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That relies on the assumption that English locals were clueless about the outside world - on the contrary, intercontinental trade networks were especially established around this time. The nobility would've been importing goods from all around Europe, the Mediterranean, and even China through the Silk Road link. While knowledge about what was "over there" probably varied, I would suppose locals would at least be aware of "lands to the East" and view the coin in that context.
That's a very important point. I know some indie artists who get way less than a subscription's worth of money each month, while having a bunch of "superfans" who mostly listen to their their music.

Basically the money we pay is not going to the bands we listen to. It's being used to appease some larger pop artist so they won't leave the platform. Or to finance the platform itself.

This Lack of transparency from streaming services is a much bigger problem than the amount of money paid per stream.

Sure one can argue that Spotify is free to do whatever they want with the money, but it's still not a fair deal for small artists.
The end state of that logic is that 8 billion people are crammed into a single city. The rest of the world is a wasteland with no jobs.

An alternative is that jobs could go elsewhere, for example in Arkansas or Mississippi.
Yes, I was wondering about exactly this! A dev response would be much appreciated.
why wouldn't you start your own small business that would grow over time?

you have some savings, 3 years is enough to see if you can start business that grows, plus you learn much in the process.
Exactly, present randomness to people and they will find some patterns. Even if 1 in 100 is interesting, those are the one that end up on social media doing the marketing. Kind of evil that way. But I think some people want what others don't have.
Would a simple "Yes" been a better answer to you? I felt like that would have been to short and wanted to add a little bit more context.
What many miss nowadays, is that most modern microcontrollers are more powerful than 8 bit home micros.

Python seems to be growing into the new BASIC.
If the song advertises an artist, what does the artist have to produce to make money? And Numan isn't really dreaming of becoming a star.

> I think the free market prices things right.

Right for what?
Good point. Carrot with today's colour wouldn't be around before the fruit arrived in Europe. You would be more likely to find white carrots, for example.
> For a lot of people making music should really stay a hobby. They are not very original in their music and lyrics. Or simply not very good. Or very good for a small niche.

I'm not a music buff by a long shot but on one of our first dates my partner and I went to Brighton during the Brighton festival. During a rain shower we heard some live music coming from a pub and went in. We've since followed that band whenever we get a chance.

At first I was full of optimism that they were on the cusp of hitting it big. Their music is as good as anything we hear played on the radio. Live their performance is exceptional.

For reasons I don't fully understand they don't seem to have moved on from where they where when we first encountered them, a small indie band with a niche but loyal following.

I guess my point is that skill isn't the only factor. I suspect a big part of it is luck and connections.
None the less there is a question of whether the record labels and streaming companies are using their near monopolies to extract more from artists than they could in a competitive market.
If a venue representative passes a hint to some musicians that a free space for jamming is available certain days of the week and certain hours, with some sound equipment and possibly an audience, is that an invitation which obliges them to pay the musicians? Certainly not.

The one thing that makes the context different is if the venue wants very specific musicians, and all of their choices are pros who expect to get paid. The venue can't get any of the musicians it wants without paying and that's that.

If a venue is not picky about musicians, it can easily get free ones. So many free ones that if three of them cancel, it can still call a fourth to come over.
I can’t see how a universe like that could exist. Perhaps if some time-traveler was unlucky, their gun might jam, but I can’t figure out how you could successfully thwart a “well-prepared time traveler” who knows all the details of the situation they’re jumping into and has double-checked their gun after making the jump.
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> knowing that nobody has been able to come up with a similar formula for interviewing programmers, where there are at least in theory easily measurable knowledge levels?

There is a technique that's successful and widely used. It's somewhat unfashionable to talk about it in today's political climate, it requires doing some actual work, and it isn't a "formula" - but it works.

The technique is exactly what TFA describes: talk to the candidate. Apply a domain-specific bozo filter (like FizzBuzz) if you must to narrow down the pool of candidates, but ultimately what you need to do is to get multiple people from the team for whom you're hiring to talk with the candidate for some hours, in a semi-structured way.

Cue in accusations of bias. Sure, it's biased, but what's the alternative? Pretending you can codify worker competency and fit as a set of cheaply testable metrics that are independent of company/team specifics? Such process doesn't exist, and will never exist, because the problem is AI-complete. Instead, why not trust that the people on your team are decent human beings looking for their own interest?

