Right, good that you’re here. I phrased it specifically as “anti-scientific”, because of this post of yours:

That’s a strawman argument. The comic makes up a situation that doesn’t happen to rail against scientific consensus. If you find a natural scientist claiming “All X is Y” with full confidence and without using a ton of qualifiers, then don’t talk to them.

Similarly, reading individual scientific papers isn’t very useful. Talk to a doctor for nutrition advice. They spend years learning a condensate of what science has figured out. You’re not gonna catch that up by reading a selection of papers.

Frankly, I would only downvote your comment, because there’s the anti-scientific carnivore community on here and while your take is technically correct, it just sounds like it leads into their horseshit.

Like, no, fibre isn’t a nutrient, but that’s the point. It being indigestible to humans is what makes it great.
It fills up your stomach without adding calories. It physically blocks your stomach acid from digesting food, therefore slowing sugar intake and avoiding excess sugar being put into fat on your hips. And on the way out, it scrubs your insides, which also seems to have tons of benefits. And it just makes your shit slide out very easily, which is also great.

Similarly with carbohydrates. No, they’re not essential, because our bodies are excellent at survival and can also use proteins or fat for energy. But them being essential would only be relevant, if we’re avoiding them completely, for which there’s no reason. Moderation and wholemeal is advisable, sure, but entirely avoiding food with carbohydrates limits your selection and could therefore deprive you of other nutrients.

my setup is a Ryzen 9 5950X with 64gb DDR4 and two NVIDIA RTX A4000 (32gb VRAM total)

Unfortunately still needs a massive amount of computation power… 🥴

There’s also these tiny robots that you stick to the wall next to your doorways and when you high-five them, they’ll turn on the lights for you. Super compact, endless battery life and an unbeatable price point.

🥴

The only pointer I can give, is that you would probably want to use ActivityPub for the federation protocol, and you could potentially look at Mastodon’s implementation of that, since it’s also implemented in Ruby On Rails.

Mind that there can be differences in how the federation should work, for example Mastodon doesn’t have post titles, which you would presumably want on a fan fiction site…

I’d say technically it’s Rust, because you can do everything from embedded/kernel development to web frontends (via WebAssembly).

I do like the versatility, but I agree with what has already been commented, that you shouldn’t worry about this yet.
Newbie programmers always consider it a daunting task to learn a new language and then you’re a few years in and just inhale a new language on a weekend for fun.

And when I say fun, I do mean that it’s actually educational to learn multiple languages. They emphasize different concepts, which gives you a new perspective and new patterns for solving problems.

I did have the same misreading. And I should in fact visit an optometrist…

In my mind, it was like one those burials where they push you out onto the ocean in a boat, but fast.

Finde so Microtargeting auch wirklich gefährlich für die Demokratie, weil du verschiedenen Zielgruppen verschiedene Parteiprogramme vortäuschen kannst, und denen wahrscheinlich oftmals auch nicht bewusst ist, dass das nicht das ist, was du an die Allgemeinheit kommunizierst.

Und es sorgt auch insbesondere dafür, dass Journalismus erschwert wird. Die können unter Umständen auch nicht mehr berichten, dass du manchen Zielgruppen den nächsten Holocaust versprichst.

Ja, irgendwie auch wild, dass man das regelmäßig nur bis dahin betrachtet. Also ja, irgendeinen Referenzzeitpunkt muss man natürlich wählen, aber fühlt sich trotzdem wieder an wie “nach uns die Sintflut” oder “die Kinder werden’s schon richten”.

Irgendwann wurden die Aufgaben so komplex und zugleich so stark von mir und meinem Wissen abhängig, dass ich während Krankheits- und Urlaubstagen arbeiten sollte. Es hieß, wenn ich die Arbeit nicht erledigen würde, könne es niemand anderes tun.

Musste da auch schon selbst die Erfahrung machen: Wenn man nie mal einen längeren Urlaub macht oder auch mal krank ist, dann verschiebt sich das immer noch mehr in die Richtung, dass nur man selbst gewisse Themen kennt und dass niemand einen bei Abwesenheit vertreten kann.

