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Yeah. It’s definitely an acquired taste. I would describe their musical arc as a pair of British B-boys who took super-hard to the beatmaking aspect of early electro hiphop and then pushed that as far as they possibly could.

They’re certainly not songs, in the western sense of having chords and melody. It’s a very different and unrelated paradigm. It’s primarily an exploration of rhythm and timbre. I would not be surprised to discover that a lot of what sounds like musical texture is, in fact, very dense rhythmic sequences.

I find it thrilling. Once you live with it for a bit you can grow accustomed to it and start to recognize the inner-logic of how it works. I know that they perceive it as dance music, but I perceive it more as braindance.
You are just gonna have to get a different account for me to respond to you. That username is super offensive.
This isn't a lie, but it's also more nuanced than this. The world has been seeing a massive decrease in poverty. At the same time, only something like 4.6 billion people have internet.

I'm not saying that social media causes a flood of violence, I'm just saying that there are violent social contagions that should be addressed. Think of ISIS's social media campaigns for recruitment.
Wouldn't it make more sense to pay the insurance up front, though? Or at least reserve money for it up front?
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Sounds about right! I think that's an indication of lack of sufficient regression test coverage, coupled with complacency/fatigue from working on the same code base for an extended period of time.

Unfortunately, the most business critical pieces of code tend to be the least regression tested. It's the earliest stuff that was made before any test frameworks were matured, it's been hacked on countless times by half the team based on shifting requirements to the point that no one understands it fully, and any future changes are such a high priority that it's "faster" to test it manually or in production.

I am of course guilty of that myself on some pieces of code. I try to prioritize cleaning up expensive tech debt, though. When folk are hesitant to modify a piece of code, it's a strong indication that the code is due for refactoring. It's always worth it as long as you implement regression testing in the process.
I've worked with some amazing programmers that produce fabulous amounts of code. and, often, that's who you need. I have been envious of their prodigious production. I think, often, those folks solve problems by adding more code.

I think, sometimes that mountain of code starts to become a liability. I'm a little better at reading a lot of code, consolidating, and fixing bugs. Importantly, fixing bugs without breaking other stuff (usually. coding is hard)

if you buy the adage "make it work, make it right, make it fast", you'd probably buy that most people fall into one of those categories and excel (there are rare jewels that are amazing at all three. Carmack maybe is a good example).

Anyway, I'm not a top performer. I have my moments of glory, and I think I deliver good value. I try to avoid git stats. I peek from time to time, and I'm super pleased that I've deleted about 2x the amount of code I've added but, that's maybe me protecting my ego.

Everybody needs code, some people need code to be right, even fewer people need code to be fast. Different people bring different skills to the table. Be real careful about how those different aspects play into reaching goals.
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I was job hopping in Amsterdam where the market is saturated by VC-backed SaaS startups. The churn rate was insane. Many of the teams I worked on have churned so much not one member is still there I worked with - in a space of 18-24 months (this was pre-COVID).

It is also worth noting a 12 month fixed term contract for any new full-time employee is standard. Due to Dutch employment law, the employer only has to offer a perm contract after a number of years (after the 3rd I think). This hardly encourages career growth and it if it takes 12 months to be "up to speed" you would have been fired already!

At the end of those 12 months they don't have to offer you anything more. Struggling and need extra training? Nope, you're gone. Particular project changing course (new CTO, new management)? Nope, you're gone.
Pay rise? Lucky for 1% without threatening to leave... but other companies will add 15% for a new contract in a similar role. It's a no-brainer.

There was no sense of loyalty on either side.

The large professional network I made in the city helped enormously and heard about open positions on a weekly basis.

Now I am in a new role (outside of the Netherlands) where I genuinely hope I can stay with the company for many years and have a long career with them (with opportunities to progress internally). Their niche is something which I believe in and have a sense of pride about what they do.
I have been working on https://webrtcforthecurious.com/ to solve that. It approaches WebRTC from the protocol. I also try to give credit/real history at the end!

I played around with https://github.com/Sean-Der/webrtc-uri but I don't have any experience/friends in the IETF/W3C so it is never going to happen. I agree it would be really amazing. It would be great if a company that had influence picked it up!

Yea I work on Pion! Thanks for using it :) I get a real sense of purpose trying to make WebRTC more accessible/easier to use. I love seeing what people build. Also really feel in love with teaching because of it. It sure has taken up a lot of my time, but 100% worth it.
You're able to buy human sized drugs on the dark web!?

