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> but why are you taking VC money

I heard money is cheap and abundant, so people take it. I can relate, it gives you confidence. And let’s be honest, without a “big vision” and VC money this is just a $2k MRR business.
Disney has ESG obligations to meet. Classic hero stories will reflect badly on their commitment to diversity.
> You’re doing it again, just stop, it’s not your job to convince people :)

> “It’s ok to make a choice, but here’s the consequences asshole”

> It’s exactly what I’m opposed too.

You're opposed to... people pointing out the consequences of your actions? Social pressure to protect the well-being of others?

I got all vaccinations and took basic safety precautions (washing hands regularly during flu season, etc) pre-COVID. I have always balanced the health of others with pragmatic limitations on my ability to take precautions. Now is no different; there's just extra weight on the "caution" side of the scale while a novel and dangerous pathogen spread around. I will continue to take as many precautions as are practical and necessary given world events.

Nobody is forcing you to do anything. But I don't see how it's unfair to have a social standard of caring for others.
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Have you made motions toward your ideal situation? If not, is there anything that makes you hesitate toward making those changes?

I ask because I see many people saying "couldn't pull the trigger" for a variety of reasons, and while I don't think I would have that issue, those people have also said that they didn't think they'd have that issue.
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Do we have a choice with some of the software we have to use?
Won't this decrease BTC supply and increase its price? Why isn't that happening?
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Thanks for the clarification.

I know that there is a semantic difference in technical contexts. It doesn’t bother me. It’s a true-enough Scotsman.

The distinction for me is with sampling synths (which can also, though rarely be analog)…I mean I have a forty plus year passing interest and the personality to gravitate to HN.

I am more interested in the empirical part. And digital has some practical advantages like using my iPhone.
If we use a 95% confidence interval and we have a sample size of 258 then the margin of error is around 4.5%. If the sample size is 130, then the margin of error will be around 6.5%. That's a little high, but probably still good enough.
If you took SML and removed reference cells and the parts of the standard library that involve IO, then you'd have a pure language (depending on whether you consider exceptions to be effects). It would not be useful for application programming, but would be fine for teaching functional programming.
> they might be better off scaling back to a sustainable 40hr/week job

40hr/week is the unsustainable part.
Inflation will not affect your real estate. It will affect your rent. Therefore it is a regressive tax.
> But I'd really like to have some basic idea of how to put together rudimentary sounds with intent.

There are really only 4 main waves: Sine, Square, Triangle, and Sawtooth. The "complexity" comes from using these waves to modulate and transform each other. Apply Volume: labeled as Attack, Sustain, Decay, and Release; and you have yourself a patch! Find any synthesizer plugin, load up some of the patches, and start twiddling knobs: Disable things and break each patch down to it's individual components. You can get a feel for how complex sounds are built with "digital VCO's".

Music isn't an exact science: You just have to play with it until it sounds good to you. Have fun =)
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That's a personal matter. Inside our brain we have two sides - the more primitive brain that just needs safety/food/reproduction/entertainment and the more advanced side that needs to plan and do stuff otherwise it questions it's existence.

People have a different balance of either, so some are happy with just living while others need to do something, anything beyond the basics.

Neither is wrong from a personal point of view - if it makes you happy/fulfilled, that's it.

From a societal perspective those whose primitive brain has more control are seen as useless, however.
Anyone else think the math portion of SAT is too easy already? I wish they would add regular expressions in there.
Ah, the 300 BC equivalent of rebuckling your knickerbockers BELOW the knee. Scandalous!
You are worried about the long term effects of a mRNA vaccine that has passed clinical trials and was already tested on >10M people, but not about viral RNA spreading in your community? I guess we'll se the effects of the vaccines in 3…10y. Until then I'm getting a third shot if I must, because I'd really want to be there maybe having this conversation in the next decade.
So for the future of Bitcoin, this is all extremely Bullish.

If China banning bitcoin use and mining isn't an obvious indicator to you that Bitcoin is looking good, I don't know what would convince you :)
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It’s great that you’ve found things that work for you but you should avoid believing that these are universal truths. Our minds are complicated and varied and it seems implausible to think that there are solutions that fit everyone.
Well that certainly added every ingredient in the kitchen. Who can argue with such a sprawling word associative piece of prose? I’m not entirely sure I understood the latent threat, nor do I see any attempt to apply these concepts to seriously “modernly” repressed societies, oh let’s just take North Korea. Are they all just going to socially explode? What are the concrete consequences of removing all dangerous festivals from society?
Generally it means they're simulating analog synth components in software; i.e. starting with oscillators producing stuff like triangle or sawtooth waveforms, running it through high pass and low pass filters and an amplitude envelope, throwing in some low-frequency oscillators controlling various parameters, adding some effects like reverb at the end.

