schwartzworld

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by schwartzworld 4mo ago
Let this sink in: I wanted to open source a package at work at needed approval from legal and other teams to make sure I wasn't leaking anything proprietary. The same executives that worried about proprietary, copyrighted code being le
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by schwartzworld 5mo ago
> who could “do music”... were born, I felt, gifted in a way that I was not Maybe it's true for some people but I generally think it isn't. The secret to being able to play an instrument is studying or practicing a little every
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by schwartzworld 5mo ago
It's funny to think how much effort was put into preventing bootlegging, when now everything is being recorded all the time. The few bands that didn't care or even encouraged it reaped the benefits. I was a huge Ween fan in the 90
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by schwartzworld 5mo ago
Aren't the stakes a little different with an iPhone that you have for picture taking and entertainment vs the systems that manage your trajectory and life support? The fact that a handful of devices hasn't failed is hardly proof t
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by schwartzworld 5mo ago
> Most people won't be able to keep at it I always tell people the secret to learning guitar fast is to practice for a minimum of 5 minutes a every day for 20 years. It's simultaneously a gross oversimplification while also lit
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by schwartzworld 5mo ago
In some genres there are an infinite number. Most of the music regular people listen to is diatonic though and uses either power chords or triads, and then there are not that many options.
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by schwartzworld 6mo ago
Or a MagicJack
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by schwartzworld 6mo ago
If you don't have probable cause and you don't have a warrant, it's not an arrest and you aren't law enforcement. You're subbing in some words yourself.
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by schwartzworld 6mo ago
I agree that the software industry should expect a major upheaval. Developers won’t be replaced by LLMs, but it’s extremely likely that software as a product will become less valuable. You can already vibe code solutions you would’ve otherw
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by schwartzworld 7mo ago
> I NEVER said that the guitar is the best acoustic instrument. Me neither? This thread was about expressiveness. I asked the OP why they think guitar is more expressive than anything else and you responded with information about how pic
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by schwartzworld 7mo ago
So the difference in expression is in the oscillator type? Are we using the same definition of "expressive"? I play synth, guitar and trumpet, and the trumpet is by far the most expressive of the three, both musically and physical
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by schwartzworld 7mo ago
> have a fundamental problem with human expression. How up to date is this opinion of yours? Expression on guitar is pretty intuitive, but modern electronic instrument manufacturers have been working on this problem and created modes of
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by schwartzworld 7mo ago
But you have to plug cables into both sides... Also you set your pedals up before you actually start playing.
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by schwartzworld 9mo ago
What about the boring parts of fun hobby projects?
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by schwartzworld 9mo ago
You can. The same devices that run Spotify will happily play your mp3 collection.
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by schwartzworld 10mo ago
They are literally called "Large Language Model". Everybody prefers the term AI because it's easier to pretend they actually know things, but that's not what they are designed to do.
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by schwartzworld 10mo ago
Many libraries offer 3d printing for the cost of filament.
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by schwartzworld 10mo ago
Do share. I have similar aspirations
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by schwartzworld 10mo ago
Hosting a website might be easier now. Services like netlify make it pretty simple
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
That’s one example. For me, I think I mostly used it to have conversations that would extend past the number of quarters I was carrying.
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
Have you actually played these games? I put in some hours on Hitchhikers Guide, and It was anything but natural. Maybe once you get far enough in the game and learn the language that is effective it gets easier, but I never got there. You w
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
Well, you could always focus on the ridiculous environmental impact of llms. I read once that asking ChatGPT used 250x as much energy as just googling. But now google incorporated llms into search so… I grew up on the banks of the Hudson Ri
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
Why would it be mold if the OP was culturing bakers yeast?
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
The best time to start terraforming a planet is 500 years ago. The second best time is now.
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
Lots of saws have safety features to keep fingers from being removed. It happens all the time.
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
I spent a few months playing with forth after seeing a talk on it at Boston Code Camp. I struggled to find a practical application (I do web dev), but it had a lasting effect on my style of programming. Something about the way you factor a
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
Download iterm2 and see for yourself
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
A big part of why UBI isn't really viewed as a great option by actual socialists. I'd rather see us literally just give people food, housing and medicine without money being involved, but for some reason that's a tough sell t
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
We spend $850B on defense, and nobody ever asks where the money to do it comes from. It's only once you start talking about feeding people that everybody is concerned with the economics.
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by schwartzworld 11mo ago
> It's that they oppose throwing grandma to the street when she can't come up with the property tax to pay some lunch-co megacorp to give the kids lunches. Jesus, talk about a strawman

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