"Human sized" being >140 lbs and box to hold.
Forgive me ... I am completely naive regarding this subject but find these descriptions both fascinating and confusing...

Do I understand: if you're on a whippet bender you have to do a thing every 30 seconds ?

It seems like that would interrupt and greatly diminish whatever pleasurable effects the substance was giving you ... in fact, it sounds somewhat stressful ...
Nobody said it was right, but it still derails from discussion by offering essentially an insignificant datapoint.

At this point on the internet, if the topic touches more than 100,000 people and its controversial. You can probably find a few truly heinous comments.

And giving them attention, is kind of what they are after.
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I think it's perfectly justified to call out manipulative content, especially if the manipulator is batting for your team. Either way, implying someone's a heretic because they reject the trough you eat from only makes it clear why the trough should be avoided.
And instead of adding a check and crashing visibly here you wait even longer until your program misbehaves due to the error? The longer the program runs after something went wrong, the harder it is to debug, and the more likely it becomes that you get an exploitable bug.
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I expected it to boil down to the thesis that programming is hard to improve because the complexity that makes it hard is essential, not accidental.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160910002130/http://worrydream...

Surprised that the piece was all focused on the accidental complexity.
You're in luck (if a year behind :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710105
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But what is the license? Checking up the repo, I see the license is MIT, but I'm not quite satisfied with it. I mean does LaTeX permits rewrites like this?
texliveonfly can do this, too.
Yes, if you start with the premise that everyone is only getting tested every 4 days, you would theoretically have that problem.

I have several dozen friends in Hollywood working in broadcast, cable, streaming, and film. They are all being tested at least every other day using the rapid test (results within minutes), with a second rapid test within minutes if the first test is positive for covid. The last time any of them was tested as infrequently as every 3-4 days was back in September before cases started surging again. Right now, almost all of them are being tested daily. Compared to the costs of shutting down production for 2 weeks or more, daily testing is cheap.

So, for someone to have caught COVID on set, someone else on set would have had to have (a) been infected, (b) been asymptomatic, (c) received multiple false negatives from the rapid-result test without any positives,(d) and received a negative on their most recent slow test.

Can that happen? Sure. Has it happened? No. There are no reported incidents yet of multiple cast or crew members developing covid once they started working on set. While there have been incidents of multiple cast/crew members testing positive for covid, in all situations to date this involved cast or crew traveling to non-local filming locations, with symptoms showing up during the mandatory quarantine period for traveling cast/crew.
When you accept immediately people automatically think their offer was too high and the name (or whatever item) must not be worth it. Next time ask for 20-50% more than they offer.
Facebook live (https://engineering.fb.com/2015/12/03/ios/under-the-hood-bro...) and several others use nginx-rtmp. It's fairly common in china as well from what I've seen.

RTMP is still the best protocol for publishing live streams IMO, and in my experience http-flv blows HLS out of the water for < 1 sec latency. The protocol is old but at least you aren't 15 seconds behind the action.
Reminds me of an old Perl module which translated code into a trinary alphabet with the characters space, tab, and new line. The resulting coded file is just an import statement and whitespace, but runs just fine.
No, there's absolutely no way 4 bft winds would cause a ship, especially one such as that, to lose containers normally. 4 bft winds are a small fraction of the waves such a ship should normally be able to endure: this ship's usual duty is sailing massive distances in the Pacific, where such winds are completely normal. If this actually occurred in 4 bft winds, there has to have been either a massive screwup somewhere or a series of mechanical failures.
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That raises the issue of why should businesses receive compensation for their "sacrifice"? Businesses aren't people. I fully support and understand why employees should receive assistance, but you'll need to explain the logic of why noncorporeal legal constructs should receive assistance.
Apparently, yes. Lots of organizations felt the need to rename the master branch, so, what other proof do you need?

As a side note, I grew up in communism, and it would be funny if it wouldn't be sad how much of a feeling of deja-vu this all is. Many people mistake this for a form of "enlightenment" but it's really just a form of herd behavior most of the time :(
Deleting code saves so much money for your organisation as it’s deleted for every person who touches the codebase! I don’t think this is ego protection at all, maybe the people who write shed loads of code are protecting their egos just a little.
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Facebook sued for 'denying opportunities to US workers'
https://framacolibri.org/t/fonctionnalite-live-retour-dutili...

