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Comment · 13 days ago
Comment · 18 days ago
Defaulting what is called "player view" on this page is a very odd choice. All learning material is displayed with the low string at the bottom (or "tab view" on the page). All guitar emulators I have ever used have that view as default.

This is also how it looks when you hold a guitar, so I have no idea where this "player view" comes from. If I take my guitar and lay it on the table in front of me, the low strings are closest to me not farthest.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is not really sustainable when there is a constant supply of increasingly powerful and efficient hardware.
Comment · 1 month ago
The 'job hopping advice' is always so one-dimensonal as if salary maxing is the only metric that counts. You should always take everything into account

- work climate and coworkers - work life balance - legal rewards for staying (This might not apply to the US but in most of Europe you get progressively harder to fire the longer you stay at one company)

Comment · 1 month ago
because when doing whacky hardware you need to control the entire UI stack. Android can never deliver this because of the fragmentation and you get apps that don't work right and bug out constantly.

Apple can force developers to use APIs that make the apps work correctly on the foldable even if they are not directly optimized.

Comment · 1 month ago
The most important part of a foldable is the screen and they are designed and made by Samsung, so hard to come up with something Samsung couldn't have done in their own phone.
Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder, how long until the ad business will target agents instead of humans?
Comment · 1 month ago
As someone that mainly switched to e-readers because of bad eyes, this is way too small. Even the bigger x4 seems too small for the font size I feel comfortable with.
Comment · 2 months ago
Then you have schools demanding a published paper as part of their masters degree. This gave rise to many conferences that are just publishing mills.
Comment · 2 months ago
They have no fab for CPUs, they are manufactured by Samsung and TSMC. The bottleneck is in manufacturing RAM not CPUs so there is nothing Apple can do here.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is the same as saying every binary is open source because you can look at and change the machine code.

Open source means you reveal how you created this binary.

Comment · 2 months ago
I wouldn't let kids use a sharp kitchen knife either, but it is still something that everyone benefits from owning.
Comment · 2 months ago
There are three issues that arise

- structural: There are height and size limits on things you can build without a permit

- trespassing: flinging objects onto others people property is illegal

- endangerment: any activity that can endanger other people is illegal

All of these three depend on how rural you live I guess. So in a suburban neighborhood I would assume they get involved very quickly.

Comment · 2 months ago
if you want low cost and portable, chemistry (i.e. gunpowder) always wins over gravity powered.
Comment · 2 months ago
We could very well reach a point where models don't get better anymore, or where consumer models are good enough for 95% of the use-cases.

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