And in fact, a lot of companies do just that and happily chug along. But admitting to that doesn't make you an industry thought leader, nor can it be packaged into a service and sold.
You can't write a bureaucratic regulation that accurately replaces a judgement call.

For example, I have various dental problems. With each one, the dentist would lay out the options - effectiveness, how long they'll last, the price, how painful the procedure is, what the recovery time is, etc. There is no right answer. Different people make different choices.

(I've often picked an option that wasn't the dentist's recommended one.)

Medicine is almost never (Condition A => Treatment B).
In the US artists are not paid for being played on the radio at all, only the songwriters. So that's an easy answer: $0.
tl;dr. The root cause for their issue was this:

> The Android thread scheduler changes the behavior of threads depending whether or not an application is running in the foreground or the background. Threads in the background are assigned an extra 40 ms (40000000 ns) of wait time.

> A bug deep in the plumbing of Android itself meant this extra timer value was retained when the thread moved to the foreground. Usually the audio handler thread was created while the application was in the foreground, but sometimes the thread was created a little sooner, while Ninja was still in the background. When this happened, playback would stutter.
I believe the implication is that all the plumbers are advanced degree holders, not just the engineer.
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That does not align with my experience. On Christmas 2019, I recorded an album [1] of 9 "Snake Jazz" songs, each 30 seconds long, as a joke on a Rick and Morty episode. Published the album on CD Baby, and had them distribute it on all available platforms. Publishing cost me 80$.

Now, about a year later, I have earned 0.47$. 0.33$ of it come from Spotify, where I raked up a full 131 listens, averaging at 0.25 cents per listen. 0.25cents * 1e6 would amount to 2500$, which is admittedly still not much, but two orders of magnitude off from what is reported here.

That being said, I believe the main source of revenue for bands has been concerts in recent years (not 2020 though), with ever-increasing prices charged for live performances. I gladly accept that though - it is quite appealing to cut out the middle-man that were Music Studios up until the early 2000s.

With the barrier of entry to record an album ever-decreasing (using a Roland Octacapture, Reaper DAW, a Shure SM57 and lots of sweat you can get far), pretty much anyone can record an album in decent-ish quality in the comfort of their home, there is no more appeal to pay expensive studios to do a recording for you.

[1] https://music.youtube.com/browse/MPREb_2nw3eEydV25
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UBports is arguably obsolete, it is based on 2014-era Ubuntu-specific code that even Ubuntu moved away from and is now bitrotting. Mobian has a more promising software stack, but I agree with the OP that the PinePhone is painfully slow, and it doesn't matter which edition you have, because they all have the same underpowered A64 CPU.
I don't think people on the internet are expected to "[take] on social and political issues"; they are expected to not be a piece of shit though. It costs $0 to not be a dick on the internet. It's free to not voice your opinion. You're not less of a person if you self-censor.
Terrorism is one of those words that are a bit hard to define.

If you would use the definition you wrote here, a lot of things would be considered terrorism. There would probably be more terrorists than non-terrorists in the world then..

But anyway, I think we can agree on the "violence is wrong"-part, and the counterproductive part.

But saying that if any form of violence occured during a protest, then those protests should be considered equal, is, well, I don't even know what to call it; Dishonest?

Now, what I really disagree about is the "I'm pointing out media hypocrisy"-part. I really don't think you are doing that, I think that what you are doing is, complaining that "the media" seems to agree more with me than with you on this issue, and then phrasing it like your point of view is objectively correct.
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Are they, though? I thought the Novikov conjecture postulated that time-travel would change nothing at all: if you travelled back to the past, you had "always" travelled back to the past, and anything you did there was already part of history before you started on your journey (aargh, time-travel tenses are hard). Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man[0] would be a good fictional example.

This, on the other hand, suggests you can change the fine detail of history (e.g. the identity of patient zero) but not its broad strokes (the occurrence of a global pandemic).

At least, that's what I gather from the article: I haven't read the paper, and suspect it would be a waste of time as my maths and physics are both rudimentary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold_the_Man_(novel)
Relevant article from The Onion: Spotify celebrates 100th dollar given to artists.