Its in French but you can understand the screenshots.
A larger pool would require more frequent payouts to other vessels, or collecting regular premiums.
I'll try to find the review in the morning if I remember/care enough, but at least one of the reviews noted that the tested system had more RAM than the slightly older Mac it was being compared to, and that the performance gains between the two systems generally mirrored those found in PCs with differing amounts of RAM.
Experimenting with generative music I put together an extremely simple (and ugly) prototype that only uses random generation (no machine learning of any kind) and very few rules; it is very basic but can sometimes produce things that could pass for elevator music.

For example (with some imagination) this could be the background music in a Chinese restaurant (because of the pentatonic scale):

http://autopedie.medusis.com/#011004155|g113220|g213410|c114...

What are missing are repetitions (see the other thread by MauranKilom) and some kind of structure. But as a minimalist experiment it's fun.
I think it‘s less about version control and more about that the change is then associated with the employees name and if something ever goes wrong, it would be possible (easy?) to blame him therefore he‘s being scared about doing something because it could cause trouble for him somewhen in the future.

And, imho, that goes back to not enough testing nd no safety nets to check for code errors (like code review, static analysis, ...).
Everyone (nvidia, amd, intel) switched to tile based rendering in their latest gpus, so are they all PowerVR?
https://revspace.nl/DecodingLora
While this is a pretty cool abuse of the Windows APIs, it seems to me from a first reading that it's not very "dangerous" compared to existing techniques for malware and ransomware to hide their activity. While the user imitating technique seems to have succeeded against typical anti-ransomware methods in a wide slate of antivirus products, these products already fail to detect and stop most actual ransomware in the wild. This is just another way to get around antivirus, and definitely one of the more complicated ones. And the user-imitating technique doesn't help against more advanced antivirus and EDR that analyzes the process tree and would immediately flag the wacky stuff they're doing with cmd.exe.
Is he the only one?

What about all the other 'driven' founders who have the means to enable their self-destructive behaviour? What about everybody else? What can and should be done?

Do we want to get something done at all? The forces that made him build Zappos and motivated him to clean up down-town Las Vegas, aren't they the same as the ones that let to his sad ending? Are deaths like this the price for civilization to thrive?
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The music being generated in the article doesn't sound like it has any coherent structure. When you procedurally generate terrain, for example, you do it in a way that is coherent and has structure similar to what you find in nature. You have areas that are the same height, areas where the height varies slowly or quickly. But you don't generally just have random bits of terrain stuck together. This music sounds like random bits of notation stuck together. There doesn't appear to be a time signature or chord progression or any melodic development. I think building that type of structure into it would be a good first step.
It's more a religion or cult according to neuroscience https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-apple-makes-your-brain-...
I work at Mux, though I don't have any special sauce on this. Instead, as a small broadcaster (Twitch and the occasional event--I ran Demuxed this year from my home office!), SRT is a godsend. I throw video around my studio all the time, because NDI has weird frame timing issues and sucks up a lot of bandwidth, and I don't always need real-time video. I would absolutely love it as a predictable, latency-configurable (within some parameters, of course) ingest method for streaming.

I would love more
It's what I was eating when I designed the original deformable octree structure :)
That refers to including Unicode in the document directly, which is great that it works, but for references, bibtex is part of the pipeline. You create a .bib file containing info about the references, and then do commands like \cite{} to cite to one of them. If you have Unicode in any of your references (author name, paper name, etc), you have a problem. The solution is to replace bibtex with biblatex and biber, but that requires biber support which currently doesn't exist :(.

Example error that bibtex users can run into: https://superuser.com/questions/60432/unicode-characters-in-...
How many require hospitalization? Because that number will easily overflow the available healthcare services increasing death of all other conditions.. It’s not that hard to understand
> what percentage of drugs passing through customs do you believe are intercepted by customs?

No, I was replying to that question.
And Java so-happens to force Oracle on everyone.
I'm a "proficient" computer user and don't really know how to install fonts on my OS.

I could learn how to do it in 30 minutes, but I don't feel like spending 30 minutes learning that.

I'd guess that 99% of users don't know how to install fonts or simply don't care about it enough to their spend time installing fonts.
Does "oxidization" mean "a port to the rust language" ?
> I’m sorry but what? Sure, CA is blue on a national map in national elections but it’s a very reddish purple for any smaller statewide analysis.

