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This is a dead thread; I assume nobody but you will see this. Though that might dilute what I’m about to say, given this is a public forum, I still wanted to say, emphatically, thank you. I bought a copy of Sontag’s On Photography on the back of your comment. It is one of the more worldview-changing books I have read in a long time.
MPE is not a MIDI 2.0 improvement.

MPE is already implemented with MIDI 1.0.

The only limitation of using channels for MPE is that you can't daisy-chain MPE devices... Which nobody really does anyway (most of my gear doesn't even have a THRU port).
Inflation is an increase in the price level and wages are a price too. This means, in principle, we should expect wages to increase at the same rate as other prices, all else equal. In practice wages will not always move with inflation perfectly, because again wages are prices and prices are influenced by demand and supply, in addition to changes in the price level.
Not only will police occasionally destroy vehicles in a search without being liable for the damages, often any insurance policies also do not cover it. You can do absolutely nothing wrong and obey the law and buy comprehensive coverage and gap insurance and still have your vehicle destroyed by the cops because they managed to convince a dog to scratch your paint, and you're the one that's stuck with a totalled vehicle and a huge loan to pay off.

https://reason.com/2021/04/23/the-cops-trashed-her-house-she...
https://jalopnik.com/new-jersey-cops-destroy-bmw-searching-f...
The positive "alternative" presented at the end seems like a friendly veneer over the same dystopia.

Having an AI referee permanently embedded in my spine ready to cut motor functions at the first detected bad behavior sounds almost as hellish as the first scenario in that story.
Agree, there’s plenty to factor into the “build a home” equation. The billion or two living in these climates also have to deal with serious bug-borne diseases. How do we get to cheap, sustainable building materials that also consider bugs or other important local requirements.
MacBook Pro 2021 Review: Nearly Perfect Back-to-the-Future Laptops
But whether or not you call it "evil", it is a moral failure, and deep down most people, including Facebook employees, know what they're doing is wrong. They look the other way, or shrug and say Everyone else is doing it, why should I lose out?, etc. Likewise most Google employees aren't proud that their high salaries are paid by advertising and the personal data collection for it -- deep down they know its a deal with the devil.
no I edited my questions, not his answers at all. made that clear in the piece. sure, i'll see where I can post it somehow
Mantle was released ~1 year before Metal.
I don't think a rise in corporate power and a fall of nation state power makes sense.

At some point, some group is going to need to have a monopoly on violence. It doesn't matter if two groups of power don't have complete dominance over a geographic region, they are still two groups with power that look after their own kind and perform diplomacy.
How to bypass Grammarly, Copyleaks and many other plagiarism checkers
Replacing the characters i, a, e, o, p, c, x in the text with similar ones in the Ukrainian keyboard layout leads to the fact that plagiarism detectors (Grammarly plagiarism checker and others) skip such text, mark it as unique (without any plagiarism) and do not even signal that the characters have been replaced with Cyrillic ones. The text with replaced characters looks natural and has original readability.

I think that my report is a pretty interesting case and will be useful for many IT guys and companies that are playing in the plagiarism checking market.
1st amendment is explicitly restricting government, I don't think it is codifying some real situation of tolerance in society that once occured into law. There may have never been such universal tolerance in U.S., maybe there was an idea of it. Your examples are not good - HN is private website, 1st amendment was passed by a small group of elites, maybe with good intentions, but hardly because of tolerant society.

I agree with you on the argument "paradox of tolerance" - it talks about an extreme situation that mostly does not happen, as a reason for general policy. This argument seems often misused as a reason to come down hard on any speech that is objectionable to some group.

More sane policy would be to adopt a default of free speech, be tolerant, and only then decide on exceptions on case by case basis, like about promoting Nazism in Europe. I don't think promoting Nazism should be protected the same way other free speech is, because of the concrete example of tragic consequences we have where it lead and the cost whole world had to pay.
Yes. And no, I would not assume that your ISP is doing it.
How dare these individuals subvert well-meant racism? /s
What happened to OSC?
The government's job is to defend individual liberties. Full stop.

The rest is fluff that should be put down with violence if necessary.
Taxing people won’t make housing cheaper, it has nothing to do with the healthcare crisis and it won’t fix political corruption. Limousine liberals such as you are disconnected from reality and think that the solution to everything is to throw money at it.
Are you saying that you have been upgrading the same install since 1999 without having to ever reinstall from scratch? I find that to be impressive. Does it take a massive amount of effort?
Me thinks I'm spending too much time on HN lately.

On the other hand, thank God it wasn't that kind of startup.
Is it worth lying about your race for job applications too?
Tangena
Yeah, it was great. Until I fucked both of my knees and my back, and have been in pain ever since. It affected me mentally, as well lol.

