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This game features the Mariners and Angels, two real-life baseball teams. But that was never the plan. The Zuckers and Abrahams, three Wisconsinites, hoped for some hometown flair.

“We wanted the Brewers,” David Zucker said. “We applied to MLB and they said you have to take the Mariners. … I think they were trying to help that franchise. That was a weak franchise (at the time) and must’ve been weaker than the Brewers.”

I doubt it was in any way deliberate, but there's another angle here.

MLB was in a phase of expansion in the 1960s. Two teams were added in 1961 (in the American League), two in 1962 (National League), and plans were in place to add four more -- two in each league -- in two groups. The National League would gain two new teams in 1969 (Montréal and San Diego), and the American League would gain two new teams in 1971. The 1971 expansion would add the Seattle Pilots and the Kansas City Royals, with the Royals being a replacement for the former Kansas City Athletics, who relocated to Oakland after the 1967 season.

But Missouri Senator Stuart Symington didn't want Kansas City to go three full seasons without a local team, so the AL expansion was moved up, and the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots began play in 1969 instead. Seattle was nowhere near ready for such an accelerated schedule; they played in a decrepit and poorly-converted minor-league stadium, and the team was disastrously bad and had trouble with finances.

The Pilots' ownership filed for bankruptcy protection shortly before the 1970 season was scheduled to begin. The team ended up being bought by Bud Selig, who immediately relocated them to Milwaukee, where they still play as the Brewers.

Seattle eventually got a permanent MLB franchise in another round of expansion in 1977, when the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays began play. But there is still a feeling among baseball fans that the rush to push the 1971 expansion up two years, and the dealings in the offseason after 1969, resulted in Milwaukee "stealing" Seattle's original major-league team.

So having Milwaukee get its baseball spotlight stolen by Seattle was arguably poetic justice.

Bud Selig, incidentally, went on to become MLB Commissioner, and is a pretty notorious character. His rise from minority owner of an eventually-relocated franchise (the Milwaukee Braves, who moved to Atlanta), to outright owner of the Brewers (née Pilots), to Commissioner, is just full of shady stuff.
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I don't think it's always the case that you -can- tell. I think it falls nearly into 'Rumsfeld classification':

Known Knowns - done for the clear effect, which is audible by everyone (as popularised, but not invented by Cher, T-Pain, etc).

Known Unknowns - ones where most people wouldn't notice, but if you've listened to autotune a lot you'd swear it's been done (sustained notes with vibrato added seem to be clear contenders here to me, such as one in 'Angels' by Robbie Williams

Unknown Unknowns - There are lots of recordings I've worked on for people (mixing, mostly) where the vocal sounds perfect, and it's actually been autotuned/processed. Subtly, but still processed. I only know this because the person who's done it has confirmed it. In the context of a mix there's little evidence, if any at all. And if you listen to backing vocals of the last decade versus BVs from say 30 years ago, you really hear the difference - not because modern ones necessarily sound like they've been worked on, but because the old ones sound just a little bit out of tune in comparison.

I've done work on singers' recordings where I've fixed the pitch and they haven't even noticed it on their own voice, in isolation (which really is the sound everyone knows best). If done well (and appropriately), it doesn't turn it into awful processed rubbish, it can tweak an otherwise brilliant performance and make it near-perfect. I say this as a recording engineer who loves the sound of a band playing together, and would always sacrifice separation / absolute recording quality for the communication and feel that you get with a live band playing together how they normally do - I wouldn't sacrifice personality for pitch, but I think you can improve on nearly everyone's performance in some places.

Having said that, the flip side of this is that people think 'they can fix that in the mix' when they've not given a great performance... and that's never the case!
Thought I could get some feedback here, that is, one is welcome to provide feedback.
Also don't forget Cargo. It makes it so much easier to work with than installing C/C++ dependencies.
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This :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shed_at_Dulwich

says everything you really need to know about TripAdvisor and their ilk.
But similarly, it could be used as a "janky and fake" artistic syle. Because no one's ever seen it before, it will look wrong in unexpected ways, and therefore somewhat fascinating.

Stylus noise, fret noise and mp3 compression artefacts are other "mistakes" deliberately introduced.
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Hi All,

I have several thousand images that I extracted automatically from some videos.
I automatically labelled them but I want to review the images and the labels.

Can anyone suggest some software that I can use to review my labels?
I don’t need to mark specific pixels or draw bounding boxes. Just review some images and confirm whether the labels are accurate.

I could write some tools but wanted to check if anything useful already exists.

Thanks
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It's a block chain. From the article:

> a copy of that seal and every other seal created by Surety’s customers is sent to the AbsoluteProof “universal registry database,” which is a “hash-chain” composed entirely of Surety customer seals. This creates an immutable record of all the Surety seals ever produced, so that it is impossible for the company or any malicious actor to modify a seal.