Wenn man eben nur ein, zwei Tage zwischendurch mal Urlaub hat, dann warten die Kollegen einfach bis man wieder da ist, anstatt mal selbst zu schauen wie das geht.

Und: Oft wird einem nicht vom Chef gesagt, dass man deswegen nicht in den Urlaub kann, auch nicht von den Kollegen, sondern man redet es sich selbst ein.

I’ve looked at it on F-Droid before, but I don’t actually use AdNauseam myself either, so haven’t tried it. 😅

Wikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it’s hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR

Something similar exists, which just clicks all blocked ads: https://adnauseam.io/

Not really. Maybe there’s a torrent of the source code somewhere, maybe as part of Debian or whatever. But you’d have to adjust the automatic build process to use the torrented source code. Certainly not impossible, but a pain.

If a workaround is introduced by NixOS itself, they could mirror the source code onto another Git provider, at least I saw that suggested in the discussion I stumbled across.

Side-note: I’m not from the UK myself. repo.or.cz just wasn’t reachable, from what looked like a denial of service attack or AI scrapers, that’s why I looked this up.
Although right now, I believe I can reach it fine, but get a wrong checksum for the source artifact, so hopefully they haven’t been hacked. 😵‍💫

Yesterday, I read that certain software packages on the NixOS Linux distribution cannot be used in the UK, because they require downloading from the Git provider repo.or.cz, which just flat-out bans any traffic from the UK due to the Online Safety Act.

I have a colleague with two kids, who’s actually not unhappy about *something* being done to try to prevent children from accessing the internet unfiltered. But that colleague is a huge fan of NixOS, too.

So yeah, oof, even before we get into the very concrete problems this article talks about, there’s a lot of nuance these laws need to get right.

Hmm, isn’t that just a GUI to configure and run FluidSynth as a server? I imagine, you’d still need some program that reads the MIDI files and sends the notes to the server.

Well, and presumably that program would need to have the feature of starting playback at a certain measure as well.

But yeah, TiMidity++ is fine. I was just wondering, if I’m missing out on something by not using FluidSynth.

Be mindful that it’s often just a handful accounts that post this stuff.

Well, alright, it’s actually 36 accounts with the username “cm0002”, but you get the idea.

Geht mir schon auch so wie dir, dass ich es ewig zerdenke und am Ende per Bauchgefühl entscheide, aber habe damit eigentlich meinen Frieden geschlossen.

Also dass man sich nicht entscheiden kann, liegt ja daran, dass man die Auswirkungen nicht in Gänze begreifen kann. Also größtenteils kennt man die Auswirkungen einfach nicht, aber selbst das was man kennt, passt meist nicht auf einmal in den Arbeitsspeicher des Gehirns.

Aber was man eben trotzdem sich erarbeiten kann, ist ein Gefühl. Z.B. bei Variante A kann ich nur 3 Aspekte ganz gut einschätzen von gefühlt 42 Aspekten, aber die klingen jeweils sehr gut.
Und Variante B wirkt überschaubarer, wovon ich jetzt schon 7 Aspekte gesehen hab und wo auch ein Aspekt nicht so geil war, aber trotzdem könnte das insgesamt solide sein.

Und dann kann man die beiden Gefühle eben in den Arbeitsspeicher laden und 'ne Bauchgefühlsentscheidung machen, womit man sich wohler fühlt.

Also ich bin einfach der Meinung, dass das Bauchgefühl nicht in einem Vakuum existiert, sondern maßgeblich vom vorigen Zerdenken mitbestimmt wird, und daher ist es legitim beide zu durchlaufen.

I use Lilypond to write sheet music, and well, it can also generate MIDI as an output.

You can get an IDE for Lilypond which has playback built-in, namely Frescobaldi, but I’ve had problems with it in the past (and to be fair, don’t really like IDEs in general), so I’ve been putting together my own workflow using CLI tools.

I guess, that is one advantage of TiMidity++ that I figured out since posting this question. It allows specifying the measure to start playback from, which doesn’t seem possible with FluidSynth:

timidity --segment=42-m    # start at measure 42 and play until end