No one helped me, no one even thanked me.

Take the mental work. At least you can always exercise enough to be spared them physical injuries.
I can’t help but think these decisions are being made on some assumptions from data produced by buggy software algorithms…

Hopefully we’re doing better than that!
Number big, protocol better!

Ever heard of NRPN, my friend?

There's a reason why this part of the MIDI spec is rarely used. And the reason is that the musicians don't need it.

If you can hear stepping on your pitch bend or filter, it's not because MIDI, it's because the implementation on your device is stupid.
Zenzizenzizenzic – doeth represent the square of squares squaredly
> The fundamental problem is pitch resolution and that isn’t really addressed by having a better protocol for representing pitch and intonation.

But having 32 instead of 7 bits for pitch will give better pitch resolution, no? Or am I misunderstanding something?
5 Code Smells Every Solidity Dev Should Know
Replying to a past comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22188146):

> - Violins come last, and it doesn't really matter because they're lazy and they'll take a few hundred milliseconds to really kick in anyway.

I think the assumption that violins don't need strong staccato/marcato attacks is wrong. I've needed it in the past, and was unable to get it from soundfonts which only have slow-attack samples. This issue is omnipresent in off-the-shelf soundfonts, and I've also sometimes seen poor articulation in music I've heard made using commercial sound libraries (which I've never purchased or pirated so I can't judge myself).

As an example of a piece suffering from slow attacks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5VJt6jkaU is a nice remix, but feels sloppy because the flute, strings, and violin's 32nd notes are barely audible (goes from attack to release without reaching full volume) and smeared together.
How will this deal with temporary CPU starvation in long running connections? I am currently using concurrent-ruby's thread pool to run a few hundred Net-SSH Connections per process at the same time. This helped me to avoid most of these kind of issues.
Is anorexia the nexus of all online communities?
I wonder where they ever could have gotten the idea that this was okay and they’d suffer no consequences if caught.
Many white students lied about their race to improve chances of admission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011965 - Oct 2021 (182 comments)
Seventy-seven percent of white applicants who lied about their race on their application were accepted to those colleges.

Hm. What happens if applicants lie about gender?
European countries also have good and bad schools, they just don't constrain attendance geographically. Usually you only need good test scores to get into the better schools, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)
One of the nicer things about Linux is that it's just software. It's not trying to implement any corporate ownership over your hardware.
9% claimed to be Asian lmao
Given that the two sites explicitly link to each other, and the author's page on github.io points to both of them, it looks like the same person to me.
It won't. It will make certain small elements of music making a little easier, but there's nothing in Midi 2.0 that will fundamentally change what we can or cannot do in a way that will be noticeable in music in a broader sense. Compared to something like the advent of cheap digital recording, VST plugins, of fast computers, midi 2.0 is a drop in the bucket.

That said, I'm definitely looking forward to having it reduce the number of hacky workarounds we currently deal with to get high resolution data in convenient forms. Honestly to anyone not deep into the weeds on this stuff it will be meaningless.
>Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application.

I seriously have to wonder...is it possible that some of these applicants are confused about what the term 'Native American' signifies? E.g. confusing being 'from America' instead of a decedent of Indigenous peoples? It could be people taking advantage of the system, but it could also be due to ignorance.
Because it's infant level analysis, Epic doesn't have a unique competitive advantage because they have one popular game.

I know a company that has a very popular game (Minecraft) and they develop the premier game API DirectX. They also have a pretty popular game console, AR glasses, a well known operating system, etc. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be in a good position to make a play in this space.
Yea don’t underestimate the impact of youthfulness here. I’d be willing to bet that the same work you do now wouldn’t have the same impact it does today.

Though I will say, working in UPS facility during college definitely left me exhausted most days. I was an athlete in good shape, but it was still a very taxing job. Kept me in good shape though, which certainly helped stave off any of the psychological impact of a sedentary office job due to physiological changes in my body.
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The idea that a solution might not require an increase in taxes truly drives people nuts. It's a shame because it explains why the US government spends so much more on education and healthcare than other nations, yet we have such terrible outcomes. But when the only button you are willing to consider is "spend more!", then that's what you end up with -- a broken, bloated, system that is massively overfunded and that massively under-delivers.

I bet you're the type of person that sees a massive, broken software project and just declares "we need to spend more on this to deliver it ontime! Hire more people!"

But hey, maybe I'm wrong. 20% of the nation is employed in delivering healthcare, so if we increase that to 40%, maybe then we'll solve the problem. We must spend more, it's the moral thing to do! We spend triple the OECD on tertiary education, but hey, we really should bump that up to 6x and then we'll finally fix it!
Soviet-era film on Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever built (Russian)
And even that is not really a protocol problem. It's trivial for a device to implement "reset-on-disconnect".
You linked to an article about benchmarks and then talk about gaming performance.

