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CrypticShift

1,036karma·560submissions·November 1, 2022
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Can't believe this is still in existence! Used to be my go-to IM platform a couple of decades back.
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Mixcloud fingerprints audio to pay royalties to the artists whose tracks get played [1] (if that's what you're asking) [1] https://www.mixcloud.com/mixcloud/posts/h…
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Not going to counter you. In related examples, I will pick ClickUp from your list. It is the closest to this one in terms of trying to combine a database, (multi)composition, and communication (Notion…
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You highlighted the second part of the 1955 proposal, while it is actually the first part that is problematic. I don't think we came any near to precisely describing (for humans) every aspect of…
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It is certainly not irrelevant, and it certainly is at the basis of most DAW/vst stuff. But, there are still a lot of new ideas around. And you do find some historical articles [1]. No books I kn…
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I admire two things here: the hardware aesthetic, which is just beautiful, and the pioneering spirit, which is extremely daring. That said, I've got a bone to pick with the standard narratives in…
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So, you are looking for a "religiously presented" science text [1] rather than "scientifically presented" religious text (as most comments here suggest)? [1] i.e inferring classic …
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You here made a list of "American Lobbies" and down another list of "Foreign Lobbies," which is clever but desinginious. He is talking about America's most powerful lobby FOR …
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I think it is the slide that gives the wrong impression. 4% of a near-universal product? That's hardly irrelevant. Can anyone name a small non-profit tech company dominating a daily essential con…
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The placement of the key will vary, but in some cases, it will replace the right CTRL key or Menu key, a Microsoft spokesperson told BI [1] [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/micros…
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In a sense, we may have less need to create "formal, structured documents." Even today, many companies archive a large part of their informal conversations (meetings, emails, Slack...) in ad…
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After the duty to document, comes the duty to expose it : - How do you format that doc ? which is particularly relevant if you'd like to roam around. the author's Berlin guide is a good exam…
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> No technology needed, can be done anywhere, anytime. I call this doing nothing with... nothing. It aligns closer to the spirit of emptiness.
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... with https://retool.com/ as an option
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Naturally You can't prove it (yet) for obvious reasons. It is about preventing "a risk of genocide", acording to experts : UN : https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
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I believe the root of the problem is a misconception of how humans function. The prevalent trends in related fields, from AI/Neuroscience [1] to PKM/TFT [2], are further entrenching this cru…
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Related Trivia : France stands out as one of the select countries that enforce a music quota system, which appears to be among the most stringent : a minimum of four in ten songs broadcast by domesti…
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The funny thing is that the web has always been (by definition) a "Content as a Graph" (of interlinks). It is just not "displayed," or rather, it is displayed sequentially, as thou…
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I've come to the conclusion that I need to loosen my grip. So basically, as long as I can export my data in an open-enough format, I will use anything I'm comfortable with and then I won…
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Related question : What has optical (non quantum) computing achieved so far?
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I accept that enhancing fundamental math skills is important, yet I'm skeptical about the feasibility of raising the bar to more advanced levels. Considering a normal distribution, it seems impro…
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This. Anyway, if you are willing to forego the convenience of the standard UI, there's a wealth of alternative guides out there. Some track a ton of services like justwatch.com or tastoid.com. So…
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> Nothing is perfect. I agree, and moreover, the more complex the taxonomy, the more likely you'll find people who disagree with it. So perhaps you're right that a simple tags list is the…
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