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Hehe, I'd much rather be known as 'the pianojacq.com guy' than 'the webcam guy' :) Thank you for making my day.

Accordion is going to be very tricky. I've been toying around with synthesizing the notes/chords and then to compare the spectrum with the microphone input, that just might work for accordion as well though those tines tend to have lots of harmonics that may make that harder than it seems. I haven't gotten this to work for piano yet, the idea is to have a 'virtual midi' device that just listens to the microphone and turns everything it hears into note on/off pairs. That way you could use the site with non-midi instruments.

Agreed on sheetmusic reading skills being useful. For accordion jazz lead sheets might be useful as well.

> the key to learning piano/accordion is practicing scales and chords more or less relentlessly _before_ trying to play anything more complex than Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Yes... it is also stupendously boring which I think is why a lot of people get turned off from practicing. There has to be some way to make this fun.

> Once you get the hang of them, and spend a lot of time playing around with them in various combinations, finding the melody of any given song by ear is quite often trivial.

Picking out the lead is trivial, picking out all of the chords is not (at least, not for me!).

> And for what it's worth, the piano can be a monophonic instrument too. :)

That's very true :)

> On the accordion, I'm still somewhat inexperienced so I generally only play one note at a time on the piano side. Which I can get away with and still sound decent because the bass side of the instrument is far easier to play and sound good on than the piano side. Put together, they sound passable even if you barely know what you're doing (like me!).

My dad was very good at the accordion, he could play both the clavier one and the 'button' style (chromatic) one. He's long dead so I can't ask him for any tips.
Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Goddard, and Roger Ebert made movies and wrote film criticism.
The great lakes are filled with species of fish we associate with salt water, however.

Steelhead, Salmon, Lampreys, Goby, Sturgeon, Cod (burbot), Drum
I am simply amazed by how much money this company makes. Nice boost to Mac business with the new Macbook Pros selling like hotcakes and OOS constantly.
Look, if you want to expand the definition of slavery to include the power to levy taxes on income, fine, but you aren't speaking the same language as most people at that point and no productive conversation can happen without a shared language.
PHI must only be collected on platforms that are certified for PHI. Collection PHI on platforms not certified for PHI is a HIPAA violation and a good way to get sued for all of your dollars x10, as well as criminal proceedings.

Fully-anonymized PHI can be analyzed on anything but the anonymization process must also be certified to have a reasonably low risk of re-identification when combined with other (arbitrary) datasets.

(source: I used to implement and certify PHI data collection platforms.)
You might enjoy 17776 [0], a mixed media fiction piece by the same author, which does not include large scale space battles but does generally take place in space (and is also discussed elsewhere in this thread). :-)

[0]: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1
We should definitely watch out. There’s not mushroom on this planet.
There's nothing in Filecoin to ensure that your data is stored by a reputable party. Even if you store on ten replicas, they could all be the same lowest bidder in the same datacenter.
How does the GC know there aren't any cyclic references in there to avoid tracing all the pointers the same way?

nb if it used an arena allocator then it could simply not do anything on free as long as it was acceptable to reclaim the memory later.
It wasn't even questionably legal for 4 years where it was publicly known to be illegal let alone the length of time before that while it was operating in secret. That would be like saying drinking alcohol during prohibition was questionably legal which is flat out wrong no matter your morality.

I can guarantee you that 1 in 400 of our projects by budget at my work aren't ilegal or could even have questions raised about their legality. Like most companies if we found a project that was illegal or found an employee was routinely breaking local law to do his job that would be fixed immediately not in 4 years while we waited for it to become legal. And if it turned out I was wrong and people where purposefully commiting crimes against my fellow countrymen I'd be cheering the whistleblower who brought it to light while looking for a different job that wasn't such a cesspit of moral compromise.

The silliest part about your statements is you seem to be ignoring the problem by focusinng on only (I won't even say positives because your just saying it is no longer illegal and that there is no up to the minute evidence from inside a secret organization) the neutrals in the situation. You're doing the equivalent of saying yes the arsonist set fires and destroyed 1000s of acres but isn't the sunset pretty because of the smoke. Oh and look the firetrucks put out the fire after only a couple of hikers died. Plus people did want to do a controlled burn of that forest at some point so we shouldn't take away his lighter and certainly shouldn't charge him.
I don’t remember much about it but they even had a bootloader called Open Firmware. Assuming its not a joke, GP has it dead wrong.
Spec us out a full comparable system and show benchmarks.
California can't solve its water crisis because solving its water crisis would be bad for the people and organizations profiting from being in charge of it.
> Because they’re the top paying tech company it attracts people who work for money and nothing more