The (sad) reality is that all pc games have been heavily optimized to run on Windows, which does create a pretty big performance difference which favors windows.

I prefer Linux for productivity work myself, but saying that it generally runs games better is just lying and setting people up for disappointment.
Probably the most common pre-industrial job was farmer, which is super repetitive. Imagine a task like tilling with a hoe, which would be a very repetitive and strong swinging motion.
I do not really understand this (I am not American): since race is declarative over there (and a formal thing at all), why someone would be accused to "lie" about their race?

I am white, blond with blue eyes but if saying that I am black gives me preferential treatment, I am certainly black.

Using stupid processes leads to stupid (and expected) behaviour.
In my mind resolving this is the next level for democracy.
All of this weird behavior is generally inet_aton. https://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_aton
The author lacks the understanding of the primary differentiator of Metaverse, which is presence. There are a lot of opportunities to achieve the feeling of "being there" with somebody. We don't know if Metaverse would be achieved but it is a pessimistic view to be content with the current state.
This should carry a (2009) in it's headline.

After Snow Leopard it went downhill with reliability and stability, but got new exciting features: iOS compatibility, yeah. No more x32 support, yeah! No more OpenGL support, yeah! New filesystem without identifier normalization, yeah! No more /use/local/bin/. No more kernel drivers.
Mail and mDNSResponder constantly crashing, and every new release the list keeps growing. The new Windows.
We're thinking about handling them in JS to avoid that. But other users want it the other way. Might have to do a poll.
>> You are downplaying reporting of +5% unemployment in 3 months

Maybe it is significant, but even if it was the author's data provides no context to evaluate the 3.9, 3.9, 4.3 million sequence.

>> the difference between now and 2019 is that unlike 2019 those persons were either reemployed or counted as unemployed…

Are you sure? I can't find this particular statement in the article. Did I miss something?

>> now 14M Americans (aged 18-34) are immediately removed from the workforce instead of being counted as unemployed.

Again, a single number with no context literally says nothing! If I came to you and said over the last three months our quantity of X increased by 400k from 3.9M, and and the total accumulation of some subset of X was now at 14M, do you have enough information to tell if this is unusually high, low or normal behaviour for X?
When it comes to creative/mental jobs, the most productive form of work I've found is start when you're ready and work until you lose focus (forcing it is where diminishing returns kick in). Expect that to mean days where you work for 3 hours straight and days where you work for 14 straight (or days where you do 2 in the morning, stop for 3 hours, then do 3 in the evening) but don't throw a tantrum when that flexes.

Employers would be blown away by how much better the output and quality of work would be if they just left people the hell alone (fire your managers). People would also focus less on petty BS because they'd be happy instead of acting like children clawing at an ideal that only exists in their head.

Assume people are lazy idiots and you'll get a bunch of lazy idiots. Assume they're smart and generally well-intentioned: put your sunglasses on. You'll get the occasional clown (who you fire) but most will respect you for not treating them like cattle.
If all you're doing is pumping SQL into json, you should either be generating code, or if you don't care about performance using a dynamic language with meta-programming techniques such that you write almost 0 code to achieve your results.
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He was a genius. I guess it's worth doing that if you don't have to spend a lot of time to go to the airport (e.g. you work in the airport).
There is a dongle for that! They call it “MIDI host”

Here’s first search result: https://www.midiplus.com.tw/en/product-detail/USB_MIDI_HOST/
That makes no difference. Apple has the resources to support two graphics APIs at once, and the detriment of not doing so has been setting in quite heavily. The game performance through MoltenVK says it all, really: perfectly powerful GPUs get imposed a 50-75% performance penalty when translating to Metal, which is pretty slow compared to similar systems (like DXVK).

If they aren't going to make Metal available on other, non-Apple systems, they should make Vulkan available at least. If they want to attract more cross-platform software, they need to start supporting better dev tooling. If Vulkan was available for Macs, most devs could simply set their build for ARMv8, target MacOS and compile their apps the same way they do for Windows, Linux, PS5, Xbox, Switch, Android, and even WASM. As it stands though, maintaining a separate codebase for a fraction of your users isn't very viable from a developer's perspective, which becomes glaringly obvious when you look out on the seemingly infinite graveyard of depreciated MacOS apps and games.
Whats the usecase of capacitor vs using a tool like pwabuilder.com to deploy pwas to the app stores?
Where else do you imagine the answer would come from?
Years ago, non-whites used to try to present as white. Latinos, Arabs, some Indians and lighter-skinned blacks would avoid the sun, try to use a white accent, and take white-sounding names. They were seeking advantage, because being seen as white was advantageous.

