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Most digital audio workstations (DAWs) support instrument and effect plugins. The industry has largely settled on the VST interface for this [1]. On Macs it's a bit more complicated [2], I believe you can use VSTs, but there's also Apple's AU plugins and AAX.

Logic Pro should support AU but not VST I think. There's an entire industry that makes and sells these plugins, preset packs, sample packs, and other services. For example, Roland makes a pro VST/AU plugin called Galaxias [3] which requires a subscription but gets you access to near perfect software reproductions of nearly their entire synth lineup.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology

2 - https://producerhive.com/buyer-guides/vst/au-vs-vst-differen...

3 - https://youtu.be/C3o-ATXh_AE
"Ready to try Wireskip? Choose from any free or paid plan"

Website has zero information about any of said plans or how to sign up for them or use them
At a prior company, there's a 3 digit year floating around when it shouldn't be a 3 digit year. no one knows why and or who owns it.
I laud your foreseen outcomes but we are far away from everything else we'd need.

ex: A scenario where large public halls are widely built for young workers.

An income to housing ratio that would allow people to make block-level housing choices.

Widely available, affordable, walkable neighborhoods.
As a former chemist and all-around maker, I love this and this bugs me all at once. I love the concept, but as others have pointed out, this is less a "periodic table" and more "grab bag of related things". You see these all over the place: foods, drinks, cars, etc. All table, no periodicity. Why are wrenches and drills strewn across three groups? Put the wrenches in one group, drills in the other. Impact drivers somewhere in between.

There's some vague grouping, but it's pretty hodge podge.

The way I would do it, is use electronegativity (tendency to give or remove electrons) as a proxy for additive/subtractive. Atomic weight is a proxy for actual weight/scale. Group I would be like clay forming (the OG additive process), concrete, FDM, SLS, injection molding, casting. Group II is a bit less additive, more bonding: hot glue, soldering, brazing, welding. Halogens hog out material: thermic lance, plasma cutter, laser, waterjet. Chalcogens: hand router, (power) router, lathe, mill.

Metrology doesn't add or subtract, so obviously that's your Noble group.

Transition metals are all the fasteners. Lanthanides/Actinides are all the weirdos. I'd also add a group for just the simple machines. I think it's more important to have groups, periodicity, and trends, than sticking to the exact shape/size of the periodic table of elements.

This is Theodore Gray too! Author of a bunch of books and posters on chemistry.

Well, you know what they say, if you want something done right...
Aardman Animations should buy the Newclay Products production site and IP.
I work on oracle dbs at a large non tech company. It is a great performant rdbms with poor tooling that I cannot believe they included for the licensing cost. Sqlplus could be great but totally isn’t good as a shell tool. Sqldeveloper is garbage. Python libraries and connection engines are solid for running anything automated. Dbeaver is a cool IDE alternative for clicking through tables.

From my experience across some MSSQL server, oracle, sqlite, and some non-professional postgres, the given database model trumps the underlying database tech when dealing with pains writing analytics reports. There are many options to mess up a model design or for feature extension to turn the model ugly.

Forget about building a new company on an oracle stack, the cost is prohibitive. The open source rdbms are very good and cloud providers have chosen their champions. But for a large legacy corporation with expensive, sensitive data, oracle makes sense. To an extent with a well trained dba the db is “self-documented”

Lol sometimes dbs aren’t exclusively used as a global web app backend for ultra scaling grocery delivery services or whatever. Sometimes db models persist for years and you need assurance that this tech is archival quality.

An aside, I think it’s funny the link you shared is a php site, another dinosaur!
Oops yes, that should have been -i '' with a space. But I see now that GNU doesn't accept -i '', or even -i .orig. It MUST be without a space: "-i.orig". The reason for that I assume is there's no way to disambiguate:

echo foo | sed -i pattern
echo foo | sed -i .orig

But you can still use "-i.orig"; that should work on both. That will leave you with a .orig file to clean up, but arguably that's not a bad thing as -i can clobber files.
Unfortunately in the US it’s a nonstarter because of the perceived privacy issues. People cannot wrap their heads around the fact that we already have a mandatory national ID, and therefore oppose what they see as the creation of one.

