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For the past few years, my younger brother has been designing a new kind of acoustic piano: smaller, lighter, quieter. He just gave his first talk about it; if you’re at all curious about the design space for stringed instruments, check it out: vimeo.com/907981562
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I always knew that @pitchfork would end folded into GQ with a cold, dead letter written by Anna Wintour.
2.8
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people on discogs will straight up spend $1000 on a late 80s private press album that sounds like this
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Oh man, I also meant to ask... do people still *do* this? Run massive logging, indexing and searching clusters, I mean.
How do you justify the labor and opportunity costs, in an era where logs are a commodity and hosted services are dirt cheap?
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Søren Kierkegaard claimed that if a person behaved perfectly rationally they would be so discordant with civil society that people would deem them mad.
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ME: And what is the basic origin of suffering, computer?
FULLY CONSCIOUS AI: True suffering requires knowledge of the past.
ME: That's quite profound, computer.
FULLY CONSCIOUS AI: Administrator, would you like me to start Microsoft Teams upon login?
ME: That would be sublime.
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This year, I'll be posting Database Papers Advent Calendar, a collection of curious papers from 2021 and 2022, to my Mastodon account, and replicate to Twitter with some delay to maybe inspire folks to migrate over: hachyderm.io/@ifesdjeen