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FYI: A so called "normal flu" is usually not a flu, just a bad cold. If you get the flu it's normally a lot worse than bad cold.
The most viewed youtube videos are songs. Bruno Mars Uptown Funk is sitting on 4 billion views [0].

Music has way more impact than video.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_vi...
It has two cores, so I don’t believe disabling interrupts would be sufficient unless you’re only using one core.
Didn’t you read the article? COVID is definitely part of the equation and listed as a cause under “Congestion cause”.

“Terminals are working with limited labor and split shifts,” it said, asserting that this is related to COVID. “This labor shortage affects all terminals’ TAT [turnaround time] for truckers, inter-terminal transfers and the number of daily appointments available for gate transactions and delays our vessel operations.”
Yeah, very reasonable question. I suppose a somewhat simple version could be to add exercises to a 'cart' and then change the colour muscle groups on the home page based on cart contents. Would then be pretty easy to click back and forth and colour in the desired groups. If I could then look at my cart when I'm happy I have good coverage that would probably be enough for my needs of 'does my workout plan have any blind spots'.
Musicians making an income simply have to avoid opportunities that they have outgrown: free jam spaces, open mics, and whatnot.
Survivorship bias clubbed with no true Scotsman?
French programmers use boullion variables. Goldsmiths use bullion variables.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Security through obscurity is a terrible long term plan. Yes in a perfect world it would be lovely to be able to trust clients more. Even more so outside of games where the stakes are often higher. Sadly we don't live there.
Sadly I've seen it used in Scala
Even there, ppm is a suboptimal (maybe even terrible) measure. If I can find a way to pump additional air through the exhaust (increasing the denominator), I can lower my tailpipe ppm without lowering the rate of emitted pollutant (the numerator).
I always thought the idea was some kind of many worlds style event where whatever universe you find yourself in after the split is guaranteed to be paradox free because something must have happened to have prevented it
I won't pretend to know the business, but when I read stuff like this https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml, I'm not sure the CD was much better.

Extract: "
And that explains why huge megastars like Lyle Lovett have pointed out that he sold 4.6 million records and never made a dime from album sales. It's why the band 30 Seconds to Mars went platinum and sold 2 million records and never made a dime from album sales. You hear these stories quite often.
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> * The antivirus industry is the biggest player of the modern adware/malware crisis.*

This is so true it hurts. Veracode releases an annual report ("State of Software Security"), part as marketing material, part as an industry insight leaflet. The worst offenders for software security and defect rate are, year after year, security products.

As an infosec veteran, it's obvious to me that the "industry" at large is not obeying the rules they set for others. The shoemaker's children have no feet.
Having grown coding for 8 bits, this is more relevant to me. nix clones abound, whereas this kind of boards bring back the hardware/software machine soul back, with Python as the new BASIC.
> Open source developers tend to have no issues finding paid work, often because they worked for free on open source. The same scenario doesn't exist for artists.

Acknowledging the "paid in exposure" meme, having some free work to point at when potential employers/customers ask for references is still extremely useful for an artist, just like open source contributions are for a programmer.

Imagine you're picking between two bands to play at some event (back when those used to happen). One has 3 references amd that's it, the other has 2 references but a million plays on Spotify. I know which one I'd go for...
Having the two separated gives the ability to disable/re-enable the filter without losing it. That's often very useful. In other cases you're very right.
Yes, that in combination with Micro Python would make it an esp32 killer for me.
> The modern business maxim

Not only has it always been a business maxim, it's a maxim for pretty much every organization and 80% of the population. (I'm being generous, I suspect it is more like 95%.)

Trying to construct a society that relies on people being selfless most of the time is just never going to work.
Just plug in an Ethernet cable for installation. Most eth drivers are free.
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IMO the only way for this to actually work is to have the language/compiler force "exceptions" to be part of function signature. I am not aware of any mainstream language which does this.

Without compiler support ANY call can end up throwing an exception and thus ANY call can end up not returning (jumping straight to handler higher up in the call stack).
Well yeah, but they could use the brand, likeness and source code of the original; if they created a clone (and there are clones, hundreds of them) it would NEVER have gotten even one percent of the share. Plus there's the merchandise. There is an existing market for Minecraft merchandise, and a clone could never even get close to that network.

