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by xoac 2mo ago
Wasn't this obvious?
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by xoac 2mo ago
You are a good consumer, consumer451, because you don't judge other consumers' consumption habits.
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by xoac 2mo ago
Exactly. If social media apps had a configurable old style non-algorithmic feed the problem would be dramatically smaller.
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by xoac 4mo ago
somehow the invisible hand of the market is also blind af
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19IN: A Collaborative Database of Studio Equipment(19in.net)
9 points by xoac 5mo ago|1 comments
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by xoac 5mo ago
I couldn’t be farther from the rationalists in my views but there are definitely a lot of valjd arguments against utilitariansim…
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by xoac 5mo ago
For all the grief they are getting GTK4/Adwaita/Gnome is doing a lot for performance and consistency of experience.
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by xoac 5mo ago
> We can either hold ourselves back an an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality, or we can explore the stars. It's an easy choice. Wait... Are you suggesting that "exploring the sta
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by xoac 5mo ago
But he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" but the lack of healthcare. There is an opportunity cost to war, Moon/Mars missions etc.
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by xoac 5mo ago
Kind of a false dichotomy. How about medical care as a right for a big abstract concept? He's not anti-science here, he's against the inequality of its distribution.
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by xoac 7mo ago
Of course, yes. Yes. It is also sad when it is hungry so best feed it with its preferred food, which is dollars. Loves to eat dollars.
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by xoac 7mo ago
Because they think this is good writing. You can’t correct what you don’t have taste for. Most software engineers think that reading books means reading NYT non-fiction bestsellers.
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by xoac 8mo ago
As opposed to.. the harsh realities of the Bay Area tech scene?
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by xoac 8mo ago
Reads just like Linkedin
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by xoac 10mo ago
The fact that a theory exists does not mean that it is not garbage
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by xoac 10mo ago
Best time to sell his ai portfolio
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by xoac 10mo ago
I upvoted both posts
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by xoac 11mo ago
Not sure what their intention is of course, but nowadays there is A LOT of Cortexes in various sound gear. Plenty in things like Eurorack but also outboard equipment like the Eventide H9000 etc.
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by xoac 1y ago
Most tech people are only good at trite linkedin type writing and larping as pg.
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by xoac 1y ago
The problem is of course that there isn’t that many good managers.
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by xoac 1y ago
Did you intentionally pick your career to make the AI look bad?
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by xoac 1y ago
He asked what he was doing wrong?
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by xoac 1y ago
i agree but nobody gives a shit about this unless you have the authority to impose this in your own company
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by xoac 1y ago
Watch Zoolander
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by xoac 1y ago
Make center for kids who can’t read good and wanna learn how to do other things good too.
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by xoac 1y ago
Learning a bit of ableton is the least hard part of making compelling electronic music. Bitwig is fine as well. There is such a deluge of people eager to teach you via youtube or udemy etc.
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by xoac 1y ago
FOSS is destroyed with overly permissive licenses that allow entities with a lot of capital to productize software as closed source while giving back the original author/maintainer exactly 0.
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by xoac 1y ago
The bombing campaign united the people against the new enemy: “the west”, and arguably gave Milosevic some more time to rule. I survived this, trust me that even if your regime is shit, people don’t want to be bombed and will unite against
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by xoac 1y ago
Yeah this is history repeating. See for example less known “Dreyfuss affair” at MIT and the brilliantly titled books: “What Computers Can’t Do” and its sequel “What Computers Still Can’t Do”.
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by xoac 2y ago
You realize people (including me) were socializing on the internet before any of these big companies existed, right?

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