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I had this exact experience! Bettermouse has been fine, but the mouse speed seems to be vary wildly across different applications for some reason.

I am glad to get off of logi options though. Even before it finally stopped working altogether, it would frequently just stop working and my mouse settings would revert to default behavior.

GitLab already has AI agents and agentic workflows. See their "Duo Agent Platform" https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/

We of course can't know for sure, but I personally err on the side of caution and keep these women as separate individuals. The stories are distinct enough that in my opinion they should be considered unique events and different people.

There is no prostitute called Mary in the Gospels. There was a conflation of three women:

- Mary Magdalene who had 7 devils cast out of her

- Mary of Bethany who anointed Christ with oil close to his crucifixion

- Unnamed woman who anointed Christ with oil and tears in the home of Simon

Not only are these three woman separate and distinct, none of them are even explicitly called out as prostitutes. So they both conflated their stories and assumed what the sin was.

Other Marys in the Gospels:

- Mary the mother of Christ

- Mary the mother of James

- Mary of Clopas

You’re right, but I fear this idea has become prevalent in audiophile communities where they only want to listen to files that are 96kHz or higher.

In my opinion, having a high sample rate only really matters during the production phase and does not have a noticeable effect on the final form factor. If the producer uses high sample rate during the creation process, I see no reason why the listener would care if the file they’re listening to is higher than even 44.1kHz unless they are planning on using it for their own production.

One way to look at record labels is like an investor, but I think that brings the connotation that if the business fails the investor is simply loses money.

In reality, record labels basically loan a lump sum to the artist to pay for producing the product. This loan also comes with a contract to own some/all of the final product. The artist then has to earn that money back in order to pay off the loan before they ever get a share of the profits.

It's easy to say that musicians should be more careful with the contracts they sign, but the system is kind of stacked against them if they want to pursue this career. Nowadays, you can make it fairly big (possibly) by doing most things yourself but record labels are still out their signing artists.

EDIT: I was incorrect. You don't have to pay back the record label if your music makes no money. I have removed the statement that implied that.

I believe this is missing context. From what I understand, Spotify pays big record label companies a lot of money as part of their negotiation for permission to host/stream their music. If they didn't pay these record labels they wouldn't have the music most people want to stream, and so they wouldn't have any power to get customers. They are basically held hostage by the big record label companies if they want to run their business because Spotify doesn't actually own any of the music they stream.

So now let's look at the artists under these record labels. Do they get a cut of the deal that Spotify has with the company? As far as I can tell, they do not. Artists only get paid royalties based on how much their songs are streamed, which is extremely low. They do not get any money from the backdoor deal that Spotify has with their label.

Personally I think artists have the right to be mad at both Spotify and their label.

Sincere question - why does this matter? From what I understand, all iOS browsers are basically just safari with a different skin on top. I don't see much point to me using Firefox on iOS except for the syncing. I'm probably missing something though.

From the Wikipedia for the ninth season:

> Lawrence considered the eighth season to be the end of the show Scrubs, going so far as to ask ABC if he could change the name to Scrubs Med School. ABC declined, but Lawrence still advised fans to treat it as a new show, even putting a caption under the "Created By" on the X-ray in the opening sequence saying [Med School]

So the showrunner treated it like a spinoff but the network wanted to keep the name.

I really enjoyed this, well done. I love that there were surprises like the LOST finale not being as bad as you thought (statistically).

Some obligatory personal hot takes:

- the Scrubs finale should be considered the last episode of season 8 (which was great). Season 9 should be considered a spinoff series.

- The Blacklist recently aired the series finale and I would consider it a disaster finale. It has ruined the series for me, and I no longer recommend it to friends.

- I think most comedies aren’t ruined by a series finale. That’s probably due to the character over plot idea, as there usually isn’t a storyline I’m dying to finish.

Audio Test Kitchen is one that I’ve used in the past. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of?

https://www.audiotestkitchen.com/

Thanks, I should have included it in the original comment.

https://github.com/garrettjoecox/anchor

This is a fork of the Ship of Harkinian PC port for ocarina of time. If you just want to play the normal game on PC, you can go to the original repo here: https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright

I’ve been having a blast playing an online multiplayer mod of ocarina of time for the PC port that was made from a decompilation a while back. I’m excited to see the fun stuff that is made from other decompilation projects like this.

Also the Mario 64 port is still out there. I believe they got in trouble for including original assets at first. There is an Ocarina of Time pc port that has a pretty big community and has been around for a while now with no problems.

I’m very excited for this Perfect Dark port because I love that game. It would be cool if someone creates a mod that supports online multiplayer.

Out of curiosity what limitations do you find yourself running into when composing? I’m a songwriter myself, but my arrangements are probably too basic so I haven’t had any noticeable issues.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your original argument then. I read it as saying this company shouldn’t be allowed to make this request because semi-automatic weapons are still legal. That, to me, is whataboutism.

> Happy for flaws in my logic to be pointed out

I understand where you’re coming from, but I believe the logical fallacy you’ve stumbled upon is termed as “whataboutism”.