That way you're doing the same stuff you would in a pure analog synth, and getting similar sounds. In the digital realm there are lots of other ways to make sounds: FM, additive, samples, physical modeling, etc.

Pure analog synth hardware had fallen out of favor by the turn of the century but since then it's made a comeback.
How exactly is it outrageous? You are there to deliver the message in a meaningful way, not to recite such message from memory. This is no theater or the cinema where you are playing a role and must be entirely authentic as a result.

Sure, literally reading entire thing from your notes in front of your audience is bad form as it fails to build the captivating presentation. It is just distracting for those listening.

But damn if this cannot ever work for the online presentation where the speaker isn't visible.
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Everyone else has covered some good places to get started reading and learning, but eventually you'll have to twist some knobs on your own. Assuming you do go down this path, I want to throw out a suggestion.

If you get into synthesizers and music production, I highly recommend picking up a couple of Korg Volcas. They're not fancy, you won't impress any synth musicians with them, but their design is wonderfully fun. They often get overlooked by "serious" bloopmakers; they're a bit limited in capability, inexpensive, and the sound quality (noise floor especially) is not that of a high end synth. But their immediacy, learning curve, and common design makes it very easy and fun to play with. I can get someone who's never played any music in their life to start making beats and dance rhythms with me in under an hour. Elektron has some similar devices in the Models line, but their learning curve (and capabilities) are greater.

If I had $800 to spend on gear, I would much rather have 3 volcas covering rhythm, bass, and lead, and a mixer and recorder, than a single mid-range synth. I'd be able to make more professional sounding tunes with just a license for a major DAW (and maybe one piece of hardware with the leftover cash), but the fun factor and joy of beat crafting would be far greater.

Basically I'm a huge fanboy of Tatsuya Takahashi, a man who went to Korg with a home-built synth from his engineering degree's final year, got a job, and ended up causing a relatively large shift in the industry. There's an interview with him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb_-q5GKxK4
Wow.

This is amazing, and so incredibly and refreshingly honest. This helps to repair some of the damage that FIRE bloggers have done to my professional motivation. I have been feeling the isolation during COVID and his description of the isolation than comes from hitting the career off switch really hits home. I have some thinking to do.
Underdog really amazed me with their videos over the past few months!
Quality tips and tricks.
I really don’t like how he tries to diminish his partner’s feeling about “falling behind” as some mirage created by Instagram and classism. I think it’s pretty uncontroversial that most people don’t want to live on $30k/year for their entire life when they could maybe work and get more.

Though maybe this is colored by the relevation that follows shortly thereafter. To me it shows an unwillingness to think critically about this. It sounds like his partner communicated with him changes she wanted to make (go back to work and not live like college students) and he just ignored them because he thought they were stupid.
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From the gist:

> We have until Friday 7th September to upgrade to Elm 0.19.

I'm completely ignorant about the transition, but I'm curious what the source of this deadline was. Would you mind expanding?
The big issue with bacterial resistance to antibiotics is that there's a quite limited number of antibiotics, sometimes ~one that works without terrible side effects, so resistance is a _big_ deal.

Vaccines don't work like that, there's an effectively unlimited number of vaccines, because they're tailored to the virus. It's still a problem if a virus mutates around your vaccine, but you're not worse off for trying.

I am not a virologist, but it doesn't seem to make common sense to me that we're safer if we let a virus spread and just treat it, instead of vaccinating. The more of the virus that's out there, spreading and multiplying, the greater the opportunity for problematic mutations to develop/spread.

That also assumes that there's a good treatment, and sufficient capacity to treat everyone quickly, otherwise there's really not a choice there.
If you need real security through isolation, try Qubes OS.
Because we want that big vison to become true where there's a dedicated tool for hybrid teams that's employee-first. Improving Social Relationships between people in a company is no easy thing! Hopefully and with our team's hard work it'll be a big thing
https://sqwok.im is new but not that many people yet, still being worked on
> But will all these new vaccinations cause a virus to adapt to be more viral, similarly to how antibiotics has the potential to make bacteria resistant?

Maybe, but it's not a big deal.[1]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/51/12878
I don’t think anyone is arguing 20-somethings should be getting the vaccine for (their own) risk of ending up dead.