The core argument essentially boils down to the fact that they never use their social security number, therefore it’s not an id. Which is obviously incorrect for a number of reasons, but here we are.

The only real solution here is for the problem to get so bad that the angry majority overrules the loud but uninformed nut bars.
One annoying aspect to app push notifications is that my bank uses them to send marketing too.
Nope.

I must object to this paragraph: "To be honest, I’m not particularly convinced by the analytic arguments above. It’s only by using real data that I can understand the problem with the Dunning-Kruger effect. So let’s have a look at some real numbers."

He then goes on to use synthetic data.

Beyond that dishonest slight of hand, this is in the category of "one thought experiment didn't prove the phenomenon exists, therefore it must not exist" logical errors.
I just skimmed trough the article, but genuinely if someone has experience: Of all the either Linux or alternative OS phones out there, have someone had great experience with Camera Quality on these phones?

One thing that is keeping me from changing is the camera quality. I had a Huawei P30 pro and it was sick. Then i changed to the iPhone 13Pro and again, also top. But i still have not seen convincing hardware integration with good lenses on these mobiles.
Another crypo bro pitch that confuses curreny and investment. Gosh i wish some prominent bro would speak up and educate them about their fundamental contradiction because that delusion is the basis of the entire crypto "currency" landscape, it seems.
It may add up to 20 minutes if the waiting line is long.
That's the first time I see such kind of replys from a large project on github, I'm certainly not going to use this one in the future, that's for sure.

Edit: and there's a lot of similar ones if you go into the closed issues
However, I’m surprised they don’t protect us more against hacked phones. When each iPhone is 4,000mAh, it could cause quite a fire, let alone entire laptops.

Is the entire security theater based on the trust that terrorists won’t short-circuit batteries?
> And then came JavaScript. Well, along came real computer programming. It could have been Python or some other language, I think, but the transition to writing programs, even short bits of code, took the wind out of the students' excitement.

The big change here is the procedural (time/execution steps, mutable variables) nature of these languages. Functional programming can be taught from a declarative perspective which is more along the lines of HTML/CSS.
After the Boing 737 Max disaster you still believe plane manufacturers don't make crude mistakes?
Anecdotally, I mostly stopped using it, except for sport news and live threads.

The subreddit I moderate (100k subs) saw no lasting impact on traffic. We participated in the blackout for 2 or 3 days and then carried on as normal.

To be fair, it is a sub for a TV show, so the traffic is very seasonal. The blackout happened in the off-season, and now that the show is back we have a lot of traffic again.
Again, you've missed my point entirely. The reason for mentioning determinism was that I am telling you that the burden of proof for "DROP table1;" must be on someone who makes a claim such as yours, not me, and that such proof better come with some evidence, hence:

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/deterministic_outputs_w...

Now go find some instances where someone is presented with "rm -rf /" or "DROP table1;" when otherwise expecting a response to help with non-destructive commands!

For me, it is entirely unpredictable if the answer will be 100% correct, 95% correct or complete mansplaining bullshit.

Please, show me some evidence of this variance because it is either a bold or ignorant claim to say that the outputs are wildly unpredictable. 100% true vs "complete mansplaining bullshit". Run the numbers! Do 10,000 responses and analyze the results! Show me! I am completely unconvinced by your arguments based on direct experience with reality. You can easily change my mind by presenting me with reproducible evidence to the contrary of my beliefs and experiences.

Even if it may be close to the truth

This is just a classic motte-and-bailey fallacy... let me explain! The bailey is the claim that the outputs are "complete mansplaining bullshit", which is very hard to defend. The motte that you retreat to, "close to the truth", is exactly what I'm saying for prompts that are more of a translation from one language to another, English to bash, English to SQL, etc.

