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Yes, I think if agents as interns with enough smarts to be dangerous.

has it gotten better in the LED era?

I so agree! As someone into photography, light is everything. It can even turn oversaturated fabrics into more uniform and less screaming colors. The diffusion of the light flattens things, but the interesting angles create interesting shadows and shapes. So much can be done with light, but so many offices have the boring flat ceiling lights. It seems to be hard for the office space designers to invest a bit of time into islands that can have lamps. What's interesting is that many libraries seem to be more accomodating in this regard.

Either way, light is everything, but it is treated like an afterthought.

I just think you're misdirecting your energy.

Your country has the most unpopular and ineffective leader in the modern history. Is this Elon Musks fault?

The US is also having trouble with its representative democracy due to many issues, Elon Musk is a relatively small influence on the overall disfunction.

By digress, again, just because I care about democracy doesn’t mean I need to talk about it when talking about LLMs.

No, you focus. Do you think you can focus on something other than mechahitler? Do you go to bathroom and can't poop because of Elon Musk?

That's a great feature... I think I just collapsed 10 threads last night and gave up.

I decided to refresh the page this morning, and found a new comment at the top that resonated with my experience last night.

I came to this thread trying to understand the technical capabilities of this release and how it fits into the current competition. I want to see a discussion about this, but I can't find it, because every reply is like yours, about philosophy and morality.

It's frustrating, because I can separate the physics and the philosophy when I examine something. I can be interested in understanding how a nuclear bomb works, and also never want to use it at the same time.

I'm here to learn something new, and your philosophy or what kind of nerd you are is not something I wanted to learn.

Do you understand?

And yes, clearly I jumped into a pointless thread adding no new information of value. I am sorry to everyone about this. I'm just trying to plead with everyone reading my comment to take a step back, and let a thread about the technicalities stay on topic, and maybe just stay in the other thread about the mechahitler stuff. Thank you, if you do.

Oh no, this meme again. Of course you should learn SQL. But also, you can use a library to help generate SQL based on classes and objects that you change, so you don't have to repeat yourself. Why don't you use both?

Yet, Quake III Arena had no single player. It was a fun MP game, I spent years playing. It's not really the same as Quake and Quake 2.

It would only be like that if MLK was trying to become the lead white supremacist.

The bigger head scratcher to me isn’t even one prompt, it is the prompt to build a platformer from scratch. Who does that? Absolutely no one.

What about: take top 3 feature requests, top 3 bug reports for 3 popular open source projects and ask to solve those based on the issue contents and access to the project repos.

Even if you stay in a single prompt scenario, you could make it more realistic.

Here is the thing, it’s a write only single file format. If you need to run analytical queries it’s optimized for reading, you just open a file and query for the parts you want. If you have multiple clients that read and write data to the database, you should use postgresql.

It’s not really a database in the traditional sense, there is no ACID complexity, it’s a library that lets use write SQL to query a tabular data file.

I can see this as a critique on over-use of clustering for whether you have more than a handful of points to visualize. However, I do think this article completely misses the use case when you need to give a ballpark overview of density or counts for clusters. There are many use cases when you actually have natural clusters of points, like traffic accidents. When you zoom out, you might actually see patterns in the aggregated data.

Overall, spatial clustering is a very common strategy to understand trends. To dismiss it entirely is a bit sensational.

> You must have some state to handle tokens securely, and if you must have a data store, it's better to just store all the data.

This is quite a loaded statement. Why is it better to store all the data? What if you have a CDN layer that only needs to do routing based on authentication or scope, or other token encoded data?

How often does this actually happen? People have been studying capitalism for more than a 100 years and this argument has been rehashed for a long time. Free market capitalism will only allow a startup to gain ground via innovation and offering of a superior product or service if the market is not totally free and monopolies are not allowed to form. Monopoly is the natural end state for capitalism.

Furthermore, the company motivated by profit that does not have to pay for polluting the environment will also pollute the environment. Regulation is also necessary to pay for long term externalities and other boom and bust cycles. There is nothing new in PG take except COPE and blame shifting about the increasing inequality and other societal and environmental issues.

This is slightly disappointing, but it's probably necessary cope. If you want to build startups which move fast and break things, you have to ignore many problems and many people of this state, country, and world.

You start by ignoring what a "billion dollars" means, and most people don't think it's stock. Then you have to ignore what "earn" means, which most people don't think is getting stock on the assumption that the company you own a portion in will turn a profit one day, possibly many years ahead.

Getting investment without having profitability, getting to keep a portion of this investment, even if the banks that are insured with taxpayer money lose that money, is not what the constituency of AOC think is earning money.

There is a huge amount of technological advancement and personal fortune that I enjoy from this system, but I'm not trying to bullshit anyone that the system is fair.

In conclusion, I do think this attitude is cope that allows a high performing individual to focus on this game and be successful, and Paul Graham seems to be successful, so it's natural.

Have you tried the AirPods yet? I just want you to relax.