Thats most (big) tech companies
So large solar farms are usually single-axis tracking, which provides a huge energy production benefit over static panels. Consider this panel's application more for a standalone installment, where it could make sense to use a dual-axis tracking panel over a single-axis or static panel. Re: solar farms and cost, I actually learned that around ~70% of the cost of solar installation is soft costs, not the actual panels/solar cells etc. Applying RL to much larger installations would be about finding non-obvious ways to leverage the single-axis tracking when the sun is not directly overheard. A fun problem for the future :)
> Now I have a (very basic) Yamaha keyboard, which I thought I would learn to play "at some point". It's been years since I last touched it.

If you have a free moment and you have your keyboard hooked up to the computer use Chrome and give pianojacq.com a try, let me know if I can help somehow.
When combined with Apple Pencil it’s the best digital note taking device. I hardly need to use pen and paper any more. Note taking, reading books and watching videos, playing board games makes it’s a fun and work device. YMMV.
I'm extremely confident that a US retailer using eink price tags would quickly find all their tags stolen or broken and then go back to paper.
Thank you! RL will eat the world. I'm applying it to batteries optimization next
> It's just that when you try to follow new people then they get a prompt to decide if they want to let you do that first, effectively making their profiles default-private.

Not exactly. Requiring follow requests be approved, and defaulting new posts to other than fully public status, both exist as orthogonal profile settings in Mastodon and all forks of which I'm aware.

I don't have any specific familiarity on the Inditoot situation, but it sounds like the action taken by mastodon.social admins amounted to effectively overriding the "follow requests have to be approved" setting to true specifically for requests from Inditoot members. That seems fairly reasonable to me, too.
> But I personally think the success criteria I've specified is not debatable

I take it as you see "success" in terms of programming languages as something objective then, not subjective?
Apple posts big beat and 9% revenue pop, authorizes $90B buyback
>The value to the consumer was provided by the company in Illinois, the value to the company was provided by an employee residing in California.

The value to the company was provided in Illinois, with bits inside of Illinois. The company doesn't value bits inside California that it cannot access. They compensated for bits they can actually access within Illinois.

>Why would the intellectual property the employee generated be worth nothing simply by originating in California?

It may be worth something to someone in California before it's exported, but that transaction never happened. In this case though the actual transaction took place in exchange for a product inside Illinois.

>In other words, if a bottle manufacturer in Illinois sourced raw glass pellets from a plant they owned in California, they would be deriving value from a source in California. The glass is not worthless because it hasn’t been converted into bottles yet.

This is actually a great example. I buy ammunition online from a company in Oklahoma, where all the business and employees of the ammunition company resides. Yet I pay sales tax here in <my state> based on recent court rulings regarding 'internet sales tax' which state the tax is where the transaction took place (/the finished product goes to), not where the company and/or workers physically resides. It wouldn't make sense at all for me to pay sales tax to Oklahoma, even though the ammunition and even all the physical presence was initially generated there. I pay sales tax where the transaction and actual value to me, the buyer of the goods, actually are. Using the same analogy from this court ruling, you would pay tax on the IP you bought in Illinois and not where it was initially produced California.

>The employee is providing intellectual property across state lines, which is why the state can enforce laws on that value that originated from within their jurisdiction.

The employer is buying IP within their state lines of Illinois. You may be arguing the 'employee' is actually misclassified and is an illegal exporter who is a business owner in California with an export and bit smuggling business. Go after this 'employee' (bit smuggler), not the person buying bits in Illinois.
What kind of products could you package using this material that you couldn’t package in cardboard?
Patent examiners can look basically anywhere a member of the public can and some other places.

The internal search tools check a lot of patent databases and are quite good, but take time to learn.

The USPTO has a lot of subscription databases as well, including fancy AI/ML-based ones.

Many examiners will also search normal search engines like Google, though this can be tricky for legal reasons. If the application was not published yet then examiners are not allowed to get very specific in the search and other search engines as that could release confidential information to the search engine. The USPTO has agreements with the subscription databases to keep the searches confidential but no such agreement exists with Google.