I have never claimed it would be 100% correct, just that the hallucinations are very predictable in nature (not in exactness, in nature). Here's an example of the kind of error:

Select name and row_id from table1 joined on table2 on table1_id.

SELECT table1.name, table2.row_id
FROM table1
JOIN table2 ON table1.table1_id = table2.table1_id;

Well, that should obviously be table1.row_id in the SELECT right? And I guess not super clear from the instructions, but standard that the JOIN should be table1.id Oopsie! Is it valid SQL? yes! Is it "complete mansplaining bullshit". Not. Even. Remotely.
What cities do you suggest west of the Rockies?
The linked article is pretty ridiculous. I am pretty sure it leaves out a lot of nuance from the underlying work - as these types of press releases normally do - but there is a bunch of stuff in there that just does not make sense.

First the taboo against consanguineous marriages was most likely because of genetic diseases. Biology may not have been very advanced, but people were smart enough to pick up on patterns. Similar to taboos against cannibalism despite having no concept of prion disease.

If this was pushed by the catholic church then explain Italian families!

Is “the hero’s journey” not a story about rugged individualism that has been told over and over in different forms across cultures since the beginning of history?
Ask HN: Direct report is a senior beginner
I was hired to manage a software development team that was said to be in deep trouble (lots of rework, bugs, production outages due to new releases, complete unknown backlog, etc).

This team is small and one member has been working at this company for 7 years. He was transferred from a few areas and ended up in this team, where management mostly left him alone.

On one hand, he requires a lot of handholding if you want to ensure good deliveries. You have to communicate extremely well or the tiniest uncertainty will push him into creating a really complex solution (this happened a few times in a couple of months). In this regard, he displays the knowledge of a junior engineer.

On the other hand, he has many years of experience and the "senior" title. The problem is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and just assumed things. Often, he will figuratively go into his cave and come out with something that lacks tests, documentation, doesn't meet performance, will require a lot of babysitting when it's deployed to production, etc... and he gets angry when people start asking questions (that's my job so he's angry at me often).

So he's an advanced beginner, for a lack of better term.

Any advice? How much time should I give for him to adapt?
Are you sure it was really a Chase representative on the phone with you? It’s sometimes possible to cause an account to be locked without being able to log in by doing too many login attempts.
Indeed. I would be shocked at a rapid recovery or no cyber attack in the first place. This is the natural outcome of how such systems are built and operated.
According to this article https://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-com... a researcher was able to take use cat6 ethernet from airplane entertainment module built into a seat.. So it depends.
You’re often taught that E=mc² but the fuller equation is actually E²=m₀²c⁴+p²c² where p is the momentum, so at high speeds mass fades into irrelevance and the velocity component of momentum becomes dominant.

EDIT in classical physics p=mv so you might wonder what I’m banging on about when mass appears linearly on both sides and on the first term is multiplied by c⁴ whereas in the second only by c². However relativistic momentum is classical momentum adjusted by the Lorenz transformation γ=1/√(1-[v/c]² so it actually dominates in the limit when v tends to c.

EDIT 2: the latter works out to be sigh c³vm₀/√(c²-v²) and it grows without bound as v→c so that’s the pedantic answer. The first term is linear the second term is anything but.
JavaScript as used in the web seems tough. I wouldn't recommend trying to teach the DOM internals.

IMO an intro course is about fundamentals--loops, functions, parameters, etc. Everything else is just obscuring what is important.

