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slater-··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Turns out the article was not in fact incendiary.
slater-··on AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately
Grimes is to Bjork as Scott Stapp is to Bruce Springsteen.
slater-··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
>> The best disinfectant is sunlight.

Trump thought so too.

slater-··on I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
You're talking about figured bass, which is its own type of notation.

"V6" to a jazz player would not indicate first inversion, it would be a major triad (built from the 5th of the tonic scale) with the addition of its own 6th scale degree. "V7" would include the dominant 7th (as opposed to the major 7th), "V13" would have the dominant 7th and also the 6th. Inversions aren't specified, the voicings are left up to the player.

slater-··on Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers
This is you, right?

https://cmahoney.bandcamp.com/track/deck-the-halls

slater-··on Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers
Citation needed. Where can I hear some of your work?
slater-··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
Towing my car to an impound lot and ransoming it back to me... is that not theft?
slater-··on I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
How do they get funding? They're already rich. Every single one of them, even if they haven't yet earned a personal fortune, ask them what their parents do. Find out they either own a Carl's Junior franchise or a semiconductor company. NBD, just build things, amirite?
slater-··on Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
Ok but what if I said: we shouldn't arrest cartel hitmen, because that would just make some other murderer take their place. The game-theoretic choice seems to be to keep doing what they are doing, while allocating some of that dirty money towards research in nonviolent conflict management?
slater-··on Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'
Who? When?
slater-··on How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
Yeah but Operation Ivy is done.
slater-··on Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)
incorrect to compare Dylan to 2pac and Mitski (a “varied feminist artist?”)

I understand the impulse of trying to tear down the establishment guy, but your take is absurd.

slater-··on California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]
Let’s solve our societal car problem with more cars.
slater-··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)
because there's no Indian food?
slater-··on YouTube addiction, one month sober
But it’s kind of hard to kill yourself if you’re at home with your parents all day and so is everyone else.
slater-··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
I thought the original title was something like The Last Man In Europe.
slater-··on Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
You left out a few prepositions like off the space, toward the space, from the space, and down the space.
slater-··on AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
So you’re a spammer?
slater-··on Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games
I’m gonna make a deck that’s just Mountains and Spider-Mans
slater-··on How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
“You’re wrong about Tool a lot of people like them” is like the most Tool Fan thing to say haha
slater-··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
But I assume you’re talking about being paid for that work
slater-··on How to write a logline producers won't pass on
I loved Go when I was in high school. It’s actually not very good if you’ve seen Pulp Fiction. I mean to be fair The Matrix isn’t good either. But hey it was a different time. We were drunk on Limp Bizkit.
slater-··on We need technology that is less immersive, not more
All the above! I lived with Kevin. Hope things are good with you dude.
slater-··on YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
thanks, youtube, for introducing enough friction to break my habit of watching youtube.
slater-··on We need technology that is less immersive, not more
This is an important distinction that I agree with.

Glancing at your username I think I maybe know you through some mutual sf friends. The Page called they want a lot of their fernet back

slater-··on Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors
meanwhile they've pillaged the music industry on their way to not make any money off it
slater-··on Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
i mean, obviously people organize stuff. but my point was about how computer interfaces are digital, and now we have a big industry that propagates digital interfaces, and their type of categorization is seeping into our day-to-day like never before, and i think it affects how people tend to think. and i don't like it.
slater-··on Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
yes. we should resist the tech industry's relentless binary categorization of everything. "oh no! i couldnt find it in the dropdown! what ever shall i do?"
slater-··on What I learned getting acquired by Google
thank you for mentioning this.

i was a red badge. it was fucking demeaning. i have a lot of stories, but my favorite was when everyone on my floor got an earthquake safety kit except me. literally google didn't care if i lived or died.

the expectation was that if i sucked up enough ("demonstrated my value") they MIGHT make me a real boy, like some bizarre Velveteen Rabbit fetish game.

i loved watching how Google would continuously pat themselves on the back about how good they are to "their employees," and then openly shit on the people who worked full time at the company but technically weren't FTEs.

it's a caste system. a company that behaves this way should be run out of town with extreme prejudice. but instead they somehow took over San Francisco.

slater-··on Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad
and ScarJo did a whole album of Tom Waits covers a few years ago. This is the next logical thing to do!
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