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Unfortunately, politicians are too busy playing culture war to dig deep on policy for just about anything. They choose inaction, they choose ignorance.

Carbon aside, it will be interesting to see how this plays out in Texas, where the electrical grid is tenuous.

But to your point, looking at things from sustainability minded perspective (and even opting to ignore value of product as it stands right now), why yes, BTC is bad.

Many types of music have additional requirements, at least for discovery. For example, how about cover songs? It would be nice to find every available version of All Along the Watchtower. This is not unique to classical so why not fix in the parent app?

That’s even more crazy.

Patching one app into another for improved UX and categorization is bonkers.

Also, my kid wanted to use Apple Music classical first thing this morning (he’s a big classical music nut), you literally have to be logged in to regular Apple Music before Classical will allow you to play anything. Weird.

One fallacy of web design, of any design, is that in order to be “good” it must be easy.

Sometimes there is a learning curve. Conceptual hurdles abound with a complex tool like GitHub. Working through hurdles help you grow as a technologist and as person —but having the right attitude going in, that’s on you.

It’s worth noting that this particular Warhol piece was done much later in his career after he had established his style. Usually he didn’t even execute the work, it was done by assistants in the studio. This painting of Prince is an example of Warhol as art business — which incidentally was one of his statements as an artist.

Opinion: bout the photo and the painting are actually not very good representation of either artists work. I imagine both the photo and the painting would be considered unimportant if it wasn’t for this legal wrangling.

There are many ways that this issue could be approached. For example, could Warhol be allowed fair use in execution but, post-mortem, his estate pay? After all, one thing that the author of the article did not go into is that this argument is really no longer about the creative act.

Quit Your Job 5 years ago

Lost me at California as center of universe. And again with the musk name drop. So much for off the beaten path.

I was trained in Archaeology as an undergrad. I have considered neural nets as a possibility for classification tasks that may otherwise be time consuming. But the material still needs to be collected, cleaned and catalogued by human hands. There are steps along the way where skilled humans can classify objects. The neural net might be a way to confirm or flag human decisions but I would not rely on it as a primary means of classification. The things that are interesting are on the edges of any classification. Transitional artifacts or anomalies. For these you will need human interpretation. Also, I do begin to wonder why we would even bother if no human will be interacting with a given artifact, why not leave it in the ground undisturbed? If that’s even possible. But I start thinking, with the ease of AI, if we are painting ourselves out of the picture. Like using GPT3 to respond to emails as a solution to the problem of too many emails. And imagine the respondent doing the same.

Based Cooking 5 years ago

Web site as functional editorial. I really appreciate the effort and hope it continues to emerge into a good resource.

Loading data isn’t!

It’s simply not possible to make a blanket statement like this. Computers today are so very different and have so many more layers than those from 1983.

I recently refurbished an old Mac Plus. Of course I couldn’t leave it stock, booting from floppies was simply too ridiculous.. So it boots from Zip. Anyways, once I had this machine up and running I was quite surprised at how snappy the interface is - once everything was in place - and that’s the difference. The old interface is paper thin and has nothing going on, no asynchronous, little to no threads, it is just what it is.

I always change the ssh port to something other than 22. It has always seemed to work well for me for most automated attacks. Perhaps this is not advisable for some reason?

I run a web server with some 50+ Wordpress installs on it. You better believe Fail2Ban is necessary. Without it all resources would be consumed by brute force attacks. If someone knows of a better way I would like to hear about it.