The risk is low but not even healthy 20 year olds should disregard a 2/10000 risk of preventable death.
This will only affect the flow of new, mined bitcoins which are a small percentage of the total supply. Bitcoin's protocol also has a difficulty adjustment built into it, so when hashrate goes down mining difficulty goes down to compensate so the rate of new bitcoins being mined stays pretty even over time.
I'm quite fond of multitail.

https://manpages.debian.org/experimental/multitail/multitail...
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> This is setting a precedent where instead of treating disease now, we will preemptively vaccinate

This isn't setting any precedent. Polio, tetanus, hepatitis A/B, rubella, measles... Quite a lot of diseases where vaccination is the preferred method versus better treatment.
The sample size you need also depends on variance and the presence of confounding variables. It’s impossible to say whether n is “big enough” in the abstract; it depends completely on what you are measuring and how you measure it.
At one point, Mozy which was another backup service acquired by EMC went from unlimited to flat rate up to some limit and then charged incrementally, effectively "firing" their heavy users. I wasn't even that extreme and it made Mozy very economically unattractive to me.

Backblaze knows the numbers and I don't but it's certainly possible that the heaviest users don't cost them that much relative to the benefits of being truly unlimited without much fine print.
Personally, very very personally, I don't like the look, I prefer all my apps to be themed by the OS and to use the underlying widgets. That's not how FF is built though but that's okay since when they do bring change like that I still can user userchrome (I still can user userChrome, right ?) /meme.
It seems predicated on the assumption that Krav makes you a less skilled/unskilled striker/grappler when compared to say MMA or others, but I don't see any reason why this would be the case?

So where are all the successful Krav-trained strikers and grapplers in the MMA world? If the striking and grappling are as effective as other styles that have stood the test of time, it's remarkable that there are still few if any high-level MMA fighters with a Krav background.

Anyone who practices Krav on a regular basis and learns the techniques well can become a skilled striker, grappler, etc., in which case they will have an advantage over a straight MMA fighter of the same level simply because the Krav practitioner will be trained in very harmful attacks that MMA disallows (i.e., groin shots, eye attacks, etc.).

Leaving aside your questionable claim that groin shots and eye attacks are very harmful, all of this would only be true if the time the Krav fighter invested in training those other techniques was not at the expense of the basic striking and grappling skills.

However the big practical problem with techniques like joint locks and targeting soft spots isn't that they can't work, it's that training them to the level where they can work effectively often requires much more time to build up much more skill than just punching the other guy in the face as hard as you can or executing a basic takedown and hold on the ground. If you'd just spent that much time practising the simple, reliable striking and grappling techniques, you might get a lot more bang for your buck.
He's also riding the transfers between stage start and end points. Sometimes there can be 100 miles or more between where one stage ends and the next one begins. This largely happens when the race moves from mountain racing to flatter courses.

The competitors take a team bus.
One's attitude towards Elm directly correlates with the degree to which one likes to dig into and tinker with the internals of their tools and frameworks and rearrange things. Unfortunately that means it's a hard sell around HN-- in a way it's antithetical to "hackers". But I don't think it's antithetical to John Carmack's proverbial "engineer"-- someone who wants to do what they can do with what they've actually got. Elm lets me do what I want to do, exceedingly efficiently and makes it fun, and that should make it a good choice for plenty of projects.
I always struggle with grasping the reasonong behind this universal rebuttal. Yes, I was. So?
Great! Good to know that he seems to care so much about this that he even posts some kind of research videos about it. Good job!
> As much some people would like to fancy themselves as coldly logical automatons

If anything, seeing oneself as a logical, emotionless automaton is one of the reasons for burnout and depression.
> the vaccine produces way fewer antibody targets than the actual virus

This is not necessarily true. It depends. People in my family who took the vaccine and had visible side efects (headaches, fever) for a day or two have more antibodies than other acquaintances who got hospitalized with the disease.
So based on the Learn more link it basically now follows what links do. It'll have been better if images and links had a different option. (And it'll have been much better if View image hadn't been removed.)
I mean sure, but realistically speaking, how can we afford to continue supporting Firefox? I can't make a plea to the CTO of "Please let us keep investing money in compatibility because it may have a minor impact on the open web."

Firefox is in a downward trajectory for marketshare and mindshare. I would love to hear a realistic solution to this problem. Maybe switching to WebKit?
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This is a surprisingly good article. Most of the time when the mainstream press covers the chess world there are just too many inaccuracies in the reporting.
But that's the point. Burnout is not one of those things about the people's opinion is the fact. People often are completely wrong about they being stressed at the exact moment you ask them, and burnout is about the kind of long-term experience that people are really bad at measuring.