In my view making new search tools like https://www.priorartarchive.org/ would not help the situation too much. It would be better to integrate more databases into the existing USPTO tools, as they are designed for serious power-searchers, and would make the new databases more visible. The internal search tool is much faster than the alternatives and operates by keyboard. Point-and-click search is much slower by its nature. Speed really is critical when time constrained and I think that is something not appreciated outside of patent organizations.
I wasn’t super clear, but you need to stand at the trunk for this feature to operate. It then gives you a few seconds before opening the lift gate.
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I happily use formspark.io for both Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/contact), The Low-tech Guys (https://lowtechguys.com/contact) and my personal website (https://alinpanaitiu.com/contact).
A contact form that's customizable with simple HTML inputs, gets redirected to your email, and you can just reply to that email to begin a discussion with that user.
I've had great success with it, users know how to use it, they're happy when they get a prompt response and they like the privacy (as opposed to having to create a public post on forums/Github/Discord).

You also get free bot protection with botpoison or the usual captcha. There are some false positives as usual, which is why I also have a Discord server running for the apps. But Formspark goes 99% of the way and it's incredibly cheap with a free option.

EDIT:

I see you're mostly looking for a way to reach your users instead of letting the users reach you. I feel that's not something most users want. I almost never like when I get an unsolicited email after I start using an app, and unsubscribe instantly.

It's better to provide good documentation (maybe a simple organized markdown page to start with), and one as clear as possible first page.

People will reach you when they need more info and you can update the website and documentation based on the feedback to minimize the repetitive interactions.
A while ago I had an iPad, didn’t like it because of its limitations, and sold it. Now I have an iPad and love it despite its limitations. I think iPadOS still has a way to go, but it’s definitely progressing for me.
Thanks to GrapheneOS.org for running their own NTP implementation.
> one has to assume that the ultimate direction is for some sort of convergence of iPad and MacBook

Why?
If that were true, someone would have been charged by now, and I'm not talking about the desperate misdemeanor charges they've been pulling out of their asses to save face.
I assume Amazon is trying to jettison retail since it is a sub 5% profit margin business. A lot of work for not much gain.

They would rather be in the AWS/logistics platform/music/video business.
Amazon shares fall on weak forecast and slowest growth since dot-com bust
Yea I mean all crowded public places suck if you’re trying enjoy the scenery and relax… I don’t think this product would make it any worse. There’s already plenty of ways to make a lot of noise and annoy folks.
Whose generation?
Some things to think about.
I personally know of a friend who walked into a Dr. office in the "top hospital" in Chicago, described her symptoms, and the Dr. without making eye contact, or saying anything, pulled out his smartphone, and googled every symptom she described. Then he said something like "lose 15 lbs. and come back if its still an issue". :-P

More importantly though, when deferring to "experts" in medical practice, you should ask yourself, "has the amount of money we've spent and 'expert training' these practitioners have gotten, and the 'breakthroughs in medicine' that they claim have occurred over the last 80 years, resulted in a statistically significant and measurable positive patient outcome?" What I'm seeing is, since the advent of hospitalization and deferral to medical 'experts', we've as a society, become much more fragile, non-resilient, addicted, overweight, and unhealthy.
But at what level of increased cancer risk do you draw the line? 2x higher risk? 5 / 100 000 higher incidence? Whatever you pick, it won't be the risk level that is acceptable to everyone (as the pandemic shows, people have different tolerance to risk). I think I prefer a world where the consumer is given more information, ideally with sufficient context to make an informed choice.
Is the fediverse a new social network or a concept? I think there is hope for it as a general concept if, for example, the US government gets mad at someone like Facebook and requires them and other social networks/messaging platforms to make their content available through standard interfaces. It could be something like RSS for posts and other appropriate standards for chat, audio calls, video calls, etc. Then someone on [insert fledgling social network here] could "follow" someone on Facebook and someone on What's App could text someone on WeChat.
>Trusting a central authority (bank)

Strawman?

A bank is not a central authority any more than large mining pools are central authorities. Or China (when it controlled enough BTC to double spend at will).

The banking system is vastly distributed. Trust is a giant network of accountants, central banks, regulators, investors, and lots more that help ensure there is no double spending. There are checks all throughout the system, ledgers, reports, audit trails, and, unlike BTC, when something is actually stolen, lots of protections and methods to claw back stolen money.

BTC can be double spent via majority control, so double spend protection is at best a statistical claim, just like real banking.

A large problem with Bitcoin is developers were unaware of modern (or even ancient) banking and money systems and have tried to reinvent simple money with all the same problems that mankind moved from millennia ago.

