Feels like a weird decision from a business point of view, too, to gut your studio right as you come up with new projects for it to tackle.

Maybe those devs aren’t needed in the early stages of these new projects and they expect to be able to rehire when they are. That’s still short-term thinking, but at this point, I would be surprised, if anything at Microsoft happened even with just this much rationale.

There’s probably one decision that they need to milk their cash cows some more, and an entirely separate decision that they need to bolster their numbers for shareholders to be happy with this quarter. And the only time those decisions crossed paths, is in some middle manager who’s told to make the impossible work…

Oh, hmm, no idea. I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to choose even more confusing naming, though…

You can also just block jankforlife and get rid of 99% of dumb takes…

Yeah, one of the reasons why I like low-fidelity games is because the devs can just think of an idea, slap together a few pixels into a texture and ship it. You just get much more varied and interesting content that way, because they can easily experiment with ideas and also remove stuff, if it doesn’t work out, without it being much of a time loss.

You’re doubly confused. You’re thinking of GitHub Copilot, when this is about M365 Copilot. Last I heard, they have 78 different products called Something Copilot, so confusion is understandable.

But then what you’re actually thinking of is the “GPT” series of large language models, developed by OpenAI.
GitHub Copilot is merely a GUI and a harness for large language models. It defaults to the GPT models, and is probably somewhat optimized for them, but it can use other models as well.

This harness can influence the quality quite a bit, as it decides which source code files to feed into the model for context. I’m not aware of people saying that GitHub Copilot is particularly good at that, but it’s available as an extension for IDEs, so it automatically knows which files you’re editing, which can be useful.

And yes, the GPT models have fallen quite a bit behind since the start of the year.

Bin selbst Noob und hab keine Ahnung von Sampling.

Für nur Rumklimpern könntest du dir unter Linux mal VMPK anschauen: https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/
(Ist i.d.R. auch in den Paketquellen.)

Damit kann auf der Computer-Tastatur quasi Piano spielen und man kann es auch als MIDI-Keyboard nutzen und damit gegen andere Software verbinden, die ein MIDI-in nimmt.
Also viele DAWs haben ein Feature ähnlich zu VMPK auch eingebaut, aber ist eben noch 'ne Option.

Größere Haken an der Sache:

• Die meisten Computer-Tastaturen geben auf, wenn man zu viele Tasten auf einmal drückt, bzw. in der ‘falschen’ Kombination zusammen drückt. Dafür bräuchte man eine Computer-Tastatur mit “n-key rollover”. Ist schon recht frustrierend, wenn man einen Dreiklang spielen will und manche der Tasten einfach ignoriert werden.
• Es kann nur abbilden “Taste gedrückt vs. nicht gedrückt”, also nicht wie stark gedrückt. Damit kann mal halt nur eine Lautstärke spielen, was schon schnell öde werden kann.
• Hat natürlich keine besonderen Zusatzfeatures, wie einen Arpeggiator o.Ä…

Habe selbst vor ein paar Tagen ein AKAI LPK25 MKII als physikalische MIDI-Tastatur angeschafft.
Schieße damit immer noch gegen VMPK, um damit rumzuklimpern, weil das verschiedene MIDI Banks drin hat.
Keine Ahnung, ob das auch schon als Sampling zählt. 🫣

Und joa, war eben recht günstig und ist recht klein. Bisschen unschön ist, dass es dafür irgendeine Konfigurationssoftware gibt, die nur für Windows und MacOS existiert. Für Linux gibt’s nur ein Bastelskript. Aber habe noch nicht den Bedarf gehabt, herauszufinden, wofür ich die Software haben wöllte. Vermutlich kann man damit die Presets für den Arpeggiator anpassen.

Yeah, that’s why I got caught up on that sentence in the first place, to be honest, because I also thought to myself “What impact does Meta even have?”.

I guess, they do own some widely used messengers and social media platforms. But yeah, all the stuff Zuckerberg loves to talk about, is just hype bullshit, where they seem to have zero impact.

Meta’s north star is to be the best place for the most talented people in the world to make an impact.