Today, we see the reverse. Whites try to identify as non-whites wherever they can. They're faking college applications, posting pistures of their skin tone on Twitter to justify their use of dark-skinned emojis, perming their hair to make afros, reverting from white names like Neil to ancestral names like Kamal. As before, they are seeking advantage, because being seen as non-white is advantageous.

And we're angry at them - for arrogating the special privileges of the non-whites.
i'd love to hear more about your thoughts on pipes. Any particular reason they don't sit right with you?
Or "DIY Hand-cranked Music Box Wooden Box + Hole Puncher + Paper Tapes": https://www.ebay.com/itm/182794446978
(and continuing to crawl a website that specifically forbids it through the standard robots.txt is a bit icky).

I find the idea you, in control of a server, can send someone data and then demand they erase it a bit ridiculous. If you want to control distribution then control it. Require a login to access any data you don't intend to be public.
It's advantage is that fact that it stores multiple orders of magnitude more energy than anything else, at a cost level that is orders of magnitude cheaper too. It's a matter of when, not if, hydrogen becomes the primary energy storage mechanism.

Storing hydrogen underground has existed for decades. It's already been accepted by people in the industry that this is a solved problem.
Well sure, if an external object hits your car above the CoM then it will roll. I suspect we're talking past each other, I was referring to the handling characteristics, not the response to an impact.
They probably meant two by fours with insulation (?) in between... I doubt anyone would expect these to outlast modern brick construction.
I want to make one thing clear from the outset - I want to get it. I want to get it because I want to restore my enthusiasm for tech. I want to understand how crypto and AR/VR are not a gimmick, a barren offshoot of human creativity that will lead nowhere.

> The value prop of VR and AR is remote social presence on par with f2f and full sensory override

Full sensory override how? VR (and VR-facilitated AR) can't even create an immersive visual experience at this point. It hasn't yet cracked the "3 dimensions" chestnut. You talk of "full sensory override" as if plugging into the brain stem was right around the corner (and was going to bring about that override).

If you did have full-sensory override, you might be onto something, but the way things are today, with the tech so inadequate, it seems like a non-starter. Full-sensory override, if it will come, will likely come from a completely different direction. Think lucid dreaming.

> The value prop of crypto is economic freedom

The kind of economic freedom where even your ability to get involved in crypto at all is fully dependent on centralized exchanges, and their approval of you as a client? That, or rummage around in your attic trying to find a spare power plant that has to be there somewhere, so that you can enter the game via mining.

I am sorry. I really would like to believe. But these hot technologies seem to come with insurmountable design flaws that have been there from day one, were still present at day one thousand, and will be there at day ten thousand. I think that is the reason for the broad skepticism.
An action figure of the "six million dollar man" (from a tv show). Though sadly I can't rule out a toy fetching that now adays.
What do you know about Dark Matter that would be insightful? Please share.
That's why it's important to have several TV stations and newspapers with different management in the same area. The actual enemy is corporate consolidation, both online and offline.
> Literally this article is about how on several important metrics, we don't overall have a higher standard of living.

Can you show where this is? All I can find is that by some estimates, some people spent less time doing certain things than they do today. That is not a "higher standard of living" unless you want a completely shallow and de-contextualized feel-good talking point.

Objectively improved standards of living over the 500+ year period in question: child mortality, caloric availability, adult literacy, crime, sanitation, understanding what _germs_ are... the list really goes on and on and on.

It's not a conspiracy. People voted with their feet on this one.
Exactly. When you do this sort of work, your mind can wander. Compare to programming where you can't get anywhere if your mind wanders.

Of course it's hard on your body and it pays a lot worse.
Right?

MIDI 2.0 sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

MIDI 1.0 addressed the problem of connecting any two electronic music devices to each other.

MIDI 2.0 seems to un-solve it.
Am I the only one who loves the meme that Foone hates being on the front page and always ends up on the front page? :D
Thank you, I guess I didn't look deep enough!
nit: John Haney is from Longmont, CO, not Longmount, CO.
While true, without advancements in modern healthcare, many of the disabilities people go through life with today would result in a much earlier death. Cystic fibrosis for example is to this day incredulously expensive to treat but with a much greater life expectancy than during the heyday of the Iroquois.
Tinkering with a computer is not the only real creativity, you can also actually use it. GarageBand would have been a dream when I was a child.
...So they got architecture degrees and jobs designing buildings to spread communism?
I think if you do enough workout, your body can burn all kinds of those foods.
I wonder if this “more sealed boot loader” will make it more difficult to dual boot Linux and MacOS? Curious if the Ashai Linux devs have a plan for this.
IME you just stop going there or whitelist the required scripts.
I thought the whole point of using windows is an insanely long backwards compatibility and future support window? Hence the name windowS? :)