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Computer programmer living in Pune, India.
I like unopinonated multi-paradigm programming languages like Raku and Common Lisp.
Interested in Databases and Distributed Systems.
I dual boot Manjaro Linux and OpenBSD on a desktop.
Long time Emacs user, occasionally use NeoVim/Helix.
Father to identical twin girls. 👨‍👧‍👧
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I do post #freeverse from this account.
This cheerful building used to be our post office, a room adjoining the then-postmaster's house, up on the ridge a couple of kilometres above our house. (The postmaster changed later, so the post office moved!)
The postman (someone else who also lives in this village) walks several kilometres uphill to the sub post-office every morning, then walks back down to distribute the day's mail to his beat of seven villages.
Great article on how the nature of work changes with AI.
The real alien
Kraken - A juvenile sharpear enope squid photographed in the open ocean off West Palm Beach, Florida, US..
Photograph: Andre Johnson
Individuals are told to reduce our "#carbon footprint," and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?
Bruce E. Johansen
"…there is a growing fear that climate change in the future won’t, as it has until now, happen gradually. It will happen suddenly, as formerly stable planetary systems transgress tipping points — thresholds beyond which things cannot be put back together again."
https://grist.org/science/overshoot-the-world-is-hitting-point-of-no-return-on-climate/
This video only has 600 views and the whole channel is amazing and the kind of thing we like around here.
Elephant seals take short naps while on deep dives. On the way to 7000 ft below, they fall asleep while diving in spirals downwards. When they get there, they wake up and forage for food
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-04-21-elephant-seals-drift-sleep-while-diving-far-below-ocean-surface
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116016857956019818
Classic all-gas-no-brakes, genie-is-out-of-the-bottle destructive thinking. As if the only thing worse than releasing something awful is not releasing something awful 🙄
The solution to drowning isn't to inhale the water, or like... asking the ppl holding u under to save u.
You gotta throw off the ppl holding u down and swim for the surface.
Whatev you're going through, remember to ask... am I inhaling the water? Am I begging for help from the ppl holding me down? Or am I swimming toward the air?
@amenonsen I've learnt more about nature in the few weeks I've followed you than the last few years I'd say. đź’Żđź’Ż
(and I consider myself a bit of a wildlife and nature enthusiast)
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Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz+ with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)
I never thought the Leopards Eating People’s Faces corporation I bought shares in would eat my face.
Display resolution calculator by University of Cambridge is very interesting. For TVs anything more than 4k makes no sense but for monitors I think we can go upto 16k for sure. What so you think
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/display_calc/
You can’t love the depression out of someone, but you can try.
That’s the great thing about art--we define it, and we give it meaning. The machines can spit out manuscript after manuscript after manuscript. They can pile them to the pillars of heaven itself. But all we have to do is say “No.” If we do, they lose. John Henry couldn’t ultimately stop the steam-powered machine, but we can fight the battle, and we can win--because we get to choose what victory looks like.
What is art? Art is what we define it to be.
Why do we make art?
Well, remember, art is not just the story. It is not just the painting or the sculpture or whatever else you love to create. It’s also the process of creation and what that process does to you. We make art because we can’t help it. It’s part of us.
We understand what it is. We are drawn to it because we are of the same substance. We are the art.
Brandon Sanderson, The Hidden Cost of AI Art
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/ai-art-brandon-sanderson-keynote
Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people
