BitSound

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, Ada does not have an equivalent to Rust's borrow checker. There's efforts to replicate that for Ada, but it's not there yet.

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks. I'm not intending to push anything here. She has some other interesting articles and I came across this one on her blog while I was reading those. Didn't really see any discussion online about it, and thought this would be a good community for evaluating the claims. I'm coming from a place where I think stuff like this that tries to make concrete claims from data is best discussed and picked apart, especially since it didn't come across as bad faith to me, but I can understand that might not be a view shared by everyone.

 

Fairly simple post, just a few statistics/charts from a single survey. Anyone have an opinion on this?

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like this reaction video for the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWUUrdQfjn8

 

That was a laughable election. I would've preferred if Harris had won, because I'm not an accelerationist, but that time is past. Where do we go from here? Can the DNC be dragged back towards the left, or is it done for?

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ha, that reminds me of Donald Knuth offering 0x$1.00 to anyone that finds a mistake in TAOCP, like this guy:

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2019/05/17/knuth-check.html

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by BitSound@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

If you haven't read about it before, the term comes from the band Van Halen, who demanded that there were no brown M&M's backstage. People thought it was just a crazy rock star thing, but David Lee Roth later explained that it had a purpose:

Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine 18-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors—whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.

… So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say, “Article 148: There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20-foot spaces, evenly, providing 19 amperes … ” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was, “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”

So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.

My Brown M&M atm is AI-generated comments like this (first comment is referencing something like df = ... that they removed from the code, but left the comment, second comment is super useless):

# Assuming df is your DataFrame

# Show the plot
plt.show()

That probably means whoever I got the code from just copy/pasted whatever the LLM spit out, and didn't actually think about the code at all.

What is a small detail that you pay attention to because it means there's bigger issues to watch out for?

 

good luck with that lol

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Definitely not. There's a whole genre of music that's created for riding the coattails of popular songs. They wait for a song title by artists like Taylor Swift to be announced and then release their own songs with the same title. Sometimes they're actually good, like this dude:

https://genius.com/artists/Only-fire

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The latter, but I also don't really mind paywalls in the form of "get early access" like SMBC comics or "get exclusive special content" like a lot of bands do.

You can just straight paywall with those too, but you don't have too. A band I like crowdfunded a music video and you can watch it free on youtube, but if you didn't crowdfund it you missed out on perks that go all the way up to being in the music video

 

Someone asked over here about the best way to get into SCP. I listed a couple of my favorites there, but what do other people recommend?

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The trilogy would've been much better if either director had done all 3. Either J.J. Abrams with a fun nostalgic return to form, or Rian Johnson with a fresh new take. The whiplash from them fighting with each other over the direction of the plot just ended up being a huge mess. I'm pretty surprised they weren't just told what the plot was going to be, kind of seems like a screwup by whoever handled that.

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

False dichotomy, I'd rather see other funding models like Patreon/Kickstarter. Paying gets you early access/bonus stuff/whatever, and you don't need intrusive technologies like ads/paywalls.

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

!scp@lemmy.world and !bluey@lemmy.world are both communities that are pretty low traffic atm, but seem like there's a lot of Lemmings that would be into them

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Here's the direct youtube video link

Still kind of weird to hear Arch Enemy with clean vocals. She does a really good job though, turns it into more of a power metal vibe. Cool outfit too

 

I like the new singer, she's got a very similar style to Nehl Aëlin. Anyone know why they got a new singer though?

[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I like the combination of thrash vocals + black metal riffing

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