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JeffG
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He/ him. Open web hacker / PM - synths, games, muh dawg. Former fission, AWS, Mozilla discord: jeffg, quite often 'jeffgca' on other places. “If you see this Post a…” feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r33d6wynfbi5mfinrjqfbmt5/feed/aaai6d6u444ew
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Sampling had trade-offs: for every DJ Premiere** there’s a Vanilla Ice! Perfect but boring AI jingles, is a weird extreme tho

** youtu.be/-DXw4AtwclU?...
Sample Breakdown: Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
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Haha nice just grew addressable market by 100%
Not sure how to feel about it - but it is going to put a lot of musicians out of work who've been writing jingles or doing soundtrack work for streaming shows etc.

...It is *not* going to put live bands out of work tho maybe I should just join a blues band
I will watch it. Might be related, I was horrified watching this too-long review of Suno Studio:

youtu.be/dhx2XL9XcjU?...

tl;dr hard to see the white album coming out of this but if you’re in commercial music production of any kind, you’re cooked. It’s done.
RANT - THIS IS IT
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JeffG @jeffg.ca · 20h
Dear fellow greybeards, behold the power of the web fully realized
Nostalgia level: 💯

(yeah this is a working music player & browser)

Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
JeffG @jeffg.ca · 20h
A++++ milkdrop was the best, and I think I mained XMMS theme for years.

Would be cool: drop a soundcloud url on it and it imports that playlist?
Zuck told the world mobile web sucks and then paid for a framework that wants to replace it
In a nutshell: “React’s explicit strategy: React Native for mobile.” - this says a lot about who the market is - so much of current SaaS systems is optimized for desktop productivity / b2b SaaS with a native mobile app
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Just when you thought Chrome couldn't get more disgusting...
Why (and since when) does Chrome replace shared URLs by "share.google" URLs?
Damn! Very cool
Probably the right choice, depends on how important raw dataset archives are “as-is”, vs conversions on the way in. Just different use cases
But apparently it’s not that simple?

bsky.app/profile/khin...
"most of the IEEE 754 "special" floating points (infinity, negative infinity, minimal NaN, and NaN with payloads) MUST NOT be encoded."

Doesn't sound good for storing data that fully exploits the IEEE formats (which isn't that common, but it happens).
“we have extension points now but deliberately don't use their full range.” I see this is what you mean? But it’s floats man.
This just sounds like you need a way to have domain-specific DASL extensions where the domain can do whatever and not need additional core support, eg datasets can say “I need ext-sci-dasl or I’m just going to give you bytes for parts of this”
I'm sure the hops supply chain to SE Asia is facinating
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"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism
Ok ok this is cool tho
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Donald Trump has destroyed the East Wing of the White House the right way.

by Ezra Klein
JeffG @jeffg.ca · 10d
IMO Apple made the right decision to provide the base layer and let 3rd party folks add the icing, candles etc
JeffG @jeffg.ca · 11d
$10 refferal gives you a pretty good idea what Perplexity's ideas are for ltv of a Pro account
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generational report from boston no kings:
- boomers: unhinged facebook resistlib signs
- gen x: generic no kings signs
- millennials: andor or hamilton meme signs
- gen z: inflatable costumes and signs with inscrutable references