So I'll cheerfully admit a near total ignorance about Californian politics, but I see a 29:11 and 61:18 Democrat majority in what looks like the state parliament [0]. The wiki link also mentions "The Democratic Party currently holds veto-proof supermajorities in both houses of the California State Legislature.". I didn't actually think it was possible to see such majorities in an large, healthy, wealthy democracy, but obviously I've reassessed that now.

Intransigent minorities can do a lot, but it seems like it would be a real challenge to push back past against that sort of majority. California is going to be a pretty fair representation of what would happen if the Democrats gained a 60% across board majority in US federal politics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature
Would love to read more about this.

Until your article is done, can you recommend other sources that go into this?
Having worked with AWS IVS, which is using the same infrastructure design as Twitch (or the other way around), it only accepts RTMP (well RTMPS to be fair) as an input.

To me it would seem that the industry is going the opposite way, and doubling down on RTMP.
An RTMP connector is planned on the Chime SDK as well (a framework & infrastructure based on Chime to create your own custom meetings), to be able to stream the meeting directly to ingest service (like IVS/Elemental).
On the AWS side at least, there doesn't seem to be a plan to migrate from RTMP, as it seems that services are being launched that only supports it.

On a sidenote, the official AWS recommended way to stream a Chime SDK meeting to IVS, is to use this[0] docker container, acting as a bridge between WebRTC & RTMP. I find the hackiness of it amazing, as it's mostly just an X11 framebuffer, an instance of Firefox loading the webview for the meeting, and ffmpeg capturing the framebuffer and sending it as an RTMP stream to the configured endpoint.

Also, AWS IVS as a streaming platform is really impressive. It's a fully managed service, and out of the box you get around 4-5s of latency between the source and the player, with an upper limit of 1080p60 @8.5Mbps. It will also downsample the stream to 720p, 480p, 360p & 160p.

[0]: https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-chime-meeting-broadcas...
i think this and discipline are key aspects. i see average performing engineers code by assumption. or knowing the “right way” to do something, which may take a lot of set up and refactoring and testing, and thinking no it’ll be too long. but then your code goes to review and it takes 2-4 days and 3 rounds to get approved. maybe that extra 2 hours of coding time would pay off over 4 days. i think the top people have experienced this and know it and do all of this in their first pass unprompted
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> I mean, given the demands of modern society

Modern society is the easiest society that has ever existed. And that's true nearly world-wide. People have never been better off or worked fewer hours at the median. In modern - affluent - society, it's that people have become soft, weak, fragile. The times are not harder, they're easier. People in affluent nations have never been more coddled and protected.

What demands are you talking about? Influencers pressuring people to have whiter smiles on Instagram or better abs on TikTok? Someone getting their feelings hurt on Facebook?

In the US things were dramatically worse for the bottom 1/2 as recently as the 1970s and earlier. Look up the poverty and hunger rates/issues in the US across the century from 1870-1970. It was barbaric compared to now. The same is true for violent crime, homelessness, and so on. The past 30-40 years have been amazing compared to the past and that holds true for the most of the world. In affluent nations you have a vast number of exceptionally spoiled people that have known very little suffering.
It's a beautiful thing. I just wish he'd entertain making an ortholinear version.
Super interesting; bookmarked! Looking forward to more updates :)
I dont miss my 2400bps modem though... And my cga porn
A lot of sounds are procedurally generated (e.g. noise sources in synths). Composition is much harder though.

My friend once said: Would you ever read a randomly generated book? ... so why do you think that any other art form would become palatable under procedural generation? (game levels, music etc.).

Procedural generation is quantity over quality. It makes sense in some settings, but not in 1st order art.
Depends on how well it's averaged. If you want to create a proper ex-ante insurance policy, you need underwriters, you need lawyers, you need adjusters, you need to determine premiums, collect premiums, pool the money, and then distribute it. These people all need to be paid, and so you must charge a premium over the actual cost.

Or, you can take the total lost cargo, divide it by the total value shipped, and send a QuickBooks invoice to everyone.

So long as the risk pool is large enough, and everyone involved is fairly trustworthy, it makes sense. Definitely unparalleled on land, to my knowledge!
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Friends of mine work for a company that has downsized offices but allows teams to book days in a smaller office. So teams get some productive in person time a few times during a sprint. I thought that sounded like a healthy way to facilitate both.
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