SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 6d ago
I dunno. On first glance, for a "21st-Century" textbook, this seems to place a high emphasis on classical music theory, and moves very highly influential modern styles to the back burner -- notably jazz. And there is essentially
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by SeanLuke 25d ago
I was trained to type two spaces after a period: it's in my muscle memory. This website treats it as a mistake. No typing teacher would downgrade for that. It's awful.
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by SeanLuke 2mo ago
I recall HN originally using Arc. Is there a history available regarding its development and redevelopment?
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by SeanLuke 2mo ago
I need a UI which runs well on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, without having to build three different ones. Swing is still easily the best, most consistent, and most native-feeling cross-platform environment. It's much better than QT and
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by SeanLuke 3mo ago
Well, I'll tell you one fun item. My teenage kids are practicing the piano downstairs. I hear a very wrong note being played over and over. I yell down to them what note they're playing wrong and what the correct note likely is
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by SeanLuke 3mo ago
Note that Prasad didn't reject their application: he prevented Moderna from even applying. Prasad overrode a phalanx of FDA career scientists who had studied and approved Moderna's study approach and were ready to review it. He
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by SeanLuke 3mo ago
I have perfect pitch (or as it is more properly called, absolute pitch). To be honest, I am doubtful that these teach-your-kids-perfect-pitch techniques are effective: I don't think there's much evidence that they are, beyond ane
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by SeanLuke 3mo ago
These are waaay too complicated. Web developers can't even handle the easy stuff. My email address is of the form sean@foo.bar.baz, and email address validators on websites reject my address about 30% of the time because it has two p
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
That's not what stability is. A stable bike is one in which the steering is stable and easily controlled at various speeds. It's a function of steering geometry and mechanical trail. And the Strida is among the very most unstab
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
Having lived in Italy and used the btwin folder quite a lot, I can assure you there are lots of basic folders in its category and price range which are much better. I'd look into Dahon and Tern for a basic folding bike. Folding bikes
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
The strida is certainly the *dorkiest*, not nerdiest, looking design, but in terms of engineering, it's very bad. It is terrible, TERRIBLE to ride, with horrible mechanical trail. It is extremely unstable. It has no gearing options
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
Praised by whom? The btwin folder is a low-rent and low quality version of a Dahon-style Chinese fold-in-half folder. That folding design is about 95% of the folding market, and has no clever design features whatsoever. It is simple to m
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
Sadly, they no longer make the knob stems.
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
I own what could possibly be the coolest folding bike ever made: the Bike Friday Tikit Hyperfold. It has a folding mechanism with an extremely high nerd quotient. It has a reputation as the fastest bike to fold and unfold, requiring no la
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
It's true to some degree now. But it wasn't very true -- or expected to be true -- back when train lines were being established. That was during westward expansion.
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by SeanLuke 5mo ago
It's generally regarded that Hong Kong has the best subway in the world. There are many reasons for this, but one cannot be overstated: Hong Kong's geography. A huge portion of the city consists of long thin urban corridors sand
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by SeanLuke 8mo ago
I developed and maintain a large and very widely used open source agent-based modeling toolkit. It's designed to be very highly efficient: that's its calling card. But it's old: I released its first version around 2003 and h
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by SeanLuke 11mo ago
Power draw, and 5V.
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
My bad. Of course it is. Had a brain fart there.
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
My answer: while 99% of the AI community was busy working on Weak AI, that is, developing systems that could perform tasks that humans can do notionally because of our Big Brains, a tiny fraction of people promoted Hard AI, that is, AI as a
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
US News rankings are garbage based in no small part on opinion surveys and famously manipulated year over year. Though I strongly disagree with their choice of conferences, probably the best regarded ranking of computer science schools is C
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
The Bobby Tables of paper submission.
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
> It makes perfect sense that the mobsters would be speaking Sicilian rather than standard Italian. Absolutely. More to the point, it's an example of just how impressively detail-oriented Francis Ford Coppola was.
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
No, it is not. When they say "capeesh" in the movie, they're trying to say "do you understand?" (second person singular). In Italian, that would be "capisci" (pronounced "ca-pee-shee"). Additio
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
If you think this is dense, try Italy some time. Huge numbers of highly distinct dialects, because until the mid-1800s Italians spoke huge numbers of entirely different languages, complete with their own full literature traditions. Duri
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Hackerne.ws is no longer redirecting to HN(hackerne.ws)
2 points by SeanLuke 1y ago|2 comments
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
I hope this is not permanent. A hat tip to the person who ran this service. It was my go-to URL for years.
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by SeanLuke 1y ago
Meh. If this was the wrong guy to threaten, then he would have sued to overturn their design patents. Instead he just told them where they could stick it. That's done all the time.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
I get the feeling that, no matter how slow Linus goes, this is going to lead to a split. If Linus eventually pushes through Rust, the old guard will fork to a C-only version, and that won't be good.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Afraid not.

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