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ptah··on Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
I can see they have staff shortages that prohibits that: https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/fah-on-boinc...
ptah··on The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago
that's possible with normal reverbs too. reverse reverb is quite a popular creative tool. i've used it on snares to make them suck you in before popping you out
ptah··on The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago
have they made the impulse response data available. would be great to load this into Logic Pro X to use on other material.
ptah··on Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat
do we need a ministry of funny walks to teach people how to avoid being tracked irl like they are on the web
ptah··on Stop using Material Design text fields
i think the solution for the first issue: label vs placeholder, is to just avoid placeholders that are not labels when using material design.

EDIT: for help text, put it below label or a tooltip

ptah··on My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
side note: all of the comments on linkedin are basically high fiving him. possibly as negative comments on linkedin could be career limiting
ptah··on My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
good point, everything is too optimised and there's no slack anymore
ptah··on My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
> containing the economic damage requires coordinated monetary and fiscal policy targeted more at specific cases of debt/liquidity-constrained entities rather than more blanket cuts in rates and broad increases in liquidity.

more bailouts? how about letting them take the consequences of their actions? they would have taken the upside so should accept the downside too instead of shifting it to taxpayers. how else will markets stay healthy if evolution is thwarted

ptah··on We all wear tinfoil hats now
I had to look that up. It sounds like what is happening now in UK where civil service is being purged of anyone anti-brexit.

https://news.sky.com/story/number-10-blocked-mary-beard-role...

ptah··on British billionaire Hohn launches campaign to starve coal plants of finance
coal miners should be encouraged to claim compensation as well:

https://www.gov.uk/coal-health-compensation-claims

ptah··on British billionaire Hohn launches campaign to starve coal plants of finance
his point is that profitability will go down sharply in an abrupt manner
ptah··on We all wear tinfoil hats now
this reminds me of an interview i saw on the news with an elderly british voter who was adamant that she will vote Tory as they are bound to win. it's almost like she saw her vote as a bet and she wanted to get it right.

this interview moved me significantly towards being sceptical of current democracies

ptah··on Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests
it is not absurd. cooking would have helped ease the evolutionary transition to being able to digest meat. aside from that we are still very poor at digesting meat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/red-meat-processe...

ptah··on Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously
sorry, i was just curious. i didn't know people felt that strongly about it
ptah··on Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously
how is this different from aether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories
ptah··on French people told to stop kissing each other on the cheek to stop coronavirus
> NOW WATCH: Animated map shows how cats spread across the world

surreal to have that video on this article

ptah··on Down on the farm that harvests metal from plants
it sounds like this only works for nickel?
ptah··on Luxembourg makes all public transport free
yes it is more like a city. it will be interesting for other cities to see if this works on this scale
ptah··on I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
i think your problem is with windows, not go
ptah··on John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]
from reading his book on the topic, my understanding is that they become strionger. he would classify "just remaining" as robust as opposed to antifragile
ptah··on Taking back control of website seized by the US Government
> signing a document that both acknowledges our innocence and removes our right to claim against the US Government for any damages incurred.

this is extortion. they should not have to give up the right to sue for damages

ptah··on Taking back control of website seized by the US Government
that's a good reason to avoid .com domains, but can other governments do the same for their country specific domains
ptah··on The boss who put everyone on 70K
simple: cut the ceo's pay to keep payroll expenses the same
ptah··on Babylon Health labels clinician a 'Twitter troll' over AI chatbot inaccuracy
Babylon Health is lucky to have him do their testing for free. normally you have to pay SMEs a lot to test your application
ptah··on The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu
i thought humans are just another animal. why the surprise about diseases jumping from other animals to humans
ptah··on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
are they taking open standards and putting extensions on them that are proprietary so users can only access certain services with chrome? if not, then they are not doing any microsofting of any kind
ptah··on Toxic sofas are a secret scandal
is there a way to get a list of flame retardant chemicals on a product?
ptah··on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
i think they take their lesson from industry experience of microsoft embrace and extend strategy to take open standards and lock users into their proprietary extensions. as an example do you not remember IE?

EDIT: because of microsoft decades long behaviour, they have good reason to be wary

ptah··on Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain
accidentals have special rules when transposing to keep their character so I don't understand your point
ptah··on Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain
you can just transpose it to every possible key
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