He's a musician, he's switched to Bitwig. Ok, but what about VSTs? I have a collection of instruments I can't leave behind, many are NI, so I'm currently forced to use Windows or Mac.
NI recently filed for bankruptcy! This means that the licence server will probably be shut down at some point. Take the opportunity now. :-P
I've been using Bitwig for two years now. And already produced a complete album with success. Next album is already following. :-)
Many of Bitwig's own plugins are very good, and there are now top-notch native VSTs for Linux! Alternatively, there is yabridge for running Win VSTs.
Great Linux VST manufacturers:
U-he, DDMF, Toneboosters, TAL, Bluelabs, etc.
If the license server goes down I'll just pirate them, I guess. The point is that I can't really throw aways years of investment because Windows sucks. The other important lesson is: if they have a licensing server, it's OK to pirate them from the start.
This article takes the stable marriage problem, a mathematical problem for which one of the resolution strategies is optimal for the side that is processed first, and concludes by analogy that "asking first" is an optimal strategy in real life, using anecdotal evidence as proof. Not sure how this made it to the front page, to be honest.
Stable marriage problem seems to be quite fashionable among feminists in my experience.
The motivating question seems to be "how can women get a better deal" and they come up with this solution "ask first" and try to rationalise it with the mathematical analysis of the stable marriage problem plus some anecdotes.
Noticing the inherently "zero-sum" nature of these solutions (it's either male-optimal if males ask first or female-optimal if females ask first) some feminists will gravitate towards a more "equal" solution that sounds awesome in theory yet somehow nobody has managed to practice it...
> It's fascinating that browsers are one of the most robust and widely available sandboxing system and we are yet to make a claude-code/gemini-cli like agent that runs inside the browser.
It's easily explained by the fact that all the javascript code is exposed in a browser and all the network connections are trivially inspectable and blockable. It's much harder to collect data and do shady things with that level of inspectability. And it's much harder to ban alternative clients for the main paid offer. Especially if AI companies want to leave the door open to pushing ads to your conversations.
Isn't webcontainers.io a proprietary, non-open source solution with paid plans? Mentioning it at the same level of open source, auditable platforms seems really strange to me.
Technically, it runs on Chrome, so making an open source version is viable. then bolt.diy project was giving opencontainers a shot, which is a partial implementation of the same. But broadly, if this method works, then FOSS equivalent is not a worry, should come soon enough.
I'm a guesser. What is the correct negative response to the asker in the article?
1. "No", without further elaboration
2. "No", followed by a graceful excuse
3. "No, I don't want you in my house because I can't be bothered to share my space with you"
I always found that 3 is too aggressive, and 1 and 2 trigger the asker working around the issue (asking why not, or trying to "solve" the graceful excuse). Being aggressive is ok, but sometimes it's bad (for example, if the balance of power is skewed in the relationship)
From the other replies in the thread, it seems like there is a contingent of people who believe that if someone doesn't take the first "no" as a final "no" then they are no-true-asker, and instead is just an asshole.
In my life I've never met an asker who took no as final. Maybe they said they respected it, but at least they wanted to understand why not and what could they do to help me make it a yes. At that point you're not just asking, you're wasting my time.
I make it clear that AI is not allowed at the remote coding assessment and I enforce it by asking frequent questions on the code they type. It's nearly impossible to maintain a "natural" back and forth conversation when you're copying code you don't understand fully. Of course they can mirror my questions to an AI, but that normally introduces unnatural lag in their answers. I think I rarely get false negatives, and if I do I don't care - if the candidate is able to use an AI and sustain informative communication at the same time, he's undistinguishable from a "good" engineer for all intent and purposes. I don't know how often I get false positives, but again I don't care - if the candidate is not able to sustain a conversation while coding, he's not a remote coworker I want in my team, regardless of whether he's using AI or not.
Sometimes you just need to read the sources that were linked to you:
> So the models we’re going to set up are going to be most applicable in that space: towards the end of antiquity in the Mediterranean. They’ll also be pretty applicable to the European/Mediterranean Middle Ages and some parts – particularly mortality patterns – are going to apply universally to all pre-modern agrarian societies. I’ll try to be clear as we move what elements of the model are which are more broadly universal and which are very context sensitive (meaning they differ place-to-place or period-to-period) and to the degree I can say, how they vary. But our ‘anchor point’ is going to be the Romans, operating in the (broadly defined) iron age, at the tail end of antiquity.
Wait, I don't understand this. Does it mean that they can erroneously predict I'm a minor, covertly restrict my account without me knowing? I guess it's time to cancel my subscription.
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