You're wrong. Here is the ranking based on aggregate sales to studios:

1. Audio-Technica ATH-M50x 2. Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 3. Sony MDR-7506 4. Sennheiser HD 600 / 650

These are used in different situations. Most of the time headphones are used for tracking, which is listening to the live recording of one track. What most people call "monitoring", which is listening to the studio mix, is done on speakers, not headphones. Furthermore, items 1-3 represent quite distorted and inaccurate sound signatures, and people only buy these because it's their reference headphone, something they're used to. They're not actually the best sounding or accurate headphones, like say >1k Focals.

Most of the music is absolutely, definitely, is not mixed and mastered on headphones, let alone Sonys. Any decent mix requires speaker monitors for proper soundstaging. Mixes done without speakers sound quite wrong. This has been true since stereo recordings existed.

I'm sorry, but you're regurgitating cliches, and probably don't have deep knowledge of this subject.

You should get some Airpod Pros, you might like them.

There is no such thing as over the ear monitoring. There good headphones like HD600. It has good mids and great highs, however the base rolls off towards 20hz. Many AirPods, include AirPod Pro 2 have better low end than what people use for monitoring, which is what, by the way? I play electric guitar, and use different types of audio equipment, and I really wouldn’t care if I use BD DT770 for tracking, despite the fact that it has absolute terribly inaccurate response curve. Just because they call it “studio” on the box, doesn’t mean that it’s the pinnacle of audio fidelity. There are many IEMs, including Bluetooth ones that are better for listening to music for music sake, as opposed to trying to hear some exaggerated spikes in 8khz.

Given that the highly vague cliche reference of your comments, this conversation is probably concluded, all the best.

To all other readers, please enjoy your IEMs and TWS but make sure they have an EQ and try to turn down the boomy base and piercing highs of some manufacturers like Bose and Sony.

What AirPods are you talking about? The wired AirPods that sound pretty bad have been overtaken by wireless Bluetooth AirPods for many years now. The AirPod Pro 2 sound quality is a world of difference from the wired earbud style AirPods. In fact, most of the most popular TWS Bluetooth Earbuds have fantastic sound quality. The main issue with them is that they have a V shaped tuning, with various levels of bad. However, Apple and Samsung tunings are quite decent.

I actually agree with you, for the most part. The code I work with actually does contain some valuable algorithms, but Im pretty sure the effort of integrating them into a larger system is pointless without the data. It’s almost like stealing half-life 2 source code without any assets.

Still, “Getting the source code of facebook or instagram doesn't mean you could compete with them.” I think to giants like that, having access to their source code could open up some very interesting loop holes for manipulating the ranking algorithms, or even security vulnerabilities.

I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.

It’s harder depending on the language, which is clearly the point.

Time to fire up the vibes, Xcode here we come!

No, but seriously, thanks for sharing.

I actually prefer VLC to foobar2000. However, I still prefer classic Winamp to to all other music players, and I wish I could get Apple Music work in the same interface. I like 100% of the classic Winamp player UI/UX.

- I like the separate player, playlist, EQ windows.

- I like that I can re-arrange the windows, and resize the playlist separately.

- I like that the main player has a little EQ built in.

- I like the layout of the main window. It's perfect.

- I like the layout of the playlist window, it's also perfect. I can add "directories", "albums", etc. and again, I can resize the window.

- I like the skins. I like the classic skin, but I also love the Sonicated skin. I still have it on my Windows laptop.

- Conversely, I really dislike the "native" UI elements.

- I like that lack of rounded corners on the classic Winamp windows, such that when windows stick together, they appear as whole, and I can drag them around as one.

Mostly, it's a bunch of seemingly small and aesthetic things, but if a player doesn't have those things, I might as well just use iTunes.

Named arguments are a great feature in Python. I often forget TypeScript doesn't have this, but I use the object form all the times. As a bonus, you can also declare these arguments in an object an interface type, aptly named.

I do not downvote comments when I disagree, and I think it’s better to explain why I would strongly disagree. Downvoting in this case almost reinforces the notion that the downvoted comment makes such a good point that it causes people to give up on the discourse and just smash the panic downvote button. It’s obvious to me why this is not the case for this comment.

The suggestion to setup some kind of IAM policy to shut things down and stop resource usage is insanely complicated for users who need this kind of feature the most. If I’m learning AWS and just added my CC to it, I am the last person to be qualified to setup this kind of an alert and policy from scratch. This needs to be a single text input in the billing page, like it is for countless spend-as-you-go services. When the limit is hit, the service needs to stop the usage at the customers peril, because that’s what they customer requests.

Hope this helps.

Is this actually GeoJSON falling down, or decades of convention extended to JSON? Topology is great, but it is sidestepped by Shapefile/WKT/WKB/etc, in favor of independent primitives like POINT, LINE, POLYGON. If GeoJSON did not exist as a new JSON GIS data format encoding these primitives, TopoJSON would not have "replaced" it, due to the added mis-match with other non-topological formats.

From what I can tell, the top criticism of GeoJSON is the under-enforced winding order specification, and crossing the antemeridian.

Also, JSON! Wow.