Another well known example of course is git (which slightly extends the definition to a directed acyclic graph).
.. and depending on the singer, can be nigh on impossible. Some are incredibly consistent in terms of timing and phrasing (making editing easy), while with others each one is unique, and only large sections can be used with each other.
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Have to agree there. I rarely stay in the office that long. Usually it's because I started later on that day, so I stay a bit longer. 39h/week and senior dev in a big IT company (4000+ ppl) so yea, I like it here and can't comprehend some of these comments here.
Yes, GDP.

I always think of a toy-world example of a circle of 10 people cooking their own dinners. The GDP of that circle is 0$. Now if every person in the circle cooks not his own dinner but sells his dinner to the person on the right of them for 100$, suddenly the circle's GDP has shot up to 1.000$, while in fact nothing has changed.

Now I know very well that this is an oversimplification, yet it is not so outlandish and illustrates quite well how our economic ideology relentlessly pushes 'financialization' of service activities that used to be non-commercial. You need a job, and when you have one then you need to spend the money you earn on others to provide daycare and school lunches and house & garden maintenance ...

Financialization is key because it not just allows 'profits' to be made, but is essential to the 'rent seeking' economy as they can only exist by the nature of intermediating on transactions.
ECMAScript has no strong opinion on what paradigm it wants to be in. Originally, it could have looked like a more Algol-y Self. But so many kludges and 'pragmatic' additions were made early on to make working with the DOM 'easier' that the object-orientation aspect never really took shape in any of the core APIs.

The reason that's critically concerning for the language and its ecosystem is that since 'vanilla JS' has no opinion, all the libraries created for it tend to have to form their own opinion. This then means that when binding to many ES libraries, you're torn between a hundred flavors of functional, half-baked OO, procedural, or just bit buckets of inconsistency.

If the language can't make up its mind, you're guaranteed to see fragmentation by its users.
And if you want more/better amenities than a hostel has to offer?
Look at the last paragraph. A good city government will not just aim to meet business easy, they'll also have criteria for ensuring good impact on other policy fields, eg here low income residents.

This whole "hands off" approach has proven a failure many times,. Look at how Uber and Lyft are exploiting their drivers, which end up working below minimum wage and 100% on own risk - in the big scheme/long term these have no insurance, no pension benefits, might lose everything through an accident, and will mostly end up dependent on handouts.

In some cities bike rental schemes failed and the city is left to clean up broken bikes, stations, etc once the provider disappears. Sure, it was easy to get in, but the taxpayer foots the bill.

Yes, an application process makes things a bit more intransparent and slow, but (if done well) it also assures that the average citizen is not left holding the sticky end.
Then I'm even more confused. What are the different authenticities here, what guarantees do I get and not get?
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Good point, that’s a great improvement. I just believe you would still be able to identify and fingerprint individuals across sites if you simply pass data through self hosted solution to 3rd part aggregate
Is anybody here aware of any TUI/CLI tools that bring UX patterns/ideas from other programs to the terminal?

Examples:

- bash/zsh/fish bring suggestions/autocompletion

- fzf brings fuzzily-matching selections to the terminal,

- https://github.com/ericfreese/rat brings the idea of "widgets" or "layouts",

- https://github.com/mrnugget/fzz brings "preview as you type"

I'm looking for more patterns like that, mainly to explore how to make them work in the terminal and see whether that actually has an impact on everyday actions people perform in the terminal many times per day.

The goal is not to save time, but to reduce mental friction.
He did say "telco, bank, large internet company". I don't think MS and Amazon are like that.

I worked at a very large company, one of the top 40 on the stock market. The attitude is quite complacent. Everyone except senior management is forced to work 40 hours. As in they are all given generous vacation time, and the electricity is cut during holidays so nobody can work. Any contact outside office hours is highly discouraged by management.

A lot of those companies are not bad. They attract family people who are super smart and hard-working, but prioritize work-life balance. These giant companies know they can't attract the young and ambitious, so they go for the older and experienced.
> So the lesson is, you can put jokes into your Venmo payments, but not jokes that imply that you're blatantly laundering money.