It's unfortunate that webdev, undoubtedly the most popular development today, is also the most obtuse.
But it was never about the performance or security, it was always about the applications. I can probably reduce the number of apps that I truly need and many can be replaced by open source alternatives, but I'd still have one or two that won't available outside the App Store or Play Store. I'm more attached to those apps than I am the operating system running on my phone, but that still doesn't help me escape the duopoly because large corporations, governments and banks enable Google and Apple.
So the big thing is that you can use the command line xcbuild and also often need access to the asset bundlers (which are not open source).
AirFrance and British Airways are not listed.
Do you write your software to use the small sensor from scratch or do you build on top of existing libraries?
nothing changed for me

we berated everyone that tried to bring that drama into our subreddits, it’s literally just a forum

the mods acknowledged that they have worse tools and that’s still true
> ‘No need to worry’: Wallace and Gromit studio reassures fans over clay ‘shortage’¹

1: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/21/wallace-and-gro...
There are actually some devices that could complete on paper specs, like the Beelink GTR7 or other small form-factors. Problem is, they are made by some chinese manufacturers, and even though Xiami is not a small company, the build quality can vary, and availability is completely random. Especially the Beelink one with the AMD 7840 chips seems to be vaporware - there were youtubers and magazines reviewing it a couple of month back, but I was unable to find a retailer that actually has it, and it seems to have gone away from the homepage. They are also probably not very big on support and returns.
The style might be, but the CSS isn't, seems there is css variables and flex usage, that's not web 2.0.
Only for the upper class. The lower class still has to go man the gas stations, grocery stores, warehouses, and factories.
I've found it works better to chunk by some logical sections in the document, e.g header h2 h3 h4 etc or 1.1 1.1.1 ... plus to be able to ignore some stuff (header and footer) plus other customizations.

At least for use cases where there are clusters of many similarly formatted documents, it would be cool to have a way of easily customizing chunking.
Were there many that seemed to have more difficulty with this introduction than if they were shown a procedural language, that you noticed?

My hunch is that to complete beginners a declarative approach is simpler than a 'play computer' mental simulation to coding. We shouldn't be initially shown what's effectively a Turing machine and save that for a later Theory of Computation or intro to procedural languages.
Somehow you never mentioned the climate catastrophe, which is one of the direct consequences of overpopulation and overconsumption. More children will definitely make it worse in the middle term, and we may not have time to fix that, making our children suffer a lot.
Except it is normal to have a nuclear family?

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...

It’s actually more common in the rest of the world than Europe and the US. It’s kind of crazy to say it’s WEIRD to expect nuclear families, when it’s the west that is the least likely (still the majority have nuclear families).
I used to use Reddit Sync. I uninstalled it when the API change happened. I don't miss it. But a while later I wondered if anything was still discussed on the subreddit and it seemed that people had found a workaround and were continuing to use the app. Not sure if it's still possible or possible with other apps.
Nintendo tends to have a "good-bad" cycle similar to Windows. The good phases help save the whole gaming industry.
What the actual hell is this? Have people really gone to this much effort to write a backstory for a comedic skit?
It's kind of hard to believe that measurable affects were found among the snails but it hasn't contributed to a case of cancer here or there over the years.

Human cancer that is, although I do feel for the snails.
But more prone to infotainment saturating the CAN bus. Infotainment can be hacked using the 5G connection facilities which no-one takes seriously. The CAN bus also drives the brakes.

I wouldn’t say it’s as easy as cutting the brake cables in 1950, but it’s as efficient.
> Hang up. Call them. Don’t let them call you.

Louder for the folks in the back. All bank cards should be required to print this on them.
My current thinking is very much on the building side of things. I think the deep detail is out there and I can point out where to go for the ones who want that deep dive.

A lot of people have an idea, but struggle to know where to start as it can be quite overwhelming.
Published by the same author, one day after the submission article.

Instead of retracting the first article as being wrong, the author now got two articles. Neat.
Inclined planes form a column. Unguided inclined planes: knives, axes. Guided: planes, scissors. Inclined planes wrapped around cylinders: drills, screws.

Blunt objects form a column: Hammers, presses, brakes.

I agree with your categorizations involving tools that rely on heat, but I guess the problem with any such taxonomy is the next person comes along and goes "well I would do this differently, and that..."
As much as I tend to agree with you, people who have loans, particularly mortgages, which are frequently traded amongst financial institutions, are locked in to a particular company like it or not.

