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Blackthorn··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
Not personally but Junie was what made the fellow developer I respect most in the world actually start taking notice of LLMs as something useful instead of bad.
Blackthorn··on Claude partial outage
Hardly a unique problem to AI systems. You certainly can't bootstrap pretty much any industry to its current state without the existing items of its current state. Any sort of chip fab is a great example. Or most manufacturing. Or even more fundamental: mining (both metals like iron, and energy like coal or gas).
Blackthorn··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
I don't think you need to go that far but not punishing teachers for defending themselves from violence would be a good start honestly. Defend yourself from a kid hitting you and you're the one in trouble in most places.
Blackthorn··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
It happens more often in special education, but non special ed teachers have plenty of stories too. Also, special ed teachers are not some underclass and are also deserving of a safe workplace.
Blackthorn··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Serious question. Do you know any teachers, especially any special education teachers? They all have stories about the violence they receive, and a lot of them.
Blackthorn··on Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06
How often do you fiddle with the drive parameter (if it's not just boosting the input directly, which works fine with NAM too) mid song? Pretty much never, right? So a lot of folks don't need that control and if the drive level isn't great and that parameter isn't just boosting the input, use a different capture .
Blackthorn··on Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06
coyopedal is the original they open sourced a month ago, it was a pretty impressive technical achievement to get NAM A2-full running on that hardware.
Blackthorn··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
Hasn't it effectively been suspended for over a year now?
Blackthorn··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Well, on the civilian side that's exactly what's happening with openai hacking other companies, so I guess it stands to reason that the military wants to get in on that too.
Blackthorn··on P(doom)
The nazi solute and everything that led up to it, for one.
Blackthorn··on Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health
Chin up progression is eccentrics and band assists. They'll get you to your first chin up faster than lat pulldowns since you're actually doing the movement.
Blackthorn··on AirPods 5
I've intentionally killed the dynamic range of my system because sound engineers can't mix dialog for shit nowadays.
Blackthorn··on Terpstra Keyboard
I have a Lumatone and I do like it, but I think the benefits of isomorphism are somewhat oversold. It does let you think in intervals, but on the other hand thinking in steps becomes harder.
Blackthorn··on Terpstra Keyboard
Lot of finicky keys with velocity sensitivity and polyphonic after touch.
Blackthorn··on American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died
No, he died 2 years ago. The immense knowledge and skill that he shared with everyone remains an incredibly valuable archive and hopefully remains searchable for the indefinite future.
Blackthorn··on American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/air-compres...

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/best-way-to...

Just a couple of examples.

Blackthorn··on American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died
Some people do a lot as least. Forrest Addy has a massive library of posts that are still the top results on Google for just about any machining problem imaginable.
Blackthorn··on Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1
The daw problem is really really bad too. We've got a de facto standard forming right now where you link libwayland.so and hope the structs never ever ever change in the next 30 years.
Blackthorn··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
Literally everything. Just pick a topic and you'll see SWEs on Hacker News prognosticating about it as if they knew everything while knowing nothing but the surface.
Blackthorn··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
It is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.
Blackthorn··on Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI
Legal restrictions are literally government enforced censorship.
Blackthorn··on Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI
It's about whether or not their censorship affects you. Their models are censored for the Chinese audience. Meanwhile Anthropic OpenAI etc models are censored for the American audience.

So by default you'd be better with one of the Chinese models if you're American.

Blackthorn··on PartialString – A finite-difference time-domain physical modelling synthesiser
The time it takes to get data to/from the GPU is problematic given the sample rate you need to deliver.

Anukari used the GPU but eventually abandoned it for the CPU. They have some good and informative blog posts about it.

Blackthorn··on Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting
Why should anyone care what comments your agent has on code?
Blackthorn··on Pandoc Lua Filters
"bloat" just means "any feature I am not personally using therefore I deem as useless and pointless".
Blackthorn··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
That extra 4.1 khz sample rate is for headroom for a low pass filter (and not necessarily a brick wall one). Leftovers or any such artifacts are below the noise floor, which is also an important part of the physical reality.

Would be happy to see an actual, real study to prove that humans can notice, but to my knowledge none exist that confirm they can. Not even any on teenagers or younger (the only group that can even hear close up 20khz).

Blackthorn··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
Right. Which are quite below 1/2 of 44.1k!
Blackthorn··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
Indeed. And what is the max frequency that a human can hear?
Blackthorn··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
We had a really nice crystal decoration that I happened to put on top of one of my TV speakers and, wouldn't you know it, it had this resonant frequency somewhere around specific human speech frequencies that drove us absolutely bonkers until I figured out the cause and moved it.
Blackthorn··on 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
Yeah, that's the "rest of the synth" part that's more vulnerable to aliasing.

There's some ways to do band-limited distortion but...they aren't nearly as widespread, easy, or universal as band-limited oscillators.

Ring modulation is funny though because you'd ideally want the sidebands to modulate down by default rather than filter them out, that's why you're using it.

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