The implication being that either Venmo investigates you for labeling your transaction that, or you're able to violate NK sanctions by using Venmo and just saying it's for something else...
If you look at Google, Facebook, etc we seem to be moving to centralised self-sovereign platforms rather than decentralised.
Credit cards know how much you spend at Whole Foods with a certain transaction amount. This I always assumed was tracked and could be used/sold by the credit card companies. This article tends to imply that MasterCard is getting the actual list of things that you buy at a store. I would hope that for this to happen the store must also be involved in selling the individual item list to the credit card company. I was hoping that stores were not doing this or I would have heard something about it, but maybe it would not really be news at this point in the data selling game.
Yes. And isn't it also the case that, by offering their very elaborate targeting capabilities to advertisers, they still leak your personal data to 3rd parties, though indirectly? After all, the fact that a certain personalized ad appears in your page confirms to the advertiser that you are in their carefully crafted target group.
I mean, of course it is, but if your salary is monthly-based then it's not such a big deal then. That of course implies that you can have 5 hour weeks when your time is not required as much, and get paid the same.
That does not address the stupid embargo on involved linux developers to speak about it to each other.
As many other comments have said, the title is misleading; the key quotation is:

"(...) allows anyone to portray themselves as a world-class ballerina (...)"

Moreover, after AlphaGO took away Go from us, I started to wonder "what is left" for humans, and I believe that we are centuries away to have machines that achieve world class dancing level. My reasoning is than in things like Go, image or speech recognition, it is easier to "encode" the information for the ML to actually learn. On the other hand, encoding the movements of professional dancers is already quite difficult.
Consider for example in the video linked here, the whole human body is mapped into ~20 points. Sure, this may be enough to portray someone as a dancer. But good luck making a dancing robot.

So, maybe I quit my programming career to become a dancer, it is less likely to be a job that the machines will take away ;-)

edit: grammar
You're on the right side of the linguistic prescriptivism vs descriptivism debate, but I think the meaning of that word might not have settled enough yet. Personally, I think it makes sense to restrict "blockchain" to a chain (or DAG) of blocks with hashes, and refer to Bitcoin etc. technology as blockchain + POW (rather than having "blockchain" subsume the POW).

That might be a losing battle, but not sure the battle is over yet...
I use my laptop to spawn virtual machines for various things: potentially unsafe or otheewise sensitive applications, complete development environments for the projects I am working on for a long time and I don't want to be disturbed by unrelated changes, for testing environments, evaluation, learning.

I could have a workstation but doing this on my laptop saves me the hassle of having multiple environments and makes it portable.
I would think you'd generally want to do it the other way around and sign the ciphertext instead.
No, not "transform into". It's "make look like, in a video".

I mean, who cares what you look like in some video? When you actually meet people, they'll know that it's bullshit.

Now, if you could manage it in meatspace, that would be cool!
There is nothing "artistic" in overusing autotune. It is just a tool to "mask" that that person can`t really sing at all and is overused in popular/commercial genres where there is an abundance of untalented musicians. I can`t imagine anyone saying that obvious autotuned songs sound good.
I guess you are right about that (The paintball episodes and the KFC shuttle episode being my favorites). I was more thinking along the lines of films.
I'm torn. I think most polyglot projects I deal with are overly complicated. However, I also feel most embedded languages I deal with are overly complicated.

Some have clearly worked out. Format strings, for example, are much more appealing to me than the equivalent code. Not even getting into the crazy abilities of common lisp. (Seeing what you can accomplish just from the format string, I really wonder why it isn't more widespread.)

And regexes, despite all of the well justified jokes about them being problematic, are often much better than the code that would replace them. It is a shame there is not a BNF equivalent, sometimes.

But it seems most "inner languages" I have had the pleasure to deal with personally have not truly helped. My suspicion is that me and my colleagues just tried to do it all. Knowing when to say "not supported" in a toy language is tough. And the penalty for not doing so, is catastrophic, it seems.
I'm not so sure it's so clear in that page you linked to. Google do also sell the largest analytics/user-tracking platform that exists (Google Analytics). That page you linked to seems to hinge around what constitutes 'personal information' which I'm sure others have differing opinions about but does go back to the parent's point: Google is in the business of selling your data. It maybe does it in a controlled way, segregating by client properties, or removing certain personally identifying information, but it's still selling your data.
The idea is that the fake account is known to be you by only a few people that you chose.
This is a good point - sites like notalwaysright.com have what are to this British person's eyes utterly jaw-dropping accounts of US businesses bending over backwards to accommodate idiotic, rude or blatantly dishonest customers, who would basically be told to bugger off if they tried their histrionics here.
I'll do this with support, if I respond too quickly then the issue becomes a conversation and the customer will become lazy. Adding a little delay forces them to think for themselves a bit more.
I felt the same to be honest (my comment above was meant to be somewhat humorous). I 'm pretty sure many of the ones thrown around where parked properly and someone just kicked them down. Pretty sad.
You just said this in one of your comments : "Unless one is going to argue that there are no genetic differences between individuals in the brain, it seems unlikely to me that different races don't have different brains in some fashion."