I mean how many kids do you see walking around in "Cube World" T-shirts? CastleMiner? FortressCraft? Take your pick: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/lx5g3/complete_l...
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They are not very original in their music and lyrics.

That's obviously not a requirement for becoming a professional musician.

Or simply not very good.

That, of course, is a bigger issue. But at the same time, it's really not that the people who make it are orders of magnitude better than the best ones of those who don't. Like in many other areas of life, there's factors other than excellence that play an important role, and a lot of them boil down to luck.

You can't get nowhere without some heavy-weight business insiders supporting you, even if you're that youtube wunderkind that then has a cinderella-like career. So much of a career is due to successful management, networking, and just being in the right place at the right time. Mind you, you gotta be good, and you gotta work, but that alone is not enough.
This would never have happened if the joke had been made by one of those 10X Comedians.
This doesn't do wireless, so you shouldn't use it over an ESP, generally. What you should use is Nordic nRF52 :)

But for things that don't need wireless connectivity, it's pretty cool, the Programmable IO looks very interesting.
I don't see anything about temperature regulation, wouldn't that be a big energy consuming part? Especially if I picture a container out under the roasting sun or in biting cold.
-The idea is that all the plumbers are academics looking for the easy life. :)
If I apply a bunch of functions to a variable before printing I tend to use .format() and do it inside the format call, e.g “{}”.format(a.lower().upper())

Something just feels more right about that. Maybe it is the code highlighting that works better.
They're all former academics/mathematicians!
In the UK it was mixed. Different people made the coloured glass lenses, and some of the manufacturers had more blue in the lens.

This was an attempt to colour correct the yellow light given off by some incandescent lamps.
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That's a good point, but I've just skimmed through the fantastically detailed entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, which seem to suggest that the word "orange" was used in English around 1400 and was used as a colour in 1532, while the word "ginger" was used in English around 1200 (or earlier) and was used as a colour in 1538. Obviously "earliest citation" is not the same thing as "first use" (though it's amazing how many people seem not to understand that) but it doesn't look as though "ginger" as a colour is much older than "orange" as a colour.

On the other hand, the early 16th century is perhaps the earliest point for which we have masses of surviving texts and can therefore get a good idea of which colour names were in use. For earlier periods perhaps there's a good chance that some fairly ordinary words are missing from the record just through bad luck.
Agree it’s likely a legal template but it’s a bit like bringing a dead canary into a coal mine - normally there might be a warning that there’s a gas leak but now there definitely will not be
A proper embedded microcontroller like this offers things a system running Linux never can.
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Yeah if there was one major improvement to that page I would suggest, it would be to add smaller muscles; you mentioned pelvic floor, I've heard about things like the rotator cuff (big source of injury!), etc etc.

Mind you, that's probably entering into the realm of physical therapy as opposed to fitness / weight lifting.
Most people who have gotten big on the streaming platforms will talk about endless grind - I believe a depth of content sets up a virtuous cycle on platforms like YouTube. Yes you might have an Uncle Roger moment where you go viral and get that massive step up but many other streamers will talk of putting out years of content before getting traction.

Not sure how it works specifically with music because you can't really churn out endless original content. I guess part of the churn can be covers or live performances.

Connections do help tho - getting someone to promote you on their channel always helps but I'm told the online content community are actually extremely supportive and friendly.
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The 16% is an estimated industry average. Older contracts don't have any streaming clause so lots of legacy acts are getting screwed. Payouts are $4k-10k per million streams, depending on service and label.
It's not hard to make a read-only OS image and use a full blown Unix for microcontroller tasks. It's actually easy. It's just silly because 1) high power usage, high overhead of everything and 2) lack of real-time guarantees usually.
Or create OSes where applications are all written in managed languages, and the use of GCC and clang is gate keeped to the OS vendor and native libraries, just an idea.
I think the integral is

4 * integrate sqrt(r^2 - x^2) w.r.t. x from x=0 to x=r

which is from the equation of circle with radius r centered at the origin:

x^2 + y^2 = r^2
=> y = sqrt(r^2 - x^2)

any other way achieve the same using integration?
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