If we turned down every complaint just because it wasn’t deemed as harmful as another complaint that was turned down, few things would change.

UPDATE: I followed the instructions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986375 for each of the nodes and it appears to have solved the problem, at least for now. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don't die again.

The frustrating part was that my home assistant raspberry pi was hardwired into one of the nodes that died, so my automation to change my thermostat wasn't working and it was stuck on a setting that I normally only set for one hour in the day. Obviously I could change it manually, but I didn't realize that it hadn't changed until it had been like 5 hours.

Interesting. I have asus zenwifi mesh routers and today one of the nodes went offline and it took me a while to realize and then fix it. The fix was manually updating all of the firmware for every mesh router, so it seems like it was a similar problem.

EDIT: crap, I just checked again and two of my nodes are offline now. Only the root node is working. Too late in the evening to fix it now, guess I’ll be working on that in the morning.

Not sure if you’re just blinded by nostalgia, but I would consider Taylor Swift one of the most well-known popstars in history. You realize that she just broke the record for most attend U.S. concert for a female performer right?

Regardless, it’s not just about popstars. People like listening to music that they can connect to on a human to human level. They do also like listening to music that is just there to dance to. Both can coexist, but I don’t see people connecting with music that AI writes simply because there isn’t a persona there to connect with.

I don’t agree with this. Sure, maybe AI will start producing some hit songs but I don’t see it ending pop music as we know it. Fans of popstars are not just fans of the music, but of the persona. Do you think Taylor Swift would have as much success if she were just a computer writing emotionally charged songs? I don’t think so, because the appeal of those songs is that the listener feels like they get to know a real person.

As much as I dislike social media sites and think there is sufficient evidence of their harm to teens, I don’t think these bills have any legs.

There are already people in law that are pushing back on the legality of this in regards to violating first amendment rights. [1]

1. https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TechFreed...

EDIT: pluralized bills, after realizing that there were two related bills regarding this.

I like Benn Jordan’s videos. He provides a cutting criticism that includes data and transparency that I appreciate. I don’t always agree with his conclusions, but I always enjoy the ride.

This video starts off a bit weird where he seems to conflate a front desk job at a bowling alley with the manager position, which was odd to me. I think if I show this to somebody, I’ll just tell them to skip the first minute.

After that, I found the arguments put forward to be really compelling. I always found Spotify’s business model to be a bit shakey, but I’d never done much research. It’s nice to see an insiders perspective. I’ll probably do more research into this now.

> Is "will disappear" editorial?

It's not editorial - it's lifted from the report:

> If this rate of water loss continues, the lake would be on track to disappear in the next five years.

I grew up very close to the lake. I'm well aware of the flooding that occurred. It indeed would have been better to use a satellite photo from 1989 when the pumps were shut off. I think the contrast is still pretty stark regardless [1].

1. See this youtube video which shows a photo from each year from 1984 - 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THg0AEV7nK8

While I agree that Utah needs to change its ways regarding their green lawns, it is worth noting that according to the report this use case is only accounting for ~8% of water usage from the Great Salt Lake [1]. This is not insignificant of course and should be brought down to a more appropriate proportion; however, it appears to be the category with the lowest percentage [2].

What needs to happen, according to the report, is that we give the lake back the proportion it needs to survive and then adjust the amount of water that everyone is using. Overall usage needs to go down, not just what is used for decorative plants.

1. From the report: "Cities and industry account for the final 9% of consumptive water use, of which 90% is outdoor water use (irrigation for lawns and other decorative plants)". 9% of 90% is about ~8%.

2. The report lists "reservoir loss" as 8%, but it also generally refers to that as indirect loss from agriculture use so I lump that 8% into the agriculture category.

While I encourage supporting the Obsidian team by paying, there are ways that you can get the same features without paying.

Sync - On iOS, you can use iCloud to sync your files between your Mac and iPhone. I imagine that there are more configuration options for this on Android.

Publish - lots of different ways to deploy your notes to a site. There's one repo that helps you publish with Mkdocs [1], and I'm sure there are other tools the community has created to solve this problem.

It may not be as simple to set up as Notion, but that's the price you pay for wanting a solution to be cheap, private, and let you own your own data.

[1] https://github.com/jobindjohn/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

I don’t know about any of those problems, but my biggest gripe is that when I finish an episode it waits until the very end of the credits before letting me click the next episode. I’ve now resorted to going back to the menu and clicking the next episode manually.

And yes, I do have the setting checked to auto play the next episode.

I'm always trying to explain to my friends how absolutely amazing Perfect Dark multiplayer was. I wish modern FPS games had that amount of configuration. I also had completely forgotten about campaign versus mode, which would be so cool in a modern FPS game.

One site I use occasionally for helping come up with chord progressions is hook theory's chord trends [1]. It has an interactive graph that shows you how common it is for a specific chord to come next when you choose a starting chord. It's very helpful in looking at a few options out there, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every time.

1. https://www.hooktheory.com/trends