Then people unaware of the why of modern money systems think crypto solves an important problem that modern economies and users don't care about, while ignoring all the problems modern systems solved as if they don't exist.

And honestly, in all my life, I have never heard of anyone in the normal banking system double spend. So chalk one more up to the Bitcoin make believe event crowd. How many double spend events have you performed in your entire life via normal banking?
iPad has so much potential with M1 now. They can make it a hybrid with iOS and MacOS for example. In fact, I’d be shocked if that’s not what they end up doing with the M2 line of iPad Pros.
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Thank you for your kind words.
I do indeed still work on networking stuff.
> the net effect of imports on GDP is zero

Correct [1]. Net exports is a non-zero component of GDP, but "the imports variable (M) correct[s] for the value of imports that have already been counted as personal consumption (C), gross private investment (I), or government purchases (G)" [2].

[1] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/09/do-imports-subtract-...

[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2018...
>> That, of course, immediately raises the question of why, then, this was not done.

> Which I raised in the antecedent post.

You did, in the sense that you wrote "I've never seen an explanation for why this mistake was made." That does not mean it is somehow wrong for me to also make that point as a prelude to continuing that line of thought.

> I did not write that Boeing "did not have to" have dual sensor input...

And I did not say that you did. I pointed out that this would not be a full answer to the question that both of us raised.

> ...in my not-so-humble opinion additional simulator training would have been entirely unnecessary.

I very much doubt that Boeing was at all concerned about what you or I think. It is rather more plausible that it was concerned about what the FAA might think, especially if the FAA also understood the extent to which MCAS's power had been increased.

And nothing else you have written here has any bearing on the possible motives behind Boeing making a decision that you yourself call a mistake - one which was made before these incidents.
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Interesting, I actually perceive it to very much be society's problem, and do consider it my responsibility to promote mental and physical health in my community. I found this post [0] useful in considering the difference between entitlement and responsibility.

[0] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
The machinery in that case was shut down because it wasn't desirable in a residential area!

The confectioner was operating out of a house and the doctor wanted to practice out of a shed in his backyard.

So it would be entirely keeping with that outcome to declare that a park or whatever is intended for peaceful relaxation and ban noisy drones.

Of course you'd have to do it with a straight face knowing that the park already has young people in poorly muffled trucks zooming around all the time.
One form of this already exists: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/third-party-preiss...

Almost no one uses it, unfortunately.
He/she is probably a 10x engineer which means they get 20 effective hours of work done per day.
At one point the ancient Greek philosopher Thales took his (at the time extremely arcane) knowledge of weather patterns and managed to leverage that into great wealth by predicting the olive crops. Allegedly, he did this in response to a heckler who had asked why, if Thales was an intelligent famous philosopher, he had yet to attain wealth.

Thales was an all around great philosopher though, known to be one of the "seven sages" of ancient Athens. Amongst other feats, he managed to measure the height of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh when nobody else at the time could.
this. i also have had all of the above. once you talk to them and you are the developer of the software, be prepared for those users who will demand more features, that you fix bugs by tomorrow, that you do what they want, etc. i have had so much personal attacks and abuse i’ve stepped back and started bringing in other collaborators while i remain behind the scenes working on the software.
I mean, they are building their own processors now, and both the macbook and the iPad have the same processor. Why maintain two operating systems if one could work. I say that because obviously there are differences with iOS and MacOS, but apple controls both.
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Zoom interviews can potentially be a great enabler by altering your appearance and voice to the ones of the sexiest woman or man alive.
I choose free markets BECAUSE everyone is corrupt, not the other way around. Regulators, who are third parties to the transaction beholden to neither those seeking health care nor those offering it, are the most susceptible to corruption. Regulators need eliminated to reduce corruption, amongst other things.
Home insulation has a longer useful life than most packaging, but you're right that it still usually ends up in a landfill. However the current incentives for home insulation are very different - usually to reduce home heating/cooling costs and reduced energy consumption is usually an environmentally sound policy. Should there be further incentives to encourage insulation alternatives which have a more eco-friendly end of life? Absolutely. And that is likely a harder problem given the productive lifetime of an average home, but definitely a worthy place to also put further incentives.
The parent commenter, probably :)

Jokes aside, ... it's not uncommon in (such) large organizations to be in the lucky team and that's it. With all these people leaving, managers know how much you actually work, but it's a win win. If the guy works 2 hours a day but he is not a troublemaker, keep him. Hiring someone better has become harder.
Employees have not been treated well for a very long time and the stock performed just fine then.