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I make music when I can. I own too many synthesizers. I program C++ for money, but it's usually reasonably fun.

he/him or they/them, as you prefer.

#nobot

My music on Bandcamphttps://arcseconds.bandcamp.com/
Discographyhttps://arcseconds.net
Photographyhttps://visible.pictures/
@driusan you want the price of gas up, but the market up as well?! Impossible!!!!!!!!!!
@discontinuity this is also pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

Since I haven't posted it in a few years... Behold! The greatest video art piece ever made: Björn Melhus' No Sunshine (1997).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X-4_BVLnAgw

Bjorn Melhus - No Sunshine 1997.flv

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@mathias Fremdfreude.
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@stephanie a company, and people in general I believe, should be judged by what they do, not what they say.

Similarly I think a law must be judged by how it is enforced. What will the province of Quebec do?

@halfbyte oh it's so cuuuuute! Little baby sampler!

In order to make coding LLMs work better, it's often helpful to provide more information about the code being worked on. As LLMs work entirely based on the human languages they were trained in, the best thing to do is to provide plain English text about the code.

Ultimately the software industry has invented the most fucked up method to force software engineers to document their code. All this text intended for LLMs is often useful to humans, too.

Depressing fact I just learned: when pumping oil from a well, the oil industry flares (burns into the atmosphere) gas when they don't think it's economically viable to put it in a pipeline for later use.

In 1990 the Alberta, Canada oil industry flared enough gas to heat the entire city of Calgary for that year.

Cool cool.

@WeirdAlex03 oops. I fell asleep. I didn't cry. I was shocked. Can't wait for the finale.