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rongrobert commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
popol12 · 9 months ago
Bitcoin would be the most fair choice for a new reserve currency. It has equivalent properties as gold but is more practical to use, and there's no geographic inequality to mining it.

No government could benefit from manipulating it. How cool is that ?

rongrobert · 9 months ago
Of course a middle school level view of currency is "cool".
rongrobert commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
matt-p · 9 months ago
Ok and who will administer the basket? I'm not saying it's impossible just a bit impractical perhaps.
rongrobert · 9 months ago
It is just economically clueless people talking nonsense.

Whatever basket we come up with has all the same properties that cause the Euro to not displace USD but worse. Much worse.

rongrobert commented on Shared DNA in Music   pudding.cool/2025/04/musi... · Posted by u/ksampath02
holri · 9 months ago
> Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Mozart ripped of Händel. For example parts from his famous Reqiuem are a rip of of Händels Messiah. And a lot of classical Composers (ex. Beethoven) ripped of from their "godfather": J.S Bach. Altough they did not call it rip of, but learning.

rongrobert · 9 months ago
Exactly. The attitude is just so totally ignorant. Otherwise, just consider practically all equal temperament western music a ripoff of J.S Bach.

Of course, someone who knows nothing about music like this wouldn't know that.

The irony is that it could be argued hip hop is one of the few western pop musical art forms that isn't a complete J.S Bach ripoff.

rongrobert commented on LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite   theregister.com/2025/03/3... · Posted by u/abawany
paulluuk · 9 months ago
I could be wrong, but I believe Amazon's business model was very simple: do everything as cheaply as possible, run at a loss until all competition is dead, and then raise prices once we dominate the market.

I don't think OpenAI has that option.

rongrobert · 9 months ago
This wasn't the business model.

The business model was you could sell books over the internet at a much cheaper cost compared to Barnes and Noble or Borders because they weren't paying for physical locations and there was no sales tax on the transactions because it was on the internet.

rongrobert commented on Talkin’ about a Revolution   drb.ie/articles/talkin-ab... · Posted by u/pepys
baxtr · 9 months ago
Extrapolation from what he knows about history.

Things looked very bleak right after the French revolution for example.

We see our history as a dot, because we live in it.

But people in the future will take a more long-term view and might say: oh this was a difficult phase in history.

rongrobert · 9 months ago
I just don't agree with any of this.

This is a difficult time compared to what? The black plague? WW1?

This is the easiest time ever to be alive.

I would say on a 200 year time line though, the way the black plague broke the power of the Catholic Church, the internet has broke democracy.

The idea democracy is ascendant is pretty delusional IMO.

This professor is still living in the unipolar moment that has passed.

rongrobert commented on Tracing the thoughts of a large language model   anthropic.com/research/tr... · Posted by u/Philpax
danielbln · 9 months ago
Could you argue why they don't? And could you also argue why we do?
rongrobert · 9 months ago
When a car moves over the ground, we do not call that running, we call that driving as to not confuse the mechanism of the output.

Both running and driving are moving over the ground but with entirely different mechanisms.

I imagine saying the LLM has thoughts is like pretending the car has wheels for legs and is running over the ground. It is not completely wrong but misleading and imprecise.

rongrobert commented on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets   musicweek.com/digital/rea... · Posted by u/CharlesW
shlant · 9 months ago
not sure why you are being downvoted. Beat-matching is the most straightforward and least interesting part of being/experiencing a DJ. I think every DJ needs to know how to do it but IMO most of the overemphasis on beat-matching comes from cringe gatekeeping. To me, it's akin to thinking an actor remembering their lines is the focus of acting.

Mixing vinyl well is definitely an impressive skill but I (and I suspect the vast majority of people) don't care at all about how people are mixing tracks (until it's to the detriment of the music). Most people care about what makes them dance and/or feel something.

rongrobert · 9 months ago
IMO it depends on what skill level of beatmatching and mixing we are talking about.

I have seen some unbelievable performances by matching wizards who added a whole other level to the performance with their skills.

The set itself was different because there would not have been a way to slice and dice the set together without those skills.

Really no different than a virtuoso performance on any other instrument.

rongrobert commented on Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/appleaday1
pcl · 9 months ago
I've been using Blender recently to build 3D models for my new 3D printing obsession. The learning curve is significant, but the product seems great. I've gotten decent help from the chatbots, but does anyone here have any suggestions for good non-animation-focused tutorials?
rongrobert · 9 months ago
I am learning Blender too after failing to learn Maya 20 years ago.

To me, it is like learning to play guitar or piano. You just have to do 1-2 hours a day of practice and do it everyday.

There are so many good youtube videos that it just will depend what you want to do and how you like the person doing the tutorial. Then at some point just start trying to model random objects that interest you.

rongrobert commented on Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/appleaday1
badsectoracula · 9 months ago
Note though that AFAIK the official reason for Krita "not trying to do everything" isn't because they don't want to do everything but because most users and devs are interested in digital painting.

AFAIK they wont send anyone away if they try to add more image editing stuff outside of digital painting (consider that it even has some simple animation support which isn't really something you'd expect from a digital painting program).

rongrobert · 9 months ago
There is practically nothing Krita can't do in terms of image editing but people that don't even use the software keep calling it a digital painting program.

Anyone coming from photoshop would have no trouble using Krita. It is practically a photoshop ripoff with more digital painting tools.

u/rongrobert

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