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what about for blob storage too?

> Especially if you go beyond Type-I cassettes

Yea, I use Type II cassettes to record on my Tascam 246. I did an experiment where I recorded a track I made digitally to tape and then back into the DAW. I A/B'd them and struggled to differentiate. That being said, I have used some really poor quality Type II tapes, where the difference was obvious.

There is a conceptual difference between a blob of text drafted by a person and a dynamically generated blob of text initiated by a human, generated through multiple LLM calls that pull in information from targeted resources. Perhaps "dynamically generated prompts" is more fitting than "context", but nevertheless, there is a difference to be teased out, whatever the jargon we decide to use.

I wonder if you can use an existing svg as a starting point. I would love to use the sketch approach and generate frame-by-frame animations to plot with my pen plotter.

This is somewhat validating to read as someone who started semi recently.

Also, the teensy audio library is great!

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Audio.html

it's their unused treadmill in the living room they bought back in November

Get a degree in STEM, they said. Don't want to end up flipping burgers, they said.

Additionally, I would say more historical emphasis within STEM itself would be beneficial. Motivate through context. Show students that the concepts arose from people solving problems.

Similar camp. Two reasons I enjoy Python, both related to documentation:

1. docstrings

2. keyword arguments

Docstrings mean I can do REPL experiments without the additional friction of opening a browser to RTFM. Keyword arguments reduce how much I have to lookup the semantics of a function's signature.

> counterdiscombobulating

what a discombobulating way to say "clarifying" :)

The feed used to be a simple chronological timeline. Then it evolved into whatever stochastic mess it is now in an attempt to maximize user engagement and ad views. So they've turned the notifications into essentially a mini version of the old news feed which (big surprise) is damn noisy.

That's the first I've heard of the dead internet theory. Seems plausible. I deleted my social media around 2016. About a year ago, I created a new instagram account. My account is not private, and I'd reckon that over 50% of my followers are bots.

> - More gentleman layoffs at Google

more in addition to what?

> Several alternative hypotheses were considered-that spices provide macronutrients, disguise the taste and smell of spoiled foods, or increase perspiration and thus evaporative cooling; it also is conceivable that spice use provides no benefits. However, none of these four alternatives was well supported by our data. The proximate reason spices are used obviously is to enhance food palatability.

> But the ultimate reason is most likely that spices help cleanse foods of pathogens and thereby contribute to the health, longevity and reproductive success of people who find their flavors enjoyable.

From: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/420058

> Assuming it's not supposed to change how you feel (directly) - what is the purpose of being conscious of how you feel?

Because it can manifest in how you communicate and treat others. Recognizing your emotional state doesn't necessarily change it, but it can change how you react to your feeling. Recognition precedes reaction -- or rather, reaction with conscious intent.

> there's some politics at work in who is remembered

politics, or do people have natural a bias towards giving attribution to a lone genius?

> Few people live in what can reasonably called a "community" any more, so the link between anonymous theft and the erosion of social culture doesn't make sense to everyone.

What do you think about how this relates to communities shifting almost entirely to the internet?

seems like the actual problem is the meager space provided in the first place, not the scraps of free room we're forced to battle over

> Why that all happened, IDK.

I'd reckon the parent's suspicion about the scientific community is correct in that it was a large influence. When ML and deep learning blew up, the academic Python community was in a great position -- you had numpy and scipy early on (both optionally BLAS and LAPACK btw), then scikit-learn for ML, matplotlib for plotting results, open CV ports, etc. As for why Python was adopted so early by the scientific community, I'm not sure. Maybe because it was a scripting language that was also very friendly for hooking to C and Fortran?

The meat of the question is, "where do you go when don't know how to do a thing?".

The answer could potentially be "the docs", but that's not necessarily sufficient like you point out. However, you could ask follow-ups, e.g., whether the docs have multiple facets like user guides in addition to low-level API guides.

OTOH, where you go when don't know how to do something doesn't necessarily have to be the docs, and info here can still be valuable to understand. E.g., are questions typically discussed in public forums or is it discussed in private DMs? The former is typically a better signal in my experience.

I get what you're saying, but robustness through complexity feels like an odd argument nonetheless.

> Eno instead put randomness/chaos at play by using tape loops of different length, so they will never (or very hardly) repeat at the same interval again, or, in his own words

It's a least common multiple problem, right. The same idea is used with polymeters when things are on the grid instead of arbitrary lengths of tape loops.

> As someone in tech ...

... you do realize that goes for 99% of people posting here? In my biased experience in consulting for ~4 years, the distribution is more like 80/10/10 for AWS/GCP/Azure.

parent is saying mathematics is the abstract base class. they're in the source, but you never see instances of them at runtime.

The parent is using the term pejoratively. In this context, I would describe it as calling someone a poseur of liberal/progressive issues, i.e., someone who cares more about the appearance of supporting progressive issues than actually supporting those underlying issues themselves. It means calling someone dishonest about their outward intent, basically. Personally, I'd prefer that people would just say what they mean rather than relying on slang entangled in the modern culture wars.

Yea, that's where the difference between contractor vs. consultant becomes a little blurry. No idea on books though, sorry.

idiocracy is becoming increasingly prophetic

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek because "digital transformation" has become an overused marketing term. But I think the core of it is valid -- a company has an inefficient process due to lack of technical expertise or whatever and you help them fix it.

There's multiple parts to this field of work: networking to find leads, doing discovery to understand a potential client's problem, formulating a technical solution, creating/negotiating contracts, and implementing the solution. My experience in this area was at a company that was large enough so that these pieces were split into different roles within our organization, and I was mostly on the tech/solution implementation side.

start getting these gigs and boom, now you're a bonafide digital transformation consulting company