Besides, even "do you like chocolate" is a very bad question to ask if you want to take any actionable conclusion from your data, or even if you want to sum your anecdotes up. You can't go asking people "do you like chocolate" and expect to know how much chocolate they will decide to eat, for example.
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I have tested and still works even with actual and a bit obscure software
"Built-in" is a odd word choice there. Kafka Streams is a framework for building stream-processing applications on top of Kafka topics.
Strongly disagree with editors that make this decision. I don't care what field they're professionals in, I think it's wrong.

You end a sentence with a period. The quote is within the sentence. It doesn't make sense to update the quote. A quote may be a fragment, a sentence, or multiple sentences.
You do have to watch out for that. IIRC that effect was behind the widely-reported "one drink a day is measurably better for you than never drinking!" thing, which turned out to be wrong—chronically ill people are more likely to teetotal, for obvious reasons, and also way more likely to die young than a healthy, drinks-sometimes peer—the causality was backwards, healthy people are more likely to drink. If anything, the actual results emphasize just how extremely bad drinking more than very occasionally is for your health, given at what low levels it overwhelms that large selection bias.

[EDIT] IIRC it's also the mechanism behind the "people who walk slower have higher mortality rates" thing. It's because people who are already sick or feel bad walk slower, and people who are sick or feel bad are more likely to die, and that wasn't well-controlled-for, not because being a slower walker per se makes you more likely to die, at least not to such a high degree as was reported.
Very cool! My friends and I built https://m8l.me/ which is very similar and we've been using it for the past year. Instead of forwarding to email address like maildog, m8l.me forwards all emails to your server (or any server) as a POST request. If you don't receive many emails a month you could use the free AWS EC2 instance and store the emails in sqlite, thereby creating unlimited custom email addresses on your domain for free.
using some several times a week, used to design some and built many

to be fully pedantic, simulation is often called virtual analog :)

random thoughts:

- ableton had some synthesis lessons with interactive demos.

- modular is great to learn cv/patching basics

- moog werkstat is cheap and patchable

- you can certainly find old second hand doepffer modules for a bargain (modular is very expensive)

- VCV rack will give you the same experience, on your computer, for free

- not exactly the same experience actually, turning a knob and having 1000 dancing and shooting in front of u is always a nice experience, try that sweep with a mouse cursor

- similarly, having a failed cable, among many, in front of same audience is nicely terrifying:)

- if you're ready to spend nights burning yourself with a soldering iron, there's a lot of ressources for "synth diy".

- analog used to sound better due to non-linearities and harmonics, nowadays good (and expensive) plugins achieve impressive results but requires massive cpu

- it's much funnier to travel with suitcases full of very expensive gear rather than just a computer. who doesn't dream of TSA destroying your most valuable belongings:)
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I'm in a similar boat. Not outrageously rich, but rich enough that I won't spend it all before I die. Work in a highly lucrative industry, which bores the hell out of me. I took a couple years off. Built a house, moved in, then.... I was definitely hit with a lack of purpose. I'm back to work now at old career trying to figure out "what to do with my life" again.

There was a Catch-22 for me, in that "working" at any organization for any normal sized paycheck just seemed ridiculous if it didn't 100% hit on all the "passion" buttons. And honestly, no organization will be free of BS that makes work work. So making that tradeoff became REALLY hard.

So I decided that if I was going to work, I should just make a ton of money. At least the bank account fills while I search for the next thing.
Imagine my surprise to learn that this is Good For Bitcoin.
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Yes, but I was talking more about "passing on" the knowledge/experience (as opposed to losing it and start anew).

Regarding your "The One Way", sometimes that one way is actually the one that works better, as it was developed and fine tuned over the years by a dedicated programmer that had constant feedback by users.

Probably that ballroom dancing software had a way to input (or present/output) data in a form that makes sense to the users.

When suddenly comes the new (otherwise brilliant) programmer that - knowing nothing on the specific field - invents his/her own way to input data or render it that the users find awkward or slower or less intuitive or whatever, with the new program that cannot import old data (or imports partially), that cannot use the same B&W printer because the output is highlighted with colours and not with bolding/underlining, etc..

No surprise that the users of the old software (if it is still working) won't jump on the new bandwagon.
> But chrome uses the GPU a lot more

[citation needed]

Firefox page rendering is GPU accelerated. It's called WebRender. Your information seems to be out of date.

Article from 2017 when WebRender was still being prepared for release: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

Current platform support list, which seems to be "almost everyone": https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where