JasonFruit

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by JasonFruit 3mo ago
I see you've never worked your way through a manuscript by Donizetti.
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by JasonFruit 2y ago
He should. His work has political and cultural significance, and only that: no literary value. I say that as someone who put too much time into reading Bloom County when I was younger.
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by JasonFruit 2y ago
That's generally agreed to be once so far, so maybe not the highest bar in resurrections? Even JR Ewing matches it.
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by JasonFruit 2y ago
I'm baffled by all the people saying this is good writing. This is self-indulgent, showoff writing by someone who cannot maintain a consistent voice. If you liked it, give the credit to Béla Bartók, who provided the topic that held y
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by JasonFruit 2y ago
My immediate reaction is to doubt some of this: isn't it what you'd expect to read about someone who agrees to testify against a well-funded, well-connected defense contractor? It was a time when the press was the undisputed king
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by JasonFruit 2y ago
I'm old enough to have thought, "Hey, this Visual SourceSafe is a pretty great idea!"
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Or a fundamental difference in billionaire tendencies, don't forget that possibility.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
I love to see people doing things I've never even thought of that embrace history and culture, and that they take pride in doing. This is exemplary of the respectful attitude we ought to have toward more of our activities.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
LEGOs makes sense; a LEGO is an indivisible entity, of which you can have a certain number. Calling the material simply LEGO makes it sound like an undifferentiated mass, like sludge, or cheese.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
That sounds like a you problem, not a keyboard problem. A good mechanical keyboard should last better than that. Excessive force doesn't code faster.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
> Unless I want that effect, I should avoid that.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
> You can make exactly the same case about tonal voice leading rules too. You really can't. They aren't laws of nature, but they are based on observation: "When I have two voices proceed in parallel fifths, it's as t
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
James O'Keefe's minor infractions seem out of place on this list. It sounds to me like Forbes might be disappointed in him for other, more philosophical reasons.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Mark Twain, for all his qualities, was a humorist.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
But if that ML tool is trained on modern video, depending on its capabilities it may subtly modernize aspects of the video in ways that lessen the "past is a foreign country" effect, leading us to believe that the past was more li
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
From the title: "Lisp with native code speed".
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
That's an amazing test, if what you want to evaluate is the candidate's immersion in the wellspring of Western culture (and some math). I'm struck by how little fluency the Greek test requires, though: it looks to me (with m
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
I wonder how much the actual average level of education has changed, though the topics may be different. Could those 4th-grade dropouts read and understand a newspaper, calculate how many pounds of barley it takes to plant the south field
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
The fractious minority is here, yes, but also a large number of people like me who don't care about display quality, "desktop interaction semantics," or surface consistency at all, but care deeply about being able to use thei
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
I think the final picture adequately expresses Cash's response to your suggestion.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
After reading the article, I'm struck by a single thought: while that was imaginative and at points interesting, what did the writer actually say ? It was a little like the sticky guy at the coffee shop who keeps talking, changing sub
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
What would an absolute frame of reference with regard to political opinion look like? I'm having a hard time conceiving such a thing, since not only does the range of opinion shift over time, but issues move into and out of relevance
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
If you think that's "pretty far to the right," I'd wager you haven't met many people on the right or spent much time reading their thought. There's a whole world of interesting political variety on the left, th
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Then let's handle it like we do race: the average cop is a bastard. This is not necessarily true of all individuals, but it's statistically predictive.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Some of his music reviews were pretty good: Arnold Dolmetsch really was a revelation, and surviving recordings suggest that Joseph Joachim playing Bach really was like an attempt to scrape a nutmeg on a boot sole. But Shaw strikes me a lot
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
George Bernard Shaw, as the kids say, said a lot of things. He probably meant some of them, too.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
But they did cost what we considered unreasonable at the time. Some of us still do.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
Please keep saying this over and over. Even people who get that it doesn't work that way don't seem to grasp the danger of others relying on these tools in inappropriate ways.
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by JasonFruit 3y ago
They could have been unwittingly cooperating with each other.

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