploit surfaces in the 2015 edition of Rust, would that n
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by fat-chunk 5y ago
Well geopolitics is simply not that simple. What if the Chinese government kept telling the USA that california should hold an independence referendum? Might sound like a stupid example, but Americans would be up in arms at such a propositi
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by fat-chunk 5y ago
It's really sad to see that even hacker news has now been plagued by sinophobic racism
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by fat-chunk 5y ago
We can all disapprove of what the current CCP is doing, but you cannot compare Hong Kong's situation to Taiwan, Tibet or Xinjiang, in fact you're muddling a bunch of completely different situations. Hong Kong has historically alwa
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by fat-chunk 6y ago
It makes me wonder how the world would cope today with a Bubonic Plague or Spanish Flu, those two I reckon would probably be more similar to your hypothetical Sci-Fi disease.
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by fat-chunk 6y ago
You can't think of a single reason why somebody might choose to leave the country they live in, aside from the most obvious one which would be because they could be earning more and be able to obtain a much higher quality of life? Here
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by fat-chunk 6y ago
Most of the "useful" tasks AI has helped us with are problems that are domain specific and lend themselves well to machine learning (for example object detection in images and machine translation as another poster mentioned). Howe
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by fat-chunk 6y ago
The NHS in the UK is suffering from huge administrative problems as well, due to ageing digital and organisational infrastructure which is becoming increasingly difficult to replace or modernise. The government tried to centralise and digit
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by fat-chunk 7y ago
I really do hope I am wrong about this one, but unless a very strong wave of international regulation on the big tech companies comes in, particularly with regards to the gathering, storage and processing of personal data, then I see us ent
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by fat-chunk 7y ago
I don't agree with the person you are replying to either, however I don't feel much emotion for VCs who throw their money around and don't do their proper due diligence. A property leasing company that sub-leases property own
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by fat-chunk 7y ago
The author of the article is a woman born in the 80s
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by fat-chunk 7y ago
While the aviation industry, and as you point out low capacity flights in particular, is a major perpetrator for high CO2 emissions, the food industry is the number one area where your average consumer can make a big impact. I agree with yo
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by fat-chunk 9y ago
I've been with monzo for close to a year now, and have been with their current account for the last couple of months, and in my opinion it solves pretty much every issue you have listed above. I couldn't go back.
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by fat-chunk 9y ago
Are you in the States? I have heard that Whatsapp is much more popular outside the US. I live in the UK and everyone I know uses Whatsapp as their main method of communication while Snapchat activity seems to have dropped very quickly, perh
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by fat-chunk 10y ago
I work in AI, specifically in the field of deep learning applied to computer vision. Not trying to discredit your comment, but can you provide some sources indicating that the type of models being trained which you have mentioned are approa
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Why are Brits so obsessed with buying their own homes?(theguardian.com)
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