bskrobisz · HackerTrans

No pitches at all would render it extremely difficult for those without perfect pitch, but supplying a reference tone or scale (like Earmaster) and highlighting the appropriate key rather than providing each tone on demand would be a good challenge, I think.

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There's plenty of knowledge to be gained apart from that, there are top players that explain some of their thinking that have content on Youtube/Twitch. There are other examples along the lines of what you're saying -- traffic markings like bollards, signs, lines, license plates, etc. vary country-by-country; the position of the sun along with the date the google maps van took the image, telephone poles and other infrastructure. What's really interesting to me, though, is that there's some information that feels similar to when ML fits to metaknowledge about your training set -- e.g. there are some areas which can be ruled out entirely by the date the picture was created, there are certain areas where privacy laws alter what maps can provide or must blur, and there are areas where there was some issue with the google maps equipment that caused artifacts in the images (e.g. there are 'rifts' in the sky in some parts of SEA)

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"Series of unfortunate events" is an understatement, but I would say it gets due recognition--it's an indie game over a decade old and still earns its slot at major fighting game tournaments and (after said events' hopeful end) still has support from developers and community alike.

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>And of course there is pressng all 88 keys on the MIDI piano at the same time. I would like to know what that sounds like on a real piano though.

The mute pedal on an upright/console piano works by situating the hammers closer to the strings; if you stomp on it hard enough, you can get it to jerk all of the hammers such that they actually hit the strings and get this "all 88 keys" noise. I don't recommend this if you care for the piano, though :)

(On a grand piano, IIRC the mute pedal instead either adjusts the position of the hammer to only hit 1-2 of the strings, instead of all 3, or it moves the felts to dampen the sound).

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This one has nailed a strong 'hook' for puzzle games, I think--the game appearing at first more challenging than it becomes after the initial learning.

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At the risk of being oblivious to humor:

The point is the latency and loss of the message -- for a more red-team angle, suppose someone in the intervening space has captured the communicator and seized their phone?

The story is an allegory (metaphor?) for the inherent unreliability of communications between any given pieces of real-world infrastructure and the problems that arise when that unreliability reaches critical thresholds.

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While I also agree with the sentiment, I do think it's a little bit like saying "90% of all programming is flow control and assignments"--it hinges on wide definitions that can be contextually helpful, harmful, or both. Resolving to those chords from tones that are outside of the key? Tritone substitutions? Modulations that change what chords exactly ii, V, and i are? &c.

I think it also depends on what jazz is actually being discussed -- it applies well to most jazz standards, but a lot of modern jazz and jazz-adjacent (or perhaps just what I'm familiar with) seems to gravitate heavily towards nonfunctional harmony.

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I'd be surprised if there existed a significant number of software development professionals who could answer a flat 'no' to this (although I'm certain there exist some amount who only do it when it is more direct a solution than anything else, and not for its own sake).

Most of the code I write for personal use is for one-shot scrapers or "query this database and fiddle with that information to give me something interesting"--the only things larger in scale than that which I continue to work on are a Discord bot and... well, I had been working on a Slay the Spire mod and it's been rotting for quite a while.

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I'm sure that those with a lot more hardware experience than me have the intuition to make guesses like this but I was surprised at:

>You have to register to download the HDMI spec which is more effort than I have for this, but the Hot Plug Detect pin has a pretty descriptive name. I guessed that this either has to be pulled up or pulled down to signal that a cable is connected. Sticking a 20K resistor to the 5V pin seemed to do the trick. With the oscilloscope, we can now see activity on the SCL/SDA lines when it's plugged into the laptop.

Is it really not that concerning to just guess what amperage will/won't fry something? I mean, you could test from very high resistances downwards, but you might overshoot, right? Or is there an assumption that the hardware on either end will provide the appropriate resistance, in this case?

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I think, if you're familiar with go, this is an uncharitable reading of the question. The victory condition in this game is very directly analogous to a not-uncommon source of (sometimes-game-deciding) violence in go--two nearby weak groups where connection means a decisive victory for whichever player achieves it.

Having not played Hex, I can't say whether it's strategically similar (although just from the first couple of chapters, there are definitely similar concepts of important shapes and ladder breakers).

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And leave a webcam on the door of every single person I'm professionally engaged with, to record their visitors? Use it to understand where each of those persons spends all of their time, to the best of my capability? Learn who has what vices, and sell that information (or a service to employ it) to anyone who would take advantage?

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What I mean is that some group of people earns dividends from the profit of the insurance company (stockholders or private owners), the insurance company earns profit by charging each little guy more than they are expected to cost.

When I say 'inherently predatory', I don't mean that every insurance company is doing the equivalent of loan sharking, I mean that the concept of mandatory participation in a system that then also makes its own determination of how much wealth is reasonable to take from you in exchange for its service seems fundamentally immoral.

You know, when I write it like that, this applies to life in basically any situation --

* fully-capitalist (have to work, a market you have no control over determines your value)

* fully-communist (have to work, a government you have no control over determines your value)

* completely anarchist (have to work, the conditions of the world around you determine how much work you need to do to stay alive)

So I think what I'm actually saying might just be 'life isn't fair' which is kinda banal.

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I think the idea of that service being all three of mandatory, not owned by its participants, and profit-driven is what causes it to feel inherently predatory -- that there exist companies which take on risk on behalf of entities who cannot take on that risk (and therefore must participate), and then profit by charging those entities more than they are expected to cost and using the pool of wealth created as investment funds for which only owners of that company derive benefit.

The service is obviously not worthless--some entity has to assess risk, coordinate, and administrate--but it is predicated on terms that make it (I would assert) immoral to transfer more than is necessary from those that participate in the service to those that own the service.

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I dunno, for-profit insurance has always struck me as something predatory by nature. The only functional difference between the two sides is that the sellers of insurance have capital to absorb loss--sure, there's some overhead in organization and risk calculation, but fundamentally it's leveraging the wealth of a few people so they can extract some wealth from many more.

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