Readit Newsmambodog commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx
> the algorithm will learn you like authenticity and show you more of it.
Jesus, this is like a line out of a William Gibson novel. I hope you wrote that aware of the irony inherent in it.
I'm also reminded of this George Burns quote: "The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made."
'authenticity' in the sense of content made by normal people without any strong goals other than 'some other people might like that' (and for some, maybe eventually getting some income from monetization) rather than highly produced content with the goal of reaching the largest possible audience and extracting the largest possible amount of money from that, which is what reels feels like. if you want to see that type of 'more authentic' content, tiktok's approach to populating your feed will be much more responsive to that than instagram's. there also seem to be a lot more people creating content on tiktok aimed at that level.
just to be that guy
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mambodog commented on SunVox: Powerful Modular Synthesizer and DAW warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/... · Posted by u/timkq
I always thought this software was weird. To me modular implies parameter modulation for sound design, but this seems to be designed around sequencing fixed sounds, or am I missing something?
modular synthesis isn't named 'modular' in reference to 'modulation', it's in reference to synth 'modules', which are units of functionality from which you can build a synthesizer. for example with an oscillator module, a couple of envelope modules, a gain module and a filter module you can build a typical monophonic subtractive synthesizer.
mambodog commented on Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit apps.apple.com/ca/app/the... · Posted by u/jcrabb8
the ‘search box’ is not good at finding stations so i can check when the next train is coming. i typed in ‘34th st’ and it returned a bunch of addresses, none of which are in manhattan. this is probably because you require me to type ‘34 st’ exactly (no ‘th’) instead. if you can’t fuzzy match this, this search box is just unusable.
i also tried looking at ‘nearby stations’ and while standing on the 34th st A platform it didn’t list the 34th st subway station at all, just a bunch of bus stops.
please let me just look at a station list instead.
mambodog commented on Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020) kylehalladay.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/madmax108
Every time I see someone's off-piste raytracer project, I feel compelled to link my own silly contribution to that diaspora: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
well as long as we're posting them: https://github.com/jsdf/applescript-raytracer
Oregon Trail, Lemonade Stand, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego were basically my holy trinity of educational games. The other educational game I remember, which was probably far more important than the three of these put together was some random typing game. I had a keyboarding speed of around 80wpm before I hit high school from playing that one.
BTW, you can still play them here:
* https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
* https://archive.org/details/msdos_Lemonade_Stand_1999
* https://classicreload.com/where-in-the-world-is-carmen-sandi...
if you prefer the macintosh version: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/mecc/oregon-trail.html
mambodog commented on A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron github.com/felixrieseberg... · Posted by u/graderjs
I did the browser port of BasiliskII which this wraps (https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii) as well as the port of PCE (another Macintosh emulator) used on archive.org.
I see a lot of people asking why someone would distribute an Electron-wrapped version of a program you could run natively, and I see it as an extension of the the same reason why I ported these emulators to the browser in the first place: accessibility. While you can install BasiliskII natively, it's a bit of a pain, especially if you are not super technical. If you find a binary floating around online it may not work for your OS version. Wrapping it in Electron is one way to ameliorate the OS compatibility issue; Chromium has been battle-tested across many OS versions. Ideally BasiliskII would have a better OS compatibility story (as well as being more portably distributable with data files) but, like many open source projects, it doesn't have a lot of maintainer-time to make this happen.
Among other things, it frustrates me that Elon's work here has echoes of "what happens if we bring in experts from the tech world to help make government IT more efficient" while ignoring that that's what 18F did, and it worked really well.