kybernetikos

> Because the two clefs are symmetrical around middle C. Line "6" of the bass clef is line "0" of the treble clef. They are not two different clefs, the are two halves of the same 11-line staff.

Well yes, but I don't see why it's better to be symmetrical around middle C vs symmetrical around the B below middle C. Make them two halves of the same 12-line staff instead where the middle two are invisible rather than the middle one.

Even if there truly is an advantage, I doubt that it would overcome the disadvantage of arbitrarily making someone learn a different mapping between what they see and notes for the different hands. On top of that, for piano, I think it's an additional advantage to have a lower low clef - keeps common chord bass notes closer to the staff, and cuts back a bit on the ledger lines.

Two big things I'd fix - 5 undifferentiated lines can be difficult to parse. Just visually changing the centre line would help structure the whole thing. Also, why force someone learning piano to learn two different clefs? Just use Treble and Sub-Bass.

I suppose for me, some of the time I'd be thinking about start/stop times rather than durations, and I'd find it unintuitive that when a note starts is determined by the way the notes before it look rather than the way it looks, but fixing that would be a much bigger change with more downsides.

LineageOS on a cheap box will be L3 widevine, and fail play integrity, which means netflix and a bunch of other streaming apps won't even install. Even if you can get them to install, the L3 will stop you from viewing Prime, Disney+ or other similar services at anything better than SD.

I'm also interested in alternatives, but LineageOS on a cheap box isn't really one.

Actually reminds me a lot of 'Cube'

> there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.

I remember thinking space filling curves were completely magical when I first learned about them. It feels like there should be some connection with holography although they don't get mentioned in the article.

Other common issues - crosswalks and fire hydrants are common questions too, and crosswalks are not called that in most of the world and fire hydrants look pretty different depending on country.

A generic agreement to slow down is prisoners dilemma stuff (and maybe necessary too), but just taking a super hard line stance on enforcing laws on ai companies and going after them for negligence and breaches for eye watering amounts of money would have the dual beneficial effects of slowing them down and making them more careful without needing complex game theory.

Teslas do very badly when benchmarked against human caused deaths in similar (luxury) vehicles.

The relationship is that the service and rewards you get are subsidised by generally poorer people who mess up their financial planning.

> why are almost all governments inefficient

Efficiency is not the aim of government, except in constrained ways. Efficiency would generally run contrary to governance, transparency, innovation, responsiveness, general applicability, justice, rule following, considering the long term and not just the short term, recognition of human dignity, security etc.

All those things have a cost that takes away from maximum delivery efficiency, but generally societies decide that the cost is worth it.

I've run it with a large context window on 256GB ram + 4090. It wasn't super fast, but it was manageable and it completed the tasks I gave it well.

> The only way I think you can get rid of the excess CO₂ at scale is to permanently sequester it underground. The oil/gas industry can cheaply deposit huge amounts of gas there. The unsolved problem is extracting enough CO₂ from the atmosphere at reasonable cost.

The bigger unsolved problem is how to get this paid for.