Then I may ask, if you think different races have different brains , how can you argue against statements on traits by calling them stereotypes? I wasn't implying creativity, It was more general than that, and there's no better one than other.
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To quote the venerable Philip J Fry "Shut up and take my money!"

yesterday morning i had finally decided to go with an XPS15 to replace my ailing gen 1 X1 carbon, then they go and announce this, im awfully glad i hadnt pushed the button on the XPS yet, now i just have to wait for them to release it in the UK (then wince at the fact that itll likely cost me upwards of £2000 here in the UK, it may actually be cheaper to fly to the US to get one as they work out at about £1500)
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I guess electric bill isn't a good example, but I can think of lots of other situations where you might reimburse someone else for a product or service that spends on programatic advertising: flights, hotels, concerts, and obviously, all sorts of food and beverages.

That being said, personally, I'm bearish on programatic advertising.
who cares what you look like in some video?

Everyone who watches television, movies, YouTube, etc. I know that's only a few people, but hey, it's a start.
> The author's musings ... struggle to make a coherent point...

> So then he raises the archetypal story of the DMV

Maybe read it again? The author raises a coherent hypothesis, then questions it as a widely explanatory principle, using the DMV explicitly and intentionally as an example of bureaucratic inefficiency that it describes poorly.
That's not a conspiracy theory; it can be explained without assuming nefarious anti-competitive intent. Google has a front-end framework called Polymer, which it is using to push certain new web standards ("Web Components"). It's also pushing those by implementing them early in Chrome. Since other browsers, Firefox among them, have not yet fully implemented those standards, Polymer reproduces them in Javascript, which is slower than the browser supporting them.

A YouTube developer once said on HN that YouTube uses Polymer for non-technical reasons. One could imagine serving as a testbed for Polymer could be that reason, with slower performance on Firefox as an accepted downside.
Agree, the 1 star reviews on Google maps are usually pretty accurate at describing what the problems are.
85% of revenue is directly attributable to advertising. Its an ad company that would like not to be.
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They are the exact same. Oracle moved the core bits to openjdk long ago. See: https://jaxenter.com/green-interview-jdk-binaries-137078.htm...
Yes not all of it - there are still android specific bits yet. Enough of it is openjdk though.
This is really what I was trying to get at below. The sprint model or even the marathon model just doesn't work for certain types of projects.
give it a break, it is a decade old! my x1 carbon is 5 years old and while it handles the majority of day to day tasks its starting to feel its age now, hopefully the x1 extreme will carry me through another 5 years
I suppose. But then, what would be the hiring criteria? Lowest bid? Nice ass?

And the focus here is "anyone", not professionals.
Seriously, I need names. I have daily daydreams about the “comfy, 9-5, well-paying corporate job”. Maybe it’s the Seattle area but I’ve never heard of one here. Every job ad no matter the company always has the subtle wording that indicates you’ll be working under a lot of pressure and forced to multitask like crazy and spend long hours in the office.
Ouch, my employer is named Tink (https://business.tink.se). We're a Swedish/European based fintech company offering data-driven banking APIs. This is bad for our SEO... :-)
Hey thanks for posting! Small request: Would you mind adding a date to your blog post? I'm sure visitors from the future will find it helpful.
> it can tweak an otherwise brilliant performance and make it near-perfect

That's what I'm getting at - "perfect" is something that the human voice does so infrequently on its own so when we hear the "perfect" performance, we know it's been doctored.

As a point of reference, I look back at something like the Boswell sisters. Some of their early stuff was recorded in mono direct to wax disc but they were so skilled, well rehearsed and sung as a unit so closely bonded that the resulting sound is fantastic despite the primitive technology. The three individual voices aren't even recorded to seperate tracks since multitracking wasn't invented then.

Granted you can't really draw a direct comparison between that and Robbie Williams, Cher or T-Pain, but I know which I'd rather listen to any day. There are a lot of singers I've seen live and talked to over the years who wouldn't be caught dead touching up their stuff, or letting an engineer/producer do it behind their back - even if it meant missing out on a commercial recording contract.

I do appreciate where you're coming from though. I'm a little old fashioned I guess in that sometimes the mistakes that made it through improve the performance in my mind. It reminds you that the performers are human.
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Kanye West used autotune to great effect in 808s and Heartbreak, one of the seminal albums of this century
This is precisely why it’s difficult to sell upward – why spend time and money on something, yet still not be able to guarantee that things will work? Especially when you can roll the dice, have things work great until such time it doesn’t, and then just throw some man power on it till it’s fixed. When thinking about cost, it can be really hard to justify something you can’t really see the benefits of, until after the fact.
This issue was already solved with invention of booze and soft drugs.
Before immigrating to the US, I actually looked into Sweden. It seems nearly impossible to immigrate there :/

Everything I hear about your country sounds amazing!
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