But for retail banking, supposing you actually have the option, yes, absolutely.
Dont worry, gaming on mac is not a thing so that’s out of the question anyway - apple products are too low spec for it.

There is some gui software that would be nice to run on linux, but none mase by apple.
Or has a virtual machine running Windows. The performance hit is there, but for occasional use, it's quite sufficient.
Fantastic analogy :-)
Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet
"Nobody gets 100%"
> Internet providers that successfully apply for grants in one state may quickly hire a larger percentage of available local technicians and engineers, leaving neighboring states with an even larger workforce gap. Along the same lines, most broadband projects require specific types of equipment, which will be in high demand once the money starts flowing.

In other words, thanks to Uncle Sam's inability to understand his history of market manipulation, this is going to cost twice as much, take twice as long, and be half as effective as promised.

There's also no mention of monies for ongoing maintenance. Ongoing costs is another thing fed, state and local govs loves to forget about.

I love the idea of the further and fair distribution of broadband. I don't have a high level of confidence these monies are going to accomplish that as expected / promised.
Has me wanting to use them as a screensaver. Ease enough to download, though original the sources would be nice. I would want to play with each of these visualization modes with non-noise inputs, FFTs, intricate spectrogram outputs.
Just laying out potential chapters and seeing how they flow is helping to clarify things.
my guess: mission accomplished from reddit's perspective. they lost more than they did during the ellen pao blackout but gained enough users to make up the difference, have more paid subscribers than they did previously and are probably saving a ton of money from all of the API traffic from the 3p clients that were kicked out.

lemmy is more popular than voat.co (shut down in 2020) but still far from a reddit alternative.

(I deleted my 12-year-old account and all of the posts/comments I made with it, and I use the site much less than I used to.)
Not wanting to be a parent is one thing, but people who don't want to be involved with kids need to work on themselves, that's a deeply antisocial trait - your own existence depended on everyone around you being involved with you to some degree.
> Use a pre-registered and securely couriered FIDO2 token (Yubikey)

Banks are awful enough with software, I don't want any hardware from them. Increasingly mobile apps are becoming first class citizen for online banking, web browsers second class. There doesn't exist reliable non-infuriating workflow with physical security key and a smartphone.
I don't think they will be even close to the gaming performance since they only have Intel iGPUs. No way this does 1080p@60 for some AAA games from 2-3 years ago. And those models with dGPU are way out of the price range of the basemodel Mac Mini.
One of the main bottlenecks for inference is memory bandwith (esp when dealing with huge models, like SD/SDXL) and for that, nothing I know of comes close to matching memory speeds on Apple Silicon (up to 400GB/s).
If you're interested in escaping the duopoly, you should not buy or run Android, which is dependent on Google one way or another, or anything on top of Android. Consider Librem 5 (https://puri.sm/products/librem-5) or Pinephone (https://pine64.org/pinephone), which run desktop GNU/Linux and provide true independence, lifetime updates and a possibility to run desktop apps, including original Firefox (if you connect a screen/keyboard, they turn into a desktop).
I learned a couple of things from dealing with sockets:

* It dramatically simplified my application architecture with regard to any kind of network services or web application.

* It made every aspect of my application event-oriented. That means no network polling, no round trip delays, no performance bottle necks. Everything becomes super concurrent as network messaging is fire and forget. I suspect UDP would be even faster, but I have not tried it. I am reluctant to give up the fidelity of TCP for UDP.

* It allows radical scale of network services and everything reliant upon network services in ways I could not do before. I simply receive unexpected network messages and then handle them according to the respective message type. I can bolt on new service functionality without refactoring anything.
Just far too expensive. I'm the exact target audience for this thing, it's beyond scope financially. Create a barebones proof of concept kit, but this is a non-starter solution for 70% of the audience interested.