Not a positive impact, just an impact.

To be fair, lots of SaaS could’be been improved by instead just checking some Markdown files into Git, independent of LLMs.

Der Vortrag ist so grob gegliedert in:

• Wie bekommt man Playlists und Metadaten aus Spotify raus und kann sie verwerten?
• Wo kann man die Musik legal erwerben? Bei ihm ist ganz viel CDs von Bibliotheken, Freunden, Kollegen ausleihen und eine Privatkopie anfertigen. Sonst eben Flohmärkte.
  https://ncs.io/ und TheFatRat werden noch genannt, für DRM-freie & kostenlose Musik. Leider sind beide kein Creative Commons Lizenz, sondern irgendeine eigene Lizenz.
• Wie bekommt man möglichst vollwertige Metadaten an die erworbene Musik ran? (Hauptsächlich geht’s um MusicBrainz, und dass man auch Metadaten von den CDs und via Spotify-API bekommen kann.)
• Wo packt man die Musik hin, um sie anzuhören? JellyFin ist da sein Mittel der Wahl.
• Fragerunde/Diskussion am Ende, wo noch CDDB und ListenBrainz u.A. genannt werden.

Ist eben ein Erfahrungsbericht, der Leuten einen konkreten Weg aufzeigen will, wie man von Spotify wegkommt. Also ja, da wurde nicht jede Alternative zum Erbrechen recherchiert und ist hauptsächlich interessant, wenn du den gleichen Weg beschreiten willst.

Git-Link: https://git.binary-kitchen.de/j0nas/Spotify-Jellyfin-Export

(Video anschauen ist trotzdem sinnvoll. Das Skript ist nicht wirklich dokumentiert…)

I mean, there’s still some download managers around, for example:

• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gianlu.aria2app
• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tachibana.downloader

But yeah, I imagine this functionality is now largely integrated into the apps that want to trigger the download. The advanced downloading functionality can just be a library and then the respective apps just need to strap a UI on top.

The only real advantage of a dedicated app, is that the other app’s APK size can be smaller, which isn’t too big of a deal anymore.

Might also be a product of experience, that you have a need for strict scope definitions.

When I was unexperienced, I would actively look for projects I could do and features to add to them. Because well, most project ideas were too large for me to tackle anyways and I needed the experience.

Now that I have experience, I have multiple long-term projects that could use some love, if I find the time. And I have the experience to tackle virtually any project idea, if I find the time.

Don’t particularly want to add another long-term project into the rotation, so I do spend a lot more time thinking upfront “when will this be finished?”.

One of the big, national grocery store chains here has managed to create a webpage, where:

• you cannot open a product in a new tab, and
• if you click on a product and hit the back-button, it resets the scroll position in the product list all the way to the start.

In effect, the webpage is practically unusable for actually browsing through products. They’re probably missing out on hundreds of thousands in sales, for something that could be fixed for like 50 quid.

Yeah, the title originally said “6.8 is Very Close!”, which confused me quite a bit.

Kann bei weitem nicht so viel Schwarzkümmel reinmachen wie der Koch in dem Video. Bei dem Hummus hätte ich maximal 10 Samen drauf gemacht und kein Öl, sonst schmeckt das nur noch nach Schwarzkümmel

Well, I just meant it was like bee hotels in that it’s a product you can buy to help out critters. I did think it was food, as “buffet” suggests.

Whether food is meaningfully helpful for ants, no idea. Did not overthink it too much in the few seconds until I realized it was poison. 🫠

Found some “ant buffet” in the shop a few months ago and thought “Oh wow, did people learn that those are dying as well and you can buy something like bee hotels for them now?”.

Yeah, it was poison.

Well, them being largely starch/carbs isn’t helping either.

Yeah, it always felt like the worst decisions under Spencer were forced onto him by investors. For sure, there’s some leeway in how you please investors, and she will be given more leeway at the start as well, which could get out of a rut and make things somewhat better.

But ultimately, I still expect her to play the CEO role for a profit-driven corporation. Because that’s what she was hired for. She was not